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Software Engineer
AMD• July 2018 - November 2023
• Managing a team consisting of 6 individuals, comprised of both full-time employees and contractors. • Participating in the recruitment and interview processes, Mentoring team members, and offering technical guidance. • Engaging with PSP development owners and program management to establish release schedules. • Drive the validation efforts of PSP Firmware across various business verticals - Server, Client, and Embedded. • Driving daily scrum meetings and delivering weekly status reports to stakeholders (PM/Sr Manager). • Assumed the role of the primary contact for new features including feature comprehension, test case creation, and conducting knowledge transfer sessions to the team. • Monitor the quality of testing releases and enhance overall test coverage, actively involved in test planning. • Implemented process enhancements in release and test case management, which significantly benefited the team. • Analyzing reported bugs from internal and external stakeholders and identifying areas for improvement. • Experience in security firmware validation in post-silicon validation from the end-to-end process from binary building to binary check-in to Repository. • Good hands-on Experience in PSP feature testing, debugging, and analyzing, in adherence to our company testing protocols, guidelines, and quality standards to ensure the firmware performs to specification. • PSP Validation includes system Boot flow, A/B recovery, ACPI cycles, TPM (HLK), Debug Unlock, field upgrade, security policy, PSB, and Bit-Locker swap, etc.
Senior Software Engineer
Mphasis• November 2011 - July 2018
• I lead a technical team of 15+ members focused on storage testing and handle coordination from an onsite location. • Oversee the validation initiatives for storage controller firmware across a range of controller types. • Collaborated closely with clients to gain a deeper understanding of testing requirements and effectively communicated those requirements to offshore engineers. • Gather functional requirements from the developer, formulate test plans, and conduct reviews with the developer. • Conduct a daily synchronization call with offsite engineers to discuss testing status, new testing requirements from stakeholders, and technical feature discussions. • Develop and define test tasks according to customer/OEM requirements and collaborate with offshore engineers for testing execution. • Demonstrating strong hands-on experience in storage testing, debugging, and analyzing diverse customer scenarios for various use cases. • Verify the functionality of HPE Storage Controller Firmware by conducting validation tests with HPE servers, HPE storage, and various other OEM servers and storage systems. • Configure customer scenario setup with HPE storage controller to do the solution-based testing. • Worked with the Test automation team for test case automation and helped the team with setup and configuration. • Establish a customer scenario to reproduce the issue, collaborate closely with the developer to address it, and deliver the solution to the customer. • Delivering daily and weekly status reports to stakeholders (Client/Sr Manager).
Software Engineer
Mphasis• June 2008 - November 2011
• Configured HP Insight Control application, an enterprise management software with ten plugins offering features like virtual provisioning, automatic software deployment, performance management, power management, and disaster recovery. Set up various Enterprise OS, drivers, and databases with complex configurations. • Established an enterprise-level solution base with HP ProLiant servers, C-class enclosures, Blade servers, Storage systems, and network devices, including SAN configuration, 5000+ virtual host setups, and network configurations. • Conducted solution-based testing involving multiple plugin interactions and functionality testing in an integrated environment, such as performance monitoring, disaster recovery, and virtual machine movement testing. • Collaborated with overseas teams for technical feedback, and improvement areas, and participated in technical meetings to develop new test cases and use case scenarios for additional features. • Contributed to the preparation of WSR and Closure Reports, ensuring timely communication with stakeholders. • Set up configurations to reproduce customer issues and proposed process and quality improvement strategies based on root cause corrective action, bug analysis, project post-mortems, test plan and test case reviews, and metrics. • Reviewed design and test documentation to ensure testing traceability and end-user documentation alignment.
Education
West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech• August 2004 - August 2008
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