Jegadeesh R.

About Jegadeesh R.

A well-rounded Engineering leader with a proven record in leading software development and quality engineering work, known for leveraging my strong systems architecture and engineering skills to test design and troubleshooting issues proactively. Proficient in creating and leading cross-functional teams in Agile model and across organizational boundaries, transforming test processes with specific focus on building automation within DevOps frameworks to increase team velocity.With a blend of software dev and systems engineering experience, I have gained a solid understanding and appreciation for looking at the system end-to-end. I apply this end-end system insight to test engineering and hence possess solid troubleshooting skills and ability to formulate and execute triage ideas. Passionate about launching products with a sense of applying quality as a key differentiator.I\'m consistently recognized for my meticulous approach to understanding the requirements, relentlessly driving to get clarity of requirements, ensuring testability, designing test strategies in several successful enterprise scale products involving software-hardware interfaces and SaaS applications. I pride myself for going beyond to work across the cross-functional teams, including extensively interacting and collaborating with system architects, engaging with developers early on to assess risks, define quality criteria and engaging with field support engineers.SOFTWARE & TOOLS EXPERIENCE Operating Env : AWS, Linux, HP- UX, Windows, MacLanguages : Python, Shell & Perl, Java, Selenium, TestNG, C, SQL, intermediate experience in Javascript, HTML, CSS, Node.jsTechnology Domains : Webservices, Microservices Architecture, REST API, Disk based (Dedupe) Back-up & Recovery appliance, SAN storage, Server Fault Management/Diagnostics, UEFI, Server Virtualization – VMware, Hyper-V, HP-UX vPars, HPVM, Docker Containers, OS Kernel, High Availability & Fault tolerant systems, Network protocols (TCP/IP, X.25, OSI), Storage protocols (SCSI, FC, SAS, iSCSI).AI Foundational knowledge (in LLMs, RAG, MCP, LangChain, Agentic AI, Prompt Engineering), AI Assisted tools.Tools : Jira, DevOps Tools (Jenkins, Git, Dockers, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef), Playwright, Postman, RestAssured, Swagger, cURL, MySQL, JMeter, Familiarity with APM tools (Splunk, Sentry), HP ALM, HP UFT

Experience

1. Sr Qa Lead Sdet

   Semler Scientific

   Jan 2021 — Present

   I successfully led Test engineering efforts for a Software as a Medical Device product across multi-OS platforms, ensuring both quality and compliance. • Consolidated ad-hoc testing efforts, resulting in streamlined test and release processes, and predictable release cadence. • Drove automation efforts in UI, API, and performance testing as part of DevOps efforts, enhancing overall efficiency. • Proactively validated the product on new OS releases ahead of their general availability• Partnered with Regulatory Affairs to improve specifications and traceability, achieving better compliance outcomes.• As CSPO experienced in Agile, contributed to grooming prioritized backlog, pivoting and aligning the processes across engineering• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to accelerate product releases and contributed to successful feature launches, ensuring a better customer experience.

Education

• Alagappa Chettiar College of Engg & Tech

  Masters in Computer Applications (MCA)

  1993 — 1996

Skills

• Debugging
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Storage Architecture
• Big Data
• Network Programming
• Java
• Software Development
• Python
• Kernel Programming
• C
• Hp Storage
• Testng
• Unix
• Test Strategy
• Agile Methodologies
• Arcgis
• Gis
• Geospatial Analysis
• Enterprise Software
• Risk Based Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• High Availability
• Networking Protocol
• Test Metrics
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Virtualization
• Business Analysis
• Perl
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Hp Quality Center
• Agile Testing
• Arcmap
• Test Automation
• Risk Management
• Software Project Management
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Test Planning