Sahadev

About Sahadev

20 years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Project Management and Leadership roles• 11 years of strong project, product, and people managerial experience• Leading a 36-member cross-functional team across offshore and onshore locations,delivering quality releases that contribute to $800 million in quarterly revenue.• Successfully managed and delivered 15 main releases, 30 maintenance releases, and over60 sub-releases, achieving a 90% reduction in Customer Found Defects (CFD).• Oversaw a diverse portfolio including Hyper Convergence, Cloud services, ServerManagement software, Virtualization, SaaS, Compute, Storage, AI and AI Servers.• Worked on DIMMs, Intel & nVidia GPUs, PCIe, NVMe, System on Chip Device, Liquid Cooling Management• Focused on quality improvement and on-time delivery to drive revenue growth, ensuringquality releases using defined test metrics, quality metrics, and release readiness metrics.• Set up a fully automated Continuous Regression Testbed (CRT) with full UCS hardwarecomponent support, increasing coverage by 95%.• Experience in establishing Engineering Centers (ODC) and Centers of Excellence (CoE) andmanaging CAPEX and OPEX budgets up to $800K, including handling RFI/RFP/RFQprocesses.• Expertise in team building with competent hires, maintaining team motivation for effectivedeliverables, & optimizing automation frameworks using Python & Perl, saving $400Kannually.• Established and enforced standard test processes and deliverables, including defectmanagement and quality metric reporting within the gated process.• Managed and released the complete Cisco UCS server portfolio, including ArtificialIntelligent Servers and solutions, LFF Servers and Rack & Blade Servers• Experience in Server & Datacenter Management Software, DevOps (CI/CD), Storage(Backup/Restore, Bulk Copy, FC, SSD, NVMe), Virtualization (VMWare ESXi), Cloud (SaaS,AWS), Business Continuity (Zero downtime), Disaster Recovery (RDF, NonStop Support),and High Availability (Cluster Managers, Data Quals).• Managed cross-functional teams, including QA/Test teams (functional, non-functional,security, performance, scale, prod, end-to-end) and DevOps & Release Engineering teams.You can reach me @ s••••••••@gmail.com |+91••••••••76

Experience

1. Leader, Software Engineering Qa Manager

   Cisco

   Jul 2013 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Role: Software Engineering Manager (Managing a team of 30 QA/Test Engineers) and Program managementThe Cisco Unified Computing System is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, network, storage access, and virtualization into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class, x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multi-chassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain. UCS Manager, UCS central and Cisco Cloud Intersight form management part of Unified computing systems.Responsibilities:• Providing strategic guidance to Experts, Managers, and Engineers.• Leading the design and implementation of UCS solutions including System on Chip and AI server solution POC • Planning and executing complete engineering activities, including development, system, integration, performance testing and program management using Jira, QMS and APQP• Delivering feedback to team and stakeholders effectively and in a timely manner through Agile• Driving DevOps implementation for Cisco UCS products.• Planning and executing engineering activities, including development and testing.• Enhancing automation coverage to 95% per release using Python.• Implementing zero-defect methodologies to improve efficiency.• Reviewing and optimizing testing processes through Github and Jira.• Establishing a team for mobile App support for UCS management platforms.

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  BE, Comp Sceince

  2000 — 2004

Skills

• Fibre Channel
• Shell Scripting
• Requirements Analysis
• Quality Center
• Storage Virtualization
• Test Automation
• Operating Systems
• Disaster Recovery
• Perl
• Storage
• Unix
• Business Continuity
• Servers