Sanjay Saxena

About Sanjay Saxena

A Quality Assurance/Software Development professional with extensive years of solid experience as a strategic member of Quality Assurance/Engineering teams• Strong technical acumen to solve broad range of problems• Resources prepared/allocated based on project needs and which saved money• Staffing done to produce great results• Led teams spread across different centers based on regional and global projects • Experienced cross-functional team player and leader and worked with local/remote development and QA teams.• Developed budgets and adhered to it once budget is approved. • Planned Software tests, documentation and improved processes.• Developed best automation/QA strategies which allowed user to run same automation software on multiple configuration and made statistics of run available in a concise form. • Work with senior management to better the product and its qualification and manage professional level employees.

Experience

1. Software Qa Technical Leader

   Cisco

   Sep 2017 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Collaborated with various teams (e.g. UX designers, UI, API engineers, product management) to plan and test features for the Intersight SaaS applicationManaged deliverables and tasks in Jira for various user stories, working with both local and remote teamsEnsured that backend APIs met UI requirements and identified issues using automation tools to improve usabilityFiled defects and conducted regression testing during different phases of the release cycleGuided test automation engineers in automating API and UI testing for multiple microservices, resulting in efficient testing and support for multiple releasesCreated channels for design discussions and issues and collaborated with engineers from various functions (e.g. system management, platform, UI, API, customer support, management)Created API-based test automation for microservices to be run on multiple HyperFlex clusters simultaneously, including error injection during testsLed QA team in testing software encryption feature configured from Intersight UI and event handling and purging feature based on policy to optimize storage spaceTested 2N robo edge deployment, upgrade, and extension with other nodes to create a DC-No-FI cluster, including testing for limits and scaling up to 12 nodesConducted code reviews of test automation code and participated in agile scrum meetings for HyperFlex Cluster and Intersight releasesTested automated redeployment of nodes and motherboard replacement for 2-node robo and DC-No-FI clusters.

Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Perl Programming

• Stanford University

  Management

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Bachelor of Engineering B.E. (Honors), Electrical and Electronics Engineering