Sabareeswar Shankar

Software Engineer in Test @Tigera

Vancouver, BC, CA

Management and Collaboration o Managing release process for Tigera’s enterprise offering ensuring on time delivery and high quality. o Co-ordinate with testers, engineering managers and directors, product managers across multiple locations to set detailed release schedules, and criteria for release sign offs. o Co-ordinate with product management team to align on product support matrix for a release. o Lead bug triage meetings and release sign off discussions. o Collaborate with security team to minimize risk and ensure high quality of product by setting up release readiness checks for CVE scans. • Development and Deployment o Design automated Semaphore CI release pipelines based on product support matrix. o Maintain and update internal automated provisioning/test tool to minimize downtime and release timeline impact. o Implemented a continuous delivery model of license dependency scans on enterprise product to ensure product adheres to licenses, third party dependency rules and regulations. • Testing o Coordinate with developers, product managers to understand requirements, end user impacts, feature design to create functional test scenarios. o Develop and execute regression, exploratory, user acceptance and post release tests. o Create a centralized repository for regression, exploratory test scenarios, track coverage and execution status using Zephyr, Jira’s test case management offering. o Perform coverage and gap analysis with customer success, solutions architect teams by understanding customer deployments and usage of product’s feature in their setup. • Optimization o Established release management procedures across the company, including pre release validations, readiness checks, version control, and release documentation resulting a 90% reduction in release related incidents. o Develop and maintain release artifacts on AWS S3. o Develop and maintain confluence articles to improve knowledge sharing and transfer.

University at Buffalo

Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering