Sameer Kapadia

Experience

• 

  Persistent Systems

  Sept 2004 - Apr 2006

  Member Of Technical Staff

  eArray for Agilent TechnologieseArray is a web portal that enables customers using Gene Expression Solutions to evaluate, design, and develop catalog and custom microarrays using Agilent catalog probes and user provided probes.• Drafting Test cases from ERS and SRS and reviewing of test cases. Functional and Regression Testing.• Automation of previous releases using Rational Robot. Developed Perl scripts to test some functionalities.

• 

  Symantec

  May 2006 - Sept 2015

  Backup Exec is an industry leading backup and recovery solution targeted to SMB market. Backup Exec is a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use backup and recovery product to protect entire infrastructure whether built upon virtual, physical, or both. With a few simple clicks, one can quickly search and restore granular file or application objects, applications, VMs, and servers directly from backup storage.Principal SQA Engineer & Scrum Master• Experienced & participated in worldwide Backup Exec Team's transformation from waterfall model to Agile methodology for software development.• Took up responsibility of Scrum Master to lead Hyper-V development scrum team. Successfully delivered high quality features in the product release cycle.• As a Scrum Master, my primary responsibilities include facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives and review meetings. Track development of the project, identify risks and draw mitigation plans, remove impediments and facilitate collaboration across teams. Co-coordinating between Product Owner, Management and team• Visiting Backup Exec Tier 1 customer during BETA phase to help customers install BETA in their production environment. Visited one customer in New Zealand, who had a complex virtual environment as part of the BETA program. Show less Backup Exec Virtual Agent for VMware and Hyper-V - Provides complete protection of VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines with Host-level backup. A single pass backup enables one-click recovery at the virtual machine, virtual disk, application, file/folder level and even granular objects from that same single image-level backup without restoring the entire virtual machine. • QA Tech Lead for the Virtualization Agents for Backup Exec product. Leading a team on 12 QA engineers, with primary responsibilities to mentor and deliver a high quality Virtualization feature.• Planning for each QA cycle in validation phase to provide with estimates for completion, selection of coverage areas and tracking progress of team to finish QA cycles on committed estimates.• Co-ordinate with different stake holders and interact with other QA leads to understand project priorities & mitigate risks.• Visiting Backup Exec Tier 1 customer during BETA phase to help customers install BETA in their production environment. Visited two customers in the UK as part of the BETA program. Show less Virtual Machine Auto Recovery for VMware - QA Lead• QA Lead for the new feature development in Backup Exec with team size of 4 QA engineers. Responsible for the quality of the feature.• Writing feature test design doc and extensive test cases for validation of the feature. End to End testing to qualify verification and validation of the feature meeting feature requirements.• Co-ordinate with different stake holders to mitigate risk plans and mentor and guide QA team.Virtual Vault for Outlook, Exchange mailbox archiving - QA Lead• QA Lead for the new feature development in Backup Exec with team size of 5 QA engineers.• Writing feature test design doc and extensive test cases for validation of the feature. End to End testing to qualify verification and validation of the feature meeting feature requirements. Carried out extensive performance testing for different scenarios.• Co-ordinate with different stake holders to mitigate risk plans and Mentor and guide QA team.• Received standing ovation award for my efforts on Virtual Vault feature.File system and Exchange Archiving option• QA Team member for the new feature development in Backup Exec.• Primarily responsible for testing File system archiving, installation, search and retrieve features, but well versed will all areas of archiving feature. Filed the highest number of defects for this feature.• Received standing ovation award for my efforts on Archival option. Show less

  • Principal SQA Engineer & Scrum Master

    Aug 2014 - Sept 2015

  • Principal SQA Engineer - QA Tech Lead

    Sept 2013 - Aug 2014

  • Sr. SQA Engineer

    Aug 2009 - Aug 2013

  • SQA Engineer

    May 2006 - Jul 2009
• 

  Veritas Technologies LLC

  Oct 2015 - Aug 2016

  Principal SQA Engineer (Scrum Master)

  Veritas NetBackup is an enterprise level heterogeneous backup and recovery suite. It provides a complete, flexible data protection solution for a variety of platforms viz. Microsoft Windows, UNIX, and Linux systems. NetBackup offers deduplication, replication and snapshot services and can provide recovery from tape, disk, or the cloud, in a physical or virtual environment.Scrum Master: • As a Scrum Master, my primary responsibilities include facilitating sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives and review meetings. Track development of project, identify risks and draw mitigation plans, remove impediments and facilitate collaboration across teams. Co-coordinating between Product Owner, Management and team.• Wearing QA hat, ensuring quality in each deliverable. Create and execute Test plan and Test cases on delivering Hyper-V support and enhanced features for Microsoft Windows 2016 Hyper-V. Show less

• 

  IBM

  Sept 2016 - now

  IBM Security Verify is an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) product that provides cloud-delivered Single Sign-On (SSO), multifactor authentication, lifecycle management and privacy consent.Software Test Specialist (Microservice owner & lead)As a owner & lead,• Responsible for continuous delivery of microservice, collaborating with different scrum teams to deliver broader epics.• Oversee day to day activities, identifying and mitigating obstacles.As a QA, • Responsible for delivery of high quality and fully functional test automation coverage for REST APIs and validation of microservice in production deployments.• Design test plans and strategies for maximum functional coverage and fodder them to test automation framework.• Design load test scenarios and analyze load test results.• Create, develop, and maintain DevOps operations viz. service and test pipelines. Show less IBM Cloud Identity is an Identity as a Service (IDaaS) product that provides cloud-delivered Single Sign-On (SSO), multifactor authentication, and lifecycle management.Cloud Identity Governance (CIG), a subscription of Cloud Identity, provides identity governance and administration capabilities. CIG provides provisioning, deprovisioning and reconciliation capabilities to SaaS applications.Software Test Specialist • Responsible for delivery of high quality and fully functional test automation for cloud based microservice, Identity Brokerage (IB), for CIG offering. IB is a SCIM compliant microservice with async behavior.• Design test plans and strategies for maximum functional coverage and fodder them to test automation. • Developed in house automation framework with Node.js, Mocha, Chai, Frisby, and features such as integration with RabbitMQ, reporting, tagging, etc. • A framework capable of running in a test docker container to test IB microservice in Dev, Rel pipelines and Production environments.• Delivered highly reliable, stable and generic automation with a full test coverage of IB’s functionality viz. provisioning, user modify, deprovisioning and reconciliation with real multiple SaaS endpoints.• Incorporate new innovative ways to test IB microservice to cater to its specific needs and the overall product viz. co-existence testing of new IB service code with that of existing production IB service code.• Devise scenarios and carry out load tests for IB microservice.• Responsible for representing the IB team in microservice promotion checkpoint meetings. Strategize and devise deployment steps for deploying IB service to production environments without downtime and glitches. Validate service integrity after deployments using test scripts build in-house. Show less IBM BigFix is market-leading endpoint management and security platform. It provides accurate, real-time information about endpoints regardless of operating system, location or connectivity. Deploys and patches operating systems and third-party software. Provides continuous monitoring, patching and compliance enforcement across endpointsScrum Master & QA Lead:• As a Scrum Master, brought in new ideas of agile philosophy and ways of implementing them in the team. Introduced concepts for minimum exit criteria to ensure quality. Brought accountability & predictability to user stories by adhering to the practice of correct sizing of user stories and breaking into smaller ones when needed• As a QA lead, charted out a white paper on best practices on agile software development and how to achieve quality. Presented and implemented best practices in BigFix scrum teams.• Introduced and implemented QA metrics for the BigFix teams in Singapore to help gauge quality and take corrective steps in the area of concerns. • Active member of the technical vitality committee of IBM Singapore software lab and active participation in organizing events like Hackfest & Techtalks. Show less

  • Software Test Specialist (Microservice owner & lead)

    Jan 2020 - now

  • Software Test Specialist

    Jun 2018 - Jan 2020

  • Software Test Specialist

    Sept 2016 - May 2018