Chethan Pai

Experience

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  Hitachi Power Tools (Electrex India)

  Jan 1999 - Apr 2000

  G.E.T. (Graduate Engineer Trainee)

  • Management Trainee, Mechanical Engineering• Working on new product initiatives, Costing analysis, Production bottleneck improvements, new product costing analysis.• Process improvements, Improving human & machine productivity techniques.

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  Aztecsoft

  Jul 2000 - Jan 2002

  Consultant - Development & Test Engineering

  • Started as a trainee, developing business internet applications using MSFT Technologies.• Worked on ER Studio/Data Transit, ETL tool development.• Regression analysis, Automation development.

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  I2 Technologies

  Jan 2002 - Dec 2004

  Senior QA Engineer

  • Worked on flagship product of i2 - Factory Planner.• Involved in complete life cycle testing and managed many major and minor product releases.• Designed and developed automated test harness for UI testing (Data Compliance Kit).• Developing new tests in Perl based automation framework for CLI.• I developed a UI based automation framework to include customer defects and better test coverage.• Worked closely with global customer support and developed utility tools.• Provided technical support to functional consultants for on-going implementations.• Team representative for Integration, Performance initiatives.• Awarded Product Development - Customer Satisfaction award and i2 Milestone Award for various contributions. Show less

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  Software AG (formerly webMethods Inc.)

  Dec 2004 - May 2011

  • Grew from QA Engineer (IC Role) to a Manager in the Organization.• Managed the e2e Testing (Functional & Non-Functional) Ownership and Release Responsibility for webMethods Flagship Products (ESB, Designer, Message Broker, EDI and B2B).• Hands on Manager handling diverse set of roles such as Scrum Master, Suite Coordinator, People Manager, Test Architect, Test Developer.• Built a UI automation framework to for eclipse based client.• Driven many Automation Initiatives in team and improve coverage per release basis.• Involved in Process Committee Working Group to Strategize and Implement QA Methodologies and Best Practices for the global team. Show less • First QA engineer in webMethods Development Center in Bangalore, India.• Closely involved in recruiting and building the QA organization in IDC from infancy stage.• Designed & coded many test frameworks for e2e testing strategy.• As an individual contributor, worked extensively on testing features for multiple product releases.• Developed test automation and new frameworks (Using, Shell scripting, Native Flow Language and Java) for products like webMethods ESB, Adapters and Industry Standards like ACH Gateway, EDI. Show less

  • Manager, Product Development (QA)

    Jul 2007 - May 2011

  • Senior QA Engineer

    Dec 2004 - Jun 2007
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  Informatica

  Jun 2011 - Jul 2019

  • Managing a global team of engineers (North America & Bangalore) in QE• Started Performance Engineering in Bangalore Office• Co Managing the DevOps team in Bangalore. I started this initiative in the Bangalore Office• Handling the End to End Product Quality Responsibility for Informatica MDM Products (On-Prem, Cloud & Hosted. MDM Platform & Solutions)• Managing the CI/CD and DevOps for MDM Next generation SAAS offering. I architected the overall build promotion process for SAAS delivery model• Restructured the team into Product & e2e integration teams to align with test pyramid model for cloud ops• Implemented changes in QE to suite Cloud QA test strategy• Focused on Cloud Security (PEN Testing, Application Scans)• Involved in various Cloud security initiatives• Introduced multitude of initiatives to improve automation, right fitment of framework and focus on cloud testing models Show less • First Member to join the Ultra Messaging Team in Bangalore, I built the QE team from Scratch• Architected a Distributed Automation framework & the Automation Strategy for Real Time, Big Data Ingestion Products• Worked on Integration Strategies for running Non-Functional tests such as Performance, Scalability & Reliability into a CI/CD setup• Managed Core Development, Build & Installer projects within the Business Unit• Worked as a Product Manager to Design & Develop an Installer/Product Usability Strategy• Participated in Code Review, Design and Architecture Meetings Show less

  • Global Director, Quality Engineering & DevOps (R&D), Master Data Management (MDM)

    Apr 2016 - Jul 2019

  • Senior Manager, Quality Engineering (R&D)

    Jun 2011 - Mar 2016