Nalin Ranjan

Experience

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  McAfee

  Mar 2006 - Jul 2008

  Software QA Engineer

  - Designed and developed test plans and test cases. - Provided weekly status report to project manager and team lead, worked closely with development teams.- Consistently recognized for excellent problem-solving and analytical skills by peers and supervisors.- Provided technical training to new members of the team.

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  Citrix

  Jul 2008 - Aug 2013

  - Analyzed the project requirements and created project milestones. Created and circulated project charter and project plan documents.- Managed project execution through prioritizing and scheduling into monthly iterations. Reviewed weekly project progress and created status reports and status dashboards for higher management. - Coordinated the project execution with cross-divisional teams placed in US, UK, India, and China. - Tracked software customization, defects and issues via the use of SDLC.- Chaired weekly meetings involving various engineering teams related to project. Analyzed project status and discussed risks with the teams. Set expectations with all the team members and closely monitored the progress.- Maximized productivity by setting clear expectations and proactively communicating project status, issues and risks to internal stakeholders and top management.- Conducted project post mortem meetings to discuss and document the lessons learned. Involved and collected feedback from various team members.- Part of the process improvement team to improve the QA process. Optimized test execution by using Quality profiling tool.- Analyzed the problems with current QA process and suggested improvements to bring efficiency.- Led the QA team and coordinated the project execution for various releases of Citrix XenClient.- Mentored and Monitored the QA team in India and China. Drafted and distributed project objectives and tasks to the QA team.- Ramped up the QA team of 6 members for Citrix XenClient and delivered the first localized version of the product within 6 months. Coached, mentored and motivated junior engineers. Show less - Held weekly internal and external meetings on progress.- Single point of contact for all communications between various teams associated with the project.- Developed and provided feedback on detailed technical project issues and plans.- Prepared and delivered informative presentations for projects.- Documented timely reports related to overall project and test status.- Ensured that effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.- Created, designed and executed test plans, test scenarios, test cases and test reports.- Created and maintained virtual test lab resources via XenServer virtualization. This allowed for testing multiple browsers, operating systems (Windows XP/7/8) and different versions of software.- Executed manual and automated testing of Citrix Enterprise products including XenClient, XenDesktop, GoToMyPC, FileShare, XenServer Show less

  • Senior Software Test Engineer

    Apr 2012 - Aug 2013

  • Software Test Engineer

    Jul 2008 - Mar 2012
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  CloudSphere

  Oct 2014 - Feb 2018

  QA Engineering Lead

  Working as Software QA engineer my job at Gridstore is to keep the software quality in check through functional and automation testing using Python. 1. QA / QA Automation (Python)2. System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Management integration3. Lab setup / maintenance 4. Project Management

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  Cisco

  Mar 2018 - Dec 2021

  Engineering Technical Leader
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  Pure Storage

  Dec 2021 - now

  Member Of Technical Staff