• AI-Assisted Engineering: Integrated Claude-driven Root Cause Analysis (RCA) into the JIRA defect lifecycle, reducing average debugging time by 50% across distributed environments and accelerating release velocity. • Ransomware Threat Detection: Executed advanced cybersecurity test scenarios to identify early-stage encryption attempts and threat patterns on Dell PowerScale, VAST, and Qumulo clusters, strengthening data protection posture. • Datastore Resilience & DR Testing: Orchestrated Disaster Recovery and Failover validation protocols across heterogeneous datastores — Dell PowerScale, VAST, Qumulo, and Pure FlashBlade — ensuring 99%+ recovery success rates. • Performance & API Validation: Conducted comprehensive API testing using Swagger and Postman; executed load and stress performance tests to validate platform scalability under peak production workloads. • Production Stability: Deployed and maintained Soak Test systems for post-production monitoring, ensuring long-term stability and early detection of degradation in high-scale environments. • Environment & Infrastructure Management: Managed full-cycle test environment provisioning — deploying VMs via vSphere and upgrading infrastructure for every release cycle, supporting zero-downtime deployments. • Architecture Collaboration: Partnered with engineering teams to identify QA-driven performance bottlenecks and co-architect system improvements, reducing recurring defect rates. • Technical Troubleshooting: Led deep-tier root cause investigations by analysing configuration files and system logs, resolving complex multi-system software defects with a structured, data-driven approach. • Test Case Management & Defect Tracking: Maintained 500+ test cases and managed defect tracking in JIRA, reducing open defect backlog by 30%. • Agile QA Leadership: Operated within Agile/Scrum frameworks to manage sprint planning, release coordination, and quality gates, consistently delivering high-quality features on schedule.…• AI-Assisted Engineering: Integrated Claude-driven Root Cause Analysis (RCA) into the JIRA defect lifecycle, reducing average debugging time by 50% across distributed environments and accelerating release velocity. • Ransomware Threat Detection: Executed advanced cybersecurity test scenarios to identify early-stage encryption attempts and threat patterns on Dell PowerScale, VAST, and Qumulo clusters, strengthening data protection posture. • Datastore Resilience & DR Testing: Orchestrated Disaster Recovery and Failover validation protocols across heterogeneous datastores — Dell PowerScale, VAST, Qumulo, and Pure FlashBlade — ensuring 99%+ recovery success rates. • Performance & API Validation: Conducted comprehensive API testing using Swagger and Postman; executed load and stress performance tests to validate platform scalability under peak production workloads. • Production Stability: Deployed and maintained Soak Test systems for post-production monitoring, ensuring long-term stability and early detection of degradation in high-scale environments. • Environment & Infrastructure Management: Managed full-cycle test environment provisioning — deploying VMs via vSphere and upgrading infrastructure for every release cycle, supporting zero-downtime deployments. • Architecture Collaboration: Partnered with engineering teams to identify QA-driven performance bottlenecks and co-architect system improvements, reducing recurring defect rates. • Technical Troubleshooting: Led deep-tier root cause investigations by analysing configuration files and system logs, resolving complex multi-system software defects with a structured, data-driven approach. • Test Case Management & Defect Tracking: Maintained 500+ test cases and managed defect tracking in JIRA, reducing open defect backlog by 30%. • Agile QA Leadership: Operated within Agile/Scrum frameworks to manage sprint planning, release coordination, and quality gates, consistently delivering high-quality features on schedule.WWWW…