About

Amrish Parikh is a forward-focused professional with over 18 years of experience in product development, QA, and automation. He has a proven track record of leading diverse teams to ensure on-time product releases and providing technical leadership. Amrish has extensive experience working in the Data Protection Domain and has worked closely with Product Management and Technical Support to resolve business and technical conflicts to achieve strategic organizational goals. He is an advocate for strong Agile development methodologies (SCRUM), automated testing, and continuous integration. Amrish has led the successful design, development, and testing of multiple product automation and has experience in leading multiple releases and numerous patch releases for multiple products over a span of 7+ years in an Agile model. He has also led various products and defined their Project Plan, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Execution, and Defect Reporting documents. Apart from his technical expertise, Amrish has actively contributed to various CSR activities and has the ability to deliver with high quality under critical situations. He is a proven team player, a good mentor, and is always eager to learn new things to get productive in a short span of time. Amrish's skills include Virtualization (VMware Esxi, vSphere Client, vCenter, Hyper-V), Technology/Applications/DBs (Exchange, Oracle, AWS, Azure), Storage (SAN, NAS, Deduplication, Replication), Languages/Scripting (C++, Visual Basic, HTML, VBA Script, Perl, Python, Ansible, Java), Automation (REST API, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Robot Framework), Tools/Software’s (MS Office, QC, Jira, Confluence, Bugzilla, Jenkins, GitHub, BitBucket), Manual Testing (Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance, Stress, Localization, Interoperability, and Security Testing), and OS (Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX). Currently, Amrish is working as a Software Engineering Manager at Rocket Software, where he is responsible for making sure all Net Backup maintenance releases go on time with high quality for areas BMR, Install & Upgrade and NetBackup Core components. He is also managing and mentoring team members and developing internal tools that help the organization to deliver faster. In the past, Amrish has worked as a Software Quality Assurance Lead at Cerence, where he successfully grown PS QA (Manual & Automation) team from ~10 to ~50 in a short period of time and started delivering projects from