Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Q&A with Praveena Patchipulusu, Director QA at HPE

DECK 7 | February 19, 2020

Praveena Patchipulusu, Director QA at Hewlett Packard Enterprise carries rich experience in Leadership, Storage, Networking, Quality Assurance, and Automation. She loves spending time with her kids and have been lucky to do so with the right work-life balance while working @HPE Nimble Storage team for 7 years! Deck 7: Tell us about your role at HPE. What do you like most about working with HPE’s QA team? PRAVEENA PATCHIPULUSU: My role encompasses project deliveries, strategies, vision for QA team, people leadership, managing budget for the QA team which includes even release management, delivering products keep the customer in mind. It encompasses the role to define, execute and promote quality mindset. For us customer comes first. All the QA functions including manual and automation, working with cross organization leadership to deliver high-quality products on time with the given hardware and people resources. I do work with the product management in defining the product and development counterpart to work on designing and defining the actual engineering design for the product and also the customer support. So, those are the three big verticals that I have to work with. At HPE, QA is equally, highly engaged with all the customer escalations, and we have a very good relationship with the support which is very unique compared to a lot of other companies. This gives us a very good insight on what problems we face because we do involve in the escalations. And that helps us analyze what we might have missed in the product and catch it upfront. Also, sometimes benchmarking is kind of missing in certain aspects within the product, like performance and failover benchmarks so we come up and develop the business quality initiatives and for the future product we measure our own benchmarks. D7: Are there specific skills that have helped yo