Nofar Ben Zaken Schohat

Technical Lead & Product Owner, Platform Quality | Dell Led the Platform Hardware QA for Dell PowerStore, the company’s flagship enterprise storage platform, overseeing a global team of 12 engineers.

Leadership & Strategy:
- Quality Roadmap & Execution: Owned the end-to-end quality strategy, aligning testing priorities with core engineering and business goals for large-scale distributed systems.
- Technical Authority & Mentorship: Acted as the primary technical lead across global, cross-functional teams, driving continuous improvement and best practices.
- AI Implementation: Contributed to internal AI initiatives, integrating AI tooling to accelerate workflows, optimize test automation, and improve codebase navigation.

Technical Achievements & Engineering:
- Automation Architecture: Developed Python-based automation frameworks and drove CI/CD-integrated validation, reducing manual testing effort by over 30%.
- Data-Driven Telemetry: Initiated and designed a centralized PostgreSQL-based data platform for real-time telemetry, observability, and data-driven decision-making.
- System-Level Validation: Built robust API-level validation protocols (REST, Redfish) to ensure early detection of complex system-level failures.

• System-Level Troubleshooting: Conducted complex root cause analysis (RCA) and troubleshooting for advanced processor manufacturing machinery, ensuring continuous and reliable operations.
• Data-Driven Optimization: Utilized JMP statistical analysis software to evaluate large-scale manufacturing data, identify anomalies, and improve process efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with multidisciplinary engineering teams, leveraging E3 control systems to optimize hardware performance and support factory production goals.