SUMMARY:

• Storage System Quality Engineer with 16 years of EMC Storage QA experience on flash enabled storage system - D5, Midrange Storage systems VNX, CX and AX. In-depth experience spans across all phases of Storage System hardware and software qualification testing of major/minor product releases.
• A quick learner, team player and explorer, always open to work on new technologies.
• Have vast experience to work with teams at different geographical location across different time zones. Strong knowledge and experience in all phases of the SDLC - Software Development Life Cycle.
• Ability to independently setup and maintain complex Lab/QA environment. During the career journey with EMC gained extensive Storage Domain and technical knowledge by working on 28 major/minor product releases.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network Topology: NVMe, PCIe, SAN, NAS, DAS

Storage Provisioning: Block - FC, FCoE & iSCSI, File - CIFS & NFS, Object - Block, file and KV

IO initiator OS: Virtual - VMware ESX and Windows Hyper-v, Windows (All releases till 2012), Red Hat and Suse Linux, AIX,HP, Asian Unix, Solaris, IRIX, Netware

Test Focus Areas: Big Data Application (Hadoop on Cloudera), Storage Management, Multipath, Data Protection Features like Local and Remote Replication, Backup and Restore, Performance monitoring, NAS data migration, Data in place Hardware conversion and Service Tools, Durability, Availability, Scalability, Reliability

Test Type: Functional Verification Testing(GUI and CLI), System Verification Testing (Hardware & Software Interoperability, Forward and Backward compatibility), Install & Upgrade Testing, Service Pack Testing and Serviceability Testing

Test Cycle Activities: Creating docs for Test Approach, Test Plan, Test cases, Sizing for Test Equipment requirements and Test effort requirements, Test status update and reporting, Defect logging and verification

Test Automation: GUI Test Automation using SilkTest

Test Mgmt. Tools: TestRAIL Zephyr for JIRA, HPQC, Rational, MS Excels

Defect Mgmt. Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA,Remedy, Clarify, MS Excel

Databases: MS SQL Server 2008

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Consultant QA Test Engineer

• Working on innovative new rack scale flash enabled storage designed to deliver game-changing performance for IO intensive in-memory databases and Big Data applications such as Hadoop.
• Developed and executed Test Plans to validate System test scenarios for unusually complex problems on Linux Operating Systems - Red HAT and SLES.
• Enhanced existing automated tests to expand the coverage and modified to map with changing functionality on automated framework based on python and shell scripts.
• Product Testing covered Hadoop Plug-in and data validation under all possible security, stress and failure scenarios on writing data on objects of type - block, file or kv using NVMe storing on PCIe flash devices.

Confidential

Specialist Test Engineer

• Supported a quality assurance within a group with (QA) team of 10 personnel to support product enhancement and pre-sales. Conducted quality testing in all phases - Pre-release candidate, Release candidate, and Service Pack Testing, integration, regression and focus testing on system hardware and software with system environment covering highly complex production scenarios.
• Developed QA workflows for customer solutions as pre sales support executed by a skilled technical support workforce.
• Build skilled technical workforce at remote location in a short time due to efficient onboarding process.
• Effectively managed project timelines by client needs and available resources in order to prioritize work plans by severity of issue.
• Analyzes data and software quality to develop a continuous improvement plan and recommend adjustments for clients.

Confidential

Project Lead

• Supported a global quality assurance (QA) team of over 65 personnel with technical assistance and by building customer relationships. Conducted systems quality testing in all phases - Pre-release candidate, Release candidate, and Service Pack Testing, covering interoperability, integration, regression and focus testing on system hardware and software with system environment with various storage topologies and hardware.
• Developed QA workflows for global projects, resulting in successful implementation of solutions by a skilled technical support workforce.
• Trained staff on product usage, with a marked decrease in the staff onboarding process from three months to two weeks.
• Effectively manages project timelines by client needs and available resources in order to prioritize work plans by severity of issue.
• Maintains positive working relationship and retains clients through strategic communications that accurately identify project scope and deliverables.
• Analyzes data and software quality to develop a continuous improvement plan and recommend adjustments for clients.

Group Lead

• Managed QA testing for software and development projects. Designed and reviewed test cases, conducted tests, monitored results, and provided recommendations to stakeholders. Collaborated on product teams to develop and improve test cases for GUI automation test development, service pack testing, forward and backward compatibility testing, and host and storage system interoperability testing.
• Successfully completed over 25 QA tests release cycles for midrange and entry-level storage systems.
• Identified customer needs to develop appropriate test case scenarios that yielded maximum data for system improvements.
• Monitored team progress and communicated status to clients and company management.

Automation Developer

• Developed and executed test cases for GUI automation test development and NGS development. Monitored data and maintained storage systems.
• Developed tools for lab management, test data collection and analysis
• Automated over 2,000 test cases with a GUI automation system.
• Strategy for development and maintenance of SilkTest Framework and Test suits.