Summary

• Expertise in S/W-H/W Quality Engineer in storage domain, Linux/Windows System Administration and LAN/WAN with 14 years experience delivering support of large and highly successful record of applying a broad range of technologies and strategies to provide first class information solutions, Troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Proficient in System software Installation, configuration and administration of NFS, NIS, DHCP, DNS, Proficient in Design implementing scripts and procedures to automate and enhance the monitoring and failure recovery for system services
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as a team member
• Willingness to work flexible hours and production support for 24x7 environment
• Effective communication skills developed through continuous interaction with global clients and internal management and Motivating team player
• Possesses unique ability and proven track record of success delivering new technologies, innovative ideas, and teamwork to achieve client goals and objectives,
• Want to become a part of an Organization offering a career growth plan with learning exposure to latest and evolving technologies and challenges.

Technical Expertise :

Operating Systems : WindowsNT/2003/2000/XP/98/95,Linux 4.0 Enterprise,Sun Solaris 9,Windows NT workstation 4, Windows 95/98, MS-DOS Hardware: Dell Power Edge, HP G4,Dell 2950, Dell and Compaq Pentium based servers, Epson ,HP LaserJet Printers, HP Sure Store DAT Tape and DLTs.

Services : TCP/IP, FTP, PPP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, WINS, SMTP Backup Packages : ARCServe IT 6 for Windows NT4 Netware 4.11, Bright store backup 9 for NT/2000 Admin Tools : Active-Directory, Admin tool Solaris , Vmware, and VNC. Networking : LAN,WAN,VLAN,VPN Ethernet, Hubs, Switches and Routers Messaging Systems : MS Exchange Server 5.5,2000,2003 Lotus Notes. Outlook 2000/2003 Scripts and Programming Languages Python,Perl, Shell scripting Perl, C,C

Confidential

Senior Software QA Engineer

Confidential block storage solutions offer flexible building blocks for cloud-scale storage deployments.

• Installing and configuring EX series Klamath box.
• Tested and automated the pool planner feature for drives selection with different RAID levels in using python.
• Developed the test plans for various pool planner features following agile methodology.
• Follow up with developers and suggesting the solution based on the opened defect.

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Senior Software QA Engineer

• Installing and configuring netbackup 7.5,7.6 deduplication appliance.
• Tested Performance and scalability for 2.5.2,2.5.3 and 2.6 release on 5230 Hardware.
• Installed and configured 4 node cluster for various releases.
• Developed Test plan for various features,Performance and system testing.
• Follow up with developers and suggesting the solution based on the opened defect.
• Gathering and plotting the average network,CPU and IO throughput.
• Analyzing the IO,VM stats and tuning the parameters to get the best performance.

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Software/Hardware QA Engineer

• Performed both manual and automated testing on EMC-CTA storage management software and various archiving applications such as Dxtender, and CFA.
• Developed Test Plan and creating test cases and test matrices.
• Configured hardware appliances as standalones and clusters. Installing management software and archiving applications.
• Setting up test bed and test harness which include configuring VLAN, STP, installing windows, solaris, linux, EMC Dart, FreeBSD, VMWare.
• Installed 4 node cluster of ISILON scaleout NAS and new Centera G4 nodes.
• Installing and configuring NAS - NetApp7.1, 7.2,8.0,8.1 and EMC file systems for data migration
• Developed a perl script which performs adding file servers to the storage management software for consolidation and migration, synchronization, capacity and performance management, and archiving data. Taking snapshots of critical data using EMC CLARiiON CX700 SAN.
• Installing and configuring AD, establishing trust between two domains.
• Working with EMC NAS storages such as NS600, NS704,NS702 and EMC blackbird simulator . Also, working with HP G4,Dell 2950 servers and Intel servers.
• Working with engineers to verify and resolve bugs.
• Writing Python scripts for automation.

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System Administrator

• Installation, Configuration and administration of Red Hat Linux ES 3,4 and Solaris 7/8/9
• Building, upgradation and Management of Linux for around 150 servers at the data center
• Automating backups for all the datacenter servers using Veritas Netbackup.
• Setting up NFS Server and NFS Client, Configured NFS and Samba shares
• Administration of Apache and Weblogic servers.
• Implementation and administration of MS Exchange 2000 2003
• Advise users and management of changes to existing configurations that may enhance performance.
• Co-ordination with Hardware and Software Vendors for existing maintainance contracts.
• Documented project designs

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System Administrator

• Installation, Configuration and administration of Solaris 7 and Red Hat Linux ES 3/4and 8
• Building, upgradation and Management of Linux 3 ES for around 95 servers at the data center
• Installation, Configuration, Crash Recovery, Performance tuning and Administration of Solaris 2.6,7 and 8
• Managing NFS and NIS Master servers and slave servers for 50 clients
• Kickstarting around 30 datacenter servers, Planning Backup strategies for Users
• File Server Consolidation of around 20-25 servers into one server
• Shell and Perl scripting to automate tasks of day to day administrative tasks
• Managing user mailboxes, DLs, Exchange Backup Mailbox restore.
• Backup Restore using Veritas Net Backup.Perfoming Full/incremental backups

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System Administrator

• Responsible for the maintenance of the companies Red Hat LINUX / Windows 2000 / Win-NT servers.
• Implementation of Logon Scripts and Group Policies.
• DNS Administration,Configured NFS and Samba shares
• Performed internal information technology support services, including LAN and WAN administration,bandwidth management, Iptables security administration, Linux system administration, email administration, Workload Estimation.

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Polaris Software Labs. Client

• Monitoring WAN LAN network connectivity problems
• Providing backup contingency links such as the ISDN dial-up in case of link failure
• Taking regular Backups and restoring as and when required using native as well as third party backup utilities as windows NT,ARCServe9.
• Setting up workstations for newly recruited users, installing different softwares and configuring mailing clients like Outlook and Lotus notes 5.

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• Monitoring WAN LAN network connectivity problems
• Providing backup contingency links such as the ISDN dial-up in case of link failure
• Maintaining and troubleshooting EPBAX Nortel Meridian 1 Option 11 C problems
• Assigning user extensions configuring voicemails using Call Pilot
• Setting up workstations for newly recruited users, installing different software and configuring mailing clients like Outlook

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• Allocating disk space, adding new disks to the systems, creating file systems using:
• Taking regular Backups and restoring as and when required
• Writing shell scripts to simplify administrative tasks.

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Technical Support Engineer

• Windows NT System Administration Windows NT,Novell 4.11
• Assembling PC. / Client base installation
• Monitoring WAN LAN network connectivity problems
• Hardware fault Tolerance.