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Balaji, Cothapalli

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs 4 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years in Server and Storage domains
  • Expert in manual testing and platform qualification
  • Led teams in storage product validation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Storage Testing and Infrastructure Specialist with extensive experience in platform qualification.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software QualitySystems ManagementStorage TestingFirmware Validation

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBackup and RecoveryComputer ScienceContainerizationDASDebuggingFunctionalityLinuxManagement SoftwareNAS Controller QualificationNetwork-Attached Storage (NAS)Operating SystemsPERC CardsPlatform Enablement TestingPlatform Qualification

About

A software professional with over 11 years of experience into the Server, Storage and Virtualization domains. Have a good experience in manual testing where qualifying the different server platforms which include Dell 14G intel and AMD servers. Also, have a very god experience in qualifying the RAID controller cards of Dell's PERC and HPE's SmartArray (LSI cards) with the respective Server Platforms. Have a very good experience in validationg different storage array's which include Seagate's Dot-Hill boxes of JBODs and RBODs, Dell's MD Storage Enclosures, HPE's XP arrays. Have an experience into test case writing, test planning, test environmen creation, test execution, defect tracking, defect closures, retesting, regression testing etc using different tools like TestPlus, JIRA, Bugzilla etc. Lead the team in qualifying different storage products of HPE and Dell. Have an experience in working DAS, NAS and SAN environments with different storage protocols like SATA, SAS, NVMe, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI and FC. Good experience in VMware's ESXi product qualification and experience in vSphere, vCenter and features like vMotion, HA, DRS and vSAN, Snapshots etc. Have worked in Rubrik's Backup and Recovery product's platform qualification.

Experience

Hewlett packard enterprise

Senior Specilist [Platform Enablement]

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Spearheaded the bringing up of HPE ProLiant Gen12 Development Protos from QA perspective.
  • Skilled experience in Validations of iLO Firmware on different generations of iLO ASIC.
  • Good hands-on experience in iLO Platform Enablement Testing which covers Power, Processor,
  • Memory, Thermal & fan, UEFI, Storage, Network cards and other interfaces and Protocols.
  • Developed and executed comprehensive Test plans/cases/ strategies to ensure highest robustness in
  • the quality of iLO firmware on HPE ProLiant Servers which is based on Intel CPU architecture namely
  • Eagle Stream and Birch Stream Platforms and AMD CPU architecture namely Genoa and Turin.
iLO FirmwareTest plansPlatform Enablement TestingSoftware QualitySystems Management

Harman india

Senior Engineer

Jun 2021Nov 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Rubrik, inc.

Lead Engineer [Contractor]

Apr 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Qualifying the platforms (which include SuperMicro, Dell, HPE and Cisco) for Rubrik's Backup and Recovery product.
Backup and RecoveryPlatform QualificationStorage TestingSoftware Quality

Seagate technology

Senior Engineer

May 2018Nov 2018 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Qualifying the Seagate's Dot-hill storage arrays
Storage ArraysQualifyingStorage Testing

Dell

Sr Storage Test Engineer

Mar 2016Feb 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Qualifying the Dell's PERC cards with different 14G Dell platform servers wrt Windows, Linux and ESXi OSes.
PERC CardsQualifyingStorage Testing

Sicon design technologies pvt. ltd.

Firmware Validation Engineer

Mar 2013Feb 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Qualifying the PMC-Sierra's SSD with its SCSI compatibility.
SSD QualificationSCSI CompatibilityFirmware Validation

Cloudbyte

QA Engineer

Mar 2012Feb 2013 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Qualifying the CloudByte's Elastistor which is a software based NAS controller.
NAS Controller QualificationStorage Testing

Mphasis

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2008Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Qualifying the HP's SmartArray RAID controller cards with different HP platform servers
RAID Controller QualificationStorage Testing

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor's degree — Information Technology

Jan 2005Jan 2008

SGPR GOVT POLYTECHNIC

Diploma in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering

Jan 2001Jan 2004

ZPHS (Boys), Aragonda

SSC

Jan 2000Jan 2001

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