Raghav Kashyap

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Delivered 15+ enterprise releases with zero Sev1 issues.
Reduced manual testing by 40% through automation.
Mentored high-performing QE teams in automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Quality Engineering leader with extensive experience in Big Data and Cloud environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test AutomationQuality AssuranceBig DataPlatform EngineeringAutomationNetworking

Other Skills

AWSAnsibleAtlasAutomation TestingAzureBig Data AnalyticsCC++CloudCloudera/Hortonworks PlatformCommand Line AutomationCore JavaCustomer-Centric ValidationELK StackElasticSearch

About

Engineering Manager with 14+ years of experience in leading enterprise-scale testing strategies across Big Data, Cloud, and SaaS platforms. Proven success at Cloudera delivering high-quality releases for Data Engineering and Data Warehouse products on multi-cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, OpenStack). I specialize in test automation, performance testing, release certification, and customer-centric validation for large-scale data platforms. I manage and mentor high-performing QE teams, collaborate cross-functionally with PMs and Engineering, and thrive on building automation-first cultures. Passionate about data, AI-driven testing, Kubernetes, and building reliable platforms at scale. 👥 Team Size: 11–14 | 🛠️ Tech: Java, Python, Spark, Hive, Selenium, Airflow, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes

Experience

Cloudera

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Led QE for Cloudera Data Engineering and Data Warehouse across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Private Cloud). Managed team of 11–14, accountable for functional, non functional, upgrade, and use-case testing.
Key Achievements:
Delivered 15+ enterprise releases with zero Sev1 issues post-deployment.
Reduced manual testing by 40% through strategic automation expansion.
Implemented robust regression pipelines across Spark and Hive workloads.
Enabled GenAI test flows for data platform integration on Kubernetes.
Mentored team on automation, career growth, and ownership mindset.
Also, Led QE for Spark, Livy certification for Cloudera Data Platform (DataHub and CDP PVC Base). Certifying new Spark versions within Cloudera Data Platform.

Test AutomationPerformance TestingRelease CertificationCustomer-Centric ValidationBig DataCloud+2

Staff Engineer

Feb 2022 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs

Worked upon multiple projects as Lead/Staff QE Engineer. Projects like:
Replication Manager, Disaster Recovery System (DRS), and Data and Metadata Replication for Hadoop, Hive, Ranger, Atlas, HBase across cloud distributions (public and private).
Participated in each phase of development and testing right from planning, designing and implementation with the development team. Proposed and implemented shift-left approaches to deliver in a fast-paced environment. Also, mentored junior engineers during the same time.
Cloudera Data Engineering : Worked as a Lead/Staff QE engineer for Cloudera Data Engineering for Private Cloud Distribution for Openshift and Rancher K8S environments. Delivered multiple releases with new feature testing and certification via test automation-first approach for the quality engineering team.
Implemented shift-left testing solutions to achieve reliable build quality and faster delivery.

HadoopHiveRangerAtlasHBaseTest Automation+1

Senior Software Development Engineer Test

Feb 2018 – Feb 2022 · 4 yrs

Partner Certifications: Working directly with partners, like IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM PPC, to certify their storage solutions integration with the Cloudera/Hortonworks Platform. This work gave me exposure and responsibility to interact with the Partners team on a daily cadence and give feedback to their development/testing teams for each release and certification. Helping partners and their customer issues debugging.

IBM Spectrum ScaleIBM PPCCloudera/Hortonworks PlatformQuality AssuranceTest Automation

Nokia

Technical Specialist

Feb 2017 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr · bangalore

Big Data analytics and platform engineering. Worked upon building the platform to enable the open-source Elasticsearch’s ELK stack technologies to stakeholders within the organisation in a containerised solution. Did development and testing both for the team.

Big Data AnalyticsElasticsearchELK StackBig DataPlatform Engineering

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Senior SDET

Jul 2013 – Feb 2017 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Working on Hadoop file system and map-reduce based automation testing for big data applications ,
Building automation for hadoop, Big data technologies like pig,map reduce based application development and testing for data driven Batch processes,
Building test automation based on map-reduce to test big data applications for prediction based analysis based on historical data.
Big Data Platform set up for CDH/HDP and cluster data migration.

HadoopMapReduceAutomation TestingTest AutomationBig Data

Paxterra solutions inc

Software Engineer II

Oct 2011 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Developing Tools for command line based automation
Automation framework development for web and network automation.
Developer of Open Source Automation Framework TestON (available at www.github.com/Paxterra/TestON)for Open Flow Networking (SDN ).
Skilled in software defined networking(SDN) test automation.

Command Line AutomationOpen Source Automation FrameworkAutomationNetworking