Oct 2022 – Dec 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos

Nov 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• As owner of 12Gb/p Tri-Mode SAS HBA controller, below are my roles and responsibilities.
• I have to interact with multiple extended teams, and drive required changes, to the Tri-Mode SAS HBA by interacting with Partner and also Dell internal teams like System management teams (iDRAC, OM) .
• Responsible for identifying new TC’s for new features
• Responsible for executing unit test cases, which includes using of Protocol analyzer, in-depth Feature validation.
• Responsible for defect triaging, analyzing and debugging the issues reported by the extended teams.

Jan 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

• As a Platform Validation Engineer, I own Storage domain for the upcoming platform. My primary responsibility is to define and write the Test cases for the feature and then execute and debug the issues.

Jan 2015 – Nov 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

• Currently Responsible for upstream linux kernel testing by building , boot and testing, as part of Zero day Bot.
• Strong experience in Storage and Server firmware validation
• Previously, I own RAID adapter FW and driver validation component, on both IBM Power and Open-Power system(IPR Raid controllers and family of Broadcom controllers).
• Independently handled Hardware certification project where, I used to certify IBM Power Server on different Linux distributors such as SuSE and Red-Hat
• Strong automation skills, end to end automation of functional test case of RAID adapter's.
• Firmware Test development & Automation.
• Good understanding in Processor, Memory and PCI (IO) Architectures.
• Strong in visualization concepts.
• Programming skills: Python

Apr 2013 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · bangalore

• Making the physical setup for testing.
• Involved in Stress, CQ verification and Regression testing.
• Involved in exploratory testing due to which corner case bugs were uncovered, in host software and controller firmware.
• Many corner cases were explored in the controller FW during the regression phase which was pretty tricky to resolve.
• Worked on various flavors of Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris.
• Experience in analyzing new product requirements, writing, executing and reviewing test cases.
• Exposure to Virtualization, VMware ESX and ESXi along with Vsphere client
• Have performed various adhoc testing which gave rise to several critical issues.
• Worked on various kinds of disk drives, OEM Servers and Raid Configuration Utilities
• Exposure in writing test cases.
• Knowledge of RAID concepts, BIOS and Basic Motherboard architecture
• Have analytical and detail-oriented attitude with the ability to identify the bugs.
• Have worked on various read, write and IOpolicy.
• Some basic knowledge regarding SSD’s