Jul 2017 – May 2018 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jan 2014 – Jun 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed & developed next-gen, open-source, test automation framework & suite, mvtest, based on pytest. Experience in design, development and automation of tests for various Carrier Grade Linux features. Authored technical papers on IPsec-IKE, Leapsecond testing, kASLR & performance testing. Experience in testing MontaVista Linux distribution (CGL MSD) on x86-64, arm, ppc & mips.
• open-source contributions:
• 1. vDSO randomization proposal for MIPS (http://www.spinics.net/lists/mips/msg50555.html)
• 2. Leap second testing (https://github.com/premkarat/leapsecondtest)
• 3. ANSI support for pytest-html (https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-html/pull/81/commits)
• 4. mvtest (https://github.com/premkarat/mvtest)

May 2005 – Dec 2013 · 8 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• IBM Linux Technology Center (2010 - 2013):
• Test architect & team lead for testing Linux KVM & Openstack on pre-GA RHEL & SLES distributions. Also lead the linux internal support team and have experience in debugging and resolving bugs raised on RHEL, SUSE & Fedora pre-GA distributions
• open-source contributions:
• 1. Openstack tempest (http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&user_id=prem-karat)
• 2. autotest (https://github.com/autotest/autotest/commits?author=premkarat&since=2012-01)
• 3. mount helper for 9p (http://marc.info/?l=v9fs-developer&m=131229409901652)
• 4. Linux kernel patch for 9p bug fix (http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1105.1/01512.html)
• IBM Rational Labs (2005 - 2010):
• L1, L2 & L3 customer support engineer for Rational DOORS & directory server. Experience in handling Defense & Aerospace customers across the globe (US, EMEA & APAC).
• Joined IBM via acquisition of Telelogic

Jun 2004 – May 2005 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jan 2003 – May 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos