Sainath Gonugunta

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 8 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

16 years of expertise in data protection and virtualization.
Proven leadership in QA deliverables for enterprise applications.
Strong background in SaaS solutions across AWS and Azure.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Infrastructure expert with a focus on data protection and virtualization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ProtectionSaasApplication SupportTestingBackup SolutionsQuality AssuranceInfrastructure Validation

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesClariionDASData Management as a ServiceData Protection SuiteDataDomain BoostDriver validationEMC Backup & RecoveryEMC NetworkerEMC StorageFibre ChannelFirmware validationHPHP ProLiant ServersHP Products

About

16 Years of Experience across Storage, Virtualization, Server System Hardware, System integration and End to End Testing, Planning, Strategizing with Data Protection SME in Enterprise mission Critical applications like Office365, MS SQL Server, MS Exchange, Oracle Db, SAN, NAS, Windows filesystem. Specialities: - Distributed Systems (storage and databases) - Qualification of Software and Hardware (Server Controller Driver/Firmware) - Analyze, Debug and tuning of distributed storage and database systems . - Converged Infrastructure (primary and secondary storage) - Databases (Microsoft SQL Server) - Virtualization (HyperV , VMware Esxi , Citrix XEN) - Storage (DAS, SAN , NAS) - Expertise in deploying and testing SaaS based application in AWS and Azure Public Cloud environment. - Data Protection SME in Office365, MS SQL , MS Exchange onPrem (DAG) , HyperV , Windows & Linux filesystems , NAS , SMB etc. - Powershell Scripting , Python automation.

Experience

15 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Cohesity

Staff QA Engineer

Jun 2018 – Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Cohesity – DMaaS (Data Management as a Service) for Office365 , MS SQL , VMware , NAS , SMB , Windows file system.
Cohesity DMaaS is a SaaS based DataProtection that sits in Azure & AWS.
Top 10 Use-cases for Enterprise customers would be:
Offsite Backup and Recovery and BaaS
SaaS and Cloud Apps Protection
Long-Term Retention and Archiving
Disaster Recovery
Air-Gap Security and Ransomware Recovery
Compliance and Data Governance
Files and Objects
Development and Test
Cloud Data Lake
Analytics
My Role & Responsibilities :
Technical Leader for QA Deliverables .

Data Management as a ServiceOffice365MS SQLVMwareNASSMB+3

Dell emc

4 roles

Principal SW Quality Engineer

Oct 2016 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Lead & Test Engineer - Microsoft Exchange Server & SQL Server Application support for :
Dell EMC Data Protection Suite for VMware,
Dell EMC Data Protection Suite for Applications
Dell EMC Data Protection Suite for Backup

Microsoft Exchange ServerSQL ServerData Protection SuiteVMwareData ProtectionApplication Support

Associate Principal QA Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2013 – Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

Module Lead & Test Engineer for Microsoft Exchange Application support in :
EMC DataDomain Boost for Enterprise Applications (DDBEA) & Microsoft application agent for ProtectPoint (Protectpoint RecoverPoint with XIO / Protectpoint with Vmax )

Microsoft ExchangeDataDomain BoostProtectPointApplication SupportTesting

Senior Software QA Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

Module lead & Test engineer for :
EMC Backup & Recovery - Networker Module for Microsoft Exchange Application.
EMC Backup & Recovery - Avamar for Microsoft Exchange Application.

EMC Backup & RecoveryMicrosoft Exchange ApplicationTestingBackup Solutions

Software Quality Engineer

Jul 2009 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

EMC Networker Module for Microsoft Exchange Application complete end-to-end QA ownership.

EMC NetworkerMicrosoft Exchange ApplicationQA ownershipQuality AssuranceBackup Solutions

Mphasis

Software Engineer

Jan 2007 – Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Project : VMware ESX Validation on HP ProLiant Servers
From: Mar 2009 - till Jun 2009
Role: Worked as the Test engineer for the MphasiS an HP Company.
Description:
VMware ESX operating system is supported on HP ProLiant (ML, DL & BL) Servers. To qualify/support ESX on a HP server, it is required to test and validate the ESX drivers, HP Health driver, storage driver, NIC drivers and Management Agents on that server. A ProLiant Support Pack (PSP), which is an installation package containing the HP drivers and Agents, is updated and maintained for new server releases.
Project : HP IST-Storage Sustaining
From: Jun 2008 - till Mar 2009
Role: Worked as the Test engineer for the MphasiS an HP Company.
Description:
Sustaining storage controller driver or controller firmware testing in system level for every release of the Smart Start cycle is carried out to validate their support to the related hardware viz. Smart Array Storage Controller, LSI logic (SAS/SATA/SCSI HBA), new generation ProLiant servers. DAS technology is used to Validate Controller functionalities such as RAID Levels [0, 1, 5, and 6]. The main focus area of testing is on Controllers that are already released to market.
Project : HP PEFP Product Qualification
From: Jan 2007 - till Jun 2008
Role: Worked as the Test engineer for the MphasiS an HP Company.
Description:
The ProLiant Essential Foundation Pack is HP’s kit delivered with ProLiant ML/DL 300,500,700 Servers. The Foundation Pack includes the SmartStart CD, Firmware maintenance CD. The purpose of the Foundation Pack is to assist customers with initial server deployment and integration of HP Software for their specific Operating System. The Foundation Pack provides server setup and management tools that help customers perform hardware configuration and maintenance, OS installation and server management.