Vasudevan Ranganathan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

19+ years in end-to-end product development.
Expert in firmware validation and QA for storage devices.
Proven leader in strategic planning and team management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Storage Devices Validation Expert with extensive experience in QA and firmware testing.

Contact

vasudevit01@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Qa EngineeringFirmware TestingProject PlanningEngineering Verification TestingRaidSan ConceptsStorage Management

Other Skills

Team LeadershipSSDEnd to End planningFeature scopingBudget PlanningFCiSCSIFibre ChannelStorage switchesStorageSANTestingSCSIFCIPNAS

About

Director of Firmware Validation & QA | Product development Lead | Expert in Storage Devices Validation | 12+ Years of Leadership Experience Proven leader with 19+ years in end to end product development, firmware validation and QA, specializing in Enterprise PCIe, SAS/SATA SSDs, and storage subsystems. Expert in both white-box and black-box testing, with a strong focus on automation and software development. Adept at strategic planning, leading large teams, and delivering high-quality results in fast-paced environments.

Experience

23 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Sandisk

Director, Firmware Validation

Sep 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Team LeadershipSSDQA EngineeringFirmware testing

Western digital

2 roles

Senior Test Manager

Apr 2019 – Sep 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Leading the QA team on the Technical front on innovative enterprise class solid state drives(NVMe, SAS and SATA) at Western Digital
Complete ownership of End to End planning, feature scoping and test.
Responsible for Recruitment, Training, Project planning, Estimation, Budget Planning, Project Execution, Process and Quality adherence.

Test Development Manager

Apr 2015 – Apr 2019 · 4 yrs

Leading the QA team on the Technical front on innovative enterprise class solid state drives(NVMe, SAS and SATA) at Western Digital
Complete ownership of End to End planning, feature scoping and test.
Responsible for Recruitment, Training, Project planning, Estimation, Budget Planning, Project Execution, Process and Quality adherence.

Sandisk

Staff Test development Engineer

Jun 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Msys technologies

Lead Test

Jan 2010 – Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

Lead the team to Engineering Verification Testing activity of testing FC and iSCSI based RAID controllers functionality.
Good understanding in FC, SCSI, ISCSI protocols and RAID.
Good experience in using tools like IOmeter, QC, SCU and wireshark.

Engineering Verification TestingFCiSCSIRAID

Wipro technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

 Good knowledge in SAN concepts, Fibre Channel, Storage switches, Fabric Topologies, zoning, FIPS, Security Policies, iSCSI, FCIP, Storage QOS and Virtual Fabric, FCOE, IP Filter, IPV6.
 Proficient in working with storage features, CLI and testing of Manageability applications for SAN Management.
 Specialized in Scalability testing for SAN Manageability applications.
 Sound conceptual as well as hands-on experience of testing methodologies, SDLC, and Lean principles.
 Have knowledge on Tcl scripts and used it for automating Scripts to test SAN features like IP Filter, IPV6, FCIP, Virtual Fabric, Top talker.

SAN conceptsFibre ChannelStorage switchesStorage Management

Iisc bangalore

project assistant

Jun 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

The proposed project aims to build a comprehensive check pointing infrastructure for Grid computing systems. The check pointing infrastructure will incorporate techniques to support multi-phase and multi-component applications. The check pointing infrastructure will also have mapping strategies to enable migration of scientific applications from one configuration of resources to another.