Accomplished Professional with more than 8 years of experience in working on testing and qualifying current and future generation Hardware SKUs for Microsoft Azure.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Engineer, Development
Lenovo Limited
11.2021 - Current
Lead the team on qualifying multiple XIO and XStore projects at Scale level.
Delivered test strategy/plan/cases/report for rack and scale testing.
Performed scale and Rack level testing to validate the server hardware.
Expert in Rack level setup, network switch configuration, hardware layout based out of topology SKU design, Hypervisor deployment and configuration to enable qualification testing.
Created test suites in the CSI toolkit to validate the long hour stress / performance tests.
Ensure alignment on validation target goal, strategy, and test plan.
Interaction with customers and understand customer validation requirements.
Experience in working closely with Microsoft product groups, Engineering groups, component teams, suppliers, and industry partners to architect to develop and build Unit Test cases and performing package testing on Azure Test Portal.
Driven all customer validation requirements to internal validation specification and execution.
Focal point for technical discussion during validation execution.
Design and Develop test cases based on the customer requirement.
Responsible for performance testing on OEM's and ODM designs.
Responsible for Test execution and analyzing the results.
Responsible for Bug regression and provide feedback to Customers.
Module Lead
MINDTREE Limited
07.2016 - 11.2021
Worked Hand-in-Hand with Microsoft FTEs to Validate/Test and Qualify the SKU and Hardware components.
Functionality and performance testing of the components like CPU, DIMMS, BIOS, BMC, HDD, SATA SSD, NVME, SSD, PCIEControllers.
Testing new generation server Hardware and Firmware and ensuring to provide quality in deliverables as per the industry standards.
Performed stress/performance tools like IOMeter, DiskSpeed and Workload Generator (WLG), NTTCP, Latte and OCS Toolkit, Prime95, mem86, and Linpack.
Firmware Validation testing.
Worked with Remote infrastructure management tools/devices like, Chassis manager, Rack manager, Serial switch, KVM, ILO, DRAC and BMC etc., to troubleshoot the hardware, firmware and software issues.
Responsible for Recipe preparation and SUT Validations to match the SUT and DUT's with production standards.
Responsible for TFS management used for Bug management, Test case development, Test plan development, requirement tracking.
Experienced in driving initiatives for process development.
Collaborating with internal and external teams to fix performance issues and Bug regressions.
Education
MS in Computer Science (MCS) -
Virginia International University
06.2015
Bachelor of Technology (ECE) -
Acharya Nagarjuna University
05.2013
Skills
Cloud Environment: Microsoft Azure
Operating Systems: Windows 2008/R2, 2012/R2, 2016, 2022 Datacenter
OS features: Microsoft Hyper-V, WDS
System Hardware ODM: Wiwynn and Quanta
OEM: HP, Dell, ZT, Lenovo
Generation: 3,4,5,5x, 60, 6x, 7x, 8x and 9x
Server Components: CPU, DIMMS, BIOS, BMC, HDD, SATA SSD, NVME SSD, PCIE Controllers, NVDIMM and FPGA
Testing Tools and Technologies: Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, KSR, OCS toolkit, IOMeter, WLG, StoreScore, NTTCP, Prime95, Linpack, Mem86, WinMFT, WinDbg, ArcName, Microsoft Exchange Jetstress
Certification
70-533: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure solutions, G891-7492
Timeline
Staff Engineer, Development
Lenovo Limited
11.2021 - Current
Module Lead
MINDTREE Limited
07.2016 - 11.2021
MS in Computer Science (MCS) -
Virginia International University
Bachelor of Technology (ECE) -
Acharya Nagarjuna University
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