Profile Highlight:

•       Over all 18 years of IT experience encompassing a wide range of skill set in system technologies areas mostly in Server Hardware validation,Virtualization testing, Datacentres deployment, SRE and Operations. Currently associated with Amazon Web Services.

•       Hired, trained and retained the SRE and Ops teams of 20+ from scratch with a strong focus on SRE Culture.

•       Build SRE Culture with relentless focus on availability, performance, manageability and customer experience.

•       Lead, coached and mentored the SRE teams which is built ground up in last 2+ years, which manages key operational activities and developed automation tools like Automated Incident Management and leading vSAN SRE team.

•       Led vSAN and VM-Platform team in VMWare. Drove effort to automate test cases for Clustered storage solutions and VM-Platform features.

•       Expertise in functional verification testing of operating system features, platform and system integration testing, stress testing and compatibility testing.

•       Extensive working experience in verification of hardware design and modelling techniques.

•       Understand IBM P-Server Architecture and work closely with other stack holders/PTOs (Primary

Test Owner) in planning of testcases and planning of the hardware requirements for each release

•       Experience in Agile test methodologies, I was a triaging lead and Scrum Master in Vmware for VSAN product.

•       Experience in developing and executing test plans for IBM Power Server Hardware GA, HP FC and FCOE cards from Emulex and Qlogic for HP integrity servers (Blades and Rack mounted servers) and vSAN in VMware.

•       Good working Experience in CAT, CI/CD and Jenkins and Stackstorm/ST2.

•       Experience in developing and executing test plans for IBM Power Server Hardware GA, HP FC and FCOE cards from Emulex and Qlogic for HP integrity servers (Blades and Rack mounted servers) and vSAN in VMware.

•       Testing experience in attached IO drawer according to test case may SSD, SAS, SCSI FC. Installing OS on IO drawer test the drivers work properly and checking the performance.

•       5+ years of on-site experience in IBM Austin labs for IBM Power Server system bring-up phase, P server Hardware integration and validation phases.

•       Expertise in Storage and Network virtualization and VLAN through IBM power Hypervisor, KVM and VMWare hypervisor.

•       Primary test ownership and was a lead the test effort for InfiniBand, FC and FCoE adapters from Emulex and Qlogic.

•       Extensive experience in Test Tools Development for IBM P server using C and Linux/AIX.

•       Expertise in SAN (Storage area network) and worked on storage arrays like HP P2000, 3PAR, EVA, IBM DS8k and DS4k.

•       Strong experience in new features like VM migration, DRS, HA and POWER Server’s partition hibernation, migration and successfully lead the test efforts

•       Strong knowledge and experience in System P internals, storage and network virtualization.

•       Strong knowledge and skills in platform and system integration testing and stress testing. 

•       Strong programming skill in C and shell scripting, python and experience in test automation.

•       Strong system programming skills in Linux Internals, AIX Internals.