SARAT RAVIPATI

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Professional Summary

Accomplished Software Quality Engineer with 19 years of experience in the fields of Cloud infrastructure, Virtualization, Enterprise systems software and technologies. Fast learner and detail-oriented engineer dedicated to producing exceptional software product quality. Core Qualifications

• Superior abilities in technical understanding, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting

• Proficient in test processes and test automation using JAVA, Perl, SQL, C and Bourne shell

• Exceptional ability in understanding software products in depth, attention to details and generating thorough high-quality test strategies and methodologies

• Great project management skills - highly organized, adequately sizing, managing risks, working efficiently, meeting schedules under deadlines and agile to business needs

• Strong communication skills and able to work independently, in teams and as a lead

• Skilled in administering ESX, Xen Server, Linux, Windows and Solaris server systems

• Sensitive to customer needs and satisfaction

• Perform well in fast-paced, multi-priority environment Related Experience

Egenera Inc., Boxborough, Massachusetts

Principal Software Quality Engineer February 2007 – February 2019 Worked on Cloud Suite software which allowed both IT organizations and service providers to design, provision and manage IT infrastructure as a service for deploying SaaS applications. Also worked on Infrastructure Management software which helped manage physical and Xen based hypervisors on Commodity Blade converged infrastructure.

• Implemented QA processes, organized functional review meetings, and authored test plans, created test setups, performed functional and stress testing. As a project lead, provided time estimates, managed resources and delivered projects on time. All projects were recognized as released with utmost confidence in quality.

• Worked on automating the setup of servers using Java, test cases and test setups using Bourne shell, Perl and SQL scripts. Modified existing tools and automated tests as needed. Created new tools and scripts to manage resources and monitor the health of the chassis during test runs.

• Tested migration process of customer production environments to newer infrastructure with excruciating detail and directly contributed to Company revenue stream and customer satisfaction. Migration scripts were created in Bourne Shell, Perl and SQL.

• Coordinated test efforts while working with OEM partners like VMware, Fujitsu, Dell and Emulex.

• Interacted with outsource teams from China and Ukraine and dealt with training, task assignment, reviewing issues and test results that were reported back.

• Trained and supervised junior engineers.

• Learned new technologies quickly – Egenera proprietary virtualization technology, ESX and Xen Server, HP, Fujitsu, NEC, IBM converged blade architecture, Cisco ASA firewall, administering network switches and storage technologies.

Senior Software Quality Engineer – Sustaining June 2004 – February 2007 Attended to customer priority issues on Egenera virtualization software and managed the software patch qualification team. As a lead, defined processes, planned testing of patches for all components of the Software. High quality patches were delivered which contributed to greater customer satisfaction.

• Replicated problems reported by customers and analyzed reported crash dumps.

• Setup a robust structured process for releasing patches and process improvements to mitigate future issues within Engineering.

• Automated test cases and test setups using Bourne shell and Perl.

• Provided estimations and prioritized the patch candidates and communicated the upcoming patches and their delivery schedules to the technical support team and Egenera customers.

• Provided on-call coverage during sustaining phone rotation and attended to customer priority issues. Sun Microsystems Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts

Member of Technical Staff 3 - Software June 1999 – June 2004 Contributed to the design and development of Solaris Operating System test software for the high-end server systems. Performed functional and system level testing of Solaris kernel components mostly implemented for high end server systems.

• Created test strategies, test plans and test cases to qualify the Solaris kernel functional changes for new high-end servers. Administered the high-end server test systems and executed the test plans.

• Developed test cases in C and automated them using Bourne shell/Perl. Packaged and delivered the automated tests for release across other Engineering organizations within the company. Also ported legacy Solaris tests into an automated test suite using Test Environment Toolkit (TET).

• Worked as a test lead estimating the test resource requirements, creating project schedules and coordinating the entire quality engineering efforts across several functional organizations.

• Trained and supervised junior engineers.

• Analyzed kernel dumps and root caused the dumps on crashed and hung systems. EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts

Master of Science, Computer Engineering June 1999

JNTU College of Engineering Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical & Electronics Engineering June 1997 REFERENCES

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