Engineer Test

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AVIK SHAU

Phone Number: 732-***-**** Email: ********@*******.***

Professional Summary

** *****’ of managing, mentoring and leading QA teams on manual testing and automation

Research and exploration of new technologies and develop required skill-set to handle upcoming features and products

Building QA team from scratch and handling teams across sites

Hands on experience with test development, planning, design and test automation

Hands on experience with OpenStack, Puppet, Linux kernel, Linux low level device driver, FC protocol, Ethernet, Backup & restore, Clustering & HA, File System

Managing scrum teams and sprint planning

Reporting to various stake holders

Highest Professional Qualification

Master of Computer Application (MCA) from Sikkim Manipal University. Experience Summary

Current organization : Commvault Americas (Senior MTS: Feature owner, test planning) Previous organizations : Calsoft Inc. (Associate QA Architect: technology research, test planning) Datagres Technologies (QA Lead: Test owner, test planning & execution) QLogic Corp. (Staff Engineer: Testing, automation, planning) Symantec Corp. (Senior SQA: Test planning, execution, feature owner) Technical Skills

Project Management : Estimation and tracking, sprint planning and tracking, requirement analysis, test scoping, Test planning

People Management : Team resourcing, appraisal

Domain Knowledge : OpenStack, Puppet, FC, FCoE, Ethernet, Linux Kernel, Linux Low level Storage Driver, Clustering, Backup & Restore, Storage Area Networks, RAID, File System, Grid Computing.

Operating Systems : Linux (Red Hat, SUSE), Windows (2K) Virtualization : KVM, Vmware

Tools : Bugzilla, Etrack. Testopia, Jenkins, Jira, git, cvs Scripting & automation : Bash scripting, Python

Database : Db2 and Oracle

Achievements

Responsible to build a strong QA team with very high grade of quality consciousness in the organization and to ensure a high quality product release for Datagres.

Fast track knowledge buildup and test infra setup with various combinations of OpenStack components, deployments using puppet, heat & ansible and test development of new offerings.

Worked on publication for performance characterization using Datagres with ceph for Intel

Near 90% automation of test cases at Datagres

Parallel release on multiple platforms in a very fast paced environment at Datagres

Took ownership of QLogic storage driver (qla2xxx) testing for upstream kernel.org submissions in a short span of 3 months

Started the target testing efforts on Linux QLogic storage driver side with TCM/LIO and SCST

Ownership of FC and FcoE drivers for Linux distros and upstream submissions 2

Filed Papers and Demos for Innovation at Symantec. o Database recovery using CDP (RTP for DB)

o Virtual Appliance with virtual HBA using NPIV

Experience Highlights

1> Organization : Commvault Americas, New Jersey

Duration : Since November 2014.

Designation : Senior Member of technical Staf

Product : Simpana

Operating Systems : Linux SLES, RHEL, Windows 2008 and 2012 Contribution to the project :

- Test owner of OnePass archival retention feature

- Sprint planning

- Co-ordinate with offshore team

- Research on OpenStack and its data protection use cases. Test Infrastructure development with various configurations of OpenStack and deployment of components.

- Test planning and development of Commvault’s offerings on OpenStack 2>Organization : Calsoft Inc., Pune

Duration : November 2013 – October 2014

Designation : Associate QA Architect

Product : HDS - HAPRO&Fusion-IO IOSphere

Operating Systems : Linux SLES, RHEL, VMWare, Windows Contribution to the project :

- Provide direction to the team to test the product.

- Handled scrum teams and sprints

- Manage project kick off, closures, test progress and reporting to various stake holders

- Build a test process to efficiently handle release.

- Build a test culture in the team to test storage products.

- Design and develop test strategy and Test plan

- Streamline the test execution for shorter release cycles

- Build on the automation framework

3> Organization : Datagres technologies, Bangalore Duration : October 2012 – November 2013

Designation : QA Lead/Architect

Product : PerfAccel

Operating Systems : Linux SLES, RHEL

Scripting : Bash shell

Contribution to the project :

- Build a very strong QA team of 7 members from scratch with a balanced mix of fresh and experienced talent, which had the DNA of a startup

- Devised a very efficient resource utilization plan to handle releases as well as development and testing

- Designing an innovative test methodology and framework to dynamically scale the testing

- Built a robust release framework which can handle multiple platform release and at very short duration (4 weeks release cycles)

- Managed scrum team and sprints

- Test Planning

- Manage test progress and reporting to various stake holders including CEO and investors

- Deployment of bug tracker tool “Bugzilla”, test tracker tool “Testopia”, continuous integration tool “Jenkins” and internal document management using “Wiki” 4> Organization : QLogic (India), Pune

Duration : October 2010 – September 2012

Designation : Staf Engineer

Product : Linux storage driver (qla2xxx)

Operating Systems : Linux SLES, RHEL

Scripting : Shell

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Contribution to the project :

- Lead the testing efforts for Linux Suse, Upstream Linux Kernel and Target device drivers

- Test development and execution of the Linux drivers on various HBAs and CNA

- Run code coverage tool GCOV and report using LCOV

- Ownership of testing for upstream kernel.org submissions and SLES submissions

- Ownership of target module testing using TCM-LIO infrastructure for the upstream kernel.org submissions.

- Involved in-depth understanding of the Linux kernel, device driver, FC, FCoE and Ethernet protocol

- Testing of Converged Network Adapter

5> Organization : Symantec Inc. (Previously Veritas Software Ltd.) Duration : December 2004 – June 2010.

Designation : Sr. SQA Engineer.

Product : NBURTP (Net Backup Real Time Protection) Operating Systems : Linux (SUSE 10), Solaris 10

Scripting Languages : Shell

Contribution to the project :

- Leading and mentoring a team of testers.

- Building of product and technology knowledge base

- Acting as an interface between the testing team and the development team in India and US

- Setting up of test environment and installation testing.

- Test planning and execution

- Bug tracking and scrubbing using Etrack

- Contributing to the product in planning phase by suggesting new areas of development and enhancements.

6>Organization : Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. Pune

Duration : July 2003 - December 2004.

Designation : Senior QA Engineer

Product : Grid Computing Platform - GridMP.

Operating Systems : Linux (Red Hat).

Contribution to the project :

- Testing of functionalities of the web interface as mentioned in the specification document.

- System testing of the system, the MP Grid and the MP Agent on all the supported platforms Linux and Windows.

- Installation testing as per the Installation Guide.

- Regression testing on subsequent builds after bugs fixes.

- Creation and Execution of Test cases.

- Tracking of bugs using Bugzilla.

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