VISHWANATHA KRISHNAMURTHY – PMP®(Pursuing) – Canada PR

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PROFILE SUMMARY

A competent professional with 18+ years of System side (3 years Scrum master, 5 years Development, 10 years Testing) experience as Engineering Lead/Architect, in the area of CLOUD, STORAGE, VIRTUALIZATION AND NETWORKING, HA, Clustering, Resiliency Orchestration. Managing customer escalations.

-Project planning / Technical leading -Architect with technical depth and customer orientation

-Involved in project auditing work -Authoring Test strategy and Test Plan

-Scheduling / Estimation -Tech Management, Resource planning, Capacity planning

-Product road mapping -Agile product management

●Technical expertise in all aspects of the Software Development/Testing Life Cycle.

●An effective communicator with excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills

●Please refer to the annexure for individual project details.

SKILL SET

●Well versed and hands-on with:

oCore Storage Infrastructure NAS/SAN – NFS/CIFS, FC/iSCSI

oResiliency Orchestration – DRaaS, Cyber Resiliency platform

oDockers and Kubernetes

oCloud types such as PAAS, IAAS, SAAS

oUnix internals and system programming

oCLI/API/REST API Automation in ANSIBLE, PERL/Python/Java scripts & GUI Automation using RFT, Sahi & Protractor

oFile system benchmarking and system performance

oClustering/HA solutions/Multipathing/Load balancers

oC/C++/Java programming & System Crash Analysis

oGDB, DBX and Netware Internal Debuggers

oBug Tracking Tools such as Jira, Bugzilla, Netapp-BURT and Remedy

oHP-Quality Center, Spirent, IXIA

oOSs: RedHat Linux, NetWare, Data ONTAP and AIX

oGit, BitKeeper and Perforce

oRelease/Sprint planning and estimation/scheduling.

ORGANISATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aug’19 to till date IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore as Test Automation Lead / Architect

Feb’17 to Jul’19 Dell EMC, Bangalore as Test Senior Staff Engineer

Oct’14 to Feb’17 Wipro Technologies, Bangalore as Test lead.

May’13 to Sep’14 AT&T (via Tech Mahindra), Bangalore as Tech Manager

Apr’11 to Nov’12 IBM-India Software Labs, Bangalore as Senior Staff Software Engineer

Jul’08 to Jan’11 NetApp, Bangalore as Member Technical Staff QA - 3

Aug’06 to Jul’08 QLogic (via Wipro Technologies) Bangalore as Senior Software Engineer

Aug’04 to Jul’06 Novell R & D, Bangalore as Senior Software Engineer

Sep’03 to Aug’04 Axes Technologies as Software Engineer

EDUCATION

2021 1 year (equivalent to Executive MBA) - Advanced Strategic Project Management at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

2003 BE (Computer Science) from MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, VTU Belgaum with 75%

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING

●VMware Training from VMware Educational Services

●RedHat accredited cloud developer

●RedHat accredited Ansible developer

ANNEXURE:

Major Projects/Organizations Worked:

Test Automation Lead / Architect, IBM India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore

Title: IBM Resiliency Orchestration product (https://www.ibm.com/services/business-continuity/disaster-recovery-orchestration)

Period: Oct’19 - till date

Exposure: Scrum Master, Sahi automation framework, Testing of IBM RO product features, Release planning and estimation. Databases like MySQL, Sybase and MSSQL. Java, Java scripts and Protractor

Achievement: Spot award

Responsibilities:

●Scrum Master. Scheduling and assigning the work, technically leading the team. Managing customer escalations.

●As a Agile lead, take care of all agile processes and procedures in Jira including starting the sprint, consolidating the stories for the sprint, completing the sprint, attending scrum of scrum and giving update in that forum

●Follow up with team members on daily tasks and highlighting the risks in DSMs and Scrum of Scrum meetings.

●Actively participating in Quarterly release plan meetings and Sprint plan meetings and get involved in estimation, scheduling and resource mapping to particular tasks/stories of the sprint.

●Doing Bug policing, Follow up open bugs with POs and Product Managers and other team scrum masters like development team.

●Getting the work done by team members

●Sending the Nightly solution run report to entire Org

●Act as cross team/cross functional contact from automation team

●To prepare sprint demo slides by consolidating the statistics and progress/achievements of that sprint and give the sprint demo.

●Scheduling the meetings including but not limited to regular meetings

●Arranging trainings required for the team to do daily tasks

●Completely owned New hire trainings

●Co-ordination with team members for their daily work and assisting them wherever needed.

●Co-ordination of ad-hoc requests for running nightly solution and feature runs.

Title: IBM Block Replicator (IBR) automation

Period: Aug’19 to Oct’19

Exposure: Python, Eclipse

Responsibilities:

●Subject Matter Expert and Automation Architect

Test Senior Staff Engineer at Dell EMC, Bangalore

Title: BVT GUI Automation suite of Support Assist Enterprise

Period: Jan’19 to Jul’19

Exposure: Java, Git, Jenkins, Robot framework

Responsibilities:

●Team leading and technically guide SAE automation regression/BVT test suite team. Owned the BVT suite.

●Subject Matter Expert

●Managing daily runs of SAE BVT GUI automation suite and getting it fixed on time.

●Porting of SAE automation suite to Moonbike which is Linux based.

●Code coverage analysis using Jacoco. Prepare and take in-charge of automation team external audit

Title: Automation of Undocumented REST APIs of Support Assist Enterprise

Period: Jan’19 to Feb’19

Exposure: Neoload, Jacoco code coverage tool

Responsibilities:

●Test automation lead

●Involved in estimation and Code coverage analysis using Jacoco

●Communicating with different stake holders in automation

Title: Support Assist Enterprise (https://www.dell.com/support/contents/us/en/04/article/product-support/self-support-knowledgebase/enterprise-resource-center/enterprise-tools/supportassist-for-servers-and-storage )

Period: Feb’17 to Jul’19

Exposure: Servers, Storage and Networking, Agile methodology, Jira, Collector, leading team members being a SME

Responsibilities:

●Subject Matter Expert

●Involved in test spec writing and test execution

●Bug scrubbing and getting the things done on time

●Involved in estimation, assigning user stories and defects, tracking the progress in every test cycle

●Comparatively more number of bugs and RFEs(Request for Enhancements) in SAE

●SAE automation regression test suite management.

Tech Manager at Tech Mahindra, Bangalore

Client: AT&T, USA

Title: Network Virtualization Platform

Period: May’13 to Sep’14

Exposure: vCenter-vsphere client, HP blade Center Management, Vsphere HA and vMotion(DRS), Spirent Traffic Generator, GSTool Testing, NTP Scripts, Alarms/Events Testing, White Paper on IPv6, guiding on Virtualization Whitepaper to juniors, IXIA-Juniper Steal Belted radius testing, Mentoring new joiners, Multipathing testing. vSphere configuration, replication, data protection, availability, host management, networking, resource management, storage, virtual machine administration, installation administration

Responsibilities:

●Assembling the test requirements from clients

●Handling test design, setup and execution

●Analyzing the result and test reports/graphs

●Corresponding with clients/higher management for co-ordinating, risk mitigation, planning and estimation of project

●Managing team members and assisting them technically, involving in recruitment, assigning tasks and getting the work done, motivating people.

Senior Staff Software Engineer at IBM(India Software Labs) India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore

Title: Virtualization Performance Advisor Tool Development and Testing. (https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Power%20Systems/page/PowerVM%20Virtualization%20Performance%20Advisor )

Period: Aug 2011 to Apr 2012

Details: Project included heading, maintenance and testing on AIX, the PowerVM Virtualization Performance Advisor diagnose’ the performance issues on PowerVM partitions/power system. The capture tool runs on any AIX partition. The tool was developed by the IBM Power Systems Virtualization Performance Team and was intended to help systems administrators, developers, testers, performance analysts, field engineers and others who diagnosed and addressed performance issues within the power system. It collected performance metrics, analyzed performance and provided a health check report. It had two modes LPAR mode and whole system mode

Responsibilities:

Designed, lead and coded the project

Mitigated risk, conducted debugging and analyzed test reports

Provided support to internal & external customers

Developed knowledge sharing sessions and transitioned

Member Technical Staff QA–3 at NetApp, Bangalore.

Title: M-Host(includes the below two ONTAP core features RDB Latency Stats and Configuration/Backup/Restore - http://www.ontap8.com/clustered-ontap-basics-carry-overs-from-the-gx-lifestyle/ )

Period: Nov’09 to Jan’11

Responsibilities in general:

●Performed test gap analysis and shared with cross team/BU members to develop inter-op test cases

●Stimulated work group commitment

●Represented the QA forum across NetApp Bangalore

●Carried out and arranged knowledge sharing sessions in co-ordination with engineers

●Provided developer support to customers via NetApp website.

●Delivered and advised initiatives in projects where QA could be pitched and supported to develop and deliver quality product

●Conducted verification of bugs on the user space area of ONTAP called M-Host

●Maintained the number of TESTME bugs as minimum as possible on several ONTAP releases

●Developed co-ordination with the development team

Overseas Experience:

Title: Transition of projects from USA to India

Period: Jul’10 to Aug’10

Description: The project included transition of 8 regression projects from NetApp US to NetApp India by communicating with developers/dev. managers/QA engineers. Ensured that the 8 projects automation scripts ran with no issues on several ONTAP codlines. Supervised juniors on how to approach, arranging any session needed on the tools such as JAMS, discussion needed to understand the automation code with original authors, guided on any issues to be opened as bugs and reported the status to manager on regression projects from NetApp USA.

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with development counter parts of configuration/backup/restore and RDB latency stats wrt test coverage and automation feasibility and verified the testability

Senior Software Engineer at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore

Client: Qlogic

Title: Management Interface Modules of QLogic FC Switch (SNMP, CIM Agent –

(http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/Manual/81359/ReferenceGuide_CIM_Agent_v7_v8_v9_59223-03E.pdf )

Period: Aug’06 to Jan’08

Tools: Silvercreek, Edentree and Cscope

Roles: Sole ownership for the entire CIM Agent from Wipro side as well as Qlogic side

Sole ownership for the entire SNMP module maintenance from Wipro side

Responsibilities:

Handled the entire software life cycle from design, coding, review, testing and release of the IPv6 support for CIM Agent

Coordinated with CIM agent and SNMP modules

Supervised and shared knowledge of modules to the new joiners for the project

Highlight:

Deputed at Qlogic USA to transition CIM agent IPv4 to IPv6 migration effort

Senior Software Engineer at Novell R & D, Bangalore

Title: Mysql – An Open Source Database from Mysql AB (http://www.mysql.com )

Period: Aug’04 to Jan’06

Roles: Developer – Development and debugging using NetWare Internal Debugger and Sole ownership for the entire MySQL 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 releases from Novell side. (https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=kvishwanatha%40novell.com )

Skills: MySQL architecture and C/C++ on Novell NetWare

Tools: NetWare internal debugger

Title : Bug Fixing and Feature Enhancement of DNS Server on Novell Netware. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare)

Period: Jan’06 to Jul’06

Role: Developer

Skills: ‘C/C++’ on Novell NetWare

Tools: Novell iManager and ConsoleOne

Title: Design of DHCP install piece on SuSe Linux

Skills: Shell scripting on Novell NetWare

Roles: Developer

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