Quality Assurance Scrum Master

Vivek Pokharkar

QA Specialist /QA Lead

+91-988******* *****.*********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/vivek-p-9b62511a Summary

Staff Quality Assurance engineer with over 14+ years of progressive experience in quality assurance, test strategy and team leadership, seeking a challenging QA Lead/QA specialist. Adept at driving end-to-end testing initiatives, leading cross-functional teams, and aligning quality processes with business objectives. Committed to delivering high-quality software solutions through continuous improvement, effective stakeholder collaboration, and strategic test planning in Agile and DevOps environments

Test Strategy & Planning: Define comprehensive test strategies, establish quality standards, and plans test cycles aligned with project timelines and business goals

Team Leadership & Mentoring: Lead, mentor, and motivate QA teams, fostering skill development, ownership, and collaboration to ensure high performance and accountability

Quality Metrics & Reporting: Track and analyze key quality metrics, prepare dashboards and reports, and communicate testing status and risks to stakeholders and leadership

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication: Coordinate closely with product owners, developers, and business teams to clarify requirements, resolve issues, and ensure test alignment with expectations

Process Improvement & Risk Management: Identify process inefficiencies, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and implement risk-based testing approaches to enhance overall product quality Key Skills

Test Strategy, Scrum Master, Quality Assurance Leadership, Agile Testing, Defect Management, Stakeholder Communication, Test Planning & Execution, Storage Performance Testing, Manual Testing, Automation testing, Risk-Based Testing, Team Mentoring, Quality Metrics & Reporting, Representing QA team in ISO audits, SQL Data base testing, RAID based storage array Infra setup, Firmware testing. Selenium using Python and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

Work Experience

Seagate HDD technology India. Pvt LTD (Pune, India) Staff Engineer - Quality 2021 – 2025

Senior QA 2015 – 2021

Projects:

Project: Seagate ExOS CorVault (DAS based RBOD)

Description: 4U106 Exos® CORVAULT™ is a high-performing, efficient, durable multi-petabyte capacity block storage system that is self-healing and scale out storage for data center deployments. CORVAULT breakthrough technologies provide hyperscale efficiencies, rapid deployment, and automatic hard drive renewal for less e- waste and operational costs

Responsibilities:

Served as team lead and act as Scrum Master for multiple iterations, defining effort scope, facilitating sprint planning, and ensuring timely delivery of milestones

Prepared and maintained key testing documents including Test Plans, Test Execution Reports, Status Reports, and Exit Reports for each phase of the release cycle

Managed lab setup activities, particularly during remote work scenarios, and oversaw procurement, installation, and maintenance of required hardware

Designed, reviewed, and executed test cases and scripts to ensure high-quality releases while monitoring and reporting performance metrics for each software release

Reported project and testing status to senior management and presented progress updates during core team meetings to support strategic alignment

Participated in recruitment processes and mentored junior or newly onboarded team members to foster skill development and integration within the team

Developed and executed UI automation scripts using Selenium (Python), reducing manual testing effort.

Designed and maintained a robust UI automation framework, improving test coverage and accelerating regression testing cycles

Automated REST API testing using Python requests library, creating reusable test suites to validate functional and regression scenarios.

Project: Seagate Loki and Loki+ (SAN based RBOD)

Description: Loki is 2U24, 2U12 and 5U84 raid product developed for customers like Dell EMC and HP. It is high- performing, efficient RAID based products having features like, asynchronous replications, dream catchers, reman, KMIP, IDFU etc. It is having supported protocols like FC, ISCSi and SAS. Its having facility to expand array using daisy chaining

Responsibilities:

Set up lab infrastructure including storage arrays, disks, hosts, cabling, and installations to support testing activities for each release cycle

Engaged in cross-functional communications to gather, clarify, and understand functional and performance requirements

Designed comprehensive test cases for functional, regression, and Storage performance testing, ensuring full coverage of identified scenarios

Participated in review sessions with development and core teams to validate test scenarios and maintain alignment with product expectations

Prepared detailed test plans, executed tests using JIRA, and maintained structured documentation for traceability and reporting

Measured storage array performance and qualified arrays and firmware across various release stages to ensure system reliability and compliance

Developed and executed UI automation scripts using Selenium (Python), reducing manual testing effort.

Maintained a robust UI automation framework, improving test coverage and accelerating regression testing cycles

Project: Cobra (JBOD)

Description: 4U106 EBOD Cobra+ : The Cobra+ Platform is an Ultra Dense Storage Product intended to address both the Cloud and Enterprise markets. It supports SAS and SATA. It is a Dual path SAS for High Availability applications and Single path SATA

Responsibilities:

Served as Senior QA for the project, overseeing end-to-end testing efforts and ensuring high-quality deliverables across multiple test phases

Set up and configured lab environments, including application platforms, storage arrays, and enclosures for testing across various OEMs

Thoroughly understood requirements through collaboration with peers and onsite teams, and identified all test scenarios to ensure complete coverage

Created detailed functional, regression, and performance test cases, and executed them to validate product performance and reliability

Contributed to test scenario reviews, incorporated feedback, and finalized test plans and documentation to align with project standards

Guided junior and new team members by providing knowledge support and onboarding assistance to strengthen team capability and performance

Hands on experience in validation of enclosure management protocols like SES and IPMI. Project: PPRO, Sandforce (Neptune and Venus)

Description: Validation of In-house Tools developed for End user to Manufacture SSD, Update firmware and other diagnostics analysis of SSD. Validation of Firmware at Sanity, Regression, Interoperability and Compatibility level

Responsibilities:

Worked as Senior QA for the project, leading quality assurance efforts and aligning test activities with product requirements and delivery timelines

Developed and revised test cases based on evolving features outlined in the Product Requirements Document (PRD) to ensure comprehensive coverage

Partnered closely with developers to understand new functionalities, debug issues, and design effective test scenarios for validation

Identified, logged, and tracked defects through JIRA, ensuring timely resolution and clear communication of quality issues across teams

Performed peer reviews of test cases and documentation, and compiled detailed review reports to support continuous quality improvement

Analyzed new requirements to determine testing scope, estimated required effort, and reported execution status and validation summaries to program management

Verified SSD I/O performance and endurance using tools like Drive Master, IOmeter, PCMark, CrystalDiskMark, ATTO, AS SSD, PassMark, BurnInTest, and Rebooter tool.

Evaluated throughput, latency, stability, and system recovery post reboot/stress cycles. Synechron Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Pune, India)

Senior Associate - QA Oct 2010 – May 2015

Project:

Project: CS STARS

Description: CS STARS has over 650 clients all over the global market and provides services such as Risk Management, Claim Administration, Enterprise Risk Management, and Audit and Safety Assessment. Application is divided into multiple Sprints on the basis of areas to improve performance. Each Sprint has responsibilities such as payment, transactions, import/export, transform, load, and manage user permissions/ reports. Database hosted in different ways such as multi-client, multi-company, and single company-single client to minimize the risk

Responsibilities:

Performed backend testing using data-driven approaches to validate data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across database systems

Identified and resolved basic database issues and managed exceptions to ensure valid and clean data insertion into the target systems

Transformed and loaded data from source to target databases, implementing validation rules to ensure accurate and compliant data migration

Designed, reviewed, and executed test cases to support end-to-end system validation, including data validation and functional integrity

Performed compatibility testing across various databases, application versions, and operating systems to ensure platform reliability

Engaged in client communications to clarify requirements, resolve issues, and provide updates, ensuring alignment between testing outcomes and business expectations Education

Pune University

Master of Computer Science and Management 2006

Pune University

Bachelor of Computer Science. 2004

Certifications

Scrum Master

ISO 9001:2025 Internal Audit

Technical Expertise

Hands On Python,

Selenium, PyTest

Arrays like 5U84, 2U24,

4U106, 2U12

VMware ESXi 4.0/4.1/5.1/

FC Brocade Switches

Windows10/11

RHEL 5.8/6.3

CentOS 7.9, Fedora,

Ubuntu

IO tools: IO meter, Medusa,

FIO, Benchmark

REST and Redfish API using

Postman

MySQL Database

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