Balamurugan Kanagaraj
Milpitas,CA
Summary
Senior technology leader with unique blend of Quality Assurance and Engineering program management skills spanning Fortune 500, mid-size, and start-up operations. Experienced in leading cross functional teams spread across the globe. Successfully delivered new products and new software releases with exceptional quality.
- Managed and delivered test automation framework (Python) employing variety of automation tools.
- Passionate, high-energy team player with exceptional interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Excellent qualifications with blending leadership experience in OS, Storage, File Systems, Security, Virtualization, and Distributed applications.
- Involved in implementing changes to development environment to support shift to agile delivery.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Software Engineer, QA
Crowdstrike
01.2021 - Current
- Designed the strategy and implemented automation for User/kernel Mode Sensor in Kubernetes environment across various cloud like AWS, Google, Azure. Automated end to end application testing with using Python, Terraform, request APIs.
- Responsible for collaborating and influencing cross function team to adopt the framework to have broad coverage.
- Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
Senior QA Lead
Sysdig
05.2018 - 12.2020
- Leading the overall testing effort of Sysdig Agent across QA organization.
- Designed and implemented the strategy to automate data consistency of Prometheus metrics stored in backend and provided a company wide demo.
- Plan and architect various customer centric workflows for scaled environments.
- Triage incoming customer escalations & work with development for resolution.
- Implementation of CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins for continuous regression runs.
Member of Technical Staff
Portworx
04.2017 - 05.2018
- Design testplan and test scenarios for testing Portworx container at scale using Kubernetes scheduler using various cloud providers.
- Lead the effort to deliver top-quality features like Snapshot, HA out the door on schedule under tight deadlines.
QA Manager
Dell Emc
04.2013 - 04.2017
- Managed a team of 10 engineers to design, architect and implement high quality Python Automation Framework. • Mentor the team technically so as to ensure over all technical expertise of team enhances.
- Responsible for working with stake holders to define & prioritize user stories.
- Gather automation requirements and provide detailed plan and schedule for feature test automation deliverables.
- Conduct daily scrum meeting and weekly backlog refinement meeting.
MTS/QA Architect
Netapp
08.2004 - 08.2013
- MetroCluster: Provide guidance on testing MCC to 16 partner QA team across organization.
- MetroCluster: Wrote MCC testplan, refactored the testcases and mentored the automation effort which in turn led to the overall improvement in the quality of the feature.
- Storage Efficiency: Designed test plan, test case and automated dedupe functionality in cluster mode.
Education
Master of Science - Telecommunication And Software Engineering
Brila Institute of Technology
India04.2004
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
India04.2000
Skills
- Python
- PyTorch
- Tensorflow
- Terraform
- OS: Linux, Mac OS
- Docker, Containers and Kubernetes(AKS, EKS, GKE, OCP)
- CICD : Jenkins
- Git and Perforce
- Monitoring Tools : Prometheus, Grafana, Logstash, Kibana
Certification
Azure AI Fundamentals
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer, QA
Crowdstrike
01.2021 - Current
Senior QA Lead
Sysdig
05.2018 - 12.2020
Member of Technical Staff
Portworx
04.2017 - 05.2018
QA Manager
Dell Emc
04.2013 - 04.2017
MTS/QA Architect
Netapp
08.2004 - 08.2013
Master of Science - Telecommunication And Software Engineering
Brila Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
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