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Mahesh Karigowda

Houston,TX

Summary

Dynamic Test Lead with a proven track record at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, excelling in quality assurance and firmware validation. Skilled in Agile methodology and defect tracking, I effectively manage global teams to ensure high-performance computing products meet rigorous standards. Passionate about delivering exceptional results and enhancing customer satisfaction through innovative testing strategies.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Test Lead-Systems

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (contractor)
Houston, Texas
09.2022 - Current
  • Project entailed Integrating and validating High Performance Computing (HPC) Server platform air/liquid cooled with Mellanox InfiniBand, Cray Slingshot, and Intel OPA networking products
  • This included end-to-end quality assurance of product before releasing them to the customers by performing Unit, Integration, System, Regression, Performance and Stress validation
  • Test Lead - Establish test requirements, Agile test methodology and tool usage in conjunction with other Teams
  • Participate, Review, and provide feedback on product documents like Plan of Record, Statement of Work, Closure Reports, User Guides, Administrator Guides
  • Coordinating and managing the teams at different global locations
  • Preparing the Qualification report of Intel OPA, Mellanox InfiniBand and Cray Cassini products on HPC
  • Participate in technical collaboration meetings and provide periodical reviews on implementation
  • Tracking the Testing Progress and results of the Test Cycle
  • Certifying the Red Hat, Windows OS using the latest shipping test kit
  • Validating the firmware of Mellanox InfiniBand (HDR 200 Gb), Cray Cassini and Intel Omni path
  • Performing the Bit Error Rate (BER) on 100/200 Gb InfiniBand Fabric switches supported
  • Validating the Intel (IFS) and Mellanox OFED drivers across RHEL, Windows and SUSE Operating Systems
  • Qualifying Intel/AMD High Performance Computing (HPC) Processors by performing load test
  • Document the software defects, debug and track bug resolutions efforts

Principal Software Development Engineer in test

Calsoft Technologies (Contractor)
Bengaluru, India
09.2021 - 08.2022
  • Project deals with Ready Solution bundle is designed to consolidate and deliver the networking components that support a fully virtualized infrastructure
  • The components include virtual servers, storage, and other networks
  • It uses standard IT virtualization technologies that run on high-volume service, switch, and storage hardware to virtualize network functions
  • Review Test Plan and Test cases on the Product under Test
  • Perform the Test Bed Setup on the mapped configuration
  • Create virtual environment using servers and validate the virtual environment as per test plan
  • Tracking the Testing Progress and results of the Test Cycle
  • Log the issues identified during testing phase in Jira, Re-verify the issue whenever a fix is provided

Delivery Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard (Contractor)
Taipei, Taiwan
11.2018 - 09.2021
  • Project deals at carrying out the Testing in different builds of Firmware/Hardware/Software/Drivers for HPE ProLiant Servers, HPE Blade Storage, Modular Smart Array, Just Bunch of Disks [JBODs], Customer Requirement Testing on supported Enterprise operating systems - Windows, Linux and VMware
  • Configure test bed set up for manual and automation testing on HPE ProLiant Server series (DL/XL) according to test configuration details mentioned in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
  • Integrate different Hard Drive Types [SAS HDD/SATA HDD] in HPE ProLiant Servers and Storage Enclosures
  • Test Smart Array Controller Firmware to verify the functionality of controller features such as RAID, Encryption, Smart Cache, Array Expansion, spare, write back/Write through cache etc
  • Validate Smart Array drivers on various Server Operating Systems (Windows, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and VMware) for hardware and software RAID
  • Log the issues identified during testing phase in Quality Information Exchange (QuIX- PCT)
  • Co-ordinate with offshore and onsite team on regular basis regarding remote test setups

Associate Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard (Offshore)
Bengaluru, India
07.2015 - 11.2018
  • Functional and Performance testing on various Network adapters like Broadcom, Intel, Emulex, Mellanox & QLogic NIC Adapters (Embedded / Standalone / Mezzanine) Drivers and Firmware and various other features for HP ProLiant Support on Operating Systems such as Windows, Linux &VMware (ESXi)
  • Testing on iSCSI, FCoE and FC support for various NIC Adapters with various MSA's (2040, 2050)
  • Validating various vendor firmware and driver deliverables
  • Planning, estimating the duration for test phases
  • Write test cases for unit level, functional and integration testing
  • Validation of Windows/Linux operating system by setting the storage controller mode to RAID/HBA
  • Testing on different environment for BFS (iSCSI, FCoE) with CNA, HBA network adapter on different flavored of OS
  • Coordinating with the onshore team and completing the project activities as per the schedule
  • Log the issues found during testing phase in HPE QuIX (defect tracking system)

Education

Bachelor of Computer Application - CS

Bangalore University
01.2014

Skills

  • Post Silicon Validation
  • Test planning
  • Agile methodology
  • Quality assurance
  • Firmware validation
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Documentation review
  • Effective communication
  • Defect tracking and reporting
  • System testing
  • Integration testing
  • Defect tracking
  • Debugging
  • Test Plans Development
  • System Integration
  • Customer Centric Configurations
  • Hardware Configuration
  • Software Configuration
  • System Deployment
  • System Validation
  • Vendor Collaboration
  • Hardware/Software Error Analysis
  • Log Capturing
  • Firmware Testing
  • Resource Planning
  • Team Management
  • Quality Reporting
  • High-Performance Computing Qualification
  • Server Architecture Knowledge
  • HW/SW Problem Debugging
  • Software Stack Validation
  • Driver Validation
  • Networking Benchmarking
  • Reliability Assessment
  • Scalability Assessment
  • Stability Assessment
  • High-speed Ethernet Administration
  • InfiniBand Administration
  • Shell Scripting
  • Software Testing Lifecycle
  • Testing Methodology Management
  • Protocols Knowledge
  • Interconnect Technologies Knowledge
  • Server Management Knowledge
  • Networking Technologies Knowledge
  • Storage Controllers Knowledge
  • Server Knowledge
  • CPU Knowledge
  • Networking Knowledge

Awards

  • Summit Award multiple times for work excellence and Quality
  • Received Appreciation of Excellence 'Pat on The Back' & 'Bug Stops with Me' from the Global Business Head for the Initiatives and Solutions

Technologies

HPE Smart Array (P2xx, P4xx, P8xx, P7xx), HPE Dynamic Smart Array, HPE Cray Exascale, HPE Apollo, HPE ProLiant Servers (DL, ML, BL, XL) G7 to Gen12, Intel (Sapphire Rapids, HBM), AMD (Rome, Milan, Bergamo, Genoa), HPE Networking (Intel, Mellanox, Cray, Emulex, Broadcom), HPE Aruba/ProCurve, Mellanox switches, Linux (RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu, Cent OS), Windows, Shell scripting, iperf, OSU, IMB, IXIA, NVqual, xHPL, IB verbs, CXI verbs, DGEMM, Intel (PTU, MLC, SHC), Meat Grinder, Stream, HP Cluster Test, QC, ALM, JIRA, Black Box, Integration, Stress and Performance Testing, Agile Methodologies

Core Competencies

SAS, SATA, NVMe, UEFI, TCP/IP, DHCP, FTP, SSH, Telnet, PCIe, USB, XGMI, UPI, NVlink, iLO, BMC, IPMI, Redfish, RoCE, Ethernet, RDMA, InfiniBand (EDR, HDR, NDR)

Languages

English
Full Professional
Tamil
Limited
Telugu
Limited
Hindi
Professional
kannada
Professional

Affiliations

Accomplished athlete with a strong background in competitive sports, including being an under-16 State-level Volleyball player, a Gold Medalist at Bangalore University, and a State-level Professional Bodybuilder, demonstrating discipline, teamwork, and leadership.

Timeline

Test Lead-Systems

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (contractor)
09.2022 - Current

Principal Software Development Engineer in test

Calsoft Technologies (Contractor)
09.2021 - 08.2022

Delivery Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard (Contractor)
11.2018 - 09.2021

Associate Software Engineer

Hewlett Packard (Offshore)
07.2015 - 11.2018

Bachelor of Computer Application - CS

Bangalore University

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