Murali Krishna Attili
Fremont,United States
Summary
Result-oriented project team leader with proven ability to drive strategic initiatives and foster team collaboration. Adept at navigating complex challenges, consistently delivering impactful results, and adapting to changing dynamics. Known for reliability and focus on achieving measurable outcomes. With over 18+ years of experience as QA lead and hands-on experience in automation and strategy development in Storage, Medical, Consumer electronics, and embedded systems. I have aproven track record of improving the testing processes and leading high quality QA teams. Biggest achievements include pioneering a QA test framework that significantly reduced the efforts and defects.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Principal SQA Engineer
Veritas Technologies LLC
Santa Clara, United States
04.2022 - Current
- Led multiple Veritas appliance releases with a system test team of more than 30 team members spanning multiple geographies(India, China, US). Technical, reliable, and responsible person that can be assigned multiple projects and ensure it’s all accomplished with high standard
- Advanced leadership ability and a go-to person for internal team members.
- Constant communications with PMs, Architects, and scrum teams to ensure an obstacle-free appliance development cycle. Collaborate with dev, hardware, and lab teams to lead and execute test plans on appliance projects
- Invests in customer escalations support and review to incorporate test gaps upon learning
- Performed the scrum master role for close to a year along with my major responsibilities
- As system test automation lead for Veritas appliance, achieved significant reductions in overall test cycle durations by proactively identifying opportunities for parallel testing execution across multiple platforms and environments.
- Collaborated with the DevOps team in setting up Continuous Integration/Continuous delivery automation pipelines. Responsible for creating/setting up system test CI/CD pipelines
- Advanced company-wide understanding of software quality principles by delivering engaging presentations on the latest trends, tools, and methodologies within the SQA community. Reduced operational costs through process improvements, resource optimization, and innovative solutions. Implemented data-driven decision-making processes to enhance overall business performance and profitability.
- Accelerated defect resolution times by efficiently prioritizing bug reports and maintaining clear communication channels between QA and development teams.
- Provided valuable inputs in critical product design(UI/UX) meetings, leveraging SQA expertise to ensure that quality considerations were incorporated from inception through to final release.
- Streamlined internal workflows by automating manual tasks, leading to reduced errors and increased efficiency.
- Mentored junior team members, fostering their professional growth and supporting the development of future organizational leaders.
- Developed comprehensive training programs for staff, resulting in improved performance metrics
- Represented in various Veritas customer conferences
- Be part of the Veritas Intern/New Employee campus recruitment process
Principal SQA Engineer
Veritas Technologies LLC
Santa Clara, CA
11.2016 - Current
Programmer Analyst
Infomet Inc
05.2016 - 10.2016
- Consultant @Facebook, Menlo Park
- Qualifying multiple vendor HDD drives for custom Meta storage servers and cold storage which has 1 Exabyte capacity per data hall.
- Automating the scripts to qualify the storage HDD and SSD drives using Meta Framework
Member of Technical Staff
NetApp
Sunnyvale
09.2014 - 04.2016
Module Lead
Mindteck
California Area
02.2011 - 09.2014
- Setup, Install and configure NAS hardware and software
- Writing the TDS documents
- Designing the Test Plan
- Automating the test cases using Perl, Python
- Validating various Hardware, Software and Firmware components of NAS server
- Service Processor firmware, BIOS, Platform Health Monitor testing
- Stress Testing (NFS/CIFS)
- Configuring and testing the environment for High Availability
- Working on various special cards, supported by NetApp filers
- Updating the test procedures and test results in Quality Center (QC), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Lead Engineer
HCL Technologies
Bangalore
04.2010 - 02.2011
- Automation Engineer
- NetApp SAN tests automation(Python) - RTP team
Software Engineer
Patni computers
Bangalore
03.2006 - 04.2010
- Worked in Medical Electronics, Storage V&V Engineer, Windows7.0 Mobile Application Developer, Automation Engineer
Education
Master's degree - Embedded Systems Design
Manipal Institute of Technology
01-2011
PG Diploma - Embedded Systems Design
CDAC Kochi
01-2006
Bachelor's degree - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Andhra University
01-2005
Skills
- Project Management
- Data Analysis
- Strategic leadership
- Team collaboration
- Verbal and written communication
- C/C/Shell/Perl/Python
- Embedded Systems
- Storage protocol (DAS/NAS/FC-SAN/iSCSI)
- Automation Frameworks (Robot)
- Quality Assurance
- E2E testing
- Training and mentoring
Timeline
Sr. Principal SQA Engineer
Veritas Technologies LLC
04.2022 - Current
Principal SQA Engineer
Veritas Technologies LLC
11.2016 - Current
Programmer Analyst
Infomet Inc
05.2016 - 10.2016
Member of Technical Staff
NetApp
09.2014 - 04.2016
Module Lead
Mindteck
02.2011 - 09.2014
Lead Engineer
HCL Technologies
04.2010 - 02.2011
Software Engineer
Patni computers
03.2006 - 04.2010
Master's degree - Embedded Systems Design
Manipal Institute of Technology
PG Diploma - Embedded Systems Design
CDAC Kochi
Bachelor's degree - Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Andhra University