Valasani Susheel
Fremont,CA
Summary
- 17+ years of Hands-On experience in System QA of Enterprise Software Systems, Storage(SAN & NAS), VMware Virtualization, Backup & Recovery, AWS & GCP Cloud platforms.
- Expertise in Test Planning, Test Design, Test Strategy and extensive experience in Functional, Systems Testing, Integration, Stress, UI/UX, Performance, Sanity, Regression, Longevity, End-to-End and Hot fix testing.
- Experience in Test Automation development using Python, enhancing existing automation framework, code integrations - CI/CD pipelines, creating various automation suites for Smokes, Functional, Integration and Regression.
- Collaboratively work with Dev and Partner QA Teams globally and Customer support teams for customer documentation including whitepapers, manuals and support pages, Product Managers for customer use cases, enhancements.
- Well experienced in Linux and Windows environments, VMware Virtualization.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Staff Software Test Engineer
Samsung Semiconductor
10.2023 - Current
- Testing of SHiPS (Samsung High Performance Storage), a distributed scale-out file storage system (NFS) designed to handle large scale, high performance and highly available file data storage.
- System testing and Automation using Python.
- Functionality and reliability testing of features based of pNFS, NFSv4.1 and NFSv3 protocols.
- Conducted regression testing, performance testing, high availability and non-disruptive upgrade testing.
- Monitoring and troubleshooting of daily and nightly tests run through CI/CD pipelines.
- Identified critical bugs and worked closely with developers to ensure timely resolution, resulting in a more stable product.
Senior Software QA Engineer
Shopify
09.2022 - 05.2023
- Testing of warehouse related complex workflows on both virtual and physical chucks(robots) in the Atlanta warehouse. All the services of chucks are hosted on GCP cloud as Kubernetes microservices.
- Test case planning, design and execution of the inbound and outbound workflows and automation of testcases using Python.
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Dish Network
04.2022 - 08.2022
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines for deployment of Java applications as Kubernetes PODs using Git, GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, JFrog, Ansible with AWS EKS services.
- Worked on AWS Cloud Engineering tasks like creation and deployment of EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Lambda functions, CloudWatch, RDS and Dynamodb DBs, etc
- Troubleshooting Linux and Windows server issues.
QA Architect
Persistent Systems / Actifio
12.2012 - 03.2022
- Client: Google (After acquisition of Actifio by Google Cloud in 2020)
- Led and managed six QA resources for Actifio Heritage projects testing along with project execution.
- Test plan preparation, Test case review meetings and Feature design discussions.
- Testing of NAS-D / Big Data Director for protecting NetApp and EMC NAS data(NFS and CIFS protocols).
- Qualifying Actifio with VMware and Automation using Python
Member Technical Staff (QA)
NetApp-India
01.2010 - 11.2012
- Storage Testing for Qualifying Data ONTAP O.S. on V-Series Filers FC connected to different vendor storage arrays – IBM XIV, EMC and HP arrays.
- Automation using PERL scripting and used NFSTest suite, Bonnie, IOzone tools as part of the NFS testing.
Software Engineer(QA)
VMware-India
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Validation of Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS) on ESX server connected with Active-Active and Active-Passive Storage arrays.
- Testing of Storage drivers (SCSI and SAS) on ESX O.S.
- Test Design, Test cases development and Test execution - Functional, Regression, RC and GA.
Education
MS - Advanced Embedded Systems Design
International Institute of Information Technology
01.2007
B.Tech - Electronics & Communications Engineering
JNTU
01.2004
Skills
- Storage: SAN & NAS - NetApp, EMC, IBM, HP
Cloud Services: AWS and GCP
Storage Protocols: SAN (FC, iSCSI), NAS(NFS & CIFS), RAID, SCSI, SAS
Database: SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo
Bug and Test Repository: Jira, Bugzilla, HP Quality Center
Code Repository/Tools: Git, GitHub, Jenkins
Test/DevOps Tools: VDBench, FIO, MDTest
Automation: Python, Numpy and Panda
Awards
- Received Bravo and High Five awards in Persistent Systems.
- Received Spot awards and Thank you awards for handling critical customer issues in NetApp.
- My NIR (New Invention Report) got approved by NetApp.
Certification
- AWS Solution Architect Associate
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
Timeline
Staff Software Test Engineer
Samsung Semiconductor
10.2023 - Current
Senior Software QA Engineer
Shopify
09.2022 - 05.2023
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Dish Network
04.2022 - 08.2022
QA Architect
Persistent Systems / Actifio
12.2012 - 03.2022
Member Technical Staff (QA)
NetApp-India
01.2010 - 11.2012
Software Engineer(QA)
VMware-India
01.2008 - 01.2010
MS - Advanced Embedded Systems Design
International Institute of Information Technology
B.Tech - Electronics & Communications Engineering
JNTU
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