Basavaraja P Kulahalli

Validation of Firmware Utilities for Cisco UCS rack servers.

• Project deals with firmware upgrade and downgrade of server utilities using different interphases like HUU, Non-Interactive HUU and Redfish HSU.
• Actively involved different BIOS boot mode like UEFI, UEFI secure, features like boot order validation.
• Involved in components coverage for Cisco rack utilities.
• Working on different supported features Disk scrub, Sanitization
• Owning the features for validating upgrade and downgrade in UCSM and IMM (AWS Cloud mode)
• Owning new server bring up and configuration.

Worked on Validation of ThinOS on Dell Thin clients

• Client: Dell
• Project deals with end-end validation on Dell ThinOS platforms by performing Feature, Sanity, Regression and System validation on different ThinOS supported platforms.
• Worked on testing BIOS management, USB image installation, Testing configuration push from WMS, Validating USB redirection, BCR, MMR, HTML5, Multiple display support, Testing peripheral components like printers, scanners, powermic etc.
• Owned upgrade and downgrade features.
• Owned feature of OS conversions like Windows to ThinOS, Ubuntu to ThinOS.
• Actively involved in customer issue reproducing.

• Company Overview: Bengaluru
• Setting up test bed based on the configuration matrix
• Test bed preparation as per the configuration matrix
• Creation of different RAID levels and validating distributed features of RAID technology
• Involved in installing different flavors of Operating System like Windows, Linux, Esxi and updating BIOS, Driver and Firmware on DAS and SAN storage environment
• Involved in setting up vCenter and adding multiple host to the vc and testing the vm features and virtualization features
• Going through the requirements from Functional Requirement Specification
• Actively interacted with the development team and conducted meetings for clarification on project
• Involved in writing test cases and review test cases
• Executing scenarios and test cases provided by customers and involved in regression as well
• Raising defects through the defect tracking tool
• Participating in test plan, test strategy and knowledge transfer sessions
• Bengaluru