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DARSHAN SHAH

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Pune

Summary

Highly motivated Software Quality Assurance professional with over 13 years of experience in manual and automation testing across Storage, Backup & Restore Applications, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and Web Applications. Expertise in designing and implementing Robust Test Automation frameworks from Scratch. Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD, cross-cloud automation, and test planning. Proven ability to lead teams, manage releases, and drive QA best practices.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal SDET and Senior Principal SDET

Druva Data Solution
08.2021 - Current

Company Overview:
Druva is a leading provider of cloud-based data security and protection solutions. Druva delivers air-gapped and immutable data protection across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments, enabling businesses to centralize their data protection efforts.

Work and Responsibilities:

  • Led three Scrum teams within the Platform team for the Phoenix product.
  • Successfully delivered Druva’s new storage architecture, Daintree, and the on-premises storage solution, Daintree CloudCache, with high quality from inception.
  • Involved in multiple migration testing efforts from the old architecture to the new architecture.
  • Developed and contributed to automation for newly introduced features.
  • Evaluated test strategies and reviewed code for all features across three Scrum teams.
  • Recognized with the prestigious Annual Excellence Award in QA (2023) for outstanding contributions.
  • Used AI tools like Copilot, Cursor, MCP servers, Agentic AI to increase the productivity
  • Championed a culture of quality within the organization through ongoing collaboration with cross-functional teams.

QA Lead India Team

Rackware Inc.
03.2015 - 07.2021
  • Company Overview: Rackware helps enterprises migrate to the cloud, protect their workloads through backup and disaster recovery, and manage multiple physical, virtual, and cloud environments on a single pane of glass.
  • Contributed to build the QA team at Indian Office.
  • Led the QA team at India
  • Feature Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing
  • Solving the team queries and helping team for feature testing
  • Created the Cli, GUI and REST API Test Automation framework from scratch.
  • Implemented the cross-cloud Automation runs.
  • Integrated the Automation with Jenkins for daily/weekly runs.
  • Worked on Customer PoC.
  • Provided the customer demo as needed.

QA Engineer

Great Software Laboratory(GS Lab)
05.2013 - 02.2015
  • Company Overview: Worked on Enterprise Product Testing, both Manual and Automation.
  • Worked on Enterprise Product Testing, both Manual and Automation.

QA Engineer

Cybage Software
06.2010 - 08.2011
  • Company Overview: Worked on the Web application testing both Manual and Automation.
  • Worked on the Web application testing both Manual and Automation.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - E&TC

MIT College of Engineering

Skills

  • Testing: Automation, Functional, API, Integration, Regression

  • AI: Copilot, Cursor, Promt Engineering, MCP servers, Agentic AI

  • Storage Testing Tools: dd, FIO, IPERF, VDBENCH

  • Languages: Python, Java, Bash

  • Automation Framework: Pytest, Nose, Robot, TestNG

  • Selenium, Playwrite

  • Jenkins

  • Docker

Accomplishments

  • Recognized with the prestigious 'Annual Excellence Award in QA' for year 2023 in entire Druva
  • Got the Kudos Award for Critical testing done for TNG feature in Rackware Inc.
  • Got recognition for Outstanding work for Doubleclick Project.
  • Won First prize in National level for Project Assistive Device for Visually Impaired.(BE).
  • Represented MIT College in Robocon National Level Robotics Competition.

Timeline

Principal SDET and Senior Principal SDET

Druva Data Solution
08.2021 - Current

QA Lead India Team

Rackware Inc.
03.2015 - 07.2021

QA Engineer

Great Software Laboratory(GS Lab)
05.2013 - 02.2015

QA Engineer

Cybage Software
06.2010 - 08.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - E&TC

MIT College of Engineering
DARSHAN SHAHSoftware Development Engineer in Test (SDET)