DHARSANPRASANTH R
BANGALORE
Summary
Accomplished Software Quality Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies, specializing in VMware virtualization and cloud deployment strategies. Expert in test planning and execution, with a proven track record in disaster recovery solutions. Strong analytical skills and a commitment to quality assurance drive successful project outcomes in complex environments.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Quality Principle Engineer
Dell Technologies
Bangalore
05.2017 - Current
- Conducted testing for backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines over VMFS, NFS, VSAN, and VVOL servers.
- Executed backup and recovery tests for stateful applications in on-prem Kubernetes environments with SCSI-based storage backend.
- Tested backup and recovery processes for stateful applications in cloud-managed Kubernetes engines (AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE).
- Performed testing for backup and disaster recovery of the entire VMware VCF stack on DELL VxRail.
- Deployed PowerProtect Data Manager and Avamar instances across AWS, GCP, and Azure to safeguard cloud applications.
- Validated and protected VMs in VMware VMC environments; ensured compliance with SLAs through critical bug fix verification.
- Investigated customer escalations to identify issues and provided comprehensive feasibility reports on incoming field requests.
- Collaborated with Field and App Engineering teams to analyze customer configurations and execute extended scenario tests.
- Basics in shell scripting
- Basics level in Python + RoboT framework
Senior Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
Bangalore
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Complete Infra setup (Test bed) for VMware VSphere with VSAN enabled Virtual environment.
- Complete Infra setup (Test bed) for KVM on RHEL and UBUNTU server
- Measuring QoS Control Parameters on VMware ESXi, KVM on RHEL, KVM on Ubuntu Hypervisors.
- VM Live Migration comparison between VMware and KVM Hypervisors
- Comparison of Performance between KVM and VMware ESXi
- Perform Functionality Testing, Performance Testing, QOS Testing
- Managing Test Deliverables towards product quality by attending scrums.
- Functionality & Requirement Understanding through direct client KT.
- Formulating Requirements and converting the same into test artifacts.
- Executing Test Cases, Bug reporting and maintain Test cases.
- Project (POC): Hypervisor Performance Testing
- Client: NTT
- Application: VMware, VCenter, KVM, Virt-Manager
- Team Size: 5
- Hardware Details: HP ProLiant DL360p Gen9 server, HP iSCSI storage box(HPE M2040), 8 Port - 10GE L2 Switch for data, 8 Port - 1GE L2 Switch Management
- Software Details: VMware ESXi 6.0, vCenter Server, RHEL 6.5 with KVM, Ubuntu 16.04 with KVM, Net stress, IOMETER, Consume-windows server utility tool
Member Technical Staff
HCL Technologies Ltd
Chennai
01.2014 - 02.2016
- Complete Infra setup for VMware VSphere with VSAN enabled Virtual environment.
- Managing Test Deliverables towards product quality by attending scrums.
- Quality Analyst for FAULT, Configuration Archive, and Compliance modules.
- Functionality Understanding through direct client KT.
- Formulating Requirements and converting the same into test artifacts.
- Executing Test Cases, Bug reporting, and maintaining Test cases.
- Perform Functionality Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing
- Project (Latest): Cisco UCS Director
- Client: Cisco
- Application: CLOUPTIA
- Team Size: 25
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai
07.2011 - 01.2014
- Installation and configuration of VMware ESX Servers and virtual center server
- Configuring HA and DRS Clusters
- Installing the latest patches in ESX/ESXi on a timely basis.
- Ensuring to have Virtual Center and ESXi with the latest available version to avoid runtime issues
- Ensuring to have proper storage and network connectivity for all available ESX/ESXi hosts.
- Management and configuration of guest virtual servers & Template creation
- Change management & Hardware degraded parts replacement
- Coordinates and assists with planning virtual infrastructure initiatives (P2V initiatives)
- Assists with the incident and problem management processes to resolve issues.
- Downtime analysis & improvement plans, Root causes of the incident with problem management
- Migrating 5.0 to 5.1 Environment
- Project: Nielson
- Application: ESXi and VCenter
- Role: VMware administrator & Application testing
- Team Size: 10
Education
BSc - Electronics and communication system
Skills
- Test planning and execution
- Functional requirements analysis
- Web application testing
- Regression and sanity testing
- Quality of service testing
- Testbed creation for cloud environments
- Defect tracking and reporting
- Test strategy development
- Kubernetes management across cloud platforms
- Containerization with Docker
- VMware virtualization technologies
- Backup and recovery solutions
- Disaster recovery planning
- Cloud deployment strategies
- Quality assurance practices
- Root cause analysis techniques
- Time management skills
- System troubleshooting expertise
Experience Summary
- Expertise in Agile Methodology.
- Experience in all stages of STLC and Black box testing.
- Experienced in Manual Testing on Virtualization, Cloud, storage, and K8-based Applications
- Knowledge on configuring and troubleshooting testbeds for virtualization and cloud K8 setup
- Sound Knowledge in the data center, Virtualization, Cloud, Kubernetes, and Backup products
- Experienced hands-on VMware VCenter and Esxi 5.0,5.5, 6.0 & 6.5,7.0,8.0 (Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshoot)
- Experienced in hands-on VMware SRM / Vreplication configuration and troubleshooting
- Experienced in configuring testing, protecting and recovering VCF in DELL VxRail servers.
- Experience in creating instances – managing templates and setting up of test K8 environment over cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience in Creating Managed Kubernetes Engine and kops-based Kubernetes clusters in AWS, Azure, and GCP – On-prem Kubernetes clusters like PKS TKGI and Anthos On-Prem
- Expert in building and testing SBPM -VSAN based applications
- Experienced hands-on Cisco UCS servers, HP Proliant, and Dell PowerEdge servers
- Experienced hands-on HP iSCSI storage box HPE MSA 2040
- Expertise in Test management tools for test case management and defect management
- Expertise in Estimation preparation for testing requirements.
- Expertise in Requirements Analysis, Preparing Test Plan, Test Cases, Test Data.
- Expertise in Test Execution & Defect Tracking-classifying them based on severity, priority
- Performed Functionality Testing, QOS Testing, Regression Testing & Web Testing.
Certification
- VMware Certified Professional VCP DCV 6.5
- VMware Certified Professional Cloud VCPC 5.1
- VMware Virtual SAN certified
- CCNA Datacenter Certified
- ITIL Foundation V3 Certified
Languages
English, Tamil, Telugu
Personal Information
Father Name: Mr. T. Ravichandiran.
Marital Status: Married
DOB: 1990-12-17
Timeline
Software Quality Principle Engineer
Dell Technologies
05.2017 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Tech Mahindra
02.2016 - 12.2016
Member Technical Staff
HCL Technologies Ltd
01.2014 - 02.2016
Assistant System Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
07.2011 - 01.2014
BSc - Electronics and communication system
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