Kunal Uday Kalas
Pune
Summary
Dynamic Project Manager and Technical Lead with a proven track record at Calsoft Pvt Ltd, excelling in ServiceNow integration and automation frameworks. Spearheaded high-impact projects, demonstrating exceptional team leadership and stakeholder management. Skilled in Agile methodologies and risk management, consistently delivering projects on time and within budget, enhancing customer satisfaction and team capabilities.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Cisco ISE ServiceNow Plugin | Project Manager
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
06.2024 - Current
- Formulated detailed project plans defining scope, objectives, and timelines.
- Create detailed schedules to ensure all project tasks are completed on time and within budget
- Allocate and manage resources effectively, ensuring that team members have the necessary tools and support to complete their tasks
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to secure additional resources as needed
- Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to minimize their impact on the project
- Address and resolve any issues that arise during the project, ensuring minimal disruption to the project timeline
- Maintain clear and consistent communication with all stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress
- Prepare and present project status reports, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and next steps
Cisco SD-WAN SIT | Project Manager
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
01.2024 - Current
- Oversaw activities and tasks of engineering team.
- Collaborated with team members to identify and resolve technical issues
- Created a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, resulting in an improved customer experience
- Developed a comprehensive training program that improved technical skills and competencies among team members
- Developed and communicated technical standards and best practices to ensure consistent results
- Monitored team performance and provided timely feedback and guidance to ensure that team members are meeting expectations
VMware SNOW Support | Technical Lead / Manager
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
08.2022 - 12.2023
- Understand the customer product and plugin requirements
- Responsible for Test Strategy, Planning, and Closure deliverables
- Identification of test environment and test data requirements
- Create complex combinations of the variable support
- Provide testing guidelines, develop associated project deliverables, test cases, defect reporting, and tracking, and verify readiness
- Provide sign-off for responsible components
- Test automation POC with Virtuoso tool and Python Selenium
- Test case automation using ATF and Virtuoso tool
Nutanix Calm ServiceNow Plugin | Team Lead
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
11.2019 - 07.2022
- Responsible for Test Strategy, Planning, and Closure deliverables
- Identify the gaps in the testing areas
- Provide detailed QA estimates and risk analysis
- Identification of test environment and test data requirements
- Provide testing guidelines, develop associated project deliverables, test cases, defect reporting and tracking, and verify readiness
- Provide sign-off for responsible components
IntSights ServiceNow Plugin | Senior QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
08.2019 - 10.2019
- Understand the customer product and plugin requirements
- Responsible for Test Strategy, Planning, and Closure deliverables
- Provide testing guidelines, develop associated project deliverables, test cases, defect reporting, and tracking, and verify readiness
- Suggest improvements in the documentation
QNAP HCI Solution | Team Lead
MSys Technologies Pvt Ltd
Pune
02.2018 - 06.2019
- Features understanding and presentation to the client
- Prepare test plans, develop test scenarios and test cases
- Review the deliverable before sending it to the client
- Update weekly status in call for the work done from the team
- Team members grooming to understand the product and product requirements
- Local and Remote lab infrastructure management
- OpenSource tools configuration for the automated testing
QNAP QES & QTS With Linux Platform | Senior QA
MSys Technologies Pvt Ltd
Pune
09.2017 - 01.2018
- Test Lab ownership, managing dual and single controller systems along with ESXi, HyperV failover cluster AD server, Exchange Server, DB server creation and management
- Creation of test plan and test cases for QES and QTS on ZFS, ZVOL, Snapshot, Clone, CIFS, NFS and their application specific scenarios
- Execution of test cases on QES and QTS platform
Xilinx's OpenStack Cinder Plugin | Senior QA
MSys Technologies Pvt Ltd
Pune
09.2017 - 12.2017
- Configure Xilinx target system to provide NVME disks to initiators
- Configure initiators to communicate with NVME targets
- Installation and configuration of multi node OpenStack environment
- Configuration of cinder plugin implemented for Xilinx NVME
- Testing the operation like create volume, attach volume, detach volume, delete volume
- Verify the basic read/write operation is successful on the attached volume using FIO tools
VCE Vision Sustenance | Team Lead
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
01.2017 - 08.2017
- Testing of software products as part of VCE Vision Intelligent Operation product suite
- Execute QE test plans to ensure high quality of the products
- Execute automation test suites using ROBOT automation framework
- Participate in design of general test strategy for every sprint
- Develops Use Cases and other analysis / design artifacts that ensure requirements and score are clearly defined
- Ability to professionally manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision and on schedule
- Leading QA team
- Well versed with Agile Methodology
- Present demo to client for completed user stories
VCE-FEHC | Senior QA
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
06.2016 - 12.2016
- Manual installation of the various FEHC products like vRO, vRA, vRB, Vrealize Log-Insight, VIPR and verify the steps as per build guide
- Perform initial research for assigned user stories, this includes infrastructure, resources, finding rest apis, and helping developers to understand the deployment of products
- Perform QA for the assigned stories, also help other team members wherever required
- Leading a team with 6 developers to ensure all prerequisites related to automating the deployments are meeting within timeline
- Present demo to client for completed user stories
Midokura | QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
12.2015 - 05.2016
- Responsible for the installation, configuration, administration, deployment and general maintenance of the Midokura environment
- Deploying OpenStack and Midokura environments using scripts
- Automated the test cases using shell scripting to minimize the execution time
- Worked on Test link tool for test case management
- Worked on upgrading the OpenStack environment to latest releases and checking the functionality after upgrade
- Involved in Functional testing and automation of test bed creation using vagrant
- Defect reporting and defect verification using Jira
- Automate the test bed environment deployment using vagrant for Ubuntu and CentOS platform
- Deployed Test link to manage all the test cases and generate sprint reports
- Monitor the CI Jenkins jobs for environment deployment and debug the issues if any encountered
Exablox | QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
05.2015 - 11.2015
- Install two ESXi 5.5 target systems on identical hardware
- Deploy VMware Workbench 3.0
- Deploy vCenter Server 5.5 on Windows Server 2008r2
- Install and configure Storage Certification Test Suite on VMware Workbench
- Prepare Testbed setup through VMware Workbench using Installation Helper
- Install STAF, VMware Tools, and Certification Toolkit 5.5 on GOS using VMware Workbench
- Configure all Testbed infrastructure to sync with NTP server
- Verify the Testbed Setup and configuration using Test Session on VMware WB
- Shortlist and run the NAS Tests from the test suite from VMware WB
Riverbed Technology | QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
06.2013 - 01.2015
- Primarily involved in Functional Testing of various features
- Extensively worked on File System protocols
- Created SMB and NFS share on Windows and Linux respectively and generated traffic by Uploading/Downloading a file on the share from the client machine with Wireshark running for packet capture
- Designing of Test Plan, writing of adequate test cases that covers the assigned functionality as measured through Reviews and Requirement Traceability Matrix
- Bug Reporting and Bug Verification in Bug Tracking System- Bugzilla
- Helping Team Lead in creating Process Related documents
- Shared KT and was Buddy to the team members who joined late in the Project
- Worked on NTLM and Kerberos authentication setup
Technical Support Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
Pune
01.2011 - 03.2013
- It is about to work as Technical Support Engineer and responsible for the installation/configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware and software related infrastructure
- Assist project teams with technical issues in the initial and planning phase
- Installing and configuring computer hardware operating systems and applications
- Monitoring and maintaining computer systems and networks
- Talking staff or clients through a series of actions, either face to face or over the telephone to help set up systems or resolve issues
- Troubleshooting system and network problems and diagnosing and solving hardware or software faults
- Providing support, including procedural documentation and relevant reports
- Setting up new user's accounts and profiles and dealing with password issues
- Follow up and make scheduled callbacks to customers where necessary
- Stay current with system information, changes and updates
Education
B.Sc. - IT
Navyug Vidyapeeth Trust, Ladavali-Mahad Institute of Science & Technology
Skills
- Project Planning
- Project Budget Management
- Project Tracking
- Deliverable Tracking
- Task Prioritization
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management and Communications
- Vendor Management
- Resource Allocation
- Sprint Planning
- Backlog Grooming
- Stand-ups
- Retrospectives
- Understanding of Agile
- Team Leadership
- Team Bonding
- Software Testing
- ServiceNow Integration Testing (ITSM)
Timeline
Cisco ISE ServiceNow Plugin | Project Manager
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
06.2024 - Current
Cisco SD-WAN SIT | Project Manager
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
01.2024 - Current
VMware SNOW Support | Technical Lead / Manager
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
08.2022 - 12.2023
Nutanix Calm ServiceNow Plugin | Team Lead
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
11.2019 - 07.2022
IntSights ServiceNow Plugin | Senior QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
08.2019 - 10.2019
QNAP HCI Solution | Team Lead
MSys Technologies Pvt Ltd
02.2018 - 06.2019
QNAP QES & QTS With Linux Platform | Senior QA
MSys Technologies Pvt Ltd
09.2017 - 01.2018
Xilinx's OpenStack Cinder Plugin | Senior QA
MSys Technologies Pvt Ltd
09.2017 - 12.2017
VCE Vision Sustenance | Team Lead
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
01.2017 - 08.2017
VCE-FEHC | Senior QA
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
06.2016 - 12.2016
Midokura | QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
12.2015 - 05.2016
Exablox | QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
05.2015 - 11.2015
Riverbed Technology | QA Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
06.2013 - 01.2015
Technical Support Engineer
Calsoft Pvt Ltd
01.2011 - 03.2013
B.Sc. - IT
Navyug Vidyapeeth Trust, Ladavali-Mahad Institute of Science & Technology
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