Overview
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Education
Certification
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MADHAVI REDDY

Overview

19
years of professional experience
2
Certificates

Timeline

Cloud Essentials

09-2023

AWS Associate -Persuing

09-2023

Member of Technical Staff 4 (Senior QA Engineer)

Netapp
04.2008 - 04.2023

Systems QA Engineer

HP
08.2004 - 04.2008

SRS

BE from ENGINEERING

Summary

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARYExperienced QA Lead and Effective Senior QA professional with 17+yrs of extensive experience in software testing and quality assurance.
Key Points:

  • Experience & Proven success in driving continuous improvement initiatives in Quality Engineer roles.Achieved 25% savings via automation,process improvements and HC planning
  • Solid understanding and expertise in functional, systemic testing of SAN,NFS,Cloud environments.
  • Develop and Drive Test Design and Coverage Strategy by understanding product requirements by engaging with product technology groups, product marketing and customers, implement comprehensive test suites, suggest improvements in cross functional areas.
  • Execution Efficiency: Implemented test architecture and test automation strategies for modules efficiently to mitigate constraints on release schedule and engineering resources, for 3 critical parallel releases .
  • Contributed and Responsible for SAN New Platform testing qualifying New Adapters,ASA &AFF-models deployed over 1000 of systems in customers environment
  • Responsible and Experience in Continuous Integration Testing (CITs) for Netapp SAN,Cloud Environments.5000+ tests are integrated in framework
  • Worked on Design, Development & porting of test scripts from ON-PREM to CLOUD platforms(AZURE,AWS,GCP).Optimized tests in cloud environment saving 15% of budget.
  • Responsible for launch,maintenance of automated test launcher for hardware suites that reduced manual execution by 30% and hardware utilization by 25%.
  • Hardware Efficiency SPOC being responsible to report & improve hardware,infra issues in execution environment. Identified key issues ,provided inputs to infra team to have automated pre-jobs thus reducing hardware failures by 40% over a year.
  • Lead Team Ownership for 25+ patches ensuring Apt coverage and Zero defect misses.
  • Drove and Launched Quality initiative to enhance Quality across 6 modules by developing and automating customer scenarios.

Skills

QA

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Work History

Netapp
Bangalore, Karnataka

Member of Technical Staff 4 (Senior QA Engineer)
04.2008 - 04.2023

Job overview

Worked as As QA lead for various projects like SAN Functional Team, System test NFS Team ,NDU and Patch

Key Roles:
Deriving Testing Coverage and Design Strategy , helping team in arriving at test configurations and test cases to ensure comprehensive coverage. Managed schedule of 3 parallel releases and Regression base.


Review defects, follow ups with Dev and recommend teams on coverage - drive quality, help debug and provide necessary support to team collaborating with multiple technology groups across NetApp. Maintained 80% Defect Fix rate


Report project status and product quality , review defects rate and quality progress by devising various quality and project metrics.
Enhanced Test efficiency by 50% moving tests into automated environment.


Participate in Test Execution , Contribute to automation.
Influence and suggest test gaps, enhancements, and review coverage in overall QA as part of Core QA Leaders forum.


Initiated and implemented preventive maintenance procedures .Ex: Hosts Prejobs (adapter port,NIC failures...), Zoning prechecks,controller health checks.


Configured and tested SAN on new platforms (AFF,ASA..)
Delivered and Lead Release execution of multiple releases of customer centric SAN features like NVMe of protocol coexistence,RemoteIO,ISCSI Lif-failover,SMBC


Designed and contributed to Multiple NDU(Non Disruptive upgrade) scenarios for SAN to avoid disruptions in customer env during upgrades.


Designed robust improvements to NFS,SAN Modules by applying technical knowledge and incorporating changes from senior staff.


Enhanced SAN coverage in Cloud environments(AWS,AZURE) by adding additional scenarios specific to customer environment. Uncovered major defects


Contributed for Design and maintained Automated test Launcher Tool to launch hardware tests.Reduced cycle time by 50% ,increased test iterations enabled to catch defects at early stage.

HP

Systems QA Engineer
08.2004 - 04.2008

Job overview

Worked as QA engineer for projects HP storage products like
Command View EVA software, Replication Solution Manager, System Insight Manager


Established Hardware configuration and setup.


Prepared Test Plans ,Test Cases and execution Test Cases.Participate and contribute in reviews


Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, Scalability Testing.
Reporting and tracking defects using defect tracking tools Test Director,Quix.


Drive Quality process of project

Education

SRS
Bellary

BE from ENGINEERING

Certification

Cloud Essentials

Accomplishments

  • Received Excellence Award for Building Regression Acceptance Suites,NFS project- Nameservices feature support
  • Received Quarterly SPOT,Thank you Awards for CIT contribution,Infra setup for FCP,Customer Escalation support

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