Milind Inamdar

• Built and led a new system test team in India, comprising 6 engineers and 6 contractors
• Spearheaded test design, planning, and automation for the Compute areas of Google Distributed Cloud in an air-gapped environment
• Mentored and trained junior engineers on test methodologies and automation frameworks
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders (PMs, Dev Managers, Solution Engineers) to define Comprehensive User Journeys (CUJs) for the entire Distributed Cloud ecosystem
• Conducted gap analysis studies to identify and address missing test coverage
• Established dedicated CI pipelines for executing long-running and performance tests in physical datacenter

• Led qualification of 4 major releases for the VMware Open Source CSI plugin, automating and validating new features and workloads to ensure seamless integration with Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu.
• Tested and automated the deployment and functionality of CSI plugin offerings in AWS cloud environments.
• Contributed to the quality and performance of VMware's container storage solutions by identifying and resolving defects throughout the development lifecycle.

• Led a team of 4 engineers in conducting comprehensive functional and non-functional testing of DataCore's virtualized storage solutions.
• Authored nearly 100 test cases to ensure thorough validation of product functionality and performance
• Developed an innovative "VM as a File" framework for on-the-fly test environment deployment, enabling rapid provisioning and tear-down of virtual machines for enhanced testing efficiency.

• I developed performance test tools to measure performance on virtualized Infrastructure. The work involved performance characterization of various workloads in a Virtual Environment and automate it.
• Blogs: I have published a blog for Performance of VDI infrastructure on AMD EPYC Servers. https://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2020/06/amd-epyc-rome-vdi-vsphere-performance.html

I worked in Tata Consultancy Services in the role of Performance Lead Test Analyst. I have worked on implementation projects for the UK region. I had extensively worked on Load Runner, Dynatrace, HttpWatch, DevTools, and Oracle SQL.