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Raguraman V K

Bengaluru

Summary

I bring 17 years of industry experience, with a solid focus on Quality Assurance testing in the storage domain for the past 13 years. Throughout my career, I've consistently gone above and beyond to meet customer needs, whether working independently or as part of a team. I excel in developing thorough QA test plans, refining processes, and creating clear, user-friendly documentation. I have a knack for diving into testing requirements, executing detailed Test Plans, and writing Python scripts. My strengths include strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and a meticulous approach to problem-solving, ensuring high-quality outcomes on every project.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Systems/Software Engineer III

HPE
Bengaluru
05.2023 - Current
  • Involved in decision making during release planning and sprint planning
  • Designed and executed comprehensive test plans and test cases, ensuring highest levels of product quality.
  • Performed gap analysis on customer escalations, resulting in the development of new test content.
  • Documented software defects, carried out detailed root cause analyses, and validated problem resolutions.

Memeber Technical Staff 3

Pure Storage Ltd
Bengaluru
11.2021 - 04.2023
  • Developed detailed test plans and validated test content to ensure software quality.
  • Executed acceptance test cases and collaborated closely with developers to replicate and verify issues.
  • Conducted thorough regression testing after bug fixes to maintain software stability.
  • Analyzed customer feedback to identify gaps in testing and took proactive steps to address them, improving product quality.
  • Contributed effectively to system test cycles, ensuring functional requirements were met without issues.
  • Utilized tools such as JIRA, Test Rail, Confluence, FIO, Git, and Vdbench to support testing activities.
  • Developed familiarity with Kubernetes to assist in testing activities on relevant platforms.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
08.2013 - 11.2021
  • Understanding the feature and functions planned for testing
  • Getting the UI design/Feature Specifications from the development team
  • Development of test plan and test cases
  • Creating Sprint plans and assigning them to responsible engineers.
  • Filing bugs using bug dB for issues encountered, Triaging for root cause and determine regressions.
  • Working with developers to reproduce some bugs
  • Isolation of issue after triage and give reproduction steps to development
  • Identifying and automating for regression/functional test cases
  • Tools used: ARTAS, Confluence, Bug dB, Vdbench, LoadDyanmix

Module Lead

Mindteck (INDIA) LTD
Bangalore
12.2011 - 08.2013
  • Project 1: CPE CIFS QA (Nov 2012 to Aug 2013)
  • Project 2 : De-dupe QA (Dec 2011 to OCT 2012)

Responsibilities:

  • Ensured compatibility of ONTAP with the latest nightly build through automated regression testing on upgraded filers
  • Developed reliable steps to reproduce and fix CIFS bugs for release.
  • Ensured bug fixes were verified and resolved

Language: Perl

OS: Windows, Linux

Protocols: CIFS,NFS

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies Ltd
Chennai
11.2007 - 11.2011

Project 1: BES (Billing Enhancement Strategy) – (Nov 2009 to Nov 2011)

The Billing Enterprise Solution comprises two components:

  • InterMediate: Acts as a mediation layer that pulls customer data, processes it through feeders, and categorizes transactions into billing events.
  • SingleView: Handles core rating of billing events and generates reports for individual customers. It includes Convergent Billing (CB) for consolidating service charges and Process Engine (PE) for managing billing workflows and customer operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Optimizing ImE feeders processing and corruption detection techniques and helped client with the UAT support.
  • Have developed scripts to compare the transaction files from the Baseline system and the system under implementation and give report containing the deviations.
  • Appreciated by the client, recognizing my efforts, for the successful implementation of our project.

Project 2: STM – STB Test Automation (March 2008 - November 2008)

Worked as Project Engineer in Set Top Box tests Automation for Client ST Micro Systems.

Responsibilities:

  • In-depth understanding of Client framework developed in C and PERL, for automation testing of their Set Top Boxes.
  • Individually converted the test-suite entirely into PERL (Active Perl 5.8.6).

Education

PGDM - E Commerce

Welingkar Institute of Management
Mumbai, MH
04-2020

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

RMK Engineering College
Chennai, TN
04-2007

Skills

  • Protocols: ISCSI, CIFS and NFS
  • Networking – TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS
  • Automation: Python Scripting
  • OS Skills – Windows, Linux, Solaris
  • Knowledge on RAID Controller and different RAID levels
  • Experience on Storage domains NAS and SAN
  • Good knowledge in Replication, Deduplication, Snapshots

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Kannada
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Telugu
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Systems/Software Engineer III

HPE
05.2023 - Current

Memeber Technical Staff 3

Pure Storage Ltd
11.2021 - 04.2023

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
08.2013 - 11.2021

Module Lead

Mindteck (INDIA) LTD
12.2011 - 08.2013

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies Ltd
11.2007 - 11.2011

PGDM - E Commerce

Welingkar Institute of Management

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communication Engineering

RMK Engineering College
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