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Sindhu Meesala

Summary

Quality Assurance professional with 6+ years of experience in Testing, primarily on Storage and Data Protection solutions with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Backup and Recover Applications. Experience includes manual and automation testing of features in Storage and Data protection Software’s.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Wipro
Banglore
10.2019 - Current

HPE GreenLake for Backup and Recovery (GLBR) is a data protection service that is part of Data Services Cloud Console on the HPE Greenlake platform. The service enables you to back up and restore VMware virtual machines and datastores, AWS EBS volumes, EC2 instances, RDS instances. Software allows to leverage public cloud for cost-effective long-term retention of backups. Includes data protection features like snapshot, backup with Protection store gateway and cloud store, remote copy and restores.

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Analyze user stories, feature plans to create test scenarios and prepare Test plan for feature testing.
  • Create test plan and testcases in test rail or ALM for new features and update regularly with execution status.
  • Execute Test cases, File bugs in Bugzilla or Jira, verify and close once the bugs are moved to resolved.
  • Responsible for Volume Protection, SQL and VMWare application backup Integration, functional testing and CFT (customer focused testing).
  • Running the daily Sanity test cases and Regression test cases using automation suit via Jenkins.
  • Automation report analysis, Json file updating and maintaining private GIT repo.
  • Worked in Volume protection team with API testing which is the base of the application and have run daily sanity.
  • Worked as support in SQL execution team where Instances and databases protection is tested.
  • Worked in VMware functional test team for feature testing like VM/DS protection and restores, Granular file recovery, Activity monitoring, activity cancel.
  • Configured different set of testbeds required for Testing or team for analyzing and developing.
  • Worked with VMware virtualization – Snapshot, Clone, Template, vMotion, svmotion, VMFS, Vvol, NFS, HA, DRS & SQL – Instance, Database as part of testcase execution for customer scenarios.
  • Owned small features and worked on functional test plan and test execution by guiding and mentoring junior QA engineer.
  • Evaluated system performance under various stress levels with PSR testing.
  • Worked as part of CFT team and involved in end-to-end testing.
  • Contributed to successful feature launches through rigorous testing and validation efforts.
  • Collaborated with developers to reproduce, debug, and resolve technical issues.
  • Train freshers / new joiners and mentor them.

Test Engineer

Wipro
Banglore
10.2017 - 10.2019

HPE Recovery Manager Central (RMC) software integrates HPE 3PAR and HPE Nimble primary Storage arrays with HPE Store Once backup systems to provide converged data protection. Combining the performance of snapshots with the protection of backups, StoreOnce RMC enables fast, efficient, reliable, and simple protection for your business-critical applications. Facilitates Policy-Driven, converged data protection and copy data management for users at speeds required for All-Flash storage

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Install and Configure HPE RMC in FCand iSCSI environment using 3PAR, Primera, Nimble and Store Once.
  • Validating HPE RMC Application for volume level protection and Recovery with snapshot, express protect, catalyst copy, cloud copy, remote copy and peer copy.
  • Execute test cases, update results in ALM and File bugs in Bugzilla.
  • Bug Reporting, Verifying & Closing in Bugzilla.
  • Recreating Customer Issue
  • Testing the fix once fixed by developers
  • Closing the bug
  • Execute test cases on various storage Protocols like FC, FCoE and iSCSI.
  • Help team with application installation, root enabling and setup configuration for PSR and customer escalations.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

RMK Engineering College Anna University
Chennai
04-2017

Skills

  • Data Backup and Recovery
  • VMware Virtualization Technologies
  • HPE Storage servers
  • Test Cases Design & Execution
  • Defect tracking
  • Customer Focus Testing
  • Troubleshooting and resolution
  • GUI testing
  • RESTful APIs
  • Agile Methodologies

Expertise Summary

  • Expertise in testing of Backup and Recovery Application through User Interface (UI) and REST API.Expertise in Test case writing and execution of Test plan.
  • Expertise in REST API testing with Postman.
  • Experienced in Automation Execution with Jenkins, Analyze execution report generated in Report portal.
  • Experience in reporting and tracking bugs using bug tracking systems such as JIRA and Bugzilla.
  • Keep Testrail and ALM tools updated on regular basis with test plan and execution status.
  • Well versed with Software Development Life Cycle (Agile), Software Testing Life Cycle, Defect Life Cycle.
  • Worked with HPE Storage servers 3PAR, Nimble, Primera, Storeonce.
  • Good knowledge with SAN, NAS, and DAS environment and protocol (FC, iSCSI).
  • Worked on Configuring HPE RMC in FC and iSCSI environment with 3PAR, Nimble and Store Once for setup creation or troubleshooting issues.
  • Good hands-on experience in VMware Virtualization.
  • Good Knowledge of Installing and Configuring VMware ESXi, VMware, vCenters & Windows Hyper-V.
  • Worked on vMotion, SvMotion, DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), HA (High Availability), FT (Fault Tolerance). Worked on VMware ESXi, vCenter and its features like Template, Snapshot, and Clone.
  • Expertise in configuring, managing and troubleshooting Virtual Machines & Datastores of type VMFS, VVOL, RDM, NFS using VMware vCenter 8.0, 7.0, 6.7, and 6.5 on ESXi 7.0, ESXi 6.7, and ESXi 6.5 servers.
  • Expertise in Installing and Configuring Windows & Linux Operating System
  • Experienced in Storage and data protection of Volume, SQL and VMWare application and backup Integration, functional testing and CFT (customer focused testing).
  • Mentored junior team members, sharing best practices in test engineering techniques and tools usage.
  • Contributed to cross-functional teams such as UI and SQL data protection, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
  • Received appreciation and Rewards from Client for quality deliverables done in project.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, intuitive, and analytical and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and teamwork environments.

Timeline

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Wipro
10.2019 - Current

Test Engineer

Wipro
10.2017 - 10.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering

RMK Engineering College Anna University
Sindhu Meesala