Surya Sridharan
Thanjavur
Summary
Accomplished Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Arcserve India Software Solutions, adept in validating complex backup and recovery workflows. Expert in Windows and Linux environments, with a strong focus on disaster recovery and cloud protection. Proven mentor, fostering junior talent while ensuring high-quality deliverables through effective collaboration and agile methodologies.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Arcserve India Software Solutions
2018 - Current
- Recreate customer-reported issues and validate fixes through end-to-end testing
- Independently set up Windows and Linux environments for patch and fix validation
- Validate backup, restore, and DR workflows including WinPE-based recovery media and BMR
- Test full/incremental backups, instant VM recovery, and hybrid/cloud protection
- Prepare SQL Server, Exchange Server, and Active Directory test environments
- Provide KT to new joiners and mentor junior QA engineers
- Log and track defects using JIRA; work closely with developers
- PRODUCTS: Arcserve UDP (Unified Data Protection), Arcserve ASBU (Arcserve Backup), Arcserve RHA, Archiving, Cloud Hybrid
Education
Bachelor of Engineering -
Mookambigai College of Engineering
01-2018
Skills
- Windows workstation and Servers
- Linux flavors
- Hypervisors VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix
- Backup & Restore
- Disaster & Bare Metal Recovery
- Hybrid & cloud protection
- Deduplication
- Storage
- NetApp ONTAP
- SQL Server
- Exchange Server
- Active Directory
- JIRA
- Manual Testing
- SDLC & STLC
- Defect tracking
- Environment setup
- Bug reporting
- Test planning
- Security testing
- Functional testing
- Integration testing
- Regression testing
Languages
- Tamil, professional
- English, Professional
Products
- Arcserve UDP (Unified Data Protection)
- Arcserve ASBU (Arcserve Backup)
- Arcserve RHA, Archiving, Cloud Hybrid
Timeline
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Arcserve India Software Solutions
2018 - Current
Bachelor of Engineering -
Mookambigai College of Engineering