Thippeswamy Goravar
Senior Member Of Technical Staff
Bengaluru
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Nutanix
Bangalore
08.2016 - Current
- Lead end to end delivery of multiple features with high quality and 100% automation
- Currently working Hybrid solution Nutanix Clusters, including AWS, Azure
- Extensive knowledge on AHV, NOS, Nutanix Guest Tools, Prism Central:
- Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) appliances
- Planned and delivered Testing strategy and automation for new features testing
- Have worked with Support teams on resolving Customer Found Defects
- Increased automation ROI by increasing Code Coverage and reducing run-time by
- Testing and Automation of multiple features like Nutanix Guest Tools, Categories in
- Prism, Network Visualisation
- Mentored team on automation and QA best practices
- Python, Ruby
- JRuby, BDD
- CI\CD, DevOps
- Agile, Scrum
- VMware Certified Professional
- Virtualization
- Email Delivery and Archiving
- ReST API Automation
- UI Automation
- Management Planes vCenter, Prism years of
- Product Testing
- Product Delivery
- Automation
- GIT, Jenkins
- JIRA, Bugzilla
- Subversion, Perforce
- Behavioral Driven
- Development (BDD)
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMware Inc
Bangalore
12.2013 - 08.2015
- Increased developer productivity by automating testbed deployment using
- Ruby and in-house Nimbus framework
- Executing End-to-End vCenter Server Upgrade paths testing for 5.1,5.5 to 6.0 both with windows and VCVA
- Design, Implementation and Management of Test Infrastructure for Manual and
- Automation Teams.
Software Developer
Mimecast Services Pvt Ltd
London
06.2010 - 12.2013
- Lead the Component Test Automation Team
- Test Scoping and Estimation, Preparation of Test Plan
- Designed Test Cases and Test Data of features owned for Functional and Regression
- Testing
- Escalation / response / resolution time for problems on the basis of criticality
- Ensuring timely delivery of test results for undertaken component with high quality
- Configuration and Maintenance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010
- Design, Implementation and Management of Test Infrastructure for Manual and Automation testing
- Automating Tests for Web Services using Ruby and JRuby
- Worked in Continuous Delivery Development methodology.
Software QA Engineer
VMware Inc
Bangalore
10.2006 - 03.2010
- Leading the Component Test Automation Team
- Written Test Cases and automated testing of vCenter Installation and Upgrade
- Design, Implementation and Management of Test Infrastructure for Manual and
- Automation Teams
- Automating the vCenter Server UI and VMware Orchestrator UI functionality for
- Regression, Smoke and BAT using Silk Test 2009 on Windows x64 Flavors
- Automating Import VM and Auto Build Download and Auto Kick off Automation in
- Perl
- Mentor Interns in automation and testing technologies.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree - Software Engineering
VTU
01.2002 - 04.2006
Skills
Automation SkillsExtensive experience in automated testing and creating automation frameworks using Python, Ruby, JRubyBDD using Cucumber, C#, Perl, Shell ScriptingExpertise in UI Automation using Selenium, Silk TestExpertise in Automating BAT’s, Smoke, Regression, Performance, Load and Stress test cyclesManual Testing SkillsExperience in Testing Virtualization Appliances, Email Delivery and Archiving domainExperience in Testing Web-based and Client-Server Applications on Windows (All releases), Linux (Red HatSuSe, Ubuntu, CentOS)Test Infrastructure SkillsSQL Server databasesConfiguration of Apache, PXE, DNS, DHCP servers, MSCS Clustering and Active DirectoryConfiguration and Maintenance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010A2 Certified in German Language in 2018Diploma in Advanced Java and Web Technologies, SSI Limited, April-October 2000Oracle with Visual Basic Programming, SSI Limited, February 2000 - May 2000Diploma in Computer Science, Xansa, June ’98- August ’99Currently pursuing AWS certifications
System design
Performance Optimization
Virtualization
Technical Analysis
Timeline
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Nutanix
08.2016 - Current
Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMware Inc
12.2013 - 08.2015
Software Developer
Mimecast Services Pvt Ltd
06.2010 - 12.2013
Software QA Engineer
VMware Inc
10.2006 - 03.2010
Bachelor’s Degree - Software Engineering
VTU
01.2002 - 04.2006