Vinod Durairaj

Project:

Software Platform Tools Development Team

• Lead the effort for tools development team for different requirement across dell engineering teams.
• Grafana plugin development, ELK based Analytics, jmeter as a service, AI/Ml based Debugging and triaging tools.

Dell New Generation Power Edge servers

• Server Platform testing for New Generation servers. Server testing Platform areas includes: BIOS, CPLD, Server Storage, Raid Controller, N/W Card, Thermal and power, iDRAC, BMC, CMC, Chassis, CPU, Memory -Legacy and NVDIMM, Optane DIMMS, OS: Windows, Linux, ESXi, Error Injection scenarios, Load tests, FW tests, Disruptive tests, Data Integrity, Emulating datacenter environment tests and developing POC's - Openstack, Bigdata-Hadoop, Redis, Nginx, .
• System testing, Performance, and scale tests using Jmeter as a service, Custom python scripts, Medusa, VDbench, IOmeter and custom tools,ELK, Grafana.
• System level debugging and triaging that includes strong troubleshooting, Log ( kernel, user level, Lifecycle Controller, System, serial logs, tty) analysis, triaging, debugging.
• Platform validation test automation tools development. Devops tools like ansible, CI/CD-Jenkins, Chef-puppet, Axon, JAAS, Pyvmomi, powershell scripts, VMware APi's.
• Continuous customer and test process analysis and derive test strategy for different programs
• POC and innovation leader for the Dell Enterprise Server Test team
• Internal team Innovation champion with 10+ Authorized patents

ECS Object storage - Cloud

* Innovation leader, Subject matter expert of Object storage Infrastructure module

* Primarily handle Container-based Object storage module to Cloud migration feature

Project: IBM Block Replicator

• Exclusively worked FSHLD review process and Initial design decisions
• Lead presentations and demo to customers, solution, and marketing teams
• Design and execute test plans, scenarios, scripts, and procedure
• Driven GDPR, Appscan, and compliance-related tests
• Test framework using Unittest Python
• Performance and scale testing for Host-based replicator

Projects: Promise Technologies, Primary Data, QNAP

• QA Architect for Storage Products viz. Promise EX30, E5000, D5000, VTrak Aclass, NAS GW G1100, Identity, initiate & review test plan architecture about new features, PRD, Release notes, defects, design modifications, Code check-ins, etc.
• QA Practice Lead contributes to Pre-Sales discussions with Potential Customers and proposes a solution on QA/ Automation front. Work with various Internal stakeholders such as Marketing, Sales, etc. for Client facing Decks, Case studies, etc.

Projects: ViPR Controller (Cloud), DiskXtender archiving product

Functional and Automation testing:

• Functional Frontend and backend testing for Software-defined storage product testing
• Automated ViPR UI module with JAVA - Selenium Web-driver and owned the UI module
• Code Coverage, Rest API tests with the latest cloud technologies modules
• Stack modules testing - OpenStack, VMware, ESXI, VASA, VROPS, VRA, VVOL, ScaleIo- Flex, Vblock, Vplex, HDS, IBM XIV, SRDF, RecoveryPoint, SCVMM.
• Windows, Linux, VMware, Hyper V Environment
• Heterogeneous storage testing, Array include EMC VNX, VMAX, Scale Io, V block,Vplex,HDS,IBM XIV,Netapp filers,MDS, and Brocade
• Rest API tests using JAVA- Rest-assured and JSON libraries
• Automation for ViPR Rest based modules with Python, Unit test
• Owned the CLI wrapper script automation using java, Maven, TestNG, Jenkins

interoperability testing

• Experience in creating Traceability Matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage of requirements.

Project: Enterprise Vault

• Interoperability testing of Enterprise Vault with Various Veritas in house and Datacenter products
• Function testing of Enterprise Vault modules part of SDLC

• Scripting Software testing project team for royal Dutch shell and Nortel networks
• Testing products related to storage and Telecom products

Windows-based Application and Storage testing