Karthik Viswanath Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Azure CoreAzure Files

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Bangalore

Responsible for Product Management and Technical Marketing activities for Storage Efficiency product of NetApp’s WAFL ( Write Anywhere File Layout ) File system- Industry, market and competitive analysis - Product strategy and roadmap- Definition of product requirements- Go To Market activities- Sales enablement and training- Customer demos, presentation, industry event presentations

Major responsibilities as a Technical Marketing Engineer include- Meeting customers/partners; getting customer feedback- Customer demos and presentations- Liaison among customers, Product Management and Internal engineering- Customer facing demos and collaterals development- Developing content for technical Papers & knowledge base articles- Conducting Alpha/Beta programs - Active involvement in product planning and design- Review of all product related documents such as PRD, Functional Spec, Release Notes, etc- Authored NATJ (NetApp Journal publication) paper titled ‘TestWare – Streamlining test automation’ which was published in NATJ article dated Jun ‘2010

- Was responsible for designing the infrastructure to execute automated test suites across all Business Units within NetApp- Developed perl APIs to be consumed by internal business units- Was leading the effort to plan and improve test coverage with the primary goal of implementing a complete process for automated testing without manual intervention- Assisting functional QA teams to adopt the new testing infrastructure thereby improving overall testing efficiency and increasing test coverage

Bengaluru Area, India,Greater Boston Area

- Responsible for creating test plan, manual testing of Functional integration and Design verification tests- Was the automation team lead to automate functional tests and qualify tests as part of Business acceptance testing- Additional responsibilities included assigning change requests to various groups, tracking it to closure and generating test reports for clients- Used to mentor new hires to help ramp up to client requirements- Multiple awards of excellence from EMC2 o EMC2 Level 2 Individual award for excellent work in the field of IP Replication – resolving the maximum number of QA script issues within a short period of time o EMC2 Level 2 Individual award for the hard work towards developing a new test feature from scratch and for coordinating with the remote team in deploying the same o EMC2 Level 2 Team award for excellent team dynamics and for the timely delivery of early test results of Functional Integration test o EMC2 Level 1 Individual award for learning the concepts very quickly and implementing the same in the production environment

Noida Area, India

- Was involved in testing in-house software running on Oracle Apps for P&O Nedllyod/Maersk- Was involved in automating test suites using WinRunner and LoadRunner GUI automation tools- Was responsible for consolidating test results and generating appropriate reports for higher management and clients- Award of excellence from P&O Nedlloyd/Maersk for reducing testing cycles time by ~30% as a result of automation

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Science/Studies

Activities and Societies: IEEE, CSI

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: IEEE, CSI

Pre University, Science

10Th, Science