Kumar Prakhar Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

I oversee and lead the QA team, providing direction, support, and guidance to the folks on parallel deliverables. Additionally, I ensure my team is adequately staffed with the skill set, and manage workloads effectively.I do conduct regular performance evaluations, offer feedback and manage career development for QA staff. Alongside, I define, plan and implement QA strategy, processes, methodologies and standards to ensure high product quality, as a team we do defect management and risk… Show more I oversee and lead the QA team, providing direction, support, and guidance to the folks on parallel deliverables. Additionally, I ensure my team is adequately staffed with the skill set, and manage workloads effectively.I do conduct regular performance evaluations, offer feedback and manage career development for QA staff. Alongside, I define, plan and implement QA strategy, processes, methodologies and standards to ensure high product quality, as a team we do defect management and risk assessment to mitigate the risks that may impact the release cycle. Show less

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pune Area, India

QA Lead and SME for Nutanix Suppot with Veritas Netbackup. Prior to this worked as QA lead for Virtualization based on VMware features. In past, I have worked as test lead for Linux and Windows File system support w.r.t NBU that includes design discussions, coding & Doc Review with Dev scrum team.Responsible for complete test coverage like designing and creating test plans & execution status during QA sprints to all supported features like configuring and testing AD/DFSR and GPFS for Unix.… Show more QA Lead and SME for Nutanix Suppot with Veritas Netbackup. Prior to this worked as QA lead for Virtualization based on VMware features. In past, I have worked as test lead for Linux and Windows File system support w.r.t NBU that includes design discussions, coding & Doc Review with Dev scrum team.Responsible for complete test coverage like designing and creating test plans & execution status during QA sprints to all supported features like configuring and testing AD/DFSR and GPFS for Unix. I have also contributed in NetBackup BMR which is Disaster Recovery Solution offered by Veritas. Apart from technical contributions, I have contributed to groom my team with new epic/features with its technical details, design test strategies. I am core member from QA community to participate in PO and Architects meeting to discuss critical defects and other issues. Additional responsibilities like managing escalations, troubleshooting product issue, sync and with support, CFT teams to be in sync with lasted customer's issue goes hand in hand. Show less

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Pune Area, India

Project: Symantec Netbackup – Virtualization Description: Netbackup supports VMware and Hyper-V hypervisor and their VM/Application protection. I worked as lead for VMware and contributed for Hyper-V testing that include i18n and security test.Role: SQA Engineer. Contribution: 5+ years.Responsibilities: Worked as Test-lead for VMware and Hyper-V NBU support, wherein I was responsible for handling vCenter/vCloud and Netbackup CLI based support of VM &… Show more Project: Symantec Netbackup – Virtualization Description: Netbackup supports VMware and Hyper-V hypervisor and their VM/Application protection. I worked as lead for VMware and contributed for Hyper-V testing that include i18n and security test.Role: SQA Engineer. Contribution: 5+ years.Responsibilities: Worked as Test-lead for VMware and Hyper-V NBU support, wherein I was responsible for handling vCenter/vCloud and Netbackup CLI based support of VM & Application protection.Worked on multiple exciting Netbackup features like Automatic Discovery of VM from vCenter Server, Change block-tracking mechanism, vMotion, HA and Cluster testing.Recently worked on Plugin feature with which we can perform VM recovery from vCenter without Netbackup intervention. (I was also selected as Owner of this Demo for CF 2015)Go to person for VMware related queries within QA org for troubleshooting and test planning. Show less

Pune Area, India

1) Test plans/reports, test case design. Primarily worked for vmware support on NetBackup.2) Participated in Disk, Network I/O performance testing and analysis. 3) Lead NetBackup Command-line oriented Feature single handedly.4) Worked as primary test Engineer in NetBackup GUI + Core integration area.5) Extensively worked on bug reporting and fix verification and other Feature requests.6) Worked primary contributor in Microsoft Application support test for Symantec Backup… Show more 1) Test plans/reports, test case design. Primarily worked for vmware support on NetBackup.2) Participated in Disk, Network I/O performance testing and analysis. 3) Lead NetBackup Command-line oriented Feature single handedly.4) Worked as primary test Engineer in NetBackup GUI + Core integration area.5) Extensively worked on bug reporting and fix verification and other Feature requests.6) Worked primary contributor in Microsoft Application support test for Symantec Backup Products.7) Worked closely with other testers/developers to improve quality. Show less

Pune

1) Assisted automated test design and contributed on script improvements tests.2) Responsible for helping testing team on multiple backup products. 3) Responsibilities included test plans, test cases writing, test execution, test reports, opening and verifying bug / reports, and helping recreate customer issues.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Engineering, A

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12Th Board, Science, A

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