Mandar Shivrekar Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Lead the central test automation infrastructure team for a newly developed object storage product from HPE. Collaborated with multiple teams across the globe to coordinate and deliver test automation/tooling infrastructure for the new project in record low time, without any disruptions to product regression testing. Architected a grounds-up new feature testing library using Python, a completely new PyTest based test execution framework and completely new artifacts collection tool for rapid troubleshooting. Saved millions of dollars for HPE by seamlessly integrating product simulation into test automation framework, thereby eliminating a huge dependency on hardware based testing.* Lead the groundbreaking project within Nimble Storage engineering that focused on deriving test coverage metrics using the enhanced test automation framework. This enabled identifying product test gaps on standard non-instrumented builds and helped catch high severity issues early in SDLC* Successfully migrated automation repos without any production downtime from P4 to GitHub* Trained the entire engineering org for GIT configs and new GitHub based code development workflows via multiple TechTalks and hands-on workshop sessions* Migrated the entire production test infrastructure seamlessly to use GitHub repos, keeping UX same for all consumers* Enhanced and converted QA automation frameworks to work inside docker container* Enabled increased efficiency in setting up product test automation execution environment from multiple hours to a few minutes, enhancing engineer productivity by multi foldsTechnical Paper publications:* Authored HPE TechCon paper proposing method to synthesize a close approximation of enterprise application workloads based on analyzing the historic ASUP data from field for internal testing* Authored TechCon paper proposing a centralized IO workload bank (aka Workload Matrix) and lead development on its implementation in test automation infrastructure

Houston, Texas, Us

Worked as the first test automation engineer for Sync Replication product development team. Subsequently lead a team of 4 engineers to create initial ground work for new test automation libraries framework, scripts and test execution framework. Trained many new engineers on test automation development. Played crucial role in defining automation roadmap for Nimble Storage engineering.

San Jose, California, Us

Liaison between dev engineering, product management and QA engineering for various feature testing related issues. Co-lead the overall test automation efforts with multiple teams from across different time zones on MetroCluster and SnapMirror projects. This involved designing and coding test automation framework, libraries and scripts using OO PERL. Authored automated test design and planning for many other new features across multiple ONTAP releases. Collaborated in testing NetApp MetroCluster (MCC) solution across multiple teams spread between SVL, RTP, PTC and NB offices.* Designed and authored the unified automated installation package, various automated feature regression suites* Designed and developed the performance test framework for Metrocluster solution* Architected and guided the implementation for provisioning MCC setups (hardware and VSIMs) in NetApp Shared Testbed infrastructure (CTL PB/RR/MR and Smokes) resulting in millions of dollars of operating cost savings* Trained various teams on automated feature and performance testing methodologies, configuring and troubleshooting MCC solution* Reviewed and contributed to various customer-facing documents viz. setup config guides and troubleshooting guides

San Jose, California, Us

Worked with the QA test automation team for enhancing their Virtual Tape Library test automation coverage and effectiveness. Worked closely with product development teams to gather various requirements and came up with a binary tool to test physical tape drive compressions at low level using SCSI opcodes (t10.com). Also contributed to test automation efforts on SnapMirror feature testing. Filed 100+ product bugs during the internship, earning the coveted "bug filing machine" title.

Worked as test automation engineer for testing network security appliance from Reconnex. Corp. Inc. (later acquired by McAfee Inc.)

Worked as test automation engineer for testing data protection and recovery appliances by Connected Inc. (later acquired by Iron Mountain Inc.). Did hands-on work with NetApp NAS and EMC documentum storage servers used as backend storage on Connected appliances.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

Worked as test automation engineer for testing digital email advertising campaign softwares from DoubleClick Inc. (later acquired by Google Inc.)

Master'S Degree, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications

Master'S Degree (Pending), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering