- Skilled, passionate engineer about Quality improvements and Automation: Technically hands-on Leader with proven track record of designing, developing & maintaining automation frameworks (Python, Shell, Ansible, Selenium and Robot Framework), testing enterprise products, delivering products with high quality, and setting up high performance & motivated teams. Having 18+ years of relevant and extensive experience with strong domain knowledge of Storage (SAN/NAS/Object), Data Protection, Systems Software, Networking and Virtualization.- Strong contributor in design and development of test automation frameworks, lead the implementation of test strategy, test plans and test execution of the products. Define and drive continuous improvements in the existing frameworks to build reliable and scalable automation framework w/ and w/o CI/CD. Also develop tools and utilities for product quality betterment and improve overall productivity.- Have been awarded several applause awards including "Standing Ovation" for improving products quality and constant automation improvements for regression and feature testing.- Strong in-depth Linux OS experience- Linux Kernel internals, configuration & building. Linux Server Administration/Troubleshooting.- Led and owned several initiatives (Automation optimization, scalabilty/performance/stability testing, Publication/Documentation to improve coverage, analyze and prevent product automation failures, tools/utilities development) to completion.- Experience in Distributed, Scalable and Fault-tolerant product. Data management & protection using S3, REST, Thrift & Erasure Coding/Replication.- Expertise in SAN Storage Arrays (of various vendors like EMC, NetApp, IBM, Hitachi, HP), its Virtualization, Replication and good understanding of Protocols- Experience in Docker Containers, and HW Appliances, PCIe, NVMe, BMC functionalities (IPMI, RedFish)- Good experience in VMware Virtualization and Linux KVM- Handled Customers Escalations and work with support teams to reproduce issues in-house, help in root cause analysis and resolve the issues within time.- Worked in Agile-Scrum as well as Waterfall product development environments- Good understanding of Cloud platforms (AWS- Amazon Web Services and Openstack). Have done POC and qualifications of Veritas products on AWS.- Good experience in Storage Arrays CLI, AWS CLI and Tools like GIT, JIRA for version control and bugs tracking.- Gained end to end experience in hiring as well as build, drive and lead a team of QEs with varying levels and technical skills.