Rakesh B S Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Project: Software Manageability QA ( iLORest and Service Pack for Proliant - SPP )• Led the release of the iLORest product on Windows, Linux, and ESXi platforms, as well as HPE PowerShell cmdlets for Gen11 Servers, overseeing planning, setup, testing, and reporting.• Involved in developing the automation framework for iLORest alongside the team, using the ROBOT framework• Played a vital role in the SPP release by validating key features and identifying critical bugs in iLORest, ensuring high product quality and aiding management in pinpointing product nuances.• Oversaw the establishment of a Hardware Lab with 100+ Servers, equipped with compute, networking, and power resources, as well as infrastructure elements like JumpStations, VMs, DHCP, and FileShares, facilitating firmware and driver testing. This initiative enabled the SWM QA team to prioritize product qualification, streamlining the setup of testing environments. Project: iLOAmplifierPack QA• iLOAmplifierPack serves as an inventory and update management tool, capable of handling firmware and driver updates for up to 10,000 servers.• Conducted GUI and API Testing for iLOAmplifierPack Version (1.80 to 2.20), significantly contributing to product stability by refining automation and testing strategies.• Responsible for planning tests for iLOAmplifierPack releases, which entails deployment planning, defining test requirements for manual and automated testing across various OS platforms, conducting functional and non-functional product tests, and validating post-release validations.• Influenced design changes in the USP feature by analyzing various scenarios with the assistance of an architecture diagram. This initiative led to a robust implementation of the feature, resulting in minimal field-reported issues so far.• Conducted security testing in iLOAmplifierPack utilizing BurpSuite scanners and additional tools to detect vulnerabilities in the product prior to customer release.

Bengaluru Area, India

Project: Scripting Tools for Windows Powershell• Carried out manual and automation testing of PowerShell cmdlets developed to manage iLO, BIOS components in the HPE Proliant Server Portfolio.• Involved in the entire Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) for the product, which included activities such as test planning, identifying test scenarios, creating test cases, setting up test beds, executing tests, and generating reports.• Designed a robust framework for Cmdlets Testing from the ground up using Powershell, which is used to validate 180+ Commands.• Participated actively in "customer connect" initiatives to gain insight into customer environments, conduct live debugging for field issues, and determine root causes of customer-reported issues to improve test coverage.• Involved in validating the HPEOSProvisioningCmdlets HPEiLOCmdlets, and HPEBIOSCmdlets products.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Project: Windows Azure Test Environment Management• Developed PowerShell scripts for automating manual tasks like incident creation, and health status of nodes and clusters.• Automated the process of triaging the alerts using Powershell which helped to acknowledge the alerts within the SLA timelines.• Provided infrastructure support for the Windows Azure test environment by troubleshooting hardware Issues related to Microsoft Azure servers, power distribution units, and network switches, thus maintaining an environment for testing the software by deployment teams.

Hyderabad Area, India

Undergone training on testing and Azure Infrastructure Management Service.Project: Visual Studio Live Site• Responsible for Development of dashboards using ASP.NET for incident monitoring for SLA adherence.• Implemented the notification system in SQL Server (SQL Jobs), which sends the notification to all stakeholders before server patching.

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering, 8.60

Intermediate Studies, Science, 88.60

High School, Sslc, 96.80