Sukumar Reddy

Experience

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  Dell International Services

  Sept 2005 - Mar 2008

  Developing Test Strategy & Test Cases while understanding the design.Execute Test cases, Find Defects, develop strategy for defect regression.Doing the exploratory testing.Helping Developers to root cause the problems/bugs.Give Inputs to improve the Process & Product Quality after Project gets completed.Achievements:Found High Priority Issues by focusing customer scenarios.Found 90 BUGs in 9 months of execution.Rated Exceptional Performer in first Performance Review.Projects:ESX 4.1 Upgrade:Part of the PDP (Product Deployment and Packaging) QA team, whose prime motive is to install, upgrade, staging and live testing of ESX server OS releases and Virtual Centre.Preparing TDS for Upgrade .Creating Test cases.ESX 4.0 Install and Upgrade:Part of the PDP (Product Deployment and Packaging) QA team, whose prime motive is to install, upgrade, staging and live testing of ESX server OS releases and Virtual Centre.Installation and configuration of VMware ESX data center operating system on high-end X86 servers on FC and iSCSI SAN for Boot from SAN configuration.Virtual Machine deployment and management, exporting, importing, snapshot, cloning, templates and OVF appliances.ESX deployment using scripted and network based methods.Setting up patch depots, verification of the patch process and tools of the upcoming versions of ESX.Execution of test cases in Functional, Regression and Final Qualification phase in different operating systemsDeveloping Test Strategy for ESX 4.0 for various sub components in Install and Upgrade Component Testing.ESX server upgrade, End to End upgrade, Tools and Hardware upgrade.ESX servers GUI install, Text Install, Embedded ESX install.Mentoring new joiners and academic interns.Filing defects and working closely with Engineering and development in fixing the same.Working closely with QA counter parts across the globe in coordinating team activities and sync up. Show less

  • PG senior Test Analyst

    Sept 2005 - Mar 2008

  • PG Test Engineer Analyst

    Sept 2005 - Mar 2008
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  VMware

  Mar 2008 - May 2010

  QA Engineer1
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  LSI Corporation

  May 2010 - Jun 2010

  Test Engineer II
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  VMware

  Jul 2010 - now

  Achievements: -- Worked as part of team of different capacities including working with remote teams without any impact to deliverables.- Worked as a single member team with remote manager for 1 year.- Involved in entire hiring process of 10 member team including a manager- Involved in on-boarding, mentoring, monitoring, planning activities for 5 new hires for 2 months.- Managed and optimized inventory of a team of 15 members which resulted in saving of $100,000 during 2 years.- First engineer from Bangalore to Plan and manage vsphere product release testing which involves managing over 20 teams spanned across 4 geo locations. Roles and Responsibilities: -- Managing a team of 5 people.- Developing Test Strategy & Test Cases while understanding the design.- Execute Test cases, Find Defects, develop strategy for defect regression.- Doing the exploratory testing.- Helping Developers to root cause the problems/bugs.- Give Inputs to improve the Process & Product Quality after Project gets completed.- Monitor, track and update the status and come up with contingency plans to handle risks and delays.- Involving in hiring- Planning and resource estimation- Mentoring the new hires- Co-ordination with other QE teams, Development teams and Product Managers- Tracking and updating the status of deliverables Show less

  • Senior Manager

    Jun 2021 - now

  • Engineering Manager

    Nov 2018 - Jun 2021

  • Staff Engineer

    Aug 2018 - Oct 2018

  • Senior MTS

    Jul 2014 - Aug 2018

  • MTS-III

    Jul 2012 - Jul 2014

  • MTS-II

    Jul 2010 - Jul 2012