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RAJASHREE PAL

Hyderabad, Telangana,TG

Summary

I have spent the last 9 years creating test frameworks, improving quality of products and handling multiple customer escalations. I lead the VMware vCentre Lifecycle team for the last 4 years and focused on optimizing test frameworks to reduce cost to company.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

SMTS

VMware
12.2016 - 07.2024
  • Company Overview: VMware vCentre provides a centralized platform for managing the vSphere environments
  • VCentre helps in controlling virtual machines, ESXi hosts, and the dependent components from a centralized location
  • Managed planning and execution of test strategies for 4 major releases(6.5 to 8.0) and 10+ patch releases
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to refine project scopes, ensuring alignment with customer needs
  • I have contributed to problem analysis and solution deployment for 20+ customer escalations
  • Lead the Continuous Integration Practices for the new features and bug fixes resulting in 15% decrease in post release bugs
  • Spearheaded the adoption of automation tools in the vCentre/vSphere ecosystem reducing regression test time by 40%
  • I contributed to the Test Resources Optimization initiative which saves the test env resources by 20% without compromising the quality of the product
  • Mentored an intern to create an automation tool which creates dynamic test environments to test customer issues, regression cycles, express patches, reducing manual test efforts by 25%
  • My notable features include vCenter appliance: A pre-configured linux virtual machine which is optimized for running VMware vCenter Server and the associated services on Linux
  • Required understanding every component of the vCentre ecosystem and their interactions
  • FBBR : File-Based Backup and Restore (FBBR) is a built-in feature of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) that lets you back up and restore the VCSA
  • Infraprofiles: Introduced in vSphere 7.0 that allows you to manage the configuration specifications of a vCenter appliance
  • PNID: Helps vCenter identify itself
  • The PNID is set during deployment and can be an IP address or a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
  • Multihoming: Allows configuring multiple network interface cards (NICs) to improve network traffic management
  • Minor features include D&P, Appliance-management client and different patching modes (UI, API & CLI)
  • VMware vCentre provides a centralized platform for managing the vSphere environments
  • VCentre helps in controlling virtual machines, ESXi hosts, and the dependent components from a centralized location

Test Engineer

V2Soft
09.2015 - 12.2016
  • I worked on 4 different web application projects as an automation test engineer
  • "HE2" for client "SiteOne": A proprietary, web-based collaboration tool
  • "V2Soft.com" : Web application for this IT services provider
  • "Shift Digital" for client "Chrysler-US Michigan": A web application for maintaining various models of Cars
  • "EmployMe" for client "Vedanta": Web application for managing employee information
  • My responsibilities included understanding the requirements and usage of the applications
  • I collaborated with developers, created the test plan, test automation and validated the manual test cases
  • I played a key role in improving user experience by identifying UI related issues through selenium test scripts

Education

B.Tech - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

BPUT

Skills

  • Agile methodology
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • TestNG
  • Java
  • Python
  • JIRA
  • Bugzilla
  • Jenkins
  • Rest API testing using Postman
  • Git
  • Perforce
  • vCenter Server

Timeline

SMTS

VMware
12.2016 - 07.2024

Test Engineer

V2Soft
09.2015 - 12.2016

B.Tech - Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

BPUT
RAJASHREE PAL