Headline

Senior Principal Software Development Engineer in Test at Calsoft | Hardware Test Engineer | Storage Platforms | Firmware & Server Validation | Ex-Microsoft | Ex-Dell | Ex-NetApp

About

QA and validation professional with 8+ years of experience in storage platform validation, virtualization, server management, firmware qualification, and enterprise software integration testing across Microsoft, Dell, NetApp, and Pure Storage environments. Experienced in end-to-end QA ownership including test environment/test-bed preparation, test planning, test case design, functional and integration testing, regression testing, defect management, retesting, and release validation. Strong hands-on experience with Pure Storage plugins and integrations across VMware vSphere, Veeam, PowerShell SDK, vROps, SRM/SRA, and Windows Admin Center. Skilled in Jira/Xray, VMware ESXi/vCenter, Windows Server, RHEL, storage technologies, REST APIs, PowerShell, Python basics, and troubleshooting through logs, CLI, and API responses. Experienced Senior Software Engineer with Experience in NetApp Storage, Strong engineering professional skilled in NAS, SAN, DAS, RAID Technologies, Fibre Channel Technology, Storage/Servers, and NVMe and SSD technologies Storage platform & Hardware Testing, FC Switch firmware’s (QLogic/Brocade/Cisco) and Operating System flavor’s (NetApp (ontap),RedHat/SuSE, Oracle Linux) with NetApp external RAID controllers in different topologies. Intel target prob (ITP)Tool validation on motherboard, DIMM’s PCIe devices. We form various solutions with different set of architectures, OS, HBA’s etc & will certify that solution testing its functionality. The objective of the interoperability testing is to certify other vendor products compatibility Lenovo and Fujitsu

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior Principal Software Development Engineer in Test at Calsoft, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Azure Cloud and Firmware Validation Engineer | Hardware Test Engineer at Biblioso, Apr 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos, Chennai, Tamil nadu

Storage Testing and Firmware Validation Engineer | Test Engineer 2 at Dell India R&D Center Private Limited, Mar 2022 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Storage Testing and Firmware Validation Engineer | Senior Software Engineer | at Mindteck, Sep 2017 - Feb 2022 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Education

Master's degree, Industrial Electronics Technology, JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University