About
Storage Engineer with 8+ years designing, automating, and qualifying storage and object-storage solutions across on-prem and cloud platforms. Hands-on experience with S3-compatible object storage (IBM COS, Ceph S3, OCI Object Storage), Big Data/Hadoop-adjacent data platform workloads, Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, CI/CD pipeline automation (Jenkins), and Python-based automation frameworks. Skilled in storage performance tuning, lifecycle policy management, data security/encryption controls, and cost/capacity optimization across AWS and multi-cloud environments.
Skills
- Agile
- Amazon Web Services
- Attention to detail
- Automated testing
- CI/CD
- Communication
- Docker
- Git
- GitHub
- Google Cloud
- Jira
- Leadership
- Linux
- Microsoft Azure
- Problem solving
- Project management
- Python
- Quality assurance
- Requirements gathering
- Scrum
- Teamwork
- Terraform
- Time management
Experience
Storage QA Engineer
IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Jul 2023 to Present
Pune, India
• Design and validate object storage workflows for AFM (Active File Manager) on GPFS-based clusters, supporting S3-compatible backends including IBM COS, Ceph S3, and MinIO. • Configure and test data export/import (home) operations, reconcile, outbound sync, prefix-based access, and 2K metadata support across multi-cloud object storage (IBM COS, Azure, Ceph). • Build and maintain Python-based automation frameworks to qualify storage feature releases, improving test coverage and reducing manual validation effort. • Collaborate with development teams to define storage performance benchmarks and lifecycle behavior for large-scale data platform workloads.
Senior Software Development Engineer
Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2022 to Jan 2023
Bengaluru, India
• Automated system-level test cases validating ZFSSA storage product features, including performance, data integrity, and lifecycle operations. • Enhanced Python3-based automation framework to support OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) API features, extending object storage and compute test coverage. • Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure using Terraform (IaC) to build VM shapes on OCI, enabling repeatable, version-controlled test environments. • Used OCI CLI to automate provisioning and validation workflows, reducing manual setup time for test cycles. • Executed protocol-level test suites (SMB/NFS) using Defensics; generated appliance stress workloads using LDX for capacity and resiliency testing. • Diagnosed and resolved critical issues during disk, ILOM, and IOM firmware upgrade/degradation cycles.
Senior Project Engineer
Wipro Limited
Jan 2016 to Jan 2022
Kolkata, India
• Project: Riverbed Technology • Maintained and qualified storage automation frameworks (Perl/Python) for SteelFusion products; extended framework support for new storage array versions. • Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate regression jobs and integrated OpenStack VM instances with Jenkins to trigger continuous integration test runs. • Executed qualification suites against enterprise storage arrays (NetApp, HP3PAR, EMC Unity, Pure Storage, MS StorSimple) to validate LUN provisioning and cross-array compatibility. • Automated backup and restore validation using Veeam, CommVault, and Avamar; tracked results and defects in TestRail and JIRA. • Project: Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Automated SMB/CIFS (NAS) protocol test cases in Python, including File Access Auditing Event CLI validation. • Configured Jenkins jobs to run SMB protocol (Pike Test) and memory-leak detection (Valgrind) automation; built shell scripts to support multi-module CI regression. • Set up automated weekly reporting for memory-leak analysis and CI health, improving release-quality visibility for stakeholders.
Education
Birla Institute of Science and Technology
Master of Technology, Software Engineering
Pilani, India
2016 to 2020
Licences & certifications
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate