Udhaya Kumar

Background

About Udhaya Kumar

Data migration project for DellEMC HCI hyper convergence infrastructure based storage array (NextGen)- Scrum master role for managing 10+ team members both Development and QA team - QA lead role for Windows platform testing includes Functional, Longevity and Integration Testing-Hyper-V, MS Host Cluster, Filesystem - Architecture level understanding of complete Eco-system includes Hyper converged storage system, VNX array, Storage Networking and Windows IO Stack - Basic understanding of NVMe, NVMe-oF,RDMA technology (iWARP, RoCE)- Strong understanding of SAN Protocols like Fiber Channel, iSCSI - iSCSI workload analysis in case of failure using Wireshark traces - Strong understanding of Multipathing, SCSI - Global Storage Hackathon: Presented the idea and PoC on "New IO fencing mechanism" and Won the title of "Ready to Fly". Submitted for patent process - DELL EqualLogic iSCSI Storage and its core features - My lead role involves handling a team to qualify critical firmware features qualification like Compression, T10 Compliance testing, RAID Policy, Volumes internals, host cluster - Exposure to platforms like VMware, Linux (RHEL and SUSE) and AIX (7.1)- Test various EMC and Third Party Storage products across different platforms,+ EMC XtremIO flash array + EMC-CLARiiON, VNX & Unity + SYMMETRIX(VMAX and DMX)- Experience in Enterprise disaster recovery products - Comprehensive understanding of storage array features like Data protection (Snapshot, Replication), Storage Virtualization, Compression, storage layered services - Experience in working in a heterogeneous fabric comprising Cisco, Brocade and McData switches - Exposure towards scripting languages like perl, shell, python - Involved in recruitment drive, Mentoring and training new joiners - Leveraged Automation libraries for repeated and manual test runs - Beginner in modifying automation libraries or new test cases addition in automation framework