Parashar Ranade

About Parashar Ranade

A Quality Evangelist with 10+ years of experience in Data protection, Backup and Storage industry. Experience in storage,data protection/Backup industry and file system with in depth exposure of product testing (Functional, Regression, Integration, SOAK and Solutions Testing ).• Expertise in EMC-Data Domain File System along with solution testing of Data Domain and Avamar Integration. • Good Exposure on NetBackup including Its NDMP Protocol, VTL/Tape configuration and Replication Director (RD) Technology.• Expertise in NetApp Storage products such as OnTAP (7-Mode/cDOT),OnCommand Core Package, OnCommand System Manager.• Having good Knowledge of SDLC, Agile methodology and other software engineering techniques.• Proficiency in Lab management including CAPEX Planning. • Well versed in Test Strategy Creation, Test Plan creation, Test scenario creation and Execution.• Proficiency in testing a product on all major platforms including Linux, HP,Solaris,AIX,Windows. Ample amount of exposure to mentioned platforms. • Expertise in SAN and NAS technologies.• Exposure on testing with multiple file system protocols like NFS,CIFS along with basic knowledge of Storage Foundation (SF) and Veritas File system (VxFS)• Exposure on VMWare Hands On Experience on managing vCenter, vSphere Client.(VM Creation, Deletion,Snapshot management,Template management) • Basic Knowledge of Cluster Environment like Veritas Cluster Manager (VCS).Interested Areas and Experience on: SAN, NAS, Backup, Snapshot, Replication, De-duplication, Storage Architecture, File systems, Operating Systems, Networking, NDMP.

Experience

1. Software Principal Engineer - Product Owner

   Dell Technologies

   Feb 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Application

  2009 — 2011

• Bharti vidyapeeth College of Engineering BVCOE

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

  2003 — 2006

• S.S.J.P

  Diploma, Computer Science

  2000 — 2003

Skills

• Ibm Aix
• Netapp Filers
• Manual Testing
• Netapp
• Solaris
• Nas
• Netbackup
• Aix
• Oracle
• Data Domain
• File Systems
• San
• Shell Scripting
• Test Automation
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Hardware
• Perl
• Storage
• Ruby on Rails