Santhosh Mahamkali

About Santhosh Mahamkali

A highly motivated and result driven IT Professional with 13+ years of experience into Validation.• Working as Test Lead/Manager for 3+ years & managing the team (up to 15). • Diversified experience in Storage Validation, Router feature validation, GPU Validation and EDGE AI Benchmarking.• Involved in Sanity, Feature, Regression, Integration & Ad-hoc testing.• Expertise in creating test bed installation & configuration from scratch.• Configured ‘Boot from SAN’ in iSCSI & FCoE• Specific Expertise: Study the Requirements (MRD, PRD), existing Implementation and Design to Develop Test Cases. Generate and execute written test plans and report bugs.• Worked on DELL, IBM and HP servers (Blades, Racks & Towers)• Well-acquainted with Firmware, BIOS Configuration, OS installation and manually loading network drivers and Host Bus Adaptor drivers.• Good understanding of SCSI, iSCSI, SAS, FC, DAS and SAN• Gained good knowledge on Python, have an ability to fix python scripts & debug python scripts.• Involved in writing test scripts for the functionalities of storage controller. • Proposed and developed scenarios for UEFI using Win-32 images.• Instrumental in formulating and implementing Test Escape process to improve Test Coverage• Hands on Experience on deploying & configuring OS Images in Virtualization (VMware ESXi, ESX) servers.• Hands on experience in configuring & deploying OS images in PXE environment for Network installations.• Handled customer issues, tested to reproduce the issue by setting up customer environment.• Finding bugs in the product and reporting them in the Defect Tracking tool with necessary details and logs. • Participated in Kick off meetings, reviewing and analyzing the defects, onsite and offshore coordination, managing testing efforts.• Planned and organized KT Sessions for new tools / applications/implementations. • Handled the team effectively by coordinating with the teammates, assigning & tracking the project work allocation to achieve the target on specific time line.• Generated detailed metrics (Test Case Productivity, Test Execution Summary, Defect Metrics, Test Execution etc) for tracking purposes. Prepared and Presented Defect and Status Reports• Developed System Testing Effort Estimates, System Test Plan, System and Regression Test Cases, System Testing Execution, Documentation of System Test Results.• Well–acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle and Software Test Life Cycle.• Exposure to tools like Git, Jenkins, Dockers.

Experience

1. Principal Systems Development Engineer

   Dell Technologies

   Aug 2025 — Present · IN

Education

• SRR Engineering college

  Bachelor's of Technology , Information Technology

  2004 — 2007

• B.M.H.S

  SSC

  1998 — 1999

• S.N Murthy Polytechnic

  D.E.I.E, Electronic Instrumentation Engineering

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Sdlc
• Linux
• San
• Servers
• Raid
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Oracle
• Regression Testing
• Software Development
• Operating Systems
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Testing
• Unix
• Storage Area Networks
• Windows Server
• Hardware
• Test Cases
• Perl
• System Testing
• Troubleshooting
• Shell Scripting
• Scsi
• Manual Testing
• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Test Automation