Deepak Kumar Prasad

H No. 64B, 4th Cross

opp IBP, 6th Block, Koramangala,
Bangalore-560095.

Mobile: 9886752655
Email: - deep275@yahoo.co.in
deep275@gmail.com

Career Objective:

Seeking a challenging position that allows me to utilize my skills while developing and acquiring new roles

Summary:

4 years 4 months of QA Experience in Storage Domain of which 22 months in SAN Technologies 2+ years
of experience in NAS Technologies.

Professional Experience Summary:

Hands on Experience :

• Domain and testing expertise on SAN and NAS technologies.

• Sun 7xxx Unified Storage Products Sun StorEdgetek NAS 53x0 non-HA and Cluster Appliances,
Brocade SAN Switches and NetApp Filers.
• Filesystem: ZFS, UFS, WAFL.
• Strong understanding of Directory services like ADS, LDAP, DNS, DDNS, NIS, and WINS.
• Good exposure to Network Data services (protocols) like CIFS/SMB, NFS, FTP, SFTP, FTPS FCIP,
iSCSI, Protocols.
• Network Authentication Protocol like Kerberos, NTLM, ipsec and SMB signing.
• Configuring Windows Domain Controller (DC) and setting up Active Directory Services (ADS)
• Raid controllers and Luns, configuring RAID level 5 on the luns.
• Automation Testing using PERL Scripts.
• SANtricity, NRM RAID management tools.
• Expertise in test methodology and system level testing and Functionality of NAS Appliance.
• Expertise in writing the test plan, test cases and test report.
• Good Knowledge of Software Development life cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle
(STLC).

Professional Work Experience:

• Working as QA Engineer at SUN Microsystems India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore from May 2007 to till
date.
• Worked as Project Engineer at Wipro Technologies, Bangalore from July 2005 to April 2007.

Educational Qualifications:

• B-Tech in Information Technology from Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

(MNNIT), Allahabad, in the year 2005 with aggregate of 68.3%
• Class XII (PCM) , from Tashi Namgyal Sen sec School, Gangtok Sikkim, Affiliated to CBSE board,
in the year 2001 with 79%
• Class X, from West Point Sen Sec School, Gangtok, Sikkim
affiliated to CBSE board, in the year 1999 securing 75.6%.
Technical Skills:

Scripting Skills Shell script, TCL-TK, Expect, PERL

Operating Systems Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows X
QA Tools (Stress Tools) Vdthrash, GRITS, ddthrash, cadaver, curl.
Bug Tracking Tool Bugster, Remedy, Bugzilla.

Trainings attended:

1. Foundation Course for Quality from QSIT in July 2008

2. Embedded Systems from Cranes Software International Limited Bangalore in Aug 2005 with
following subjects.
a. C, Embedded C, Data Structures
b. UNIX (System Programming)
c. ARM Processor
d. Embedded Linux
e. Device Drivers
f. GNU, GDB.
3. Fibre Channel 101 Concepts from Wipro Technologies, Bangalore in Jan 2006.

Soft-skills Trainings attended :

1. Time Management Workshop from SUN Microsystems in December 2008

2. Assertive Communication Skills from SUN Microsystems in August 2009

Experience on NAS Technologies.

Project #1: Common Internet file system (CIFS).

Organization SUN Microsystems

Testing Approach Manual and Automation
Hardware Sun StorEdgetek 53X0 NAS and 5320C
Scripting Language PERL
Duration May 2007 – December 2008

Project Description:

Common Internet File System (CIFS) is an enhanced version of the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB)
protocol designed to overcome the built-in restrictions of SMB. CIFS is an inter operable mechanism for a
client system to request file access from a server system in a network regardless of the underlying operating
system platforms of the respective systems. SMB/CIFS allows client systems of Windows environments to
access files on NAS appliances and gateway systems.

SUN StorEdgetek NAS 53X0 acts as a CIFS Server and the different windows machine are the clients.
The various CIFS Server features I have worked on are:
1. Active Directory Services.
2. Auto home Shares.
3. Basic ACL.
4. Built-in Groups.
 5. Credential Mapping.
6. CIFS File Locking.
7. Directory Change Notification.
8. Dos Attributes.
9. NT LAN Manager V2
10. NTFS Streams.
11. Multi Master Domain.
12. Take Ownership.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Writing Test Cases and developing the scripts.
• Configuring Windows 2003 and windows 2000 Domain Controller.
• Setting up the Active Directory Services, establishing trust relationship between different domains
and managing the Domain Users.
• Perform Functional Testing of the CIFS protocol on NAS Server.

Project #2 : SUN StroEdge 53x0 NAS Cluster Functionality & In-Band RAID Management

Organization SUN Microsystems

Testing Approach Manual.
Hardware Sun StorEdgetek 53X0 NAS and 5320C
Duration August 2007 – December 2008

Project Description:

A cluster appliance includes a pair of active-active servers, sometimes called heads, that share access to the
redundant array of independent disks (RAID) controllers and several different networks. The RAID
controllers are connected to each server through Fibre Channel controllers. In normal operation, each server
operates independently, with responsibility of logical unit numbers (LUNs). If one server suffers a hardware
failure that renders a data path unavailable, the working server automatically takes ownership of Internet
Protocol (IP) addresses and LUNs formerly managed by the failed server. All operations of the failed server,
including RAID volume ownership and network interface addressing, are transferred to the working server.

In-Band Raid Management project describes the different scenarios for creation/deletion of LUNS.
For example , File volume can be created along with the creation of luns, and can also be created /deleted
when lun is in different states which includes critical, copy-back, rebuild and failed state.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Writing the Test Cases .

• Testing the cluster functionality in different LUN's states and in different network configurations.
• Managing the Extension Unit and the RAID Controller Unit.
• Testing the RAID controller's functionality through CLI.
• Bug Reporting and Tracking.

Project #3: iSCSI

Organization SUN Microsystems

Testing Approach Manual.
Hardware Sun StorEdgetek 53X0 NAS and 5320C
Duration April 2008 – December 2008
Project Description:
iSCSI is a protocol designed to carry SCSI commands and data across an IP network. It enables a server
(initiator) to send SCSI commands and data to a storage device (target) over a TCP/IP based network
(standard LAN technology) in IP packets. The Sun StorEdge NAS Appliance is used provide the raw disk
space to the the solaris/windows clients.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Configure the iSCSI Access list and iscsi luns on NAS Appliance.
• Configure the solaris client to use the iscsi luns shared by the NAS Appliance
• Configure the windows client with Microsoft iscsi initiator to use the iscsi luns provided by NAS
Appliance..
• Test the iscsi potocal functieonality between NAS Appliance and Solaris/Windows client

Project #4: CIFS client for Opensolaris.

Organization SUN Microsystems

Testing Approach Manual and Automated.
Scripting Language PERL.
CIFS servers Windows 2k3/2k8 /2k, Fedora Linux , Opensolaris.
Duration January 2009 – July 2009

Project Description:
The CIFS protocol (a.k.a. SMB) is the natural file sharing protocol on Microsoft Windows machines, and is
implemented by Samba on UNIX/Linux. This project delivered a standard Solaris virtual file system that
implements a CIFS client, which provides access to files and directories on CIFS servers. When using the
CIFS client, users can mount remote CIFS server shares on their Solaris system to get read-write access with
ordinary Unix applications

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Write the test case to facilitate solaris users to access windows/Samba on Linux shares.
• Execute the above test cases, report the bugs and drive them to closure.

Project #5: System Testing on Sun 7xxx Unified Storage Product

Organization SUN Microsystems

Testing Approach Manual and Automated.
Scripting Language PERL.
Stress tools GRITS, vdthrash, ddthrash, cadaver.
Duration July 2009 – till date

Project Description:
The Sun Storage 7xxx Unified Storage products provide efficient file and block data services to clients over a
network, and a rich set of data services that can be applied to the data stored on the system
The various features which I worked on are:
• Upgrade the appliance to and higher build and rollback to the lower build while the appliance is
stressed with all mixed ios.
• Execute the automated test suite like CIFS protocol, nfs protocol and ldap test suits.
• Cluster Functionality.
• Handling various major, minor and micro builds. Micro builds has a turnaround time of 24 hours.
• Managing the Unified storage product through Microsoft management console.
 • Enhancing the test cases and filling the test gaps based on costumer escalations.
• Remote replications
• Nested mount points.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Execute the test cases on above features , report the bugs and drive them to closure.

Experience on SAN Technologies.

Project #1: Access Control List.

Organization Wipro Technologies.

Client Brocade Communications
Testing Approach Manual and Automated.
Hardware Brocade Silkworm switches
Duration September 2005 - August 2006

Project Description:
Brocade produces FC SAN switches and develops the necessary system software. In this module an ACL
Policies is enforced in the switches present in a fabric. The switches can only remain in the fabric and
communicate with each other if and only if they are member of same policy otherwise they will be
disconnected from the fabric. This is achieved by disabling the E-port of the non-member switch. There are
two types Switch Connection Control (SCC) and Device Connection Control (DCC) policies. Through this
we achieve enhanced security by allowing only the policy member switches to remain in the fabric..

Project #2: Fiber Channel over IP (FCIP)

Organization Wipro Technologies.

Client Brocade Communications
Testing Approach Manual and Automated.
Hardware Brocade Silkworm switches
Duration August 2006 – April 2007

Project Description:
Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) describes the mechanisms that allow multiple local or remote Fibre Channel
SANs to be interconnected over an IP network backbone. FCIP is a tunneling protocol that uses TCP/IP as
the transport while keeping Fibre Channel services intact. By combining IP networking with SAN
technology, it allows us to extend the interconnectivity of SANs across much longer distances

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Writing the Test Cases and developing the scripts for testing.
• Setting up and managing the Fabric.
• Testing the FCIP functionality
Personal Details

Date of Birth : 5th January 1984

Sex : Male
Hobbies : Reading Novels, Listening music.
Languages Known : English, and Hindi.
Contact Number : 09886752655, Bangalore

I hereby do solemnly affirm that the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge.

Date: 31st August 2009

Place: Bangalore
(Deepak Kumar Prasad)