About

Anandkumar Ukarande is a Senior Manager in Software Quality Engineering at Dell EMC with over 18 years of experience in the field. He has contributed to various features, modules, and areas of DellEMC PS Storage Apps, DellEMC SC Storage Apps, NetApp Data ONTAP, EMC Invista, Veritas Backup Exec, and Veritas NetBackup products in different releases. Anandkumar has also made key interoperability contributions in NetApp SAN Host Support Matrix. He has built and managed medium to large-sized QA teams, and has experience in budgeting, resource estimation for personnel and hardware, project scoping, scheduling, tracking and delivery of test completion. He has a strong understanding of QA processes and methodologies, and is well-versed in developing Test Plans and Test Strategies. Anandkumar has extensive experience in Client/Server, GUI and data-driven testing, and has been involved in Functionality Testing, Regression Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and Interoperability Testing. Anandkumar has effectively managed on-time delivery of test/QA activities in multiple product releases by coordinating with USA QA teams. He has also evaluated and managed outsourced vendors for outsourcing activities, and has worked with multiple vendors to accomplish these activities. He has also built test lab infrastructure from scratch and implemented cost-effective means to manage and maintain the lab infrastructure. Anandkumar has hands-on experience in setting up multi-platform test labs. He is very systematic and thorough with a very good eye for detail and insistence on quality. Anandkumar is a good team player with effective communication and interpersonal skills. His specialties include Software Quality Engineering and Management, Interoperability testing, FC/iSCSI SAN, Data Protection, Microsoft Windows Storage/Applications, Multipathing, and Clustering. Anandkumar is currently working as a Manager, QE at VMware. He has previously worked as a Software QA Engineering Manager for Core Systems areas of Data ONTAP in Continuous Product Engineering (CPE) team responsible for the delivery of maintenance and patch releases at NetApp. He has also worked as a Senior Software QA Manager at Dell. Anandkumar has completed his EGMP from IIM and has a MCA degree in Computer Applications and a B.Sc. degree in Physics from Shivaji University. He has relevant experience of 19.78 years.