About

Bhagirath Hapse is an Associate Software Test Solution Architect at AFour Technologies with over 9 years of experience in solutions engineering and manual/automation testing in various domains such as data storage, disaster recovery, virtualization, Kubernetes platform, cloud orchestration and management, information security, and user management products. Bhagirath has previously worked for Symantec Corporation, a global leader in information and network security, where he worked on SIEM and Managed Security Services domain. He has also worked on enterprise-level disaster recovery solutions with Veritas and storage domain enterprise NFS solutions, targeted mostly for media and data sciences market. His solutions engineering work on Kubernetes-based backup and restore product has been commendable. Bhagirath is a technical evangelist and has written blogs and white papers. He works with cross-geographical sales/pre-sales/marketing teams for building new use cases and integration ecosystem of logging and reporting around the product. He provides feedback to the PM and engineering team for UI/UX design. He has hands-on experience in UI automation, API automation, and CLI automation testing using Selenium, Pytest, Python, Java, and JavaScript. Bhagirath has a strong background in security testing using both manual and automation on enterprise security products, cloud management solutions, identity management applications, and NAS solutions. He has excellent experience working in Agile, Waterfall software development methodologies, and good understanding of STLC processes. He has experience in leading small teams, work distributions, timely task delivery, and client engagements. Bhagirath has a Master of Technology with Software Systems specialization from Birla Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Pune University. His technology stack includes programming languages like Python, Shell, JavaScript, and Core Java, version control tools like Bitbucket, Git, Perforce, automation tools/framework like Pytest, Selenium, Robot, Protractor, TestNG, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Ansible, Yaml, Toml, logging and monitoring tools like ELK stack, Prometheus, Loki Grafana, cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Openstack, OVHCloud, and Kubernetes platforms like Rancher RKE, Redhat Openshift Container Platform (OCP), AWS EKS, Google GKE, VMware Tanzu, HP Ezmeral Container Platform, OVHCloud Managed Kubernetes Service. Bhagirath