About

Giridhar S Badada is a highly skilled Principal Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the technology industry. With a strong background in both development and testing of enterprise-level software products, Giridhar has a proven track record of delivering world-class software products and guiding his teams to achieve top quality goals. Giridhar has 9+ years of experience in leading, mentoring, and managing highly motivated QA teams. He is a detail-oriented technologist who has driven software QA life cycles for products ranging from storage products to network security products like Firewall (Symantec Gateway Security, IBM SecureWay firewall) and network protocols like TCP/IP stack. He has demonstrated a result-oriented approach and efficiency, excellent team player with effective communication and problem-solving skills, and an innovative and proven ability to learn and apply new skills quickly and effectively. His specialties include gathering test requirements, developing test plans, designing and executing test cases, and providing test summary and metrics. He provides technical direction to the team by creating test strategies to increase test coverage and automation, and he is skilled in test case design and optimization. Giridhar has experience in functional and system testing (performance and scalability) of enterprise-level software products and product security testing through licensing, access control & vulnerability scans. Giridhar has collaborated with other Senior Technical Leaders and Senior Managers to influence QA processes and roadmap. He is proficient in programming languages such as C, C++, Shell scripting, Perl & Java, and has experience in operating systems such as Windows, LINUX, AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris. He has worked with hardware such as RS/6000, P5, P4, VNX (CLARiiON), VMAX (Symmetrix), and utilities/tools such as Make, gdb, kdb. Giridhar has knowledge of Unix internals, network protocols, and virtualization technologies such as ESX/ESXi 4.1, VMware, Hyper-V, VIO Server, and storage domain technologies such as SCSI, iSCSI, FC, SAN, NAS. Giridhar is currently working as a Principal Engineer at Dell, where he serves as a technology mentor and people manager. He has previously worked as a Principal Engineer at Dell and a Staff Software Engineer at Symantec. Giridhar holds an MS in Software Systems from BIT and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Kuvempu Vishwavidyanilaya. With 20.87 years of