About

Jitander Rahi Das is a highly skilled Lead Engineer with over 14 years of experience in testing and validating enterprise-level software across different virtualization solutions and cloud vendors. He has extensive experience managing and leading a team of strong individuals and has tested server, desktop, and application virtualization from VMWare and Citrix. Jitander is well-versed in security products like firewall, antivirus, and cloud workload security and has a strong knowledge of OS concepts and methodologies, including Linux and Windows. He is experienced in software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, and has written test plans, executed manual, system, regression, and performance testing. He is also experienced in running and maintaining an automation test suite using Python. Jitander has hands-on exposure to Agile/Scrum process and methodologies and is an excellent team player with good analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills. He is currently working as a Lead Engineer at McAfee, where he has managed over 10+ releases of MOVE MP, MOVE AL, ENS for Servers, and Cloud workload security as part of Datacenter Antivirus products. He is leading a team of 8 software engineers, taking daily stand-ups, creating weekly and monthly reports, and overall test plan and strategy to validate Datacenter Antivirus products. Jitander has deployed VMware ESXi Server, vCenter, Horizon, Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer, Hyper-V, Windows, and Linux OS and tested McAfee antivirus as per support matrix. He has created a setup having 1000+ VMs of mixed operating systems and performed scalability testing. He has written multiple technical KB articles for MOVE MP and MOVE AL Antivirus, which are live at mcafee.com. Jitander has tested Cloud Workload security on AWS and Azure and has contributed towards solving multiple customer-facing issues in the product. In the past, Jitander has worked as a Software Test Engineer at Citrix and a Senior QA Engineer at Calsoft. He holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Symbiosis and a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer from Dibrugarh University. Jitander's tech stack includes test, Senior Software Engineer, AWS, QA, Azure, SDET, and Python. With 15.28 years of relevant experience, Jitander is a valuable asset to any organization looking for a skilled Lead Engineer in the field of software testing and validation.