About

Manoj Shivanandamurthy is a Senior Software Quality Engineer with over six years of experience in testing and infrastructure management. He currently works at Dell EMC, where he validates the common Kubernetes infrastructure for Dell internal teams through Ansible Playbooks. Manoj also works with internal customers to ensure smooth adoption of Common Kubernetes infrastructure through feature integration testing. He is actively involved in the creation of Jenkins Pipeline for the end-to-end deployments of Kubernetes on Virtual machines. Manoj has extensive experience working on Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) of Dell. He has performed API testing, UI testing, and automation of manual scenarios using Python and Robot Framework. He has also worked extensively on Containers and Kubernetes. In addition, Manoj has a lot of experience dealing with physical server infrastructure and virtualization. Before joining Dell, Manoj worked as an IT Engineer in the Hosting team for Cisco IT, where he was responsible for infrastructure providers for Cisco internal teams managing two production data centers and one disaster recovery data center. He maintained and continuously improved the server infrastructure (Cisco UCS) and virtualization infrastructure (VMware mainly). He was also part of the NAS storage migration from legacy NAS filers to the latest filers in Cisco Datacenters. Manoj holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from RVCE. He is skilled in QA, test, infra, Kubernetes, Python, Ansible, SDET, Jenkins, integration, and UI. With over 7 years of relevant experience, Manoj is a seasoned professional in the software quality engineering domain.