About

Nida Taranum is a highly experienced Senior Software Quality Engineer at Dell with over 10 years of relevant experience in the field. She is a Managerial lead/QA lead for the functional test team for Enterprise Storage Products – NAS/SAN. Nida is skilled in project planning and management, people management, stakeholder management, and talent development. She has led teams and projects, driving high standards of execution and results, and working closely with Senior Management in managing long-term plans. She is adept in identifying risks, mitigation plans, and opportunities. Nida is experienced in creating IDPs, performance reviews, and mentoring engineers in technical and soft aspects required for job roles. She is proficient in handling development activity, planning, and implementation. Nida is also experienced in automation framework design and implementation. She is skilled in requirement analysis, test design & strategy for various NAS and SAN operating systems. Nida has worked on end-end customer scenarios such as File system, Protocols (NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, FC), Data Protection (Snapshot, SnapMirror, SnapVault), High Availability, Storage Efficiency (DeDup/Compression/File Clone/Flex Clone), and Manageability Products (OCUM, OCSM, and WFA). She has also worked on Stress and Scale, Resiliency, Solutions, and Platform testing. Her customer scenarios included storage provisioning, administration, and management areas. Nida has expertise in Test Automation Framework design and development, such as Netapp Automation Framework – NATE and NACL. She has also implemented Scriptless Automation Framework based on BDD. She has designed, developed, automated/enhanced, and executed test cases using PERL and SHELL scripting languages. Nida has mentored, provided technical and soft-skill training for NCGs. In the past, Nida has worked as a Software QA Engineer at Hewlett Packard and as a Member of Technical Staff at Netapp. At Hewlett Packard, she was a part of the Feature Interaction Testing Team, where she owned, developed test cases, and validated File Systems specific feature interaction scenarios with data protection. At Netapp, she was a part of the End-End Systemic Testing Team, where she developed test cases and validated end-end customer scenarios on customer-like storage configurations. Nida holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Technology from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. She is skilled in QA, Test, SDET