About

Pranita Desai is a Senior Automation Engineer at Cohesity with over 10 years of rich work experience in the storage and cloud domain. She has worked in both manual and automated software testing and has experience in working with both waterfall and Agile development models. Pranita is experienced in automation and script development in shell and Python, and has worked with tools such as GIT, JIRA, Etrack, TORO, and more. She is a good team player with strong interpersonal skills and has good technical and troubleshooting skills. Pranita is a quick learner with strong communication skills. Her relevant experience includes working with AWS, testing, Python, Search, SDET, QA, Docker, Golang, and more. In her current role at Cohesity, Pranita is responsible for senior automation engineering. She has previously worked at Druva as a Staff SDET, where she was part of the Phoenix platform team and owned QA for storage components being consumed by all workloads. She has also worked at Veritas as a Sr SQA Engineer, where she worked on Unified Deduplication (Scale-out deduplication) feature of Veritas Access. Pranita holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Information Technology from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, which she completed in 2011. She has driven multiple releases, including storage config Golang migration in phases, extended metadata search, and Phoenix Dell rebranding. Pranita has also worked closely with escalations teams to RCA issues and HF testing. She has a good exposure to Agile methodologies and has automated test cases and developed library functions needed for TCs in Python-based VxCTF framework.