About

Rajesh Patel is a CSTE certified professional with over 14 years of experience in the field of software quality assurance. He has a strong technical background and a flexible skill set that covers test planning, test case designing, test case execution and automation, and bug/defect management. Rajesh has a quick learning ability, works effectively under pressure, and communicates ideas clearly and effectively. Rajesh is skilled in both manual and automation testing and has experience in building, mentoring, training and managing high-performance QA teams. He has worked on Agile methodology and has good analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. Rajesh is result-oriented and has experience in competitive analysis, shell scripting, Perl, Python, Golang, Linux, Unix, MySQL, automation, VMware Workstation/ESX, git, Hadoop/HDFS, Big Data, Hive, AWS services, Cassandra (Apache/Datastax DSE), Couchbase, Flume, and Kafka. Currently, Rajesh works as a Staff Software Engineer QA at Cohesity where he manages Cassandra and Salesforce QA teams. He is involved in design review, test planning, E2E release qualification, automation efforts, and cross-team testing. Rajesh has experience in using HDFS/Hadoop, Apache Cassandra, Datastax (DSE) Cassandra, and AWS. In his previous roles, Rajesh worked as a Staff Software Engineer (QA) at Talena, Inc and as a Sr. Software QA Engineer at PubMatic where he led and managed BigData QA teams. He was responsible for planning, execution, assignment of tasks, and testing the functionality of various ETL jobs/Aggregation jobs which run on raw data logs. Rajesh has experience in using UNIX, Perl, Shell Script, Awk, HDFS/Hadoop, Kafka, Flume, and AWS cloud computing services like S3, EC2, and EMR. Rajesh holds a Master's degree in Computer Applications from Savitribai Phule Pune University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the same university. He also has a certification in CSTE. Rajesh has relevant experience of 14.36 years and his tech stack includes test, QA, Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Cassandra, HDFS, AWS, SDET, Hadoop, Python, Kafka, Salesforce, Big Data, MySQL, Apache Hive, NoSQL, Azure, Golang, and ETL.