SUMMARY

• 7 years of extensive experience in testing and administration of Database backup & restore products, storage products.
• Strong knowledge in Confidential product - simpana (SAP Oracle, SAP Maxdb, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle) backup and restore.
• Installing and upgrading of Confidential IDA, MA and CommServers.
• Hands on experience in VMWare (IBM XIV) snap backup and restore using Simpana.
• Installation and Configuration of IBM ULTRIUM - TD4 LTO4 and LTO5 tape libraries.
• Library & drive configuration and tape management using vault track policy.
• Gained good experience in Windows, Linux/Unix, Oracle, Exchange, SQL, NAS client backup and restore using Simpana.
• Scheduling and maintaining storage policies.
• Well versed with deduplication, Aux copy, Commcell migration and DataAging.
• Good exposure to QA process, standards and procedures.
• Good understanding of SDLC and complete bug life cycle.
• Extensive experience in Defect Management Tools (HP- Quality Centre and Confidential - Etrac)
• Good knowledge in Confidential products such as File System (VxFS), Volume Manager (VxVM), Confidential Cluster Server (VCS), Volume Replicator (VVR) and Confidential NetBackup.
• Installing, upgrading and configuring of HP UNIX 11i (v2 and v3), RHEL4 and 5 using Ignite Servers/ Interactive installation.
• Scheduling backup jobs using Ctrl M, Crontab.
• Good working knowledge in all flavours of UNIX such as HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, LINUX (Redhat & SUSE) and on VMware servers.
• Good experience in SAN/NAS storage environment.
• Good working knowledge in Managing files system.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Installation and configuration of Web hosting administration such as HTTP, FTP, SSH, & RSH.
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), FTP, NFS, DNS and DHCP.
• Good team player with pleasant personality, communication and interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scripting: Shell, Perl, awk.

Databases: Oracle DBA (9i/10g), Oracle RAC, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix, SAP for Oracle and SAP for Maxdb.

Operating Systems: HP-Unix, Linux, Solaris, Cent OS, AIX, VMware-ESX3.5/4.0 and Windows.

Volume Managers: LVMs, Confidential Volume Manager

Clustering Products: VCS, Confidential Cluster File system, Suse-Linux cluster storage and Windows clustering (MSCS)

Tools: ETrack, dotProject, Testlink, Hp Quality Center.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Parkridge, NJ

Confidential Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and upgrading Confidential server, media agent and clients.
• Maintaining four Commservers with version 9.0.
• Managing four Commservers with nearly 2000 databases like Oracle, MSSQL, MYSQL, SYBASE and SAP Oracle. Managing other IDAs like FS, NAS, SNAP VMs and Exchange servers.
• Database backup configuration for Confidential music oracle and sql server clusters.
• IBM ULTRIUM-TD4 LTO4 and LTO 5 tape library installations.
• EMC data domain NFS/CIFS share creations on CVMA for large database backups.
• Library and drive configuration.
• Tape management using vault tracker policy.
• Scheduling and maintenance of storage policies.
• Applying capacity licenses.
• Involved in generation of GUI audit, backup summary and dashboard reports for senior managers.
• Fixed critical issues like data loss, space due to improper settings and associations for selective storage policy copies.
• Scheduled selective online full backups instead of regular online full for Oracle monthly backups to retain linked archive log backups.
• Managing ticket queue for customer restore requests.
• Majorly involved in Point in time and duplicate oracle db restores from production.
• Coordinating offshore team and helping them to resolve critical issues.
• Work with offsite storage vendors for tapes and tote requests.
• Involved in Production Disaster Recovery test.
• Working closely with Confidential vendor support and BCS teams on Major issues like macro prune on corrupted dedup store caused CS down for 48hrs and environmental changes like load balancing on overloaded and low throughput MAs.
• Reconstructed CS/MA with deduplicate dbs and restored production within time when production down/data loss due to unexpected power outage in Confidential Canada.
• Identified VTL space back issues due to compromised dedup stores and fixed the issue for proper Dataaging.
• Implementing dashfulls instead of regular fulls to copy data signatures using dedup hash tables to reduce the network load.

Confidential

SMTS- Senior Member Technical Staff in QA.

Responsibilities:

• Setup Test Case management system with Quality Center Testplan.
• Involved in creating/ modifying test plans.
• Analyse customer requirements and create test framework.
• Verification and debug of defects.
• Installation and configuration of Slackware, Suse and Redhat Linux 4 and 5, Solaris 9 & 10 and HPUX 11.2/11.3 System builds from scratch for all flavours and configured jumpstart servers, ignite Servers.
• Installation and configuration of Confidential Commcell server, Media Agent and all database iDataAgents on client
• Installation of databases Oracle, postgreSQL and SAP Maxdb on UNIX and Windows.
• Installation and configuration VM Ware ESX Server and VM Ware workstation.
• Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restores.
• Good understanding of simpana deduplication, Aux copy, Commcell migration and DataAging.
• Setup, maintain and management of user accounts and groups according to the security needs.
• Initiating backups on daily basis and monitoring of scheduled backups.
• Involved in setting up NFS and DNS administration
• Involved extensively in trouble shooting system, boot and user problems.
• Involved in reviewing system log files for errors.
• Confidential Simpana 9.0 and 10.0: Installed and configured simpana products on UNIX flavours like Linux (suse and RHEL), AIX, HPUX and Solaris 2.10.
• Tested Simpana features for PostgreSQL database.
• Tested upgrade scenarios.
• Actively participated in specific Confidential features testing.
• As TL maintained 4 members and mentor the team members, clarify all OS and product related problems.
• Verified the customer TRs (escalations).
• Involved in writing test plan, test cases for new features. Executed FPT, REG and ACC test cases.
• Confidential Simpana 8.0, 8.0SP1 - 8.0SP4: Prepared shell scripts to automate the SAP Maxdb testing.
• Setup the Oracle 10g and SAP Maxdb.
• Upgrade testing from old version to new release.
• Verified the customer TRs (escalations).
• Involved in writing test cases for new features.
• Executed FPT, REG and ACC test cases.

Confidential

Associated software QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created test cases using dotproject and Testlink.
• Involved in creating/ modifying test plans.
• Installation and configuration of HPUX 11.2/11.3, Redhat linux4 and 5 and Solaris 9 & 10 System builds from the scratch for all flavours and configured jumpstart servers, ignite Servers.
• Installation and configuration of Confidential Storage Foundation Suite, Volume Manager, Cluster Servers & Confidential File systems (VxFS).
• Installation of SSH and configuration of keys bases authentication.
• Integrating UNIX file systems using packages like SAMBA.
• Responsible for DNS and Configured DNS Servers and Clients and troubleshooting system and DNS issues.
• Package, Patches management, migration, integration & distribution in development, testing, QA, Training, Production environment.
• Created Logical partitions of the server using Zones and managing them using Confidential cluster server software.
• Converted HP LVMs to VxVM disks.
• Created disk groups, volumes and volume groups using Confidential Volume Manager on HPUX
• Involved in disk configuration and disk crash recovery using format and fdisk. Bad spots on disk were repaired using repair and analyse. Created new slices, mounted new file systems and unmounts file systems.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of High Availability Confidential Cluster Servers for failover and redundancy purpose.
• Day to day systems administrative tasks includes installation, backup, printer, user, group, package, file system maintenance etc.,
• Installation of NetBackup and configuration of backups for SFORA and SFCFS setups.
• Involved in preparation of functional and system specifications to cope in expanding the environment and Estimated Storage requirements for applications. Capacity management.
• Installed of all the required Software, patches, documentation, licensing trouble shooting.
• Software Installation, Users and Security Management.
• Handled basic system security and monitoring commands in red hat Linux/ UNIX / Solaris
• Oracle installation & system level support to clients.
• Troubleshooting and resolving of problems related to hardware, operating systems, third party applications and scripts.
• Symantec SFORA 5.0MP3 on HP-UX 11.23: Verified the escalations/incidents raised by customers along with normal test case execution. Execution of test cases related to storage foundation stack SFORA and management tools. Installation of Oracle 9i and 10g during SFORA. Reporting and tracking of the bugs in E-track.
• Symantec SFCFS/SFORA 5.0 on HP-UX 11.31: Involved in preparing test plan. Execution of test cases related to storage foundation SFCFS, SFORA, management tools like SFMS, CMC, SLIM. Worked on different upgrade paths.
• Confidential volume manager and Confidential cluster systems: Involved in preparing test plan and running test scripts. Involved in writing shell scripts to test VM features and analyze the results.