RAMAKRISHNA PADYANA

Own quality planning for new features, translating feature designs and requirements into test strategies and comprehensive Python-based automated tests focused on real-world customer use cases.

• Core engineer for XenRT, the Python-based regression test framework used to validate the XenServer hypervisor, deliveringing significant framework enhancements and unique engineering improvements.
• Led the Power of Green quality initiative, reducing test noise by ~50% through systematic identification and fixing of faulty tests, evaluation of customer value, and removal of obsolete or low-value tests.
• Identified and reported release-blocking defects, delivering critical quality feedback throughout release cycle.
• Act as a lead quality engineer within the release team, reviewing feature design, test coverage, quality risks and release readiness for release-gating decisions.
• Conducted exploratory testing of complex features, utilising extensive XenServer product knowledge and insights into customer scenarios.
• Designed and integrated an LLM-powered automated test-triage capability into XenRT, using Ollama and open-source language models to analyse relevant failure logs and test source code and generate likely root-cause assessments.
• Use Claude and other Generative AI tools in daily engineering workflows for development, debugging, test creation, log analysis and productivity.
• Designed a structured technical onboarding and training programme covering XenServer, underlying technologies and XenRT to accelerate new-engineer productivity.
• Supported management and engineering teams during customer escalations, conducting technical investigations and assessing product quality to highlight customer impact and risk.
• Supported management and engineering teams during customer escalations, conducting technical investigations and assessing product quality to highlight customer impact and risk.

Collaborated with development and test teams to validate enterprise operating system functionality and pinpoint functional issues, enhancing overall product quality.

• Developed functional tests for new IBM AIX operating system features, ensuring robust functionality within the Integrated System Software Test (ISST) team.
• 2013 – 2014 | AIX / Integrated System Software Test

Designed and implemented software tests to validate networking products and ensure quality

• Maintained and optimised test systems and software test environments for networking software at Arista Networks
• 2011 – 2013 | Managed networking software projects