tanmay raj

Apprentice Software Engineer

Bangalore, India 1+ yrs exp 82 · Excellent

About

Apprentice Software Engineer at Dell Technologies with experience in infrastructure automation, validation, and test automation across large-scale HPC and Kubernetes clusters on bare-metal Dell PowerEdge servers. Skilled in building automated deployment workflows, defect lifecycle management, regression testing, and CI/CD pipeline design. Passionate about quality assurance, automation, and delivering reliable, high-quality infrastructure software. Seeking a challenging role to leverage expertise in Python, Ansible, pytest, containerization, cluster validation, and CI/CD automation.

Skills & Expertise (23)

Git Advanced

7.5/10

Years Exp

Python Advanced

7.5/10

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LINUX Advanced

7.0/10

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Podman Intermediate

7.0/10

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Docker Intermediate

6.5/10

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Ubuntu Intermediate

6.5/10

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RHEL Intermediate

6.5/10

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GitHub Intermediate

6.5/10

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Kubernetes Intermediate

6.5/10

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Ansible Intermediate

6.5/10

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Shell Scripting Intermediate

6.5/10

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Bash Intermediate

6.5/10

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Pytest Intermediate

6.5/10

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Defect Lifecycle Management Intermediate

6.0/10

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sanity testing Intermediate

6.0/10

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GitHub Actions Intermediate

6.0/10

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smoke testing Intermediate

6.0/10

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Regression Testing Intermediate

6.0/10

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IP Subnetting Intermediate

6.0/10

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BMC Intermediate

6.0/10

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Manual Testing Intermediate

6.0/10

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DHCP Intermediate

6.0/10

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GitLab CI

Work Experience

Apprentice Software Engineer

Dell Technologies R&D Center

Jul 2025 - Present

Automated deployment of the Pulp repository service as a systemd-managed, rootless Podman Quadlet container within Omnia’s prepare oim.yml playbook, supporting both HTTP and HTTPS modes with templated TLS certs, volumes, and port configuration. Designed and developed automation modules for OIM preparation, image build, and node discovery validation within the Omnia automation framework, using Molecule and Testinfra to generate structured HTML test reports. Designed and implemented an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using self-hosted GitLab CE for automated infrastructure testing of Dell Omnia deployments – configured the GitLab server, registered a shell-based CI/CD runner, and set up Postfix MTA for automated email notifications via Gmail SMTP relay. Built a multi-stage GitLab pipeline (.gitlab-ci.yml) with 10+ stages covering the full Omnia lifecycle, including automated scheduling with manual trigger support, stage dependency management, and a failure-resilient summary stage; automated delivery of timestamped HTML test reports via Python MIME email construction with base64 encoding. Led end-to-end testing of node discovery and diskless provisioning – PXE boot via iDRAC BMC, and node readiness across compute, login, and control-plane nodes for x86 64 and aarch64 architectures. Validated Slurm and Kubernetes scheduler deployments – slurmctld, munge services, Kubernetes control-plane health, HA failover, Slurm job submission, LDAP and PAM authentication. Performed regression testing after each code merge to ensure zero regressions, smoke testing on new builds for baseline stability, and sanity testing post-fix to confirm defect resolution without side effects. Managed full defect lifecycle – documented defects with reproduction steps, logs, and root cause analysis in Jira, tracked through resolution and verified fixes before release closure. Consistently delivered 3-4 Jira tickets per sprint ahead of deadlines; followed Agile methodologies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and story estimation.