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Projects at Avago Tech (now Broadcom).

Background

I joined the Automation Team at Emulex, a company known for its high-performance Fiber Channel network adapters used in enterprise servers from IBM, Dell, and HP.

In February 2015, Emulex was acquired by Avago Technologies, a semiconductor company spun off from Hewlett-Packard. Later that year, Avago merged with Broadcom and adopted the Broadcom name.

Throughout these transitions, I remained part of the engineering team, contributing to large-scale enterprise storage and networking infrastructure.

Automation Team – Responsibilities and Contributions

Designed and architected automation frameworks for comprehensive testing of drivers, firmware, and software across multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and VMware.

• Tech stack: Python, Perl, shell, and C++
• The automation system included:
  1. Test launchers – initializing and scheduling test executions
  2. Test monitors – real-time tracking of test processes
  3. Result logging/reporting – capturing logs, status, and metrics in structured formats
  4. Test suites – modular, reusable cases for regression and certification testing

Key system-level automation components:

• Developed device driver installation workflows for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and VMware platforms using Python.
• Customized BIOS boot behavior using an internal tool derived from the OpenIPMI open-source project (C++).
• Automated system provisioning via PXE boot, Cobbler, Kickstart, and IPMI-based configuration for large-scale test environments.

VMware Certification Suite & Web-Based Reporting

• Led the architecture and development of a VMware ESXi 6.0 (2015) FC/FCoE inbox driver certification suite.
• Built comprehensive tooling in Perl for automating test execution, collecting results, and managing compliance across VMware’s certification matrix.
• Developed a web-based dashboard to visualize test outcomes and streamline reporting for internal stakeholders and external certification partners.

Mentorship and Team Enablement

• Trained QA engineers and interns on using the automation framework for daily regression testing.
• Provided guidance on:
  1. Setting up and executing automated test runs
  2. Collecting and interpreting log files
  3. Triage of failures and debugging environment-level issues