Kiran Bhandare
About Kiran Bhandare
Kiran Bhandare is a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test at AFour Technologies with expertise in manual and automation testing, compiler validation, and network protocols.
Company
Kiran Bhandare is currently working at AFour Technologies as a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test since 2022. AFour Technologies, based in Pune, Maharashtra, India, provides Kiran with an environment where his skills in both manual and automation testing methodologies are utilized to their full extent.
Previous Positions
Prior to his current role, Kiran worked at L&T Technology Services Limited, where he served as a Software Engineer In Test from 2020 to 2022 and as an Associate QA Engineer from 2019 to 2020. His responsibilities here included significant work with defect management tools like JIRA and HSD-ES. Earlier, Kiran was a Trainee Engineer at DIGICOMM Semiconductor Private Limited from 2018 to 2019, gaining early career experience in Pune, Maharashtra.
Education and Expertise
Kiran holds a Master of Technology (MTech) in Electronics Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering, an autonomous institute in Sangli, Maharashtra. He completed his degree between 2016 and 2018. His areas of expertise include compiler validation tools such as MEV, CVL, and Veloce, along with strong foundational knowledge in manual and automation testing.
Skills in Testing and Tools
Kiran is skilled in both manual and automation testing methodologies. He is experienced with defect management tools like JIRA and HSD-ES, and API testing using tools such as Jmeter and Postman. For network testing, he regularly uses tools like iperf, iperf3, netperf, AGAT, and Berta.
Technical Proficiencies
Kiran's technical proficiencies extend to virtualization technologies including VMware, Hyper-V, and Xen. He has knowledge of various operating systems, including multiple Linux distributions such as Suse, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, and CentOS, as well as Windows. Additionally, he has a solid understanding of networking protocols like TCP, UDP, ICMP, IPV4, and IPV6, and is skilled in kernel and DPDK testing.