Chirantan Bhat
About Chirantan Bhat
Chirantan Bhat is an Automation Lead Engineer at Barracuda Networks with 15 years of experience in software development and test automation.
Current Position at Barracuda Networks
Chirantan Bhat currently holds the position of Automation Lead Engineer at Barracuda Networks in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. His responsibilities include designing, implementing, and improving test frameworks. He works on integrating these frameworks with CI/CD pipelines and debugging any framework-related issues. Additionally, he collaborates with automation developers, the development team, and cross-functional teams to troubleshoot and perform root cause analysis.
Previous Roles in Tech Companies
Chirantan Bhat has an extensive career history working at several prominent tech companies. Prior to his current role, he served as a Senior Software Engineer at Barracuda Networks from 2012 to 2018. He worked at Zscaler as a Software Engineer from 2009 to 2012 and at Yahoo! as a Technical Lead from 2005 to 2009. His earlier roles include working at MindTree Consulting Ltd. as a Software Engineer in 2005 and at Textual Analytics Solutions as a Software Engineer from 2004 to 2005.
Educational Background
Chirantan Bhat has a strong educational background in engineering. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics & Communication from Visvesvaraya Technological University, where he studied from 1999 to 2003. Before that, he completed a Pre-university course at Vijaya Junior, PU Board. His senior secondary schooling was completed in Science & Math at Christ School KSEEB.
Expertise in Software Development and Automation
Chirantan Bhat possesses 15 years of experience in software development, test scripts, automation solution designs, and infrastructure assessment. He has extensive knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and the Complete Testing Life Cycle. His expertise includes designing automation frameworks for purposes such as regression, integration, lights out testing, and setting up notifications using SMTP. He is also skilled in creating and maintaining automated test scripts for Web, Desktop, and Rest APIs.
Skills in Test Documentation and Analysis
Chirantan Bhat is proficient in test documentation, which includes developing test plans, test cases, test procedures, and test results reports. Additionally, he has in-depth knowledge of test estimation, test scheduling, test designing, defect reporting and tracking, and test result analysis. He has also performed web service testing for Rest APIs to validate business logic prior to front-end integration.