Kedar Bidarkar
Associate Manager, Quality Engineering
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKedar Bidarkar is an Associate Manager of Quality Engineering at Red Hat with over 15 years of hands-on experience across system management, virtualization, and cloud, and 6+ years focused on OpenShift Virtualization/KubeVirt. He blends technical depth—test automation, GPU passthrough and SR-IOV networking, hardware lab provisioning—with people leadership, managing a distributed QE team across multiple countries and driving agile, customer-focused delivery. Kedar has materially improved KubeVirt’s test suite by adding structured test metadata and expanding coverage for security and disk/capability scenarios, helping stabilize a widely used open-source virtualization runtime. He’s pragmatic about infrastructure, having procured and integrated complex GPU and networking hardware to reproduce real-world workloads and validate scale and SAP-related VM specs. Colleagues know him as an optimistic, results-driven manager who invests in team growth and operational excellence. Outside work he stays current on tech and finance trends and pursues deep technical hobbies like advanced Skyrim modding, reflecting a persistent curiosity for systems and design.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Electonics and Communication, B.Tech, Electonics and Communication at Santh Samath Engineering college
Github Skills (7)
testing10
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
virtualization9
vmware9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kubevirt/kubevirt
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021
Kubernetes Virtualization API and runtime in order to define and manage virtual machines.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 45 commits, 49 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kedar Bidarkar is primarily focused on adding test attributes and test cases to existing tests within the kubevirt/kubevirt repository. These changes involved adding test IDs and associated metadata, such as RFE IDs, criticality levels, and vendor information, across various test files including `registry_disk_test.go`, `config_test.go`, `vmipreset_test.go`, `console_test.go`, `vnc_test.go`, `vmi_userdata_test.go`, and `vmi_lifecycle_test.go`. The contributions also extended to testing disk permissions, capabilities and security features. The primary focus of the work seems to be improving the test suite's organization and test coverage.
apivmsmachineslibvirtruntime
kbidarkar/automation-tools
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
A set of tools to help automating testing Foreman with Robottelo (https://github.com/SatelliteQE/robottelo)
Contributions:118 pushes, 100 branches in 3 years 5 months
testingautomationforeman
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