Nikhil Dhandre
Senior Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolNikhil Dhandre is a Senior Software Quality Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently driving test automation and backend quality at Red Hat from Pune. He blends a research-oriented background in electronics and telecommunications with hands-on Python and IoT work, having progressed from intern to senior engineer within Red Hat. Nikhil contributes to prominent open-source testing efforts like ManageIQ integration_tests, where he refactored UI tests to the widgetastic framework and improved storage management testability. His skill set spans test automation, backend development, and hardware-aware software validation—skills honed earlier as a Junior Research Fellow at the India Meteorological Department. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that boost maintainability and for translating complex deployment and volume operations into reliable automated tests.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityMaster of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electronics and Telecommunication, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electronics and Telecommunication at Sinhgad College of Engineering
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (3)
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ManageIQ/integration_tests
Aug 2017 - Sep 2020
ManageIQ integration tests
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 414 commits, 403 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nikhil primarily focused on refactoring and converting existing code to the widgetastic framework. This involved updating UI tests to use widgetastic, converting deployment role model pages. The user also worked on implementing Volume Collection, ensuring various operations with volumes, creating and deleting, and contributed to the testing of storage management features. The user's work included modifications to the code base to improve testability and maintainability.
pythontestingintegration-testspytestmanageiq
digitronik/miqbox
Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
Spin ManageIQ/CFME Appliance locally
Contributions:15 releases, 91 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 6 months
spinlocallymanageiqappliance
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