Niranjan Mallapadi
Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Red Hat
India
Summary
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Top SchoolNiranjan Mallapadi is a Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 11+ years at Red Hat, specializing in OpenShift, Kubernetes, and telco-focused platform testing and configuration. He blends deep identity and certificate management expertise—having worked on Red Hat Certificate Services, sssd, IPA and related support roles—with hands-on DevOps automation to improve CI/CD and test reporting for the prominent openshift/release tooling. At Red Hat he progressed from technical support into senior QE and principal roles, consistently turning customer-facing incident experience into more robust, production-grade testing and observability. His open-source contributions include enhancing JUnit report collection and CI behavior for OpenShift’s release pipelines, improving flakiness visibility by capturing ginkgo exit codes and integrating junit2json/j2html. Based in India and holding an MCA, he pairs systems-level troubleshooting with pragmatic automation skills, and—less obvious—brings a disciplined creative background as a trained violinist that informs his methodical yet adaptable approach to engineering.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Visharad (Bachelors), Violin, Visharad (Bachelors), Violin at Akhil Bharatiya Gandharva Mahavidyalaya MandalAtomic Energy Central School IIIMCA, Computer Applications, MCA, Computer Applications at Osmania University
Marathi, Telugu
Github Skills (20)
scripting10
ginkgo10
automation10
junit10
script10
openshift10
automation-testing10
ci-cd-pipeline10
sh10
automations10
shell10
test-automation10
ansible9
ansible-galaxy9
python8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openshift/release
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
Release tooling for OpenShift
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 18 PRs, 57 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Niranjan primarily focused on enhancing the test and CI/CD infrastructure within the OpenShift release tooling repository. Their contributions included adding scripts to collect, parse, and merge JUnit reports, integrating and configuring tools such as `j2html` and `junit2json`. They also modified the CI configuration to capture ginkgo exit codes for improved test reporting and analysis. Further work involved adjusting build processes to work with both `main` and `master` branches of the NTO repository.
continuous-deploymentkubernetesopenshifttooling
mrniranjan/cluster-node-tuning-operator
May 2022 - Apr 2025
Manage node-level tuning by orchestrating the tuned daemon.
Contributions:460 pushes, 94 branches in 2 years 11 months
tuningdaemontuned
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