Zulekha Mahalty is a Senior QA Engineer with nine years of experience building and automating test suites for HPC and enterprise software at Altair. She combines strong scripting skills in Python and Perl with Linux expertise to drive release planning, root-cause analysis, and continual process improvement as both tester and Scrum Master. Her contributions to the openpbs project include adding and stabilizing test cases that exposed race conditions and validated server hooks, reflecting hands-on experience with complex distributed workloads. Comfortable across functional, performance, load and regression testing, she also architects test frameworks and mentors teams to deliver timely, high-quality releases. Based in Karnataka, India, she brings a pragmatic blend of engineering rigor and Agile delivery that consistently tightens release cycles.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering and Technology
An HPC workload manager and job scheduler for desktops, clusters, and clouds.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:15 reviews, 59 commits, 61 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Zulekha focused on adding, modifying, and maintaining tests within the openpbs/openpbs repository. Their contributions include adding man page functionality tests, modifying existing test suites (like those for mom walltime and reservations) to fix failures, and adding new tests for server periodic hooks. They also addressed race conditions and ensured the correct functionality of various features through test updates and modifications.
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