# Shrey Sharma

> Staff Engineer – OCP & NVMe SSD Validation (Enterprise / Datacenter Storage) | Samsung | ex-Micron

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shreysharma

Staff Engineer at Samsung with 16+ years of experience across product validation and customer validation teams in the server and storage ecosystem.

Currently focused on OCP (Open Compute Project) SSD 1.x and 2.x validation and NVMe SSD specification validation, including compliance testing, feature coverage, and providing feedback on OCP specifications and test procedure documents. I lead validation efforts across multiple customer platforms and work closely with Teledyne (Austin Labs) and Sanblaze on test suite development and validation for Samsung SSDs.

Previously contributed to NVMe SSD product validation at Micron Technology. Earlier experience at HPE and Emulex (now Broadcom) includes SAN, HBAs/CNAs, server and storage validation.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Samsung Semiconductor
Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States
Open Compute Project (OCP) SSD and NVMe  Drives validation

### Product Validation Engineer SSD @ Micron Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Colorado
NVMe Drives Product/Fuctional/Feature Validation

### Senior System Software Engineer @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Houston, Texas Area
• Currently leading a team of 9 (onsite-offshore) as a Senior Test Engineer for HPE persistent memory
• Strategic Test Planning & Execution.
• System Integration Testing.
• Onsite Coordinator for offshore team.
• Possess broad competence in Persistent memory - Non volatile memory (NVDIMM).
• Working knowledge on Storage controllers (SAS/SATA/NVMe).
• Testing experience on Direct attached storage and multiple Host Bust Adapters.
• Managing the customer's requirements and expectations in line with committed Service Level        
  Agreements (SLA).
• Test bed setup, Test case design and development, Reporting, Tracking, Estimation and       
   Verification.

### System Engineer @ Broadcom Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Houston, Texas Area
• Proposing solutions based on the customer business requirement.
• Run boot code fixes, validate & provide fix build to HP.
• Update VPD, IPL, boot codes & config regions on Emulex adapters.
• Experience working with the tools that talks to low level architecture & firmware.
• Imitate failure setups in clients’ labs & provide access/assistance to Developers for bug analysis.
• Coordinating between different teams to ensure timely resolution of the incident depending upon                                                     
   the criticality/severity.
• Bridging communication between different teams and management levels to ensure timely               
   progress and resolution of the bugs.
• Personally responsible for providing first information report on every single bug submitted by           customer on Salesforce.com & report them on Bugzilla.
• Capture ARM/NetC using ARM kits, network trace with Finisar Xgig analyzer & one capture logs      
   for in-depth analysis

### System Test Engineer @ Hewlett-Packard
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Houston, Texas Area
• Develop appropriate technical manuals
• Working knowledge on hypervisors & VMware networking.
• Tested 16GB Fiber channel card functionalities on HP infrastructure
• Validated Converged Network adapters (CNA) in iSCSI &FCoE configurations.
• Validated Single root I/O Virtualization validation (SRIOV) feature in Windows, Linux & VMware.
• Expertise in HP Blade server infrastructure (UEFI/Legacy) & Virtual Connect technology.
• Possess technical competence to configure switches such as Cisco 5010/5020 (FCoE), Brocade   6000 (FC), Cisco MDS 9148, (FC) and Procurve 5406 ZL chassis (Networking; vLANs) to facilitate infrastructure.

### Software Test Engineer @ Mphasis
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Bengaluru Area, India
• Firmware & Drivers tests on HP blade infrastructure using HP Service
   Pack for ProLiant(SPP).
• Replicate multi enclosure setup at offshore that included 1000 vLANs networks in Virtual connect, Boot from SAN, iSCSI & FCoE deployments, configuring Rack mounted switches & Virtual connect interconnects.
• Planning Test cycle & estimate test efforts with available resources, for every new & existing project in pipeline.
• Prepare Statement of work (SOW), Statement of closure (SOC) & closure reports for stakeholders after every project cycle.
• Test reporting and logging issues in Quality Center [Test Tracking Tool] and QUIX  [defect tracking system].
•   Experience testing multi-vendor NIC cards.


## Education
### Bachelor's of Technology in Electronics & Instrumentation
Kurukshetra University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shrey-sharma-117573a7

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Last updated: 2026-04-12