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)
kubernetes10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
testing10
vmware9
virtualization9
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.
kubernetesvirtual-machinevirtualizationlibvirtvms
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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