EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• 6.6 years of IT experience - Quality Assurance, Requirement Gathering, Test Planning, Effort Estimations, Test Execution, Defect Tracking, Task Allocation, Client Communication and Status Reporting .
• Expertise in understanding the business requirements and functional specifications during requirement phase to identify the process gaps and provide alternatives to the project team.
• Expertise in performing UI Testing, Manual Testing, Automation, Sanity, Smoke, Black Box, Functional, Unit, Integration, Regression, System, Performance, Load, Stress, Data Migration, and User Acceptance Testing(UAT) for Enterprise web and client/server applications.
• Expertise in implementation/troubleshooting experience of Cisco UCS - Data Center Server Platform,   Cisco Nexus switches and virtualization experience on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for testing Cloud Service Routers (CSR1000V).
• Expertise with AWS Services EC2 (Auto scaling, Security Groups etc.), VPC, SQS, SNS, Route53, RDS, S3, Elastic Cache, Cloud Formation, IAM, Cloud Watch.
• Expertise in Development and maintenance of Automation scripts using TCL/TK, Python and Ruby
• Network experience using routing and switching protocols BGP, VLAN, Multicast, QoS, IPv4/IPv6,TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Ethernet, Frame Relay, ATM, OSPF, VoIP, BGP, packet analyzers and F5 Load balancers (LTM, GTM)
• Expertise in Firmware upgrade testing and Installation for Cisco switches, Storage HBAs, CNAs, Storage Array controllers, Ethernet and Fiber channel cards.
• Expertise in Ethernet, Fiber Channel (FC), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocols
• Expertise in testing of Qlogic & Emulex 4 GB/8GB Fiber Channel mezzanine card, Broadcom, Netxen Ethernet mezzanine cards with blade servers and Emulex CNA’s (Converged Network Adaptors).
• Expertise knowledge of NAS on an OS perspective (e.g. iSCSI, SCSI, FC, HBA, LUN, WWNN, WWPN).
• Working Knowledge of Deployment Tools - CHEF, Puppet, Ansible, AWS Beanstalk   and Firwalls- Enterprise ASA and Juniper firewall deployment
• Expertise in configuring Cisco Routers and Switches through CLI.Cisco UCS support tools -IPMI (Intelligent platform management interface), SoL (Serial over LAN), CDETS, PRRQ, TIMS
• Extensive experience in preparing documentation on QA Status Reports, QA Summary Reports, Bug Tracking Report, QA Test Logs. Prepare risk plan, identifying, analyzing, monitoring and mitigating risks, issue escalation and track to closure. 
• Project delivery experience, managing work and resources in a geographically split onsite - offshore model. Interact with Development, production operations, infrastructure and other groups to present, isolate and resolve issues.
• Technically competent, result-oriented with strong analytical and reasoning skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX/LINUX, Windows 7

Languages: TCL/TK, Python, Ruby

LAN Protocols: TCP/IP,Switching and Routing,VLAN,VTP,STP,RIP,OSPF,EIGRP,IPv4/IPv6

Testing Methodologies: Agile, Lean, Scrum, Waterfall, V-Model

Test & Defect Management Tool: HP Quality Center/ HP ALM 11.5,JIRA,TestLink,Rally,TFS,Mircrosoft Test Manager

SAN Protocols: ISCSI, Fiber Channel, FCOE

Tools and Utilities: PRRQ, CDETS , UCD , Spirent , iXIA

Database: SQL Server, Oracle

Deployment /Configuration: CVS, SVN,Chef,Puppet,Ansible

AWS(Amazon Web Services): EC2,EBS,S3,IAM,RDS,CloudTrail,CloudWatch and Cloud Formation

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Dev Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Testing VM functionality of Cisco Cloud Services Router (CSR) on Amazon Web Services(AWS) and Citrix Xen environment.
• Development and maintenance of Automation scripts using TCL/TK, Python
• Testing Amazon Web Services functionality across releases.
• Handling Cisco and Customer technical issues related to CSR 1000V and AWS/Azure.
• Resolving customer queries posted in Cisco TechZone.
• Performance testing of CSR1000V and measuring throughput for Cisco Enhanced Forwarding (CEF), IP security (IPsec), Network Address Translation (NAT), QoS, Hierarchal QoS (HQoS), Zone-Based Firewall (ZBFW), ACL, Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR).
• Facilitate architectural discussions with customers to understand business requirements and recommend appropriate AWS/Azure cloud solutions

Environment: Unix, Linux, Rhel

Hypervisor: Xen Citrix, ESXi

Tools: Putty, CDETS, SecureCRT, PRRQ, configuration management tools like CVS and SVN

Platform: AWS and Azure

Senior Quality/ Network Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated test Script for smoke and regression testing, reviewed automated Test Scripts and Executed test cases for various C-Series server
• Tested Direct Attach and Single Wire Management Rack Servers.
• Coordinated end to end Testing Activities for each release in the User Acceptance testing (UAT) environment.
• Lead and coordinated offshore resources in testing effort and preparation of high level strategies and master  test plans.
• Assessed and resolved overall Engagement Risks & Issues.
• Verified backend data by using SQL queries to check the data integrity. 
• Provide technical assistance related to the project. i.e. switch nexus 5596, cat6k issues, 6100 /6200 Fabric Interconnect, UCS.
• Lab testing & validation prior to implementation of Nexus 7K, 5K & 2K connecting to blade servers
• Settings of the networking devices (Cisco Router, switches) co-coordinating with the system/Network administrator during implementation.
• Knowledge of routing and switching protocols like BGP, VLAN, Multicast, QoS, IPv4/IPv6.
• Prepared Estimation of testing effort for test design and test case execution. 
• Conducted Requirement Gap Analysis and published the report to management as well as to the client.
• Preparing daily status report on testing activities & publishing the same to the management.
• Conducting Daily Stand-Up and Weekly meetings with the team. Publishing the MOM of those meetings to the management. 

Environment: Unix, Linux, Rhel

Tools: Putty, CDETS, SecureCRT, PRRQ, configuration management tools like CVS and SVN

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Automated upgrade and downgrade Cisco 6100/6200 Fabric Interconnects, blade and rack servers using firmware policies with pre-exiting real time scenarios.
• Upgraded Testbeds through CLI to check the support for upcoming releases on different platforms (Fabric-interconnect - Springfield (6100) and Mammoth (6200)).
• Automated various critical Test plans for regression like iSCSI, security features, IQN.
• Performed Sanity and Regression testing to ensure that application meets the necessary requirements.
• Maintained Traceability Matrix to track the requirements to the test cases to ensure complete test coverage in the Quality Center.
• Participated in review meetings and provide highly valuable comments using PRRQ for effectiveness of script.
• Tested bug fixing and new enhancements during various regression cycles through several releases.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco routers and switches.
• Developed test automation scenarios for upcoming enhancements using tools like TCL, Expect.
• Analyzed detail Business requirements and Technical Design documents
• Logged, Tracked, Evaluated and verify the applications testing results and recorded the discrepancies using CDETS (Cisco Defect and Enhancement Tracking System) to track, analyze and report on them. 
• Created defect testing reports for every release. 
• Developed Training documentation for new joiners in the team.
• Performed backend testing using SQL scripts and checked data consistency and data integrity

Tools: Putty, CDETS, SecureCRT, PRRQ, configuration management tools like CVS and SVN