SUMMARY:

• Around 10+ years of diversified experience in various forms of testing. Experience in L2 and L3 protocol testing and Automation.
• Have worked at different geographical locations including Bangalore, San Jose.
• Experience in Manual Testing, Test planning, Test designing, Defect Tracking, Analysis, Reporting and Automation.
• Experience in scale and performance testing.
• Good exposure to OSI and TCP/IP Layers.
• Knowledge on QoS, Queuing, shaping, OSPF, MPLS, BGP and L2 features.
• Knowledge on Openflow, Openswitch and SDN architecture.
• Knowledge on Perl, Shell and TCL/TK, Python automation scripting.
• Knowledge on Virtualization, Docker and Container technologies.
• Knowledge on ZTD (Zero Touch Deployment) solutions.
• Worked with TAC engineers to identify customer issues and resolve them with quick workaround configurations.
• Worked with TME and provide the feature configurations to customer.
• Involved with TME in product technical presentations to the customer.
• Knowledge of configuring/troubleshooting Cisco catalyst switches, Prime Infrastructure, APIC - EM.
• Involved in Requirement Conception, Release Planning, Estimation, Resource Allocation, Test Design and Status Reporting apart from Test Execution.
• Strong communication, leadership skills with proficiency in grasping new technologies quickly and utilize the same in work environment

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cisco Catalyst Switches, Ericsson Redback routers
• Cisco Prime
• Cisco APIC-EM
• QoS, Queuing
• OSPF, MPLS, Multicast, HSRP, DHCP, Layer 2 features.
• Plug and Play, Prime SWIM, wSDG.
• Linux Management and Administration vmware vSphere
• Docker and Container networking.
• IxExplorer, IxNetwork, Spirent, N2X.
• CDETS, QDDTS, TIMS and QIS.
• C, Socket programming
• Perl, TCL/TK, Shell, Python scripting.
• High Availability features: VSS, Quad SUP, SNV, ISSU.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Solution Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Solution test plan after reviewing SD-Bonjour SW functional specification.
• Designed 160-FEX, WiFi Access, Lan-Gateway networks and planned the no. host to be distributed across the network.
• Created Docker/Container automation environment which creates 10,000 unique hosts distributed in different networks.
• Created automation environment to announce bonjour services on the container instances by using avahi daemon.
• Simulated the real-time network scenario by sending service announcements and withdrawal messages randomly from the container instances.
• Measured the ingress query optimization by simulating the real-time environment.
• Created automation environment to query bonjour services on the container instances by using Avahi daemon.
• Validated HSRP functionality for wSDG
• Verified remote and local cache functionality of wSDG.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Solution Test Engineer

• Prepared Plug and Play Solution test plan for Apple.
• Configured DHCP, DNS, Cisco Prime and APIC-EM appliances to create test environment.
• Interacting with Apple TME Technical lead
• Validated various PnP deployment modes for catalyst switches as per the customer requirements
• Verified ZTD (Zero Touch Deployment) for catalyst switches including SUDI authentication.
• Configured Prime to manage catalyst devices.
• Configured SWIM and validated image download for catalyst switches.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Solution Test Engineer

• Created 160-FEX Solution test plan with apple expected configuration.
• Created 160-FEX setup and planned the network configurations.
• Configured Cisco Prime to manage VSS, IA, interface configuration and QoS/Queueing configurations.
• Verified scale/performance test cases on 160-FEX.
• Verified redundancy/Failover/RMA scenarios for 160-FEX.
• Automated 160-FEX environment from Day-0 to operation.
• Validated Apple recommended configurations on 160-FEX (L2, CTS, QoS, Queueing, OSPF and HSRP)

Confidential

Feature/Functionality Test Engineer

• Complete ownership of QoS and Queueing functionality for Confidential which involves test planning, development/execution of test cases and automation.
• Worked on new supervisor SUP6T architecture/feature testing.
• Part of multiple new releases of Confidential where 5 software releases are for new hardware (SUP6T, Terminator supervisors, CETUS chassis, 68xx series 10/40G LC)
• Completed new feature automations in first pass DT cycle.
• Worked on various customer cases and TAC cases.
• Worked on different areas for EFT testing
• Involved in building/testing Customer POC
• Involved in FEX QoS testing, and uncovered many Queuing defects.
• Completed TLI program on AVB.
• Mentoring new team members in team.

Confidential

Feature/Functionality Test Engineer

• Senior Software Engineer with the roles and responsibilities of manual and automation test activities.
• Have been instrumental in providing logic to the various automation framework and scripts written for testing performance and scale. This included Customer Daily Use Case Scripts, Linux Jails Creation for simulating thousands of devices to scale up the product.
• Involved in testing various customer-like deployments and environments in the test lab. Was involved in testing the ZCM product in a large scale and varied environments like Wireless, WAN, NAT, VPN, AD and eDirectory deployments (spread across Linux, Windows and MAC operating systems)
• Involved in drafting the process and guidelines to be followed by the department while adopting the Agile methodology.
• Involved in Manual Testing & Test Case Documentation for various functional and non-functional aspects of the product.
• Involved in System & Integration Test Case Execution, Defect logging and Regression activities.
• Have been recognized for logging quality defects and product improvement in the Business Unit for Customer Oriented focus and passionate commitment towards end-user scenarios testing.
• Individually owning ZENworks Linux Management (ZLM) product testing.

Confidential

Feature/Functionality Test Engineer

• Weekly regression testing for PISA, MAGO and SUP32 for MPLS and ipv4/v6 features.
• Sanity testing for PISA daily builds.
• Manual testing for PISA GP2 and GP3 releases for nbar feature.
• Porting of new scripts on the testbed according & fixing if any issue found.
• Filing Defects, Defect tracking, report generation of the defects filled.
• Provided internal training on networking and project related activities.
• Interacting with Client about the updates of Testing and failed bugs and script issue seen and fixing the same.
• Updating the results on the TIMS on daily basis for the test case executed.
• Develop the test scripts using Tcl/Tk and test the SUP720 functionalities for new requirement i.e. Standby as DFC

Confidential

Feature/Functionality Test Engineer

• Lab Setup: Through the usage of the NE’s different required setups are configured and allocated.
• Test case Design Phase: Based on the engineering requirements and functional design specifications of features added to the product, test cases were developed.
• Testing, involves writing and execution of test plan, conduct test plan review, testing schedule, defect reporting and tracking.
• Performance, stress testing.
• Design and execute functional and black box test plan and test procedures for L2VPN using Perl.
• Functional test for routing protocols (OSPF) using Perl scripting.
• Regression Testing.