Azher Rana GPEN, CISSP
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Shiv Tumu
Azher has a solid technical background, is very focused, and exhibits great attention to detail. He had leadership experience when he joined BlueCoat and worked very well with global teams to deliver quality product on schedule. Azher is an valuable asset, an excellent motivator and who takes a lot of pride in his work and the work of his colleagues. He's easy to work with, a team player, committed to excellence and executing a plan or strategy to completion. Given choice, I would love to work with Azher in the future, and would recommend him for any challenging position.
Craig Huang
Azher Rana managed local and offshore SQA team at Good Technology. He involved in the testing of several key projects, and delivered them in time, under tight constraints. He is a very hands-on and technical person with deep understanding of distributed system and cloud technology. He demonstrated excellent leadership qualities when leading his team members on various key initiatives and exhibited deep technical understanding of complex systems. I would recommend Azher for any challenging technical or leadership role in the SQA arena.
Shiv Tumu
Azher has a solid technical background, is very focused, and exhibits great attention to detail. He had leadership experience when he joined BlueCoat and worked very well with global teams to deliver quality product on schedule. Azher is an valuable asset, an excellent motivator and who takes a lot of pride in his work and the work of his colleagues. He's easy to work with, a team player, committed to excellence and executing a plan or strategy to completion. Given choice, I would love to work with Azher in the future, and would recommend him for any challenging position.
Craig Huang
Azher Rana managed local and offshore SQA team at Good Technology. He involved in the testing of several key projects, and delivered them in time, under tight constraints. He is a very hands-on and technical person with deep understanding of distributed system and cloud technology. He demonstrated excellent leadership qualities when leading his team members on various key initiatives and exhibited deep technical understanding of complex systems. I would recommend Azher for any challenging technical or leadership role in the SQA arena.
Shiv Tumu
Azher has a solid technical background, is very focused, and exhibits great attention to detail. He had leadership experience when he joined BlueCoat and worked very well with global teams to deliver quality product on schedule. Azher is an valuable asset, an excellent motivator and who takes a lot of pride in his work and the work of his colleagues. He's easy to work with, a team player, committed to excellence and executing a plan or strategy to completion. Given choice, I would love to work with Azher in the future, and would recommend him for any challenging position.
Craig Huang
Azher Rana managed local and offshore SQA team at Good Technology. He involved in the testing of several key projects, and delivered them in time, under tight constraints. He is a very hands-on and technical person with deep understanding of distributed system and cloud technology. He demonstrated excellent leadership qualities when leading his team members on various key initiatives and exhibited deep technical understanding of complex systems. I would recommend Azher for any challenging technical or leadership role in the SQA arena.
Shiv Tumu
Azher has a solid technical background, is very focused, and exhibits great attention to detail. He had leadership experience when he joined BlueCoat and worked very well with global teams to deliver quality product on schedule. Azher is an valuable asset, an excellent motivator and who takes a lot of pride in his work and the work of his colleagues. He's easy to work with, a team player, committed to excellence and executing a plan or strategy to completion. Given choice, I would love to work with Azher in the future, and would recommend him for any challenging position.
Craig Huang
Azher Rana managed local and offshore SQA team at Good Technology. He involved in the testing of several key projects, and delivered them in time, under tight constraints. He is a very hands-on and technical person with deep understanding of distributed system and cloud technology. He demonstrated excellent leadership qualities when leading his team members on various key initiatives and exhibited deep technical understanding of complex systems. I would recommend Azher for any challenging technical or leadership role in the SQA arena.
Credentials
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CISSP
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GPEN
GIAC Certifications
Experience
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Silver Peak
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United States
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Computer Networking Products
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1 - 100 Employee
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SD-WAN
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Sep 2015 - Present
Silver Peak is the leader in building SD-WAN & hybrid WANs empowering enterprises and service providers to securely connect users to applications Security Testing of Software Defined Networking SD-WAN based solutions AWS based solution for very large number of virtual appliance, using Boto API's Security related features & analysis of Silver Peak customer solutions FIPS certification of SP Enterprise Appliances Silver Peak is the leader in building SD-WAN & hybrid WANs empowering enterprises and service providers to securely connect users to applications Security Testing of Software Defined Networking SD-WAN based solutions AWS based solution for very large number of virtual appliance, using Boto API's Security related features & analysis of Silver Peak customer solutions FIPS certification of SP Enterprise Appliances
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Senior Consultant
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Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Identify attack surface and recommend solutions to bridge those gaps Verizon AWS based Cloud security solutions Comparative analysis of WAF, IDS, and SIEM solutions for Cloud Security Worked on AWS EC2 infrastructure and identifying security holes in the deployed solutions Developed IDS for the nodes on AWS. It can detect security group changes and user access for non MFA Identify attack surface and recommend solutions to bridge those gaps Verizon AWS based Cloud security solutions Comparative analysis of WAF, IDS, and SIEM solutions for Cloud Security Worked on AWS EC2 infrastructure and identifying security holes in the deployed solutions Developed IDS for the nodes on AWS. It can detect security group changes and user access for non MFA
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SQA
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May 2012 - Jan 2015
Good Technology provided the world's most comprehensive secure mobility solution to more than 5,000 organizations in 130+ countries including 50 of the FORTUNE 100 leaders. Managed Good Dynamics server test team at Good Technology which included cloud servers, Good control server, Good proxy server, Good wrapping servers, NOC and Oracle database components using Java, google web tool kit, J2EE, Maven, MVC, TCP, Oracle, HTTP Worked hands-on, on several technical projects such as Golden… Show more Good Technology provided the world's most comprehensive secure mobility solution to more than 5,000 organizations in 130+ countries including 50 of the FORTUNE 100 leaders. Managed Good Dynamics server test team at Good Technology which included cloud servers, Good control server, Good proxy server, Good wrapping servers, NOC and Oracle database components using Java, google web tool kit, J2EE, Maven, MVC, TCP, Oracle, HTTP Worked hands-on, on several technical projects such as Golden Gate, KCD etc Brought up new Off-shore team, and trained them to be at par with the mobile security technology Show less Good Technology provided the world's most comprehensive secure mobility solution to more than 5,000 organizations in 130+ countries including 50 of the FORTUNE 100 leaders. Managed Good Dynamics server test team at Good Technology which included cloud servers, Good control server, Good proxy server, Good wrapping servers, NOC and Oracle database components using Java, google web tool kit, J2EE, Maven, MVC, TCP, Oracle, HTTP Worked hands-on, on several technical projects such as Golden… Show more Good Technology provided the world's most comprehensive secure mobility solution to more than 5,000 organizations in 130+ countries including 50 of the FORTUNE 100 leaders. Managed Good Dynamics server test team at Good Technology which included cloud servers, Good control server, Good proxy server, Good wrapping servers, NOC and Oracle database components using Java, google web tool kit, J2EE, Maven, MVC, TCP, Oracle, HTTP Worked hands-on, on several technical projects such as Golden Gate, KCD etc Brought up new Off-shore team, and trained them to be at par with the mobile security technology Show less
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Bluecoat
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United Kingdom
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Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
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1 - 100 Employee
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Systems & Performance
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Feb 2008 - Jun 2012
Bluecoat Systems focused on internet security appliances.Its products were primarily used to control, monitor and secure internet. It has been brought over the Symantec. Led the Projects related to Network Security Testing Worked on several key feature of the Secure Web Gateway Worked on Systems Level Security and Networking Testing of Secure Web Gateway Worked on performance testing and benchmarking of BlueCoat appliance with respect to various application layer protocols such as… Show more Bluecoat Systems focused on internet security appliances.Its products were primarily used to control, monitor and secure internet. It has been brought over the Symantec. Led the Projects related to Network Security Testing Worked on several key feature of the Secure Web Gateway Worked on Systems Level Security and Networking Testing of Secure Web Gateway Worked on performance testing and benchmarking of BlueCoat appliance with respect to various application layer protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP Systems Testing and Analysis of Networks based on Blue Coat Appliances, and multi-vendor networking equipment including Cisco Show less Bluecoat Systems focused on internet security appliances.Its products were primarily used to control, monitor and secure internet. It has been brought over the Symantec. Led the Projects related to Network Security Testing Worked on several key feature of the Secure Web Gateway Worked on Systems Level Security and Networking Testing of Secure Web Gateway Worked on performance testing and benchmarking of BlueCoat appliance with respect to various application layer protocols such as… Show more Bluecoat Systems focused on internet security appliances.Its products were primarily used to control, monitor and secure internet. It has been brought over the Symantec. Led the Projects related to Network Security Testing Worked on several key feature of the Secure Web Gateway Worked on Systems Level Security and Networking Testing of Secure Web Gateway Worked on performance testing and benchmarking of BlueCoat appliance with respect to various application layer protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP Systems Testing and Analysis of Networks based on Blue Coat Appliances, and multi-vendor networking equipment including Cisco Show less
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Nortel Networks
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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SMTS
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Jun 2004 - Feb 2008
Identified, developed, implemented and automated methodologies, and tools for system, regression, performance and load testing Trained engineers on new network technologies Suggested and implemented new processes and procedures Worked on complex customer issues and drove them to resolution Identified, developed, implemented and automated methodologies, and tools for system, regression, performance and load testing Trained engineers on new network technologies Suggested and implemented new processes and procedures Worked on complex customer issues and drove them to resolution
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Education
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University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering -
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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