Emil-Cătălin Buidan
Senior QA Automation Engineer for NPB SecureStack at Keysight Technologies Romania- Claim this Profile
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Italian Limited working proficiency
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Credentials
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Fundamentals of Java Programming
InfoAcademyJul, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Fundamentals of JavaScript Programming
InfoAcademyJan, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching)
CiscoApr, 2019- Sep, 2024 -
Berlitz Certificate Level 2 for Italian Language
Berlitz ItaliaNov, 2013- Sep, 2024 -
Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer
National InstrumentsMar, 2013- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Keysight Technologies Romania
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Romania
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Computer Networking
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior QA Automation Engineer for NPB SecureStack
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Jun 2021 - Present
SecureStack provides TLS traffic decryption enabling visibility without security compromise using role-based access controls and bidirectional decryption. Supports both inline/man-in-the middle and passive/out-of-band decryption of SSL/TLS traffic. Responsibilities: - Define test plans and test cases, to ensure known quality prior to the release of new features. - Integrate traffic generators and protocol simulators in tests (IxNetwork, IxLoad, BreakingPoint). - Write automated test suites for new features using Python, Robot Framework and RESTful APIs. - Configure and maintain Jenkins jobs used in the project. - Root cause isolation and proper logging of bugs. - Debug and refactor broken automation code as the framework evolves. Personal Achievements: - Design and implement interactive classes used in automation code. - Design and implement new automation code and robot tasks suite for builds installation on NPBs. - Design and coordinate the build of an application that orders and distributes test suites across available NPBs. Show less
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Oracle
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United States
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Warehousing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Communications Support Engineer
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Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
Oracle Communications Performance Intelligence Center (PIC) provides the tools that service providers use to capture network traffic data and convert it into useful Business Intelligence (BI) for managing traffic, roaming, billing and other related services. In addition, operators can export, monitor, troubleshoot and sort through the data to create comprehensive Dashboards, Reports and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for all departments within the service provider. Responsibilities - Investigate and solve issues reported by customers in Service Requests (SR). - Support and apply fixes for PIC software, hardware, installation and configuration issues. - Support for a wide range of hardware solutions (HP, Oracle, Tekelec, Cisco, Microtel). - Support for a wide range of Oracle software (Oracle Linux, Oracle Database 11g/12c, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Oracle WebLogic). - Work with a wide range of enterprise tools (BugDB, JIRA, JIRA Service Desk, Slack, MOS, Confluence, PagerDuty). - Execute maintenance operations (hardware and software) and support software upgrades. - Escalate complex issues to Development teams and continued management of such issues. - Work closely with Development teams on identified bugs. - On-call availability (follow-the-sun) for emergency cases. - Write troubleshooting articles and knowledge documents. - Root Cause Analysis. Show less
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Anritsu
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Japan
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Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Test Automation Engineer
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Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
MasterClaw™ is a probe based non-intrusive monitoring system designed to provide full end-to-end monitoring of converged networks (GSM, GPRS, UMTS, LTE, SS7 and VoIP networks). The integrated application suite makes MasterClaw a powerful tool for a broad set of users ranging from Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC) personnel to Product/Marketing Managers, Account Managers and Customer Care. Responsibilities - Analyze software requirements, define test plans, run test cases and communicate test results. - Document bugs encountered during testing in dedicated defect tracking systems (Bugzilla, TestLink, Redmine). Collaborate with distributed development teams in the process of reproducing and analyzing reported software bugs. Retake tests to verify reported bugs have been fixed. - Configure and maintain the testing environment at hardware and software levels (HP servers, OpenStack Mitaka, Okata and Pike, VMware ESXi, Linux, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, WIndows). - Build and maintain automated test scripts/tools by using various scripting and programming languages and frameworks (Bash, Python, PHP, phpMyAdmin, MySQL, HTML+CSS, Java, JavaScript, Selenium, Ansible). - Deploy and test security patches. - Provide training to Junior Test Engineers. Personal Achievements - Create and maintain a data acquisition performance tool used for testing and stressing MasterClaw probes in order to validate functionality and stability in various setup scenarios at peak traffic throughput and controllable traffic profile. - Design and coordinate the build of a data acquisition layer regression tool used to ensure that changes made in the new software releases or any enhancements are not impacting the previously working functionality. - Deploy and administer Redmine application for project management and issue tracking. Show less
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Vodafone
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United Kingdom
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Back Office Core CS Engineer
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Jan 2016 - Nov 2016
- Investigate and fix problems that occur in the Core Network escalated by the first line of support or customer support.- Recover services in Core Network in emergency cases. Escalate to vendors if necessary.- Perform scheduled health checks and backups on core network equipment: MGW (Media Gateway), ITP (IP Transfer Point), MSC (Mobile Switching Center), FNR (Flexible Number Register), HLR (Home Location Register), HSS (Home Subscriber Server), UPG (User Profile Gateway), PG (Provisioning Gateway), CSDB/CUDB (Centralized User DataBase). Create and maintain scripts to automate these tasks.- Analyze traces for abnormal/failed call scenarios (Wireshark, IRIS Tektronix).- Perform mobile subscriber provisioning tasks.- Execute software upgrades on Core Network nodes. Show less
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Front Office RAN Engineer
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Oct 2013 - Jan 2016
- Responsible for monitoring of 2G/3G/4G Networks and act as first level of technical support.- Detect and resolve service issues and alarms. Utilize tools to isolate the fault.- Investigate root cause of incidents and escalate to next level of support if necessary- Management of incidents throughout their entire life-cycle.- Use dedicated trouble ticketing applications for alarms handling and field personnel dispatching.- Provide support to field engineers to configure and troubleshoot faulty equipment.- Ensure that planned activities don’t affect traffic after their ending.- Work in a multi-vendor environment (Huawei, Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson). Show less
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Education
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2013 - 2015
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Master’s Degree, Telecommunications Engineering -
2009 - 2013
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Telecommunications (ETC)
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