Senior Software QA Engineer

• Aug 2021 - Present

Lead Engineer

• Apr 2021 - Jul 2021

Client : Cisco Role : Network Consulting Engineer Platform : SDA DNAC, Cat 9300, 3850, WLC 5508 9800, Cisco UCS C-series servers and VMware vSphere hosted on UCS Sanity Scripting : Python Tools : Jenkins for CI/CD, Github for version control, IXIA for traffic, Responsible for : 1) Feature testing and setting up customer network replications in local lab to simulate real-time network environment and issues 2) Configure, deploy and maintain routing, switching & security on all platforms. 3) Feature testing for Cisco DNA Assurance and Cisco Network Data Platform (NDP) 4) Worked on Migration of routing instances and network traffic over to new edges devices such as Cisco CRS-1s Show less

Network Test Automation Engineer

• May 2019 - Apr 2021

• Design, build, troubleshoot and deploy features for packet capture, monitor, store and analyze packet data and filter and export data for security and performance across all cPacket platforms (cVu, cStor 10/40/100G, cClear). • Worked on L2 L3, AAA Tacacs & Radius, IPsec, VxLAN, VPN, TCP / UDP, DNS, SSL, VLAN, SNMP v2/v3, DHCP • Automate features for Regression using Python and REST API using POSTMAN • IXIA for Traffic generator, IPerf and TCP Replay. Wireshark for packet analysis • JIRA / Confluence / Kanban for defect filing, tracking issues and scrum activities and XRAY for Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) to ensure the testing coverage. CI/CD pipeline with TeamCity. • Prometheus and Grafana used for Monitoring, JMeter for Performance testing • Perform recreates of customer scenarios and work closely with the development team to resolve software and hardware bugs. • Performed post-mortem on high-visibility cases and identify learning points. • Mentoring new hires in the team on cPacket devices, features and protocols Show less

Senior Software QA Engineer

• Apr 2018 - Mar 2019

1) Involved in feature and solution testing of security protocols like IPSec VPN, DNS, SSL, Firewall on Symantec WSS ( Web Security Service ), Proxy SG security gateway using Firewall’s like Cisco ASA 5505 Firewall, Meraki, Juniper vSRX, Palo Alto vPAN firewalls. 2) Automation using Python using Pytest framework in configuring, verification and using perforce version control 3) VMware Virtualization using vCenter server / vSphere / ESXi 4) Also used MongoDB, MySQL, Cassandra, Tomcat, Swagger documentation etc in set-up topologies 5) Also involved in test plan design and network configuration, deployment and troubleshooting 6) JIRA for bug tracking, qTest for test management and wiki Confluence Show less

Software QA Engineer

• Nov 2008 - Jan 2018

- Responsible for feature and solutions testing for Data Center Technologies, Protocols, and Solutions based on Brocade NOS VDX 8770, SLX, MLX, DCX chassis products . - Automation using Python scripting with PyBas Python Robot framework , TCL and shell scripting . - Developing feature, functional, deployment guides, troubleshooting guides etc. - Working directly with customers on designing and deploying network, PoC’s. troubleshooting issues on production networks - Worked on Data Center Networks, building network topologies, setting up test beds, reference and demo labs with all services. - Project and release management for QA release cycles. Worked in the following areas: 1) Data Center Networking – on Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols on IP Fabric, VCS Fabric for both IPv4 and IPv6 2) Layer 2, Layer 3, routing protocol testing for – Ethernet, STP, RSTP, ARP, VLAN, DHCP Relay, OSPF, BGP, VRRP, VRF, PIM, ACL access-list, route-map etc using traffic tools Spirent / IXIA 3) Overlay Technologies - EVPN, VXLAN, GRE Tunnel etc 4) VMware Virtualization using vCenter server / vSphere / ESXi 5) Automation using Python and TCL scripting 6) Writing Test Plan for the features and filing defects using TeamTrack 7) Experience with packet pipeline understanding of merchant silicon ASICs such as Cavium(XP80) and Jericho Show less

Software Engineer

• Jun 2007 - Aug 2008

Worked as Contractor as Network Test Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA Worked as Contractor as Network Test Engineer at Google, Mountain View, CA

Software Engineer

• Nov 2004 - Apr 2007

Design Engineer

• Jan 2004 - Oct 2004

Worked onsite for client Fujitsu Telecom Europe Ltd in Birmingham, UK on L2 Switching & SONET SDH testing Worked onsite for client Fujitsu Telecom Europe Ltd in Birmingham, UK on L2 Switching & SONET SDH testing

Project Engineer

• 2003 - 2004

Member of Technical Staff

• Aug 2000 - Dec 2002

Project: Alcatel Litespan 2000 / 2012 and NMS • Test Execution: New Feature and Regression Test Execution (Manual and Automated) on : Wideband Services(T1,HDSL),System, Broadband Services-SHDSL,ADSL, Multi-ADSL(Operations modes-DMT,ANSI,GLITE,ADSL2,ADSL2Plus), Optical(SONET), Narrowband(DS0), and DS3 • Installation, Administration, Functionality, Maintenance (alarms, rate), Protection Switching and stress-level Testing. Worked onsite for client Alcatel in Petaluma, US Project: Alcatel Litespan 2000 / 2012 and NMS • Test Execution: New Feature and Regression Test Execution (Manual and Automated) on : Wideband Services(T1,HDSL),System, Broadband Services-SHDSL,ADSL, Multi-ADSL(Operations modes-DMT,ANSI,GLITE,ADSL2,ADSL2Plus), Optical(SONET), Narrowband(DS0), and DS3 • Installation, Administration, Functionality, Maintenance (alarms, rate), Protection Switching and stress-level Testing. Worked onsite for client Alcatel in Petaluma, US