SUMMARY

• 10 years of IT experience in networking domain industry, validating Service Provider Networking Routers (Cisco CRS, GSR, ASR9K & Next Gen PANINI), Switches (Cisco) and Firewall (Sonicwall) products.
• Experience in designing, testing & troubleshooting routing/switching products. Installation and configuration of Cisco routers (CRS, GSR, ASR9K & Next Gen PANINI) running Cisco IOS - XR.
• Experience of routing protocols including configuration and debugging experience in large topologies and experience of OSPF, BGP and MPLS.
• As a Team test lead for multiple projects including testing & automation, working closely wif development & offshore teams.
• Strong Leader in managing a team and advising technical which involved in phase of designing, testing like regression and manual testing of Cisco IOS XR.
• Understanding on teh Service provider technologies. Proven debugging skills and analytical ability debug in complex environments.
• Outstanding performance in solving, reproducing, investigating and debugging software issues in timely and cost efficient manner for releases of Cisco IOS XR.
• Expertise in Manual and Automated testing which involves development of test strategy, testbeds, test plans, and verification methodologies for series of Cisco Routers.
• Experience in Traffic generator tools like Agilent, IXIA wif solutions such as IxN2X, IxNetworks and Cisco Pagent.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing Protocols: OSPF, BGP, MPLS, MULTICAST

VPN Technologies: MPLS VPN (L3VPN)

Products (Routers): Cisco CRS, GSR, ASR9K & Next Gen PANINI

Products (Switches): Nexus 2K/3K/5K, Cisco series

Products (Firewall): Sonicwall

Traffic Generator Tools: Ixia (Ix Network), Ix vm, Cisco Pagent

Operating systems: Cisco IOS XR & IOS, Unix, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Software Test/QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Teh project is targeted towards teh specific features and system testing on IOS XR based platforms wif scale. As a result teh focus is mostly on Platform Independent features running teh XR systems wif routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), MPLS and Multicast on teh box and bringing up teh set up for testing.
• Designed, Configured and Tested various routing and forwarding features like VRFs, BGP, OSPF, MPLS-VPN, MPLS-LDP, RSVP-TE, GRE, P2MP, Multicast, xSTP, ACL, QOS on different hardware on IOS XR Platforms like CRS, ASR9K and GSR.
• Performing teh Regression and manual testing for Edge & Core features, Infrastructure areas, and L2-L3 applications. High Availability, Redundancy and Robustness testing.
• Work closely wif developers to reproduce, analyze, and debug internal bugs found during testing as well as customer issues found in teh field.
• Reproducing, investigating and debugging software issues in co-ordination wif support and development, documenting software bugs and defects.
• Execute manual and automated testcases according to documented test plans for various features dat are being developed for IOS-XR, a carrier class software, running on Cisco’s High end routers.
• Test execution to confirm teh Readiness and Stability of teh code before releasing to SIT test teams and to act as gating criteria for code commit.
• Triaged system issues, and assisted in reproducing them for Developers, Maintained Bug Validity rate of 75 to 80%. Evaluating and testing new and modified testcases and documentation, prior to release.
• Leading teh team technically and halp them in debugging teh software issues on need basis. Mentored teh new joiners in teh team. Support in resolving testbed issues.
• Tested teh ISSU install Infrastructure for Next generation PANINI platform.
• Worked on teh new testbed buildup of CRS, ASR9K and GSR routers.
• Collaborating wif teams spread across geographical regions.
• Teh project involves teh testing tools like earms, ats, and n2x and ix vm.

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Teh project is targeted towards teh sanity testing on IOS XR based platforms (CRS and GSR), Single and Multi-chassis (CRS).
• Performed teh Regression testing of various IOS XR software features for various release of CRS and GSR platforms to confirm teh Readiness and Stability of teh code before releasing to other test teams and to act as gating criteria for code commit.
• Tested various routing and forwarding features like routing protocols (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP), MPLS on CRS and GSR on IOS XR platforms.
• Improved teh commit criteria process by halping on automating teh sanity suites and developers can use it as self-serve testing model for their code changes.
• Triaged system issues, and assisted in reproducing them for Developers, Maintained Bug Validity rate.
• Assists in teh development of integration, automation, sanity testing, manual testing and load testing suites.
• Monitoring nightly regression runs. Debugging and documenting software bugs on teh same day.
• Teh project involves teh Cisco testing tools like earms, ats and pagent.

Confidential

Technical Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Teh project involves teh Sonicwall Firewall 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th generation products. SOHO, SOHO2, SOHO3, PRO100, PRO230, PRO3060, PRO4060.
• Support involves installation, firmware maintenance, wipe and type procedure, uploading teh firmware, site-to-site vpn, high availability, load balancing.
• Exporting and importing teh configuration. Configuring teh content filtering as URL lost, allowed domains, forbidden domains.
• Configuring teh Sonicwall Antivirus Network client such as E-mail filtering, setting up network configuration, Access rules and services. Configured and supported multiple remote site applications.