Senior Technical Lead Resume

SUMMARY

Quality Assurance lead with 10+ years of combined experience in QA, automation and continuous integration. Areas of expertise include scale and solution testing of routers, switches, security devices, server management, storage appliances, system management and troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming: Python, REST API, XML, JSON, YAML
Tools: GIT, Jenkins
System Management: Distributed SDN Controller, Data Center System, Scale and Solution Testing, Managed Object Policy Model, Pool Management, High Availability, Firmware Management, Fault Management, Backup/Restore, Cisco ACI and UCSM configuration and troubleshooting
Compute: Cisco UCS Blade & Rack Servers, BIOS Configuration, BMC, IPMI, RAID, KVM
Storage: EMC VNX, Nimble CS - series, iSCSI boot, FC boot, PXE boot, NAS
Switches: Nexus 5000 Ethernet switch, MDS FC switch
Networking: Ethernet, TCP/IP, DHCP, VRRP, MPLS
Virtualization: VMware ESX, vCenter Management
Security: Cisco ACI and UCSM security, RADIUS, TACACS+, LDAP, RBAC, Cisco ASA firewall configurations
Traffic Generators: Ixia IxNetwork, Spirent Test Center
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Technical Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Part of initial system management QA team providing design inputs and making a positive impact on usability and troubleshooting of the overall product.
Responsible for ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) security feature from the early stage, contributed to sanity test framework .
Design and development of Python automation libraries using REST API, XML, JSON, YAML to configure, manage and troubleshoot APIC (Application Centric Infrastructure Controller) and programmable switches(leaf and spine architecture).
Develpment of Python utility scripts required on a daily basis to speed up the configuration, log and core collection, gathering run time debug trace, capturing memory and CPU utilization etc which was later extensively used by the entire scale team.
Developed a standard Python test case automation format for the scale team which involved network triggers and config triggers.
Senior Technical lead in ACI scale and solution group focusing on customer specific data center deployments involving network, compute and storage devices.
Qualification of policy enforcement management and model driven software involved in scalable distributed systems.
Qualified scale setup of ACI SDN controller managing 400 switches and large number of L4-L7 virtual machine firewalls, load balancers and automating test casess
Experience with GIT version control and Jenkins continuous integration software tools.
Experience writing test plan and test case documents based on functional specifications.
Leading interoparability test effort for Nimble's high speed storage devices with Cisco Unified Computing System.

Engineering QA Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed a multi-geo software QA team working with cross-functional groups and performed project management and resource planning to ensure successful on-time release.
Set the technical direction to the team and help them understand how the product is deployed and Mentoring all new members in the team to bring them up to speed on the system management and server management technology.
Worked with Product Marketing, Support Team, Technical Marketing and others in the organization to understand and focus on customer requirements and deliver product with high customer satisfaction.

Senior QA / Escalation Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Qualifying end-to-end functionalities of Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS manager) - Management Software, CLI, GUI.
UCS Manager Policy configuration, Pool management, Chassis and Server discovery process, UCS Firmware Management, Fault and Core management, Backup-Restore for disaster recovery.
Deep understanding of Cisco UCS Blade-server, Rack-server, Converged network adapter.
Setup UCS system for NAS, PXE boot, SAN boot - iSCSI, FC.
Configured VMWare ESX, Network Virtualization on UCS servers.
Experience working with different vendor PCIE devices from Broadcom, Emulex, Qlogic, Intel.
Configured Storage devices from NetApp, EMC.
Working knowledge of lOZone, Ethperf, Wireshark.
Worked on UCS customer escalation issues debugging live data center UCS deployment.
Qualified UCSM security functionalty like local authentication, remote authentication (RADIUS, TACACS, LDAP). role based access control(RBAC), audit logs, multi tenancy etc.

Senior QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

SPVC circuit (atm-atm, atm-fr, atm-gigE) and SVC calls testing using native ATM PNNI interface and PWI(Pseudo Wire Interface) over different MPLS lsps using customer topology
Scalability testing with PNNI peers generated from Radcom test tool
Layer2 traffic over MPLS (LDP, RSVP, FRR)
Worked on TCL/Expect scripts for scale configuration

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