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Santa Clara, California, United States

Santa Clara, California

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the Beta and IFT from Engineering side for various software releases. Collected feedback from IFT and Beta customers and brought that back to engineering test and development team to help improve the product quality.Worked with core release team for project goals, schedules and planning.Lead the Feature & Performance Testing effort for various ASA & NG firewall inspection features like ASA Umbrella DNS connector, SSL Inspection, Service Provider LTE features like GTP, Diameter, SCTP and m3ua.Worked on defining & designing test strategy for networking software as well as test, debug, enhance & maintain the network security software for products such as (ASA & FTD firewall). Developed automation test plans and performed complex system/feature/performance level testing. Evaluate and recommend tools for complex system level tests. Worked on configuring and setting up feature and performance testbed which involves configuring cisco switches, ASA/FTD Firewalls, UCS, VMs, third party traffic generator tools like IxiaBP, IxLoad, DsTest, Defensics etc.Worked on creating and fine-tuning test profiles on various traffic generator tools for performance measurement of various firewall inspection protocols like SCTP/DNS/SSL/GTP/Diameter/m3ua.Worked closely with cross-functional product teams on various performance and feature bugs to debug the issue, collect logs & pcaps, provided them product feedback and actively engaged in solutions as well as worked with various third party tool support for new tools request, debugging issues with tool setup/traffic profiles etc.Worked on test planning, writing test cases and coming up with tools requirements based on Functional specs and Product Requirement Doc.Worked on Test Case Automation using Open-ATF, PyATS Framework & Kick execution engine.

Greater San Diego Area

• Performed End to End testing on Server Components used in VOIP based PTT (Push to talk) call flows.• Performed SNMP & SOAP testing for OAM UI used to manage various Server Components.• Performed the Sever components upgrade testing with Call Load Running in Background.• Performed User and Group Database testing and provisioning via REST and XCAP Interface.• Performed testing on HTTPS (TLS), REST and XCAP Interface for Web Front End Server Components.• Worked on test planning, test cases and tools requirements based on Functional specs and Requirement Doc.• Worked on automating the test cases using Perl on STAF/STAX Automation Framework.• Worked on Emergency Corrective Patches (ECP) and Maintenance Release (MR) test cycles. • Executed automated and manual regression test cases for various server releases.• Performed basic SQL queries during server components testing.• Performed log analysis and troubleshooting for call flow messages and packet sniffing using Wireshark, tcpdump and in-house sniffing tools.• Performed VOIP based PTT app testing on Android and iOS platforms.• Gained acquaintance testing Client-Server architecture for VOIP based PTT application

Greater Los Angeles Area

•Automated the test cases on Robot Framework for acceptance level testing using Selenium Library functions and analyzed the test results.•Performed functionality testing of MAC layer protocols such as Service OAM (802.1ag & Y.1731), VLAN (802.1Q), QOS, Ethernet Service Activation Test Methodology (Y.1564) & LAG (802.3ad) implemented in layer 2 Network Interface Device (NID) called Metro Ethernet Switch.•Gained acquaintance using test equipments like Ixia traffic generator, Alcatel and Cisco switch.•Wrote test plan, estimated how much test coverage is required and generated test cases on the basis of functional specs and product requirement document for a new product or new release.•Worked closely with development team & provided them the product feedback and actively engaged in solutions.•Reported Bugs and classified them based on severity and impact.•Investigated and reproduced customer issues and scenarios in test lab and also tested & validated Method of Procedure (MOP) for installation.•Tested Network Management System (NMS) software which is used to configure and monitor the health of Network Elements.•Gained some basic knowledge and understanding of the QA process as part of overall Product Development Cycle including design, implementation and validation phase.

Manual Testing of Website on different Browsers and OS.Load Testing of the Website using Silk Performer Tool.

Testing of Websites using Selenium IDE & Selenium RC.Monitoring Network Traffic, Network Security & Network Troubleshooting using Wire-Shark.Installation of Drupal on Windows Platform and basic development of website using CMS such as Drupal.

Ms Degree, Electrical Engineering With Specialization In Communication Systems & Networking.

Graduated with Honors in Electrical Engineering

Be; A.D.I.T, Electronics & Communication