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San Francisco Bay Area

Maintaining a Scale Testbed of a complete SD-WAN architecture comprising of 3K end-devices and Versa Head-Enddevices (Orchestration and Controller nodes) and configure multiple feature set for every software release cycle• Design, develop and execute test plans for testing software features on TCP/IP and Routing Protocols like BGP, OSPF,MPLS, L3VPN, IPsec• Design and develop software test automation framework and automating test cases for multiple features of Versa platforms• Worked actively across multiple teams and orgs during reporting and resolving of critical issues/bugs identified in testingand help recreate and resolve customer reported software issues• Access critical infrastructure and server rooms to setup appliances and perform software upgrades/downgrades on devicesin data centers

Middletown, New Jersey

Client: AT&T Labs• Extensive experience in validating and certifying new solutions, architecture and migration projects in the AT&T Mobility Core network in a multi-vendor (Cisco, Juniper, Vyatta) environment • Validated test cases for Routing(OSPF, BGP, BFD), Traffic Forwarding, Quality of Service(QoS), Interoperability, Software and Firmware upgrade/downgrade, SFPs, Storm control (LPTS) and Scale • Platforms supported: Cisco ASR9010, NCS5501, 7609, ASR901, Nokia 7750 and AT&T White box routers(Vyatta and IOS XR) • Developed and configured a full-scale setup for Hotswap Migration testing of Cisco ASR 9010 and Cisco 7609 core routers involving extensive usage of protocols OSPF, BGP, BFD, HSRP and Spirent TestCenter for traffic generation • Created detailed guides for firmware upgrade/installation and software upgrade process for Vyatta based White box routers used by vendors and field operations team • Collaborated with hardware and software vendors for reporting, recreating and resolving complex network issues by testing new solutions, features, firmware fixes and SMUs • Created a Python based automation tool for generating router configurations from a template and user input data used widely during field router deployment and Hotswap migration related activities

Chantilly, Virginia

•Generated daily network statistical report and performed sanity checks on drive test data obtained from providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint from various markets. Implementation and analysis is done on softwares like Nemo WindCatcher,Macros on Microsoft Excel etc.

Silver Spring, Maryland

• Gained hands on experience working and learning in multiple data center environment, updating server and rack stencil diagrams, updating the fiber mapping documentation on Microsoft Visio etc.• Worked on a centralized network monitoring platform- SolarWinds to add various site’s infrastructure devices on the platform. The remote devices were polled using SNMP and network statistics were collected using NetFlow• Tools: SolarWinds NPM, NTA, Microsoft Visio

Master Of Science (M.S.), Telecommunications Engineering, 3.61

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics And Telecommunications