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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.
• 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.
• Created detailed guides for firmware upgrade/installation and software upgrade process for Vyatta based White box routers used by vendors and field operations team

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.

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