Product 5G Automated Assurance:Responsible for the delivery of the containerized solution for the zero touch operations in 5G.Product NFVD and NFVA (Nov 2016 to Till Date): Responsible for the Dev, QA and Global Practice team for the products - Network Functions Virtualization Director (NFVD) and Network Functions Virtualization Analytics (NFVA).Roles and responsibilities:• Managing the Development, QA and Global Practice teams.• Coordinating with the PLM teams for the clarity in the requirements. • Agile method implementation.• Supporting the PoCs for the prospective customers.• Release management.• Budget Management• Hiring and Team buildingProduct Helion Carrier Grade / Helion Openstack (Mar 2014 to Nov 2016) Responsible for Dev, QA and Support teams for the Helion Carrier Grade and Helion Openstack.Roles and Responsibilities:• Managing the Development, QA and support teams.• Delivering the requested features with very good quality.• Supporting customers and partners on the product issues.• Implementing Agile• Hiring and Team buildingAchievements: • Achieved near line rate speeds (10 GBPS) for the VMs with DPDK, SRIOV and PCIPT technologies.• Achieved 99.999% reliability with OpenSAF.• Qualified the Affirmed networks work load VNFs and tested 100,000 VoLTE calls support on the stack.Product Helion CloudSystem (Dec 2012 to Mar 2015) Responsible for Scale and Performance testing of Helion CloudSystem.Roles and Responsibilities:• Establishing Quality Metrics for Scale and Performance of the product.• Developing the Automation.• Presenting the product readiness reports to the executives.Achievements: • Achieved 12000 VMs Scale.• Scaled to 2000 templates using the CSA Templates (Orchestrator).• Made the product run for 72 hours with Live Usage Simulation.• 100% Automated.• GRANTED Patent on Scale testing and Live Usage simulation patent -- http://google.com/patents/WO2016048394A1?cl=de

Responsible for the delivery of the following products.I was handling multiple projects during this tenure in parallel.• Pulse 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 on Desktop releases.• Pulse Mobile clients 2.0, 3.0 and 3.2. For more information on the Pulse clients refer http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/software/junos-platform/junos-pulse/• Managed Geo-Diversified teams (Teams in US and INDIA).• Project planning, execution and tracking.• Reporting the status (Tracking the overall readiness of the product using the different dashboards) and recommending the right steps and direction to the executive committee in the weekly NPI (New product Initiative) meetings.• Measured the Quality metric Bug Density (Number of Bugs / 1K Lines of Code) for the entire product range (SA, IC and Pulse) and bench marked it against the previous releases for the PBU. • Delivered the end-user Pulse client performance benchmarking for the Pulse client.• CI/CD Integration: Delivering the Pulse BAT suite (Build Acceptance testing) and RAT suite (Regression Automation Testing) for the released features to ensure faster test cycles as well as more stable builds.

This is the transformation period from a lead role to Manager. I was given a small team of 6 people and delivering a SA 6.5 release.

I worked on the Secure Access (SA 6.x and 5.x) product lines during this tenure. This worked on features like IPSec, WSAM (Application level VPN) and Secure Virtual Workspace (SVW). I did some of performance benchmarking as well during this release for some of the components. I have delivered good amount of automation as specified below.• Outlook APIs based automation for both NC and WSAM using VBScript, QTP, QC and VMWare Lab manager.• Lotus Notes APIs based automation for both NC and WSAM using VBScript, QTP, QC, Windows Scripting and VMWare Lab Manager.• LDAP PMI components of AAA in SSLVPN were also automated using Python and LDAP (Modules available in Python), integrated this with the QC and VMWare using VAPI-XP in QC.• Upgrade automation of the IVE (SSL VPN) box using CDL files (part of the Netconf implementation in the IVE) in Python.

I was responsible for the following features like Rewriter, IPSec, WSAM (Application level VPN) and Secure Virtual Workspace (SVW) Secure Acess 4.x and 5.x product lines.

I had worked on different releases of Border Manager product during this period. I had worked on different technologies like the following: • IPSec.• Proxy.• Firewall.• TCPIP Stack. One of the good works over there is getting the Border Manager ICSA certified. I have done lot of interoperable tests for the Border Manager with lot of 3rd party gateways and published articles also. • For Reference look at this weblink http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/author/1168.html.These are integrated with the end-to-end framework developed in house.• You can also search my name in Google also "Upendra Gopu"