Guruprasad Ramanath Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca

Key member of System Test Engineering for qualification of managed L2 Business and L3Residential solutions on Calix Next-Gen FTTx products .● Translate Tier 1 Telco RFP Network Element requirements to test cases.● Collaborate with Sales, PLL, Program, design and Development teams.● Interface with multi-site test teams - Provide Training, Project and process guidance.● Built and maintain Customer Shadow Test system to validate customer-bound OLT andONT releases /Configurations/ Traffic scenarios and in-house reproduction of customerbugs.● Implement test strategy including test plan reviews and Feature test bed designs.System Integration Test of:● L3 Subscriber management ( Integrated BNG - DHCPv4 server, Radius Accounting,Diameter PCRF) WAN Routing - BGP).● MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Services ( E-Line & E-LAN Services, SAT and SOAM ).● High-Availability ( Control,Data and Management plane redundancy, In-Service Upgradesand Wavelength Mobility on NGPON-2).

Designed & Implemented a Test bed & System Test Plan focused on validation of Virtualized & Converged Datacenter Use Cases on the Alcatel-Lucent Top of Rack & Chassis-Based Switches.Automated major portion of System Test regression to validate system stability & Traffic recovery/convergence during Network events [Topology changes, System Upgrades].Ensure Quality across multiple AOS features and platforms by raising, tracking, reproducing and verifying resolution of more than 300 defect reports over multiple releases. Provide Configuration guidelines and debug support to Customer Support, Pre-Sales, Product Line Marketing and Technical Publication teams. Responsible for validation of the following Features on AOS releases: •High-availability Data center solutions based on Leaf & Spine ECMP designs with 40G/10G & 1G Line Cards on Chassis & Standalone switches on Customer Centric topologies exercising Layer-2 ( VLAN's, STP, LACP, LLDP, IGMP) & Layer-3 Features ( IP Routing, OSPF, PIM).•Multi-tenant Vxlan Overlay Networks (Hardware Vxlan Tunnel End Point implementation and interop with third party Vxlan solutions [OpenVswitch,KVM ]•Converged Storage Solutions using Multihop FCOE [FibreChannel (NPIV) Gateway, E_Port Tunneling over Ethernet, Reverse NPIV, FIP Snooping]•Validation of Alcatel-Lucent Storage Solution with third-party equipment (Converged Network adaptors, FiberChannel Switchs, Iscsi/FC/NFS Storage)•Data Center Bridging Protocols to configure a Lossless Converged Fabric (802.1 Suite of DCB protocols - PFC, ETS, QCN and DCBx protocols ) •Validation of End to End QOS toolset – o Buffer management in Chassis based VoQ and Shared Memory switches.o TCAM managemento Access Control Lists for traffic classification and control.o Policing, Marking and Shaping o Diffserv Per-Hop Behavioro Queuing & scheduling disciplines - Strict-priority and WRRo Active Queue Management (WRED).

Lead Engineer (Feature validation) of Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess series of SOHO and Branchoffice Routers. (Dec 2008 – Aug 2010)Feature Test of WAN access solutions on the OmniAccess 740/780 and the 5510 products withemphasis on verification of following Protocols & features:· Validation of SOHO and branch office scenarios using WAN connectivity options such asSerial, T1/E1, ADSL and Cellular interfaces.· Feature test of PPP, PPPoE, NAT and QOS features.· Performance testing of the product based on RFC 2544.

Product Validation & Test automation Of Carrier scale Ethernet (Metro Ethernet) Services &implementation on Cisco’s products (7600, 4500 & 6500 series) (Nov 2006 – Dec 2008)Client: Cisco Systems, Inc· Test planning & Feature testing of Ethernet OAM protocol implementation on Cisco’s variousproduct lines. Features tested are: Ethernet CFM (IEEE 802.1ag Draft 8), Ethernet OAM(IEEE 802.3ah), Alarm Indication & Suppression (ITU-T Y1731) and ELMI ( MEF feature)· Automation of the above scenarios to obtain 100 % regression coverage on future softwarereleases.GlobalStar User Terminal Compliance Testing (Aug 2005 – Oct 2006)Client: Qualcomm, Inc· Involved in setting up the Reverse Link compliance testing station· Performed testing of various scenarios in the areas of Power Control, Paging and TrafficChannel Supervision, Access Probe measurements. Verification & Validation.· Verification of the phone to Etsi, FCC and MPS standards wrt In-Band and Out of BandEmissions.Feature Testing and Test Automation of Access-Dial & Voice over IP features on Cisco AS5xxxUniversal Gateway Platforms (Dec 2002 – May2005)Client: Cisco Systems, Inc· Automation of H.323 Ver2 feature test plan on Cisco’s access server product family.· Automation of Cisco Dial Release Test Plan which included PPP (Point to PointProtocol), AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting), V.92 and V.44 features.· Automated Regression runs and defect tracking on CISCO IOS releasesSystem Integrity Testing of Nortel’s DMS-100 Telecom switches (Oct 2000 – Nov 2001)Client: Nortel Networks· Verification of the SS7 protocol Suite and features on the DMS-100 by performing Callinterworking and Stress tests.