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- Leading the test effort for Prisma Access Secure Web Gateway (Saml, Kerberos) and Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)- Initiated and led development of clients for component level testing of Secure Web Gateway architecture based on microservices like Gatekeeper, Xds and Logger deployed as Kubernetes pods deployed regionally- Testing of control and data plane to verify configuration of Dns proxy, Nat policies, Ipsec tunnels, Static and Bgp based routes on PANOS cloud-based firewalls- Leading a cross functional effort to develop test plans, automation strategy and Integrate with Development, PLM, TME, Documentation and SRE teams for driving Product releases- Developed automation framework in pytest to test private access of Http, Https and other tcp/udp applications using ZTNA- Communicating between Engineering and SRE teams to deploy critical K8s service in QA and Production environments- Improving metrics for execution by automating tests and implementing regressions on weekly basis to catch defects- Experience with Git repos, testing and defect management tools, Palo Alto Networks Panorama Controller and PANOS cloud firewalls, Aws/Gcp/Azure console and services for setting up cloud instances for testing, managing testbed Esxi servers

- Orchestrated an effort to test the K8s microservices based orchestration platform (FSS) for managing automated config gen/config sync for the data center switches (SR Linux)- Automated regressions in python for qualifying underlay and overlay feature configurations- Led cross team efforts with PLM, development, Poc and documentation teams to drive the feature testing - Features Tested: Access control list for workloads, Underlay Intent Deviations with admin capabilities for managing device config

Palo Alto, California

- Tested NSX-T data center product at scale for East-West and North-South Service Insertion feature- Developed scripts in python to accommodate scaling requirements for exercising on a larger 256 esxi host setup- Enhanced and improved the existing service insertion functional verification scheme to be scalable for traffic tests

- Created functional test plans, manually implementing and automating the test cases using Tcl based framework- Functional Testing across management (rest-api based), control (controller provisioning) and data plane (forwarding) - Maintained regressions with daily/weekly builds, filing bugs and updating release documents for several release cycles- Participated in Product Requirement Discussions and Functional Specification Reviews - Worked on debugging network issues on testbeds using network tools like tcpdump, ping, traceroute and analyzing various log files- Collaborated with PLMs and support teams to reproduce, debug and verify customer issues- Features Tested: Dual uplink Acl based traffic steering, Static routes, Policy based routing/Service chaining, Application Aware Routing, Underlay PAT/NAT, Underlay Border Router (disjoint underlay connectivity), Border Router (linking data-center to Branch), Interaction/Integration testing with features like Nat-traversal, Overlay Ipsec/VxLAN traffic

- Setting assignments and projects for students- Familiarizing students with Network tools like Wireshark, Packet Tracer and Linux and Python- Grade assignments and lab work- Assisting students with doubts in the subject and monitoring their progress

-Monitor Audio/Video devices on a daily bases and troubleshoot problems.-Work at the help desk for queries related to devices like printer, laptop and cables.

Westford, Ma

- Designed, developed and maintained automated scripts for Juniper Networks MX series router using Perl and reported the results on daily basis - Proposed and incorporated test cases in the legacy scripts for enhancing the existing smoke test infrastructure to improve performance - Reported and tracked PRs using GNATS and coordinated with developers to replicate and resolve bugs - Supported the QA engineers and feature lead developers in manual and automation testing using IXIA, Spirent router tester and MX routers as the DUT - Got acquainted with JUNOS platform and worked on access protocols like DHCP, L2TP, PPPoE and authentication protocols like RADIUS to replicate service provider scenarios - Gained experience on virtualization by setup and configuration of virtual router and router testers - Ported test cases for BBE and BRAS test suites used for MX routers to work on Virtual MX platform - Performed orchestration of virtual machines and learnt about KVM, QEMU, hypervisor, VMM and hybridging - Documented a handbook on Virtual MX test bed setup which will be used by the development teams across Juniper

- Identified and quarantined malware in a network of 10,000 computers.- Coordinated with NAP team to negotiate policies for system health requirements.- Documented daily and weekly reports for web based threats (email and internet).- Analyzed login failures and supervised user management under Active Directory team.

Navi Mumbai, India

- Was among a team of 4 in a batch of 140 students who got selected for training.- Augmented knowledge on Avaya/Cisco IP Telephony Systems.- Learned about IP subnetting, call allocation, call forwarding and managing extensions.- Visited IT rooms and observed PBX, VoIP phones and other infrastructure.

Master'S Degree, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications

Activities and Societies: Northeastern University, Info-commons (On-campus), Boston, MA Audio/Video Technician Monitor projectors, cables.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: IETE, IEEE, Event Manager - Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication EngineersFinal Project: Mobile phone.

Education record

Education record