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Software Engineer/Tech Lead with around 15+ years of hands-on experience in large-scale software development product design , development, Quality assurance, system Test & Multi-Vendor Integration.10+ year of rich industry experience data center product devopment ( data center switches Nexsu series TOR and EOR ) . Responsibilities include strategy and planning, product definition, plan & drive program execution, provide technical guidance to team members . Engineering Experience with top tier product companies like Cisco System (10 years), Conexant (4.5 years) and HCL-Cisco. Design and develop high quality automation firmware.Develop high level design, low-level design specification.Closely work with HW architects and system engineers to design HW-SW functional split and interfaceDelivered Industry’s first Precision Time Protocol (PTP) -IEEE1588 – 2002 standard allows precise synchronization on packet networks for data centre nexus switch.SyncE port enablement (CloudScale Switch). (PTP Telecome profile with SyncE ). First time on data centre switches. Support for ITU-compliant precision frequency over Ethernet ports and the PHY-level frequency distribution of known common precision frequency references.Design and Validation Telecom Profile G.8275.1 and Telecom Profile G.8273.2 - Support for ITU-T Telecom Profiles for PTP as defined in the ITU-T recommendation.Successfully design and implanted PTP on multi-domain environment This can be used to operate multiple PTP domains in one network. Experienced in Functional testing, Load/Stress testing, Usability testing, Production Testing/Monitoring, Defect Reporting, and Frame work development, Automation of functional Test Cases and Test Management and related test methodologies. I carries rich experience of working in different capacities across the corporate . I contributed to the organizations growth by building and improving the COEs (Center Of Excellences) in Performance, Functional automation and Test management.Masters in Computer Technology| . Graduated in a leadership program .Specialities: Network product, Data centre, virtualization,cloud computing,DevOps,Python,framework,Automation framework,cloudsolutions,cloudservices,ptp,syncE,cloudcomputing,automation,testautomation,networkautomation,SDN

Listed skills include Test Automation, Device Drivers, Testing, Test Planning, and 14 others.