Martha Fernandes

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EXPERIENCE

Test Lead – Telecom Testing

Sep 2010 – Present

Wipro Technologies, Bangalore.

Senior Software Engineer – Telecom Testing

May 2006 – Aug 2010

Wipro Technologies, Bangalore.

Software Engineer – Telecom Testing

Jan 2005 – May 2006

Celestream Technologies, Bangalore

Experience Summary:

Overall 10+ years of experience in Software Testing Environment (Networking Domain). Having experience in preparing test plans, Dev testing, automating test cases using TCL. Actively involved in Test plan writing and Automation of test cases. Regression/Performance/Acceptance Testing and Analysis of Regression runs. Review of test scripts and test plans.

More than 5+ years of Test Lead (management) experience. As a lead involved in Planning, organize and scoping of required test cases. Design the test strategy in line with the scope, execute test cases, analyze failures and get it reviewed and approved/ signed-off by the relevant stakeholders. Evaluate and identify the required test automation and test management tools. Estimate the test effort, team size, skills and schedule. Communicate with customer interfacing with US/Canada/Thailand for any new releases. Determine, procure, control, maintain and optimize test environment (hardware, software and network), on-time delivery, SLA tracking and metric planning.

Worked with clients like ALU (Alcatel-Lucent), CISCO.

Worked with third party vendors like IXIA, SPIRENT.

Client site (San Jose, CA, USA) work experience for new hardware testing for CATALYST 4000 series switch.

Worked on L2/L3 protocols. SME for OSPF, STP,DHCP, ACLs and SNMP.

Worked on Security features like 802.1x, port-security and ACL

Software Engineering Methodologies/Tools/Technologies such as Clear Case, CVS, GDB, Virtualization

Completed CCNA routing and switching training – Will be certified by Oct30th, 2015.

Technical Skills:

Scripting Language : TCL, Perl, UNIX, Shell, PHP, Selenium, Python

Tools : DDTS for defect tracking, E-arms

for Regression execution, IXIA(IXNetwork, IX-Auth), ISE, HP QC (Quality Centre) Wireshark, MS Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

Operating Systems : UNIX(Solaris), Linux, Windows

Data Base : MySql, Oracle

Software Engineering Methodologies/Tools/Technologies : ClearCase, CVS, GDB, Virtualization.

Network/Telecom/System Software : Cat4k/Cat2k/3k switches, AP37XX

Series Access Points, Cisco IOS, Alcatel –

Lucent switches, NMS, OSPF, STP, DHCP,

ACLs, UDP, HTTP, DNS and SNMP.

Trainings undergone:

TCL Training.

ICND Training.

Future Manager Program(FMP)

LEAN certified

L2/L3 Protocols.

Kaizen(Optimizing testing/Automation efforts)

Education

MCA(Masters in Computer applications)

Achievements in Wipro Technologies

“Maestro Award” for leading the best delivery team in 2011 at account level

Best team award in entire Testing Services across Wipro.

“Feather in My Cap” award in recognition of my contribution towards Spiderwoman (WS-4948E) and SUP7L-E switch testing and logging many feature and MIB defects.

“Feather in My Cap” award in recognition of providing excellent support for UAI migration, compliance porting and logging maximum bug for the release.

"Thanks a Zillion" award in recognition of my analytical ability to root cause the issues and mentoring the team members as and when required.

Completed Layer 2 domain certification - internal to Wipro

Received client appreciation and Cap Awards many times for timely deliveries of IRs (Implementation Requests).

Projects Executed at Wipro Technologies

i.CAT4K Automation/Testing

Duration: (Sep 2010 – till date)

Client: Cisco Systems

Role: Test Lead

Duration: 5+ years months

About Project

The project involves around regression of 180 L2/L3 features. The test suite included testing functionality, performance, recovery, stability and MIB testing .Automation of protocol suite using TCL/TK. IXIA was used as a traffic generator. Regression is done on entire 4K protocol family. Also we are involved in takeover from 2 vendors as part of Consolidation.

My Key Responsibilities:

Building the testbed to match the automation requirements, which involved, identifying devices to be used, placing order through cisco ordering tool, procuring the equipment’s and handing over to lab team. Building of topology and verifying the same

Test plan writing, devTesting of new features(L2/L3), Regression and Performance testing on Cat4500 Cisco switches

Integration of test cases in Regression infrastructure

Entire ownership of regression of the 2k/3k/4k family of switches and automation of the new features using TCL/TK ( CAMFEX and Performance testing scripts)

Estimation, Scheduling, Resource planning, tracking, ensuring process compliance and on-time delivery

SLA tracking, metric planning

Planning the test strategy, customer interfacing with US/Canada/Thailand for any new releases.

Also worked as transition manager to set up a new offshore activity for devtesting from regression

People management

Handling customers and core stakeholders.

Working on Smart Regression tool – for selectively identifying test cases impacting the code modified for the release

ii.Catalyst 4000 series Switches (CAT4K) Protocol and SNMP Testing

Duration: (May 2006 – Sep 2010)

Role: Test Engineer

Client: Cisco Systems, SJ (USA).

About Product

Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series switches are designed for Enterprise wiring closets, branch offices and Layer 3 distribution points. The catalyst 4500 series is comprised of a series of chassis which support three choices of Supervisor Engines and an extensive set of line cards including high density, 10/100,10/100/1000 (both with 802.3af Power over Ethernet Options), 100-FX, and 1000BASE-X. It is also optimized for business services aggregation and subscriber access in metropolitan area for network operators and service providers.

About Project

This project strives in testing all L2/L3 Protocols, MIB’s and traps supported by Catalyst 4000 series across various images. This project involves manual testing, compliance testing, performance testing, automation and regression testing for L2/L3 Protocols, MIB’s and traps supported by Catalyst 4000 series switches using SNMP commands.

Description:

a)Testing (Writing test plan, Automation using TCL, Manual testing and Regression testing)

Role : Test Engineer

Duration : 24 months

My Key Responsibilities:

Writing test plan for various MIBs supported on CATALYST 4000 series switches.

Automation of TCs using TCL for various features supported on Catalyst 4000 series (IGMP, PIM, DHCP, VLAN etc.).

Running and analyzing regression run.

Analysis & debugging of Test case failures.

Optimization of Regression suites to control growth of cases.

File bugs on product after analyzing the failures.

Worked on different h/w supervisors and line cards supported on catalyst 4000 series switches.

Preparing Status Reports including technical documentation.

Guide and train 1st line Engineer’s.

b)Dev-Testing (For VTP, STP and REP feature)

Role : Test Engineer

Duration : 12 months

My Key Responsibilities:

Preparation of test plan for new hardware testing.

Preparation of test plan for VTP (Vlan trunking protocol) and STP (Spanning Tree Protocol).

Extensive testing for CISCO-VTP-MIB and CISCO-STP-EXTENSIONS-MIB on different supervisors and images.

Automation of VTP, REP, STP TCs using TCL.

Raising bugs found during dev-testing in c-dets

Preparing Status Reports including technical documentation.

Building New test setup

c)Dev-Testing (For Dot1x feature)

Role : Test Engineer

Duration : 4 month

My Key Responsibilities:

Preparation of test plan for IEEE8021-PAE-MIB, CISCO-MAC-BYPASS-AUTH-MIB, CISCO-PAE-MIB testing.

Extensive testing for IEEE8021-PAE-MIB.

Raising bugs found during dev-testing.

Automation using TCL scripting.

Preparing Status Reports including technical documentation.

d)New hardware Dev-Testing at client location SJ, CA (USA) [Feb. 2008 - Apr. 2008]

Role : Test Engineer

Duration : 3 month

My Key Responsibilities:

Preparation of test plan for new hardware (WS-4948E, Sup 7L-E) testing and MIBs.

Extensive testing for all new MIBS and old MIBS for new hardware.

Helping onsite team in reproducing filed bugs.

One point contact for all client queries.

Direct reporting to client at onsite.

Regression testing for new hardware.

Raising bugs found during dev-testing.

Preparing Status Reports including technical documentation

e)Dev-testing (IEEE-8021-PAE-MIB)

Role : Test Engineer

Duration : 5 months

My Key Responsibilities:

Preparation of test plan for MIB dev-testing of PAE features.

Extensive testing for IEEE-8021-PAE-MIB on different supervisors and images.

Automation of IEEE-8021-PAE-MIB TCs using TCL.

Raising bugs found during dev-testing.

Preparing Status Reports including technical documentation.

f)Dev-testing (For Hardware MIBs)

Role : Test Engineer

Duration : 6 months

My Key Responsibilities:

Preparation of test plan for all hardware MIBs supported on Catalyst4500 product.

Extensive testing for HARDWARE MIBs on different supervisors and images.

Automation of Hardware MIBs TCs using TCL.

Raising bugs found during dev-testing.

Preparing Status Reports including technical documentation.

Projects Executed at Celstream Technologies

Duration: (Jan 2005 – Apr 2006)

Role: Software Test Engineer

Client: Lucent Technologies.

My Key Responsibilities:

Involves testing of ATM protocols: UNI 3.1/4.0, PNNI signaling and IP routing protocols, Traffic Management, MLFR, MDLCI, Rate Enforcement, WRED, OAM, UNI, etc. also physical layer testing like Automatic Protection Switching testing.

Feature/Conformance/Performance/Regression testing.

Network Management System testing.

Scripting of test cases – Automation.

NSI/PSSU/PU/CASCADE Upgrade

Lucent Technologies (9 months)

Designation: Project Trainee.

Role/Responsibility: Development of the Automated Testing System.

My key responsibility:

Development of the Automatic Test System using Perl and PHP.

ATS is a system designed for the execution and analysis of automated tests with test planning and scheduling. The ATS is not a single system, but an entire environment dedicated to automated testing. It encompasses a dedicated network of hardware and test equipment, a collection of software Library tools and databases and the actual test scripts themselves.

OS : Solaris.

Scripting : Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Java.

Database : MySQL, Oracle.

All the details furnished above are true to the best of my knowledge.

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