MADHU BALA KONERU

Mobile: 571-***-****

Email: ad33nt@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

A system test engineer with almost 12 years of experience and proficiency in Wireless LAN Software QA.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Strong technical and functional expertise with Broadcom and Qualcomm Wireless LAN Software quality assurance.

Experienced in WLAN driver testing on LINUX and ANDROID platforms.

Experienced in testing devices based on protocols 802.11ac, 802.11a, 802.11n, 802.11g and 802.11b.

Experienced in testing WFA certifications of 11ac, 11n, WPA3, PMF, WMMPS, OWE.

Experienced in testing Voice Enterprise Features which include Radio Resource management (802.11K), Fast BSS Transition (802.11r), BSS Transition Management (802.11v).

Have good technical and debugging knowledge in STA functionality, Concurrency features(DBS), Soft AP, P2P, Roaming, WIFI-SON, Preferred Network Offload(PNO), WPS, WAPI, Enterprise security, Incremental Scanning, Hotspot, PMF, Performance tests, stress, FILS, etc.

Experienced in setup bring up of WLAN testing which includes configuring of Access Points, Cisco Controllers(21xx,55xx), attenuators, Host controllers, Devkit8k, Panda boards, Linux machines, MTP’s, installation of USB drivers, flashing builds with JTAG etc.

Experienced in testing of IOT devices using Wi-Fi, BLE, Thread.

Have proficient debugging skills. Experienced in network debugging tools like Ethereal/Wireshark, Omni peek.

Has experience in traffic generation tools like Chariot, Iperf.

Experienced in writing test plans for various levels of testing.

Have good knowledge on C, Python.

Have experience on automating test plans and test cases.

Proficient in performance testing like measuring KPI’s and functional testing where protocol is tested end to end.

Very strong written and verbal communication skills successfully leveraged in project and test plan documentation.

KEY CONTRIBUTIONS:

Trained new joiners for the team.

Prepared test plans for 802.11k, 802.11r, 802.11v, 802.11ai from Specification.

Developed roaming automation test suite from available framework.

Made process improvements and Benefit analysis after implementation.

Won many Qualstars for excellence in work at Qualcomm.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

FORTINET

Designation : Senior Software Dev QA Engineer

Department : R&D

From : March 2020

To : September 2022

Location : Sunnyvale,CA

Work within the R&D team to ensure the productivity, reliability and accuracy of the Fortinet's WLAN product lines.

Review requirements and specifications; create test plans and design detailed test specifications that effectively evaluate the WLAN devices, protocols, interfaces and applications.

Work on WFA pre-certification of Fortinet access points on 11n,11ac, WMM-PS, WPA3 and PMF.

Working on access point features SNMP, WIDS, WPA2, WPA3, OWE, RRM, 11v,11r,11w.

Develop, and execute test plans and functional test cases from functional specs.

Execute test cases, analyze and raise bugs and report test results to product teams.

Building new test infrastructure and maintain them for automation setups.

Report project status and issues to project managers and management.

Debug to analyze the defect root cause, optimize the test scripts for test automation using Python.

Collaborate closely with the development team to analyze, debug and resolve any issues.

Use IxChariot, veriwave and other 3rd party test tools to verify Fortinet products

Compare Fortinet solutions with other industry leading vendors’ solutions.

Adaequare Inc

Designation : Network Engineer

Client : Google Nest

Department : BLE Comms-pairing

From : March 2019

To : March 2020

Location : Mountain view, CA

Testing nest IoT devices using weave tool.

Protocol testing of Wi-Fi, BLE, Thread used in IoT devices.

Working on BLE pairing both manual and automation.

Developing Jenkins jobs for testing new versions of software different nest devices.

Manually verifying weave pairing of nest devices.

Participate and work closely with developers at various stages.

Executed automated test cases using python for verifying pairing on nest devices which involves Wi-Fi, BLE.

Loading build to nest devices using Linux commands through cros_sdk, ssh etc.

Verifying the software quality by taking the builds from repositories.

Verifying the end to end pairing and functionality of nest devices which involves Wi-Fi, BLE.

Design, Install and Maintain QA Test beds, test topologies based on Customer deployment models which involves nest devices i.e. Google AP’s, Linux PC’s, Bluez configuration, weave device manager etc…

Raising bugs and tracking them till closure.

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Designation : Senior Engineer

Department : WLAN Software Test

From : May 2012

To : October 2017

Location : Hyderabad

Testing new versions of Software driver for WLAN which requires understanding of Wireless Network Protocols and customer use scenarios.

Doing all Roaming feature testing i.e. Legacy roaming, OKC, CCX and FT/802.11r, 802.11k, 802.11v, Auto-join, Legacy roaming along with various feature interaction (p2p, TDLS, BT, PMF ), walk tests with all user case scenarios.

One of the first member’s in Qualcomm to understand and test 802.11ai ( FILS) on Qualcomm chipsets and involved from bring up time till customer evaluation.

Working on bring up of WLAN on various kernel versions. Including latest O Android version worked on Naught, Marshmallow, Lollipop, KitKat, Jelly Bean, ICS and Ginger Bread kernel versions.

Reporting bugs and raising enhancement requests for software with defects and providing value added workarounds.

Developed test plans and also worked on 802.11k, 802.11r, 802.11v, Auto-Join from scratch. Assisted developers in implementing changes based on the test outputs and bringing the feature to a stable state.

Trained team members in different GEOS on Voice Enterprise and roaming features.

Worked on customer reported bugs for providing primary debug, analysis and reproduction to developers.

Worked on interoperability for Station, Soft AP and P2P. Configuring Access Points, third party devices required for the setup.

Doing regression & stress testing for all these features which are stabilized over a period of time along with other feature interactions like G-Scan, concurrency etc..

Trained new joiner’s in the team and guided them once they achieved some expertise in testing.

Provided enough technical support in issue debugging and reporting as needed.

Worked on validation of automated Test cases and also developed new API’s using Python based on need.

Amboseli Professional Associates Private Limited

Designation : Engineer-1

Client : Broadcom India Private Limited

Department : WLAN Software Quality Assurance

From : Oct 2010

To : May 2012

Location : Bangalore

Following is the nature of my engagement as Engineer in Broadcom:

Developing new test plans.

Developed test plan for Dynamic Transmit Power.

Automated Dynamic Transmit Power using TCL.

Handled complete product line BCM43362. Covered Throughputs, IBSS, PNO, Roaming, Concurrency, P2P, Soft AP, IOT, etc.

Configuring Access Points, controllers required for the setup.

Worked on Manual and Automated testing.

Installing OS (Linux, windows) required for test setup and needed tools for end to end testing.

Managed validation releases individually.

Assisted developers in prioritizing changes to applications and scheduled changes that most significantly improved productivity, timelines and efficiency.

Reporting bugs, debugging and providing first level of analysis on logs collected.

Experience in debugging script failures and isolating system/software issues.

EDUCATION:

2006 – 2010 Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications

JNTU University, Anantapur

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