Testing Engineer

Lakshmi Naidu

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Email :*******.***@*****.***

Professional Summary:

> Having 6+ years of experience in networking domain with focus on

Layer2, Layer3, Layer7 protocols, Cisco, Nokia, Juniper devices.

> Highly Experience in configuring and troubleshooting of L2 features -

Link Aggregation, STP,RSTP,VLAN, VTP.

> Experienced in building networks using Layer3 protocols - RIP, OSPF,

BGP, EIGRP.

> Experienced in certifying devices with QOS( CBQOS, Migration, HQOS) in

MPLS networks on Cisco routers and switches.

> Experienced in building IPSEC VPN and SSL VPN.

> Extensive expertise in using IXIA(IxChariot, IxLoad, IxNetwork and

IxAutomate), SPIRENT test center.

> Experienced in testing and configuring WAN technologies - PPP, Frame-

relay, MLPPP, MLFR, HDLC, ATM.

> Experienced in Lab setup with Cisco Routers, Switches, Juniper Mx960,

Nokia IP security platforms required for testing.

> Experienced in configuring VOIP protocols H.323, SIP, RTP, RTCP.

> Experienced in configuring and testing L2, L3 features on Juniper

MX960 device.

> Experienced in testing, configuring and troubleshooting 10Gig cards on

Juniper Mx960

> Experienced in Configuring and trouble shooting Checkpoint

Firewalls/Cisco Firewalls

> Experienced in installing software under Virtualized environment

including building Windows xp, windows 2003, Redhat linux devices on

VMware, ESX sever.

> Experienced in configuring of IPV6 in CA Unicenter NSM.

> Good Knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP/IP, IGRP, NMS tools, VRRP, HSRP.

> Hands on experience working with Windows, Linux(Redhat, SUSE),

UNIX(AIX, HP-UX, Solaris) OS.

> Experience in working on Opsware, NetFlow scripts, NetQOS.

> Have hands on experience in Perl.

> Cisco Certified Network Associate.

> With "Ever Ready" approach, as a good team player, quick learner and

self-starter, always contributed best to all projects worked so far.

> Managed and coordinated the execution of testing processes.Experienced

in Identifying and implementing changes/process improvements to

automated and manual test strategies.

> Quick in learning & working with new technologies to fulfill project

needs.

Education:

Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) from Andhra University

Technical Skills:

Deploying, Configuring, Troubleshooting multitude of

Cisco's L2/L3 network elements. Cisco 2960, 3550,

Devices& 4506, 6905, Cisco 2800,3800, 7200, 7613, CRS-1.

Protocols

Juniper Mx960.

Ethernet Routing and VLAN in Switches.

Configuring and Testing Nokia IP Security platforms :

IP350,IP380,IP385,IP560,IP710,IP740,IP1220,IP1260,

IP2250

VLAN, VTP, Spanning Tree, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, QoS,

PPP, HDLC, FrameRelay, MLPPP, MLFR, MPLS(RSVP/LDP),

DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, UDP, Telnet, SNMP(v1,v2,v3), SSL,

SSH, FTP, HTTP, WAN Technologies.

Operating Windows, UNIX(HP-UX, Solaris, AIX), Linux(Redhat,

System SUSE),

Cisco IOS, Junos, Nokia IPSO.

Network L2/L3 Firewalls,Cisco PIX Firewalls, VPN, IPSEC.

Security

Technologies

Scripting Perl

Languages

Hardware Cisco, Juniper, Nokia.

Testing tools SPIRENT Test Center, IxNetwork, IxAutomate, IxChariot,

IxExplorer, Tcpdump, Ethereal/Wireshark, netsh,

syslog, NetQos - Report Analyzer, NetQos - NetVoyant.

Professional Experience:

Employer : AT&T, New Jersey Sep '09 - Nov '09

Sr.Network Engineer

Voice Aware Network 4.0 (VAN 4.0):

Description: Certifying the Mobility edge network to connect to the

Customer Backbone as per design specifications.

The VoIP Aware Network is a network that provides IP communication between

common and Shared VoIP elements. VAN provides a standardized way for

connecting the VOIP application sites to various network offers within AT&T

IP Data services using the MPLS-Based Common backbone. VAN provides a

common secure Network Infrastructure for connecting AT&T's VOIP services to

various customer Access offers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Certifying Juniper Mx960 as the VAN4 PE router.

. Design and implementing the VAN4.0 network as per the design

specifications.

. Preparing Test plans for each test bundle to test on Mx960.

. Testing Ethernet Support, 10GE scalability, Native Ethernet Layer 2

and VLAN support.

. Testing Virtual Switching capability VRRP, Route Engine Switchover on

Mx960

. Configuring and testing BGP(IBGP, EBGP) on Mx960, Cisco 7613.

. Configuring and testing OSPF on Mx960 and CRS-1.

. Configuring and testing MPLS, LDP on Mx960 and CRS-1.

. Configuring and testing EIGRP on Cisco 7613.

. Configuring Mx960 as provider edge router as part of ATM

Internetworking.

. Configuring route filters and route policies on PE to allow routes

from Route reflectors.

. Performance and Latency testing of Mx960 using IXIA and SPIRENT Test

Center.

. Using MS Visio to design network test diagrams.

. Configuring switching, routing (BGP) on Provided Edge routers in MPLS

network for testing End-End QOS.

. Performing Throughput Test (IPv6 RFC-2544) and Performance testing on

40Ge interface card of Mx960 using IXIA Network and Explorer.

. Configuring and testing QOS(4 classes) on the voice traffic using dscp

markings

Employer : WellsFargo, Des Moines IA Jul '08 - Aug '09

Sr.Network Engineer

Network Testing, Evaluation, and Certification (NTEC) Centers

Description: Wells Fargo is implementing QoS across the organization. The

purpose of the project is to Test and certify the networking devices for

Different QoS models (Migration/CBQoS/HQoS) in variety of Networking

Devices and Network implementations. This requirement is primary driven

from the fact that WellsFargo is moving from Traditional network to MPLS

based network and implementing QoS for End to End Quality assurance.

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Certifying all the new network elements and their configurations for

production network with unique configurations used in WellsFargo

production network.

. Design and implement the new network Sites(Retail/Admin) in Lab to

MPLS network thru Provided Edge routers.

. Using MS Visio to design network test diagrams.

. Preparing test sets for Lab service requests and get approvals from

the service requestor.

. Execute BaseLine, Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature testing this includes

most of the protocols and L2/L3, routing to PE routers.

. Certifying Cisco Firewall devices for performance/Feature Using IXIA

Load and Avalanche.

. Confguring switching, routing(BGP) on Provided Edge routers in MPLS

network for testing End-End QOS.

. Configuring ACLs and Firewall rules on Cisco routers .

. Performing Throughput Test (IPv6 RFC-2544) and Performance testing

using IXIA Automate and Explorer.

. Perform Testing for TCP/IP for all the LSRs on Cisco routers and

Switches.

. Configuring QoS on Cisco routers and switches and certifying using

IXIA Chariot using 6 Classes of Traffic on variety of configuration

including and not limited to MLFR,MLPP,IPSEC Tunnel, ATM DS3,T1/E1,

HDLC and MPLS.

. Configuring BGP on PE and CE Cisco routers(2800,3800,4500) in MPLS

network for retail sites, to advertise all the routes from MPLS

network to the LAN side routers.

. Configuring OSPF for routing on Cisco routers(7200,7500) in Admin

sites and on cisco routers(2800) for retail sites. for certifying

different Lab Service Requests (LSRs).

. Configuring Multicast Protocol IGMP V1/2, CGMP, IGMP Snooping on Cisco

Routers.

. Configuring Multicast routing protocol PIM(Dense Mode/Sparse

Mode/Sparse-Dense Mode) on Cisco 3825 router.

. Setting LAB and configuring Cisco routers and switches as per the

requirement.

. Configuring PPP,Frame-Relay, MLPPP(with 4 T1 interfaces)on Cisco

2811,3825 to test the performance of router with full line rate.

. Configuring VOIP protocols SIP, RTP, SRTP for QOS testing and

verified the results using IxChariot.

. Perform Test Latency and Jitter testing for VOIP communications ans

Video communications using IXIA tools and conformation testing using

NetQOS.

. Configuring VLANs, Vlan trunking on cisco switches 2960, 3550, 6509.

. Configuring SNMP and Accesslists on all the routers used for

Certification.

. Configuting Link aggregation, sub rate and traffic shaping.

. Performance testing the CPU vs Bandwidth using verity of Network

services like NetFlow,ACL and Marking.

. NMS Testing using HP Opsware, SMARTS, InfoVista and Syslog.

. Working with CISCO on the Performance result and get the best

configuration possible to get the best performance.

Employer : CA Technologies, Feb' 07 - May '08

Network QA Engineer

CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (NSM) simplifies system

management and helps to ensure the availability and performance of your

business critical processes with centralized, adaptive and secure

management.

System Performance is the post install of NSM. It facilitates collecting,

analyzing, and reporting performance data and increase IT responsiveness

to unexpected problems, ensuring higher service levels using Hpaagent,

Prf agent.

Module: CA UNICENTER NSMr11.2 Testing

Roles and Responsibilities:

. System study and analysis of the core functionality of the Product

(NSM & SP)

. Requirement gathering by reading the DDS provided by the Development.

. Using Ghost, Winpe for taking backup of the system, for testing

purposes.

. Preparing test sets for all the new modules.

. Preparing the test Strategy for Agent Technology, UBI.

. Preparing the test cases specific to Linux/Unix platforms for the new

fuctionalities.

. Lab setup with Cisco Switches and Routers as required for testing,

building VPN between remote site and branch office.

. Configuring MPLS network to test NSM on PE routers. Configured routing

and ACLS with route reflectors for IBGP.

. Installation and Testing various scenarios of NSMr11.2 features on

Linux(Redhat,Suse) from command-line and GUI.

. Downloaded the installation builds from the remote sites to Unix

servers using mount.

. Preparing test sets for NMS r11.2 for TCP/IP.

. Involved in building Ipv6 based network, DHCP and DNS servers in

Windows, Linux that supports IPV6 devices.

. Configured VOIP protocols SIP, RTP to test NMS on VOIP data.

. Configured BGP, EIGRP on Cisco routers for lab setup.

. Configured and troubleshoot NSM and SP in Microsoft Network.

. Worked in a team(Advanced Steering Group) of 3 members for building

Linux/Unix lab for NSM r11.2 IPv6 & IPv4 lab with DHCP and DNS

servers.

. Confirmation testing on Linux/Unix using syslog.

. Discovering Unix/Linux machines using Autodiscovery and verified for

the correct information.

. Configured zones on Sunsolaris for testing the zone information in

NSM.

. Installed various libraries in Linux, required for the installation of

NSM that did not come by default with Linux installation.

. Preparing the test plan and writing the test cases for the Agent

Technology, UBI (Ipv4 &IPv6 compliance).

. Installation of the product, and executing the test cases for each

application and checking

. the core functionality of the product manually.

. Configured IGMPV2 on Cisco 3825 to multicast Voice streaming to

clients.

. Configured Cisco router 2821,3825 with SNMP, OSPF for testing of NSM

resource management and routing objects.

. Tested Cisco Integration Component to support cisco objects by NSM, as

part of that testing Configured Cisco devices.

. Tested NSM SP support to OPNET.

. Configuring cisco switches for the testing of event management

component.

. Tested HTTP, HTTPS protocols in NSMR11.2 release.

. Worked as a team lead for NSMr11.2 B16, B17, B18 and managed a team of

6 members.

. Configured HSRP on cisco routers to test the compatibility of NSM in

that environment.

. Involved in testing of various product installations and testing of

NSM in different Environments (Windows 2k3, 2k,WinXP, Windows Vista,

RHEL 4.0,5.0,SUSE 9.0, AIX5.3, Solaris10, HP-UX 11.31)

Module: CA NSM-SP R11.2

Roles and Responsibilities:

. Functionality testing of Historical Agent Interface module by

configuring VLANS on Cisco devices

. Functionality testing of Real-time performance data for Link

aggregated interfaces, Interface MAC Addresses, Interface data

transfer rate.

. Perform the role of Linux/Unix admin for the team of NSM by building

all the linux/unix machines and resolved issues for the team.

. Functionality testing of NSMSPr11.2 with Ipv6.

. Involved in testing of FIPS compliance.

. Involved in stress and compatibility testing of the product .

. Reporting bugs in 'STAR' bug tracking tool

. Building up machines and installations of Windows and Linux OS on

VMWARES (ESX Server).

. Functionality testing of NSM SP in DMZ setup.

. Using Netsh tool to compare output of performance configuration values

with the original values.

Client: NOKIA Enterprises Solutions, R&D Division Jan '04 - Jan '07

Employer: Satyam Computers, Innominds Network Engineer

Project Description: Testing of NOKIA IPSO

Roles and Responsibilities:

> Building various networking sites as per the design that is required

for the testing.

> Configuring devices from the scratch and troubleshooting.

> Prepare Test plans as per Engineering document & check limitation of

the feature

> Prepare Test sets as per Test plan and get approval from internal&

external review

> Analyze the test cases of other features of a Router to approve it

> et approval from Developers to start testing

> Prepare a test bed with relevant Devices(Cisco, Nokia) with Supported

interfaces and media

Environment: UNIX, Linux

IPSO is the operating system that is used in all the NOKIA IPSecurity

platforms. There are mainly 3 modules in IPSO : Kernel, Routing and

NMS.

. Develop, maintain, and enhance test suites as needed.

. Write testplan and testcases for LACP, VLAN and SNMP,HTTP, STP for

IPSO4.0 .

. Troubleshooting of STP, LACP,VLANs in IPSO3.9, IPSO3.9.1.

. Testing TCP/IP protocols on Nokia security platforms and

interoperability with Cisco routers and Swtiches.

. Experienced in setting Lab as per the test setup.

. Configuring of SNMP, DHCP in IPSO4.0 .

. Configuring and testing of routing protocols BGP, OSPF.

. Functionality testing of PIM Dense/Sparse mode on Nokia IP security

platforms.

. Configuring and testing MPLS on Cisco and Nokia routers (PE and CE

routers).

. Functionality testing of redundancy protocol VRRP, System-failure

notification, DiskMirroring, Option-logging, Job Scheduler.

. Working on cisco routers and switches to setup the network setup for

the testing.

. Setup IXIA to test the network as per topology.

. Tested latency and Jitter using Ixia for Voice and Video

communications.

. Executed Automation test suites(using TCL/Tk) of Fresh Installations,

Upgrade, Uninstallation of IPSO on Nokia devices.

. Conformance test of SNMP MIBs using Syslog tool.

. Configuring Cisco routers 2800 with routing protocols to check the

compatibility of Nokia routers.

. Finding the bugs related to the Operating System (Router), Routing

Protocols, Security etc, and files them in Nokia online bug tracking

system.

. Hands on experience with Checkpoint, Cisco PIX firewalls.

. Testing and verifying the bugs that are filed on different features /

protocols / functions.

. Closing the bugs that are fixed by the development.

. Find and reporting the problems and reproduce the same on request.

. Meeting the deadlines without compromising on Quality.

Project Description : Testing of SSL based VPN Devices.

Functionality Testing of NSAS (Nokia Secure Access System).

The Nokia Secure Access System enables an enterprise to securely

extend Intranet services to its users, who can then access these

services from variety of web-capable platforms and locations. These

acts as Gateway for authorized remote users to securely access network

services on the enterprise intranet. SSL or TLS protects all

Communications between the users and the gateway.

Roles and Responsibilities:

> Installation and configuration of Nokia devices with NSAS.

> Tested SSL VPN using browser on Linux machines.

> Stress testing of SSL VPN Voyager.

> Write testplan and testcases of SNMPv1/v2/v3.

> Functionality testing of DHCP server,HTTPS, SNMPv3.

> Functionality testing of VLAN s.

> Automated testcases for SSL VPN Voyager for SNMP using Perl.

Awards and Recognition:

> "Star of the Month" award from CA for effective handling of NSM SP

Agents, for building Ipv6 lab with vpn between branch office and

remote office for the testing of NSM SP.

> "BUG King" award from CA, for finding the highest number of bugs for

NSMr11.2.

> Appreciation Certificate/Cash Awards from client, Nokia for handling

customer calls.

> Handled training sessions for Entry Level Trainee batches on Layer2,

Layer3 and Layer 7 protocols.

> As an active member organized many team activities and outings and I

was involved in conducting fun events for CA NSM team.

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