Engineer

Manish Sharma

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

Address: **** ******* ******

City: Fremont

State: CA

Zip: 94555

Country: USA

Phone: 510-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: 140

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MANISH SHARMA

Contact: Home: 510-***-****, Cell: 510-***-****, Email: *********@********.*** Status in USA: Permanent Resident

Professional Profile

Senior System Test Engineer with 15 years of experience in the networking / telecommunication industry, with specialization in Routing, AAA, Firewall, VPN, VoIP protocols and test automation using Perl, Shell scripting.

Key strengths

Expertise in 802.1x, Routing, VoIP

Excellent test skills on AAA, DHCP, Firewall, SIP

Proficient in L2 / L3 Protocols, OSPF, RIP, VRRP, VPN, VLANs, RTP, Perl scripting

Technical Skills

Networking / Telecom WLAN Controller, Authentication, 802.1x (PEAP, TLS, TTLS), OSPF, RIP, VRRP, VPN, VLANs,

STP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, VoIP, SIP, SDP, H.323, RTP

OS / Software JUNOS, Cisco IOS, Linux, Windows

Hardware Juniper MX Series Routers, Juniper SRX Series Firewall/VPN gateway, Juniper Routers M40e, M160 and T640 with passive monitoring PICs, Access Points, WAN (T1/E1, DSLAM), Media Gateways (Cisco ISR, Avaya, Sonus), SIP Servers from Avaya, Cisco, Microsoft, VoIP Phones

Virtualization VMWare ESX Server, KVM/Qemu

Tools Agilent Router Tester, IXIA Veriwave, IXIA 1600, IxLoad, Smartbits 2000, FreeRadius, INET, Abacus, Toad, Silk Performer 6.6, GNATS, Wireshark, iPerf

Languages Perl, Shell scripting, C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA 08/2008 till date

Member of Technical Staff IV

Juniper's Branch SRX Series of products provide an integrated solution for packet switching coupled with security services, like NAT, firewalls, VPNs in addition to L2/L3 features and stateful monitoring of traffic and VoIP Solutions

Lead 802.1x testing for Juniper WLAN solution

Tested EAP, PEAP, TLS, TTLS with access switches (MX80, EX3200, EX4200)

Integrated OpenSSL, Root CA, Certificates for 802.1x authentication methods with WLAN controller

Provisioned MAC-Radius and Static MAC with local and Radius based MAC authentication

Tested authentication using Captive Portal (Local, Radius)

Lead testing of AAA with FreeRadius

Configured & provisioned wireless access points

Automated testing & detection of failures using Syslog and Tracing for WLAN solution

Lead testing of DHCP services for Branch SRX platform

Responsible for testing legacy IPv4 features on new Juniper platform and qualifying the same for those protocols

Lead testing & automation of Survivability, T1/CAS, FXS, FXO, Auto-attendant on Branch SRX voice gateway

Carried out inter-operability testing with 3rd party equipment and service vendors like Avaya, Microsoft, Cisco, AT&T, Verizon, and Broadsoft

Lead the bring-up of VoIP lab including purchasing, installation and configuration of equipment, for product testing

Responsible for mentoring and training the interns and delegating intermediate project tasks to them

U4EA Technologies, Inc., Fremont, CA 01/2007 to 06/2008

Senior System Test Engineer

U4EA's Fusion Series Business Gateway simplifies network deployment and service management while providing high-quality service to all end devices simultaneously. It delivers fast, reliable and secure Internet and network access through various state-of-the-art multi-service data and voice integration technologies.

As a lead QA member, initiated and implemented process for functional specification and test plan reviews

Responsible for writing test plans, functional and performance testing using WinSip, iPerf, Smartbits, IxLoad

Executed interop testing of our products with 3rd party SIP servers, VoIP phones, DSLAMS, IP-PBX

Mentored junior test engineers to bring them up to speed on all aspects of work

Helped improve the stability and quality of the products with extensive test coverage

IP Unity, Inc., Milpitas, CA 05/2005 to 12/2006

Member of Technical Staff II

IP Unity's Mereon Unified Messaging platform is a multi-service platform that is completely interoperable with major soft-switches, gateways and OSS interfaces. It is compliant with SIP, MGCP, 3GPP and PacketCable and consists of services like unified messaging, video messaging, video conferencing

As lead QA member, I actively participated in feature reviews and provided inputs to development engineering; responsible for writing/executing test plans for complex features like Voice Mail, Fax, Text-to-Speech and Conferencing

Tested framework functionality using custom built applications to verify its SIP and MGCP call-flow compliance

Carried out functional, HA and performance testing using Quadtex and in-house test applications

Provided technical assistance to junior test engineers, which included debugging, protocol sniffers, call flows, lab setup, test plan writing and execution, writing shell scripts for gathering test statistics

Worked on-site with solution partners to come up with plans for upgrade procedures from one release to next

Helped customer support team in reproducing field bugs and by giving proper feedback on issues faced while testing

BayPackets, Inc., Fremont, CA 08/2004 to 04/2005

System Test Engineer

Agility Network Services Platform (NSP), with native support for SIP, MGCP, SS7 (AIN) signaling, allows service providers, looking to migrate network services and applications from a TDM network to an IP network to offer a full range of applications for enhanced routing and messaging services like VoiceVPN, Advanced Toll-Free, Pre-paid, and Voicemail.

Understood service requirements, created test plan for functional, fault tolerance and performance testing

Wrote shell scripts to gather test statistics; filed bugs using ClearCase DTS; apply and test the bug fix patches

Tested bulk load using in-house SIP / IVR simulators, web stress testing / bulk provisioning with Silk Performer 6.6

Responsible for provisioning the media servers used for IVR such as Convedia CMS6000, Cognitronics CX500, and CX3000; install Oracle and Sun ONE Messaging server for LDAP services

AT&T, Middletown, NJ 07/2001 to 07/2004

System Test Engineer (2001 - 2004)

The project involved passively monitoring IP traffic, between AT&T's Common Backbone and other ISPs using Juniper routers, generating cFlow type records based on some rule sets and ftp those records to a common storage for further analysis.

Responsible for creating automated test scripts using Tcl to simulate the real world traffic on Adtech AX4000 and test Juniper router PIC's ability to produce proper cFlow records

Managed Sablime, a Source code control and configuration management system

Verified gateway's compliance with ITU ISUP & ISDN recommendations Q.781, Q.782 & Q.931 & test the switch using Ameritec Bulk Call Generator

Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ & SITA, Atlanta, GA 05/1997 to 04/2001

System Test Engineer (2000 - 2001)

Lucent Softswitch & Pathstar Access Server is a next-generation, carrier grade, packet-based Class 5 switch. SITA provides various types of VPN services to MNCs.

Tested the SS7 signaling protocol with INET and PSAS

Installed the system at customer sites like GTE in Boston, Global Crossing in Denver and Telefonica in Madrid, Spain

Evaluated UNIX based tool Central Office Data Engineering System (CODES) used for switch configuration and provisioning

TCS-Nortel, Mumbai, India 01/1995 to 04/1997

Systems Analyst

Nortel has a range of switches from DMS 10, 100, 250, 300 and 500 with functions varying from local end offices to international gateways.

Designed, implemented & tested DMS-300 feature "Service Screening Enhancements" for ANSI7+, Q.767, C7TUP (TUP red)

Tested Sprint feature "Password Enhancements II" and designed DMS-300 feature "Supplementary Service Screening" that allows / disallows a particular service for originating ISDN or non-ISDN terminal

Prepared Functional Description, High Level Design, Detail Design and Design Test Documents.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics, University of Bombay, India

Introduction to Telecommunications in Advanced Intelligent Networks, Call Processing, SS7 and ISDN

Attended CCNA, CCNP certification course at Ohlone College in Fremont, CA

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