Testing Engineer

Resume of Tony Jacob

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Summary:

. Software test lead with strong testing programming and team

leading skills

. 9 years of experience in leading teams and 14+ years of total

experience in Software field

. Lead test teams in Network Management, VOIP, SIP, mobile testing

and web testing domains.

. Experienced in agile and waterfall methodologies

. Experienced in black box testing, Performance testing, Scalability

testing, Protocol testing,Interoperability testing, Mobile testing

Automation frameworks, scripts and network build outs.

. Experienced in Estimation, Scoping Planning, Test Strategy, Test

Plans

. Has worked on C, Java TCL Expect, Python and shell scripts

. Proficient in networking, routing, switching,Network Management,

SNMP, VOIP and SIP

. Familiar with Network security, 2G, QOS

EDUCATION

. M.Tech. (Artificial Intelligence) from Hyderabad Central University in

1997 with 72%

. B.Tech. (Computer Science) from Calicut Regional Engineering College with

68%

Technical Skills: Networking, Network Management, SNMP, TCL, VOIP, SIP,

MGCP, Cisco Routers, Switches and VOIP Infrastructure, OSPF, RIP,

Wireshark, Python, Web2py,RTP, RTCP,TCP/IP, Mongo DB, Amazone AWS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Trotez, Bangalore Dev Lead

Dec 2012 onwards

Trotez is a startup working in Travel domain. We create Android based

applications which provide relevant information at right time and context

to the user.

Responsibilities

. Lead the Server development activities of the company

. Create,manage and track schedules, status reports and defects

. Work with the architect on design, tools and web API

. Interface with client development team,design team, product

development

. Develop modules assigned to me

Kodiak, Bangalore QA Lead (Freelancer)

Jan 2012 -Oct 2012

Projects Handled:

Title Push to Talk

Role QC Lead

Duration Since January 2012

Responsibilities

. Managing a team of 18 people doing

Push to talk testing on Android, RIM, Win Mobile and Windows Desktop

platforms

Protocol conformance testing for SIP, RTP and RTCP

. Planning, scheduling monitoring and defect management of different

releases

. Supporting handset manufactures that uses Kodiak Test Servers

. Working with engineers in customer site to resolve issues.

. Improving the overall quality of testing

Achievements

. Successfully managed 7.2 release

. Implemented new automation tools that made debugging easier

. Implemented drive testing and network simulation testing which was able

to uncover many defects

. Implemented test management system based on TestLink.

CISCO, Bangalore Lead Software Engineer

Apr'08 - Oct '11

Projects Handled:

Title Voice Technology Group CISCO, Bangalore

Role System Test Lead

Duration Since March 09

Responsibilities

. Leading Automation team, regression and upgrade test teams.

. Represent the team in all meetings and plan for the activities of team in

every release in consultation with other teams.

. Interfacing with other teams; building out test beds and maintaining

them.

Achievements

. Effectively built upgrade and regression teams.

. Successfully implemented Load testing framework in regression lab.

. Successfully converted the regression framework to load framework

. Involved in improving the automation strategy to enhance the contribution

of team in system testing.

. Implemented VOIP test beds with Cisco Call Manager, Unity Connection,

Call Manager Express, Gatekeepers, SIP, H323 and MGCP gateways.

Title Hosted Solution Testing.

Role System Test Lead

Duration October 2010- March 2011

Responsibilities

. Designing Call flows and scripts to achieve load of 120K BHCA

. Mentoring 4 contract engineers who were running the load

. Analyze call failures and suggest changes in network capacity.

. Work with engineers in US to implement the suggested network

changes(as lab was in US)

. Work with tool developers to make changes in tools used for testing

Achievements

. Effectively built load test team for Hosted Solutions.

. Automated script generation with help of Excel tool.

.

Title Network Management Software Testing

Role Software Engineer

Duration Apr'08-March '09

Responsibilities

. Leading automation and system test teams.

. Tracking customer found defects, interacting with program management and

development teams to ensure that patches for them are available.

. Maintaining and enhancing test bed

Achievements

. Successfully built the new automation team and actively contributed

towards automation framework

. Rendered support to team for executing many test cases that were not

getting executed for lack of information.

. Implemented Cisco Voice Portal, Unified Contact center Express and IP IVR

into the network.

Google India (through Ness) Associate Consultant

Oct'06-Mar'08

Responsibilities

. Lead the team of 14 Engineers who work on functional testing, performance

testing, and development of automation scripts and release engineering of

Google payment gateway.

. Planed the work for automation team every month in consultation with

manual test team

. Worked with module leads to ensure that work assigned to functional

testing and performance teams by US teams are done in time with quality.

. Responsible for the customer satisfaction for this project

Ness-Motive ODC Associate Consultant

Jul'05-Sep'06

Responsibilities

. Lead a team of 12 test engineers who were working on Security service

Module, Home Networking Module, Home Device Manager and IE7 Compatibility

testing.

. Undertook Project planning, scheduling and execution of projects that

were handled in India.

. Coordinate with US team on projects that are done partly in India and

partly in US

. Worked with development, support and other test managers to get Hot Fixes

released.

HCL-Cisco, Chennai Lead Engineer

Mar'98-Jun'05

Projects Handled in Cisco ODC

Title LMS Bundle Team Lead for LMS 2.5

Duration January 2004 - March 2005

Role LMS Test Lead

Tools/Languages/Technologies: SNMP, Java, XDE Tester

Responsibilities

. Prepared test plan and Test strategy; managed test case execution

. Planned resources and schedule for Bundle testing and other activities

owned by bundle team - patch testing, NMIM testing and coexistence

testing of LMS bundle with other applications.

. Interfaced with Cisco teams and represented the testing team in all

meetings

. Took part in test automation,network simulation and testing

. Undertook performance and Scalability testing of bundle.

. Performed half yearly appraisals of team members.

Title LMS Bundle Team Lead for LMS 2.2

Duration January 2003 - December 2003

Role LMS Test Lead

Tools/Languages/Technologies: SNMP, Java, XDE Tester

Responsibilities

. Prepared test plan and Test strategy, Managed test case execution

. Planned resources and schedule for Bundle testing

. Took part in test automation,network simulation and testing

. Interfaced with Cisco Managers and represented the testing team in all

meetings

. Undertook performance and Scalability testing of bundle.

. Ensured the smooth transition of project from SJ to Chennai and build a

new testing team in Chennai

. Lead the virtual bundle test team before project was fully transferred to

Chennai

Title Test lead for CWW 6.1

Duration April 2002 - June 2002

Role CWW 6.1 Lead

Tools/Languages/Technologies: SNMP, Java, Sapro

Responsibilities

. Prepared test plan and Test strategy; created and managed testing

schedule and monitored completion of activities

. Tested Cisco View and Integration with WUG

. Interfaced with Cisco Managers and represented the testing team in all

meetings

Title Element Management System Testing

Duration June 2001 - March 2002

Role Member of EMS Test Team

Tools/Languages/Technologies Sapro, Shell Scripts, SNMP

Responsibilities

. Performed functional testing for patches for 7200 EMS

. Executed coexistence testing of 7200 EMS with other EMS

Title CV 5.3 Engine Testing

Duration October 2000 - December 2000

Tools/Languages/Technologies Sapro, Java, SNMP

Responsibilities

. Prepared test strategy and test plan for the Project; performed

functional and performance testing of the product.

Title CiscoView 5.0 Package Development /

Testing

Duration June 1999 - May 2001

Tools/Languages/Technologies Sapro, Java, SNMP, HPOV, WUG

Responsibilities

. Developed first version of 3600 package

. Answered customer queries about 3600 package; provided patches for

customers

. Worked as test lead for SPLOB packages - (2600, 3600, MC3800, AS5400,

AS5200, AS5300 and 12000.)

Title CiscoView Classic Testing /Development

Duration March 1998 -December 1999

Tools/Languages/Technologies: Sapro, TCL, SNMP, HPOV, SNMPc

Responsibilities

. Developed Cisco View Classic packages for 3600 and 2600 routers.

. Tested packages for devices - 3600, 2600, AS5300

. Answered customer queries; provided patches for customers

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