PRASAD RAO

EXPERIENCED TEST ENGINEERING MANAGER

408-***-****

ac770z@r.postjobfree.com

LINKEDIN.COM/IN/RAOPRASAD

SUMMARY

Accomplished senior, hands-on software QA manager with excellent technical and leadership skills. Experienced in building and managing on and offshore QA teams. Proven ability in driving overall testing efficiency and productivity. Talent for hiring, building, motivating, managing and retaining results-oriented test teams. Successful execution of customer engagements. A key person in the organization to drive agile development methodology.

Soft Skills – Leadership, People management, Project Management, Mentoring, Communication, Cross functional Teamwork, Creativity, Problem-solving

Technologies – WAN Optimization, Deduplication, Compression, TCP-opt, IPSec, WC, traffic shaping, SDWAN

Expertise – Numerous platforms/languages/tools enabling highly effective team skills development, understanding of team productivity, and hands-on contribution when required. o OS/Scripting/CLI/UI/API tests – Unix, Linux, Windows, Python, Shell, Selenium, Fanfare, SoapUI

(REST), Postman, SoapClient

o Infrastructure/Tools – Dev-ops – Jenkins, CI/CD, Jira, Scrum Virtualization – Vmware, VMotion Containerization – Docker, Kubernetes Cloud – AWS, Azure, Hybrid Version Control – Git, Perforce o Debugging/Troubleshooting – Tcpdump, WireShark, Ethereal o Test tools and traffic generators– IXIA IxLoad and IxExplorer, Breaking Point, Spirent Avalanche and Reflector, wget, curl, ab, iPerf, Load Runner, WAN simulator

Networking/Application/Protocols – Configure, router, switch, Load Balancers, WCCP, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, HTTP, FTP, CIFS, MAPI, RTSP, SIP, Radius, Diameter PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

F5 NETWORKS, San Jose, CA 2007 – present

(NASDAQ: FFIV) Provider of security for enterprise-grade apps across multi-cloud environment. Senior Manager, Test Engineering 2014 – present

Manager, Test Engineering 2010 – 2014

Building on and offshore Quality Assurance (QA) teams. Manage successful delivery of major products within budget. Acquire, develop and lead an integral team to exceed expectations of goal/objectives. Strong understanding of SDLC, Improve/enhance tests, functional, system, and end-to-end solution strategies. Provide hands-on testing, debugging support. Defect escape analysis, root cause determination and take corrective actions. Drive cross-functional continuous improvement initiatives and automation of escaped defects. Implement agile methodology and serve as Scrum Master.

• Increased product test automation from 45% to 95% resulting in significant cut down in test execution time, reduced training and headcount costs.

• Increased QA automation code coverage from 20% to 60%.

• Recognized for ability to assimilate and grasp new technologies lead to product responsibility expansion.

• Zero attrition during management tenure. Over 90% employee satisfaction recorded since employee engagement survey started.

• Pioneered agile methodology for testing and development, feature delivery efficiency improved by ~50%.

• Customer engagement – Managed cross functional teams to provide technical presentations of proof of concept demos, end to end solutions, deployment guides to field engineers and pre-sales support. Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and corrective actions lead to ~30 % reduction in customer found defects (CFD).

• Managed successful delivery of 4 major products: Policy Enforcement Manager (PEM), Service Function Chain (SFC), Bandwidth Controller (BWC) for service providers, WAN Optimization/tunneling - Validating over 250 defects per release. Delivered Bi-weekly maintenance release.

• Built performance test labs for hardware and application qualification.

• Initiated containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) for test project, DevOps methodology, CI/CD Principal QA Engineer 2007 – 2010

Solely responsible for testing WAN Optimization Product core engines such as TDR2 deduplication and TDR1 compression. Analyzed defects and worked with Architect/Development to demonstrate heavily affected code path.

• Submitted over 500+ bugs from functional, integration, reliability and performance tests.

• Lead an offshore team of 5 members to automate various functions of WAN optimization product.

• Successfully delivered UI and CLI automation using Fanfare automation. Exceeded delivery goal.

• Recipient of F5’s highest award (Five Star) for PD and many other award nominations. PRASAD RAO – 408-***-**** ac770z@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONT.)

CISCO SYSTEMS, San Jose, CA 1999 – 2007

(NASDAQ: CSCO) Provider of networking and cybersecurity solutions. Manager, Engineering 2005 – 2007

Managed on/offshore QA team for end-to-end Product Testing (hands-on approach). Identified /implemented matrices enabling performance dev team to analyze and drive packet life improvements. Built a very strong, energetic, productive and passionate team from scratch. Coached and mentored staff identifying and developing leadership qualities within the organization.

• Built, solid foundation to test performance, reliability, scalability testing and benchmarking for Cisco AON Products and Lab with over 0.5M budget.

• Instrumental in reducing product performance bottleneck resulting in significant cycle time reduction.

• Achieved customer and pre-sales support with use case execution prior to deployment. Lead Engineer, Caching Service and Content Delivery Network 1999 – 2005 Built solid foundation to test Caching and Content delivery with Websense technologies. Closely worked with on/offsite teams for Product Testing, Testing/Automation, and Usability.

• Numerous Cisco Achievement Program Award for teamwork and Individual contribution. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Cofounder, Treasurer and Secretary, Mithil Prasad Foundation, www.mithilprasdfoundation.org 2017 – Present Foundation mission is to Support DIPG Research and Patients.

• Managing the financial assets (Volunteer)

• Managing timely, receives, records, and deposits of the funds received through fundraising activity.

• Organizing events and raising public awareness on DIPG Published / Technical Disclosures / Presentations / Volunteer Services / Work-Life Balance / Etc. 2012 - 2015 Major research contribution to:

• White Paper: WAN Optimization Performance white paper

• Tech Brief: Oracle Replication solution using BIG-IP WOM and Unified Acceleration with F5 BIG-IP LTM and BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager

• Implementation Guide:BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager: Implementations Business Fluent Languages: English, Hindi, Kannada EDUCATION

BS, Electronics and Communication, Mysore University, India Computer Engineering Certification Courses, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

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