SOWMYA JAGANNATH

Phone: 630-***-****

E-mail: acur67@r.postjobfree.com

To work for a renowned and reputed company where I can unleash my potential, ameliorate my skills and carve a niche for myself in course of my professional responsibility and challenging work

To work in a great team, sharing the spirit and knowledge of the team, motivating the team at times and drawing inspiration from it other times

CAREER PATH

Overall 11 years of experience.

Worked with Hewlett Packard as a Senior R&D Engineer from 2nd July 2007 to 9th June 2015.

Worked in Wipro Technologies Pvt Ltd, Bangalore as Project Engineer from Jan 2004 to June 2007

SKILL SET

Technologies : IP Technology, Asynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM),

Software Defined Networking (SDN), Agile Methodology

Knowledge of : SNMPv1/v2/v3, OSPF, RIP, VRRP, OpenFlow 1.0/1.3,

Access Lists

Tools : HP Quality Center (QC), HP Application Lifecycle

Management (ALM), MG Soft MIB Browser, Traffic

generation tools IXIA and Adtech, ClearDDTS, TeamTrack

Platforms : HP Networking Switches, Alcatel DSLAMs

Scripting Languages : Python, Tcl/Tk

Operating System : UNIX, Linux, Ubuntu, Windows

PROJECTS

HP Network Protector

Role : Senior QA Engineer for performance and stress testing.

Duration : 1 yr 6 months (Jan 2014-June 2015)

Description : HP Network Protector provides security for Bring your own device (BYOD) The Network Protector SDN Application uses the HP SDN Controller to program the network infrastructure with security intelligence from the Tipping Point RepDV Labs database. This turns the entire network infrastructure into security-enforcement devices, providing visibility and threat protection against more than one million malicious botnets, malware and spyware sites.

Responsibilities:

Involved in Sprint Planning and defining user stories for feature testing

As a part of scrum team, I was responsible for Feature, Performance and Stress testing of the product using IXIA's IxLoad (traffic generation)

Generated Performance comparison report across sprints and published to appropriate stakeholders like Product Management and Development teams

Assisted Development team with variation analysis like throughput and latency

Responsible for updating Agile Manager (AGM) with user stories, story points and acceptance criteria for each user story

Developed Automation testing suite using Python and Robot Framework (http://robotframework.org/) for feature testing

Was also responsible for integrating automation suite with Continuous Development and Integration Testing (CDIT) framework

Responsible for facilitating and driving Issue Triaging Meetings with Development team and Scrum Master

HP VAN SDN Controller

Role : QA Engineer.

Duration : 9 months (April 2013-Dec 2013)

Description : HP Virtualized Application Networks (VAN) SDN Controller provides centralized control and automation for your SDN network. The HP SDN Controller controls policy and forwarding decisions, which are communicated to the Open Flow-enabled switches in the data center or campus network. A variety of HP and third-party SDN applications can leverage the SDN controller to automatically deliver the necessary business and network service levels

Responsibilities:

Primarily responsible for ensuring that controller is able to discover and communicate with HP E-Series and A-Series switches as per the OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 protocols

Testing via CLI commands and GUI that the controller is able to push the flows onto the switches in different topologies like mesh, trunk etc.

Assisted Development team with analysis of behavior between E and A series switches

Involved in Test Strategy planning for the product.

Was part of the test plan review team

HP E-Series Switches

Role : QA Engineer

Duration : 4 yrs 4 months (Nov 2008-Mar 2013)

Description: System verification testing of a HP Layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet Switch module for HP Switches. Testing HP 3500, 5400, 8200 series Multi layer switches for L2 and L3 features.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for test planning, feature test and system test for routing protocols (Static routing, RIP, OSPF and VRRP), OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3, L2 protocols(LLDP, Mesh, GVRP, Access Lists ) on various HP Switches.

Testing the CLI commands and GUI for the switches

Assisted Development team with analysis the bugs raised

Involved in test planning and review of the test cases

Was responsible for test plan improvement(TPI) for the features like SNMP, LLDP etc

Helped the wireless team with TPI for their test cases

Update ALM with the complete analysis of the CRs raised and update QC with appropriate results

ProCurve Manager (PCM)

Role : QA Engineer

Duration : 1 yr 4 months( July 2007-Nov 2008)

Description : PCM is a Microsoft Windows-based network management platform that enables mapping, configuration, and monitoring of HP Switches. PCM uses Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP, Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) and FDP (Foundry) for detecting network devices

Responsibilities:

Involved in preparing Test Cases and testing for installation, discovery, logging, software deployment and uninstallation for different releases

Update ALM with the complete analysis of the CRs raised and update QC with appropriate results

Was part of the test plan review team

Was responsible for effort estimation and planning.

Wipro Technologies

Title : DSLAMs

Client : Alcatel

Role : Project Engineer

Duration : 3 yrs 6 months(Jan 2004-June 2007)

Description : DSLAMs (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) is a network device, usually at a telephone company central office, that receives signals from multiple customer Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) connections and puts the signals on a high-speed backbone line using multiplexing techniques.

Responsibilities:

Involved in stability testing of ISAM.(IP based DSLAMs);defining and executing stability, reliability and robustness tests on the full rack of ISAM

Effort estimation for the features and preparing Test Strategies, Planning and Design of LAB Facilities in offshore centre, develop test plan and execute the test cases

Was mainly responsible for the smoke test setup offshore and execute the smoke suite for each and every build before others could take up the build for testing.

Overseas Exposure:

As a part of stability Testing of DSLAMs I had been to ANTWERP, BELGIUM Alcatel’s office for 6 months and carried out the performance testing for the fully loaded DSLAMs

Had been to HP, ROSEVILLE, CA for 2 months for the transition of the performance and stress testing of the HP Network Protector Application

ACADEMIA

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) -2002

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth : 30th Dec 1979

Current Address : 1803 Continental Ave

Apt 314

Naperville, IL-60563

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