Test Engineer Agile Scrum

Bhaskar V. Bonda

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Test Engineer

Senior test engineer with expertise in optical transport network management and device testing. Excellent analytical, technical & problem solving skills with the ability to adapt to new environments & technologies. Hardworking, efficient, goal oriented & good team player with ability to work independently in time sensitive environment. Strong interpersonal skills with excellent communication and presentation skills.

Areas of Expertise

Agile/Scrum, SDLC & QA methodologies, JIRA, Confluence, HW & SW installations, Data Center Interconnect technology

SDN, DWDM, OTN, CD/CDC ROADM, Ethernet, OTDR, OpenConfig, SNMP, Netconf, TCP/IP

User Security AAA, Radius/TACACS+

Layer2 Ethernet flows/tunnels/protection

Linux, UNIX, Windows, Clear Quest, DDTS, REST, Swagger

MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, Kafka

Test plan development, bug report/track, root cause analysis, reports & documentation

HW & Resource planning

Professional work experience

Validation Engineer – Equinix, Inc., USA 11/2020-11/2022

SDN/NMS system feature & performance evaluation, product certifications and field upgrades in data centers. Optical network and device validation of products from Ciena, Infinera, Adva & Fujitsu including documentation & training.

Responsibilities:

• Verification of SDN features using optical networks & devices.

• Transport Layers verified: OTN/DWDM/ROADM/Ethernet.

• Software & Test environment: Agile/Scrum. Work management tools - JIRA

• Test methodologies - blackbox, manual, regression, performance, REST API, execution of automated test scripts, process & efficiency improvements

Test Engineer - Fujitsu Network Communications, USA 11/2010-10/2020

Fujitsu’s SDN solution offers network administrators to route services by decoupling the control from physical infrastructure. Controller also monitors faults & provides restoration of services in an efficient optimized manner. Other features include Policy management, Security Management, Network Discovery, Clustering with High Availability.

Responsibilities:

• Validate SDN with ROADM/Transponder devices & OpenROADM solution managing Ciena, Juniper, Cisco & other multi-vendor transport equipment.

• Verify Transport Layers/Rates: WDM/OTN/Packet.

• Software & Test environment: Agile/Scrum. Work management tools - JIRA, Zephyr

• Test methodologies - black, white-box, manual, regression, performance, soak, stress, REST API, execution of automated test scripts, process & efficiency improvements

• Resource discovery, Service provisioning/activation/restoration, path computation, network events & utilization, traffic optimization, capacity & inventory

• Verification of High Availability functionality on cluster platform, system vulnerability scans, DB migration, export/import & backup/restore capabilities

• Optical network & equipment validation - configuration, fault, performance, topology, security & DB management. System specification, test case & customer documentation review.

• Lab setup, end to end testing, root cause analysis & corrective actions on customer issues.

• Interact & support planning, development & automation teams. Hardware & human resource planning, conform to ISO standards & participate in audits.

Senior Test Engineer - Taseon Inc., USA 02/2008-07/2010

Project: All Optical DWDM Networking

Responsibilities:

• Network management software testing in a fast paced startup environment

• End to end automatic service provisioning, service restoration in mesh topologies

• Review requirements, create & execute tests, lab setup & end to end testing

• Contribute/verify user documentation, work with planning/development/automation teams and analyze customer issues.

• Install, provision and demo system functionality in customer premises – US, UK & Japan.

Senior Test Engineer - Fujitsu Network Communications, USA 08/2004-02/2008

Project: Network Management System (NMS)

NETSMART 1500 Management System provides end-to-end service provisioning, real time fault isolation & resolution, upgrading network equipment software. Instantaneous alarm reports, Connection Management, Layer 2 Data Service Management and High Availability.

Responsibilities:

• Perform system test activities in waterfall environment, review specifications, create/execute tests, lab setup & end to end testing, system vulnerability scans, work with planning/development teams, analyze customer issues, resource & budget planning, adhere to ISO standards and participate in ISO audits.

EDUCATION

• M.S. in Electrical Engineering - University of Texas, Texas

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