Suresh Palanisamy

Python Development Automation

824–844–1417

adb3l3@r.postjobfree.com

Chennai – 603102

Professional Summary

Interested in Python development.

** *****’ experience in Telecom software - Development, Automation, Testing, Scripting and Infra / Platform., Knowledge and Hands-on in Python, Diameter, PCRF, Cisco Networking, VMWare and Openstack., Played different roles Network engineer, Solution Integration Engineer, SME and Technical Leader.

Academics

M.Sc. Information Technology, 2006, Urumu Dhanalakshmi College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy

B.Sc. Computer Science, 2002, Pavendar Bharathidasan College, Bharathidasan University, Trichy

Technical Certification

MongoDB at Skillsoft Ireland – In Preparation

CCIE DC ABL - expired

VCP 5.1 - expired

CCNP - expired

Technical and Soft Skills

Programming – Python 3

Database – Mongo DB(in preparation) and MySQL

Algorithm – Binary search, Jump search, Selection sort, Bubble sort

Automation – Cucumber Gherkin, JSON, XML, PyTest, Jenkins and Shell script

Web devolvement stack – Flask(in preparation), Rest-API, HTML and CSS

Source Control – GitHUB, SVN

IDE and Text editor – PyCharm, IDLE, Sublime and Vim

Mobility – Diameter and PCRF

Cloud platform – Openstack

Virtualization – VMWare, KVM/Qemu and Hyper-V

Networking – TCP/IP, Cisco Switching and Routing, OVS and VMWare DVS

System software – Linux, Ubuntu, Mac OS and Windows

Project management – Rally(Agile) and Jira

Automation and Testing – Application, Platform and Regression

Testing skills – Script development, Code validation, Data analysis and Debugging proficiency

Analytical skills – Critical thinking, Problem solving, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

Employment History

1.Sr. Technical Lead, HCL Technologies – Cisco ODC, Feb 2007 to present

Project History

1.Cisco Policy Suite, Jan 2019 – present

a.Role: Sr. Automation Engineer

b.Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

2.Media streamer service, Jun 2018 – Dec 2018

a.Role: Automation Engineer

b.Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

3.Application virtual switch, Jan 2015 – May 2018

a.Role: Automation Engineer

b.Location: San Jose, California

4.Service control engine, Feb 2007 – Dec 2014

a.Role: formerly Network engineer and migrated as an Performance Test Engineer later

b.Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Project Details (as specified in project history)

Project #1

Project name: CPS – Cisco Policy Suite

Product description: CPS for Mobile is a carrier-grade policy, charging, and subscriber data management solution. It helps service providers rapidly create and bring services to market, deliver a positive user experience, and optimize network resources. It also generates monetization opportunities across 3G, 4G, and LTE access networks as well as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) service architectures

Role: Sr. Automation Engineer – application and platform testing

Technologies and tools: Python, Cucumber Gherkin, XML, Genkins, SVN, SITE, Diameter, PCRF, Policy builder, MongoDB, Linux, VMware, Openstack, UCS Blades and Agile

Responsibility:

oI am currently developing a web based tool for automating the CPS deployment on Openstack platform.

oHave done the feature testing and automating the call flows using Cucumber for the features – Custom Group AVP and Data Optimization in CPS.v19.4

oHave developed shell script for CPS-PCRF deployments

oHave created Jenkins server and jobs for CPS-PCRF deployments and sanity / regression

oHave done the functional testing and automated the IMSI feature in CPS.v19.3

oHave done the functional testing and automated the MIN attribute feature in CPS.v19.4

oHave done #30 scripts fixing in Cucumber for CPS 6.1.0 sanity / regression

oHave done the functional testing and automation for application alarm notifications

Project #2

Project name: Media streamer service – Open Media Distribution

Product description: Simplify CDN configuration and management and rapidly bring new CDN applications and services online so you can scale live, on-demand, and time-shifted video distribution. Open Media Distribution transforms traditional CDN economics by combining cloud architecture, agile software development methodology, best-in-class open-source software, and innovative subscription models.

Role: Automation Engineer – application and platform testing

Technologies and tools: Python, PyTest, Salt, Rest API, Linux, VMWare, UCS rack servers and Agile

Responsibility:

oHave automated OMD deployment as developing python script for deployment of OMD components – Salt, Director, Core, Monitor and Insight including the logs. This is a value add to the product and also part of OMD bundle release

oHave automated #25 feature testing cases for Director GUI

oHave automated #30 feature testing cases for Salt

oHave done the jobs of creating and reviewing the test plan using PRRQ and TIMS

oHave done the jobs of creating and completing the user stories and task in Rally for every scrum and feature

Project #3

Project name: AVS – Application virtual switch

Product description: Cisco AVS is a hypervisor-resident virtual network switch that is specifically designed for the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) architecture. Based on the highly successful Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual switch, AVS provides feature support for the ACI application policy model with full switching capabilities

Role: Automation Engineer – platform and protocol testing

Technologies and tools: Python, pyATS, Rest API, VMWare, Openstack, AVS, ACI-APIC, Layer2 switching, NxOS, UCS Blade and Rack server

Responsibility:

oHave developed python script for deployment of AVS along with APIC cluster. This script does have choices of feature specific APIC deployments

oHave automated 100+ platform and application testing cases

oHave done functional testing at AVS for BPDU guard/filter, VxLAN Load balancing, PC, VPC, MAC-PIN, Multicast and VSPAN

oHave done functional testing for following features in APIC when AVS enabled SDN infrastructure

VMM Domain with different switching preference like NS-VxLAN, LS-VLAN and VxLAN

Interface policies like LLDP, CDP, LACP, MAC-PIN, Firewall

Interface policy group for iLeaf, PC and VPC

Switching policy profile and policy for iLeaf switches

Attachable Access Entity Profile for identical group of interfaces and switches with respective of VMM domain

Multicast, VLAN and VxLAN pools for EPGs

L2OUT and L3OUT profiles for external L2 and L3 networks

vSPAN monitoring profiles in Local SPAN and ERSPAN

Multi-Tenancy

Bridge Domain and VRF Profiles

Security profiles with contract and filter(ACLs)

Application profiles and EPG

Micro-segmentation in consisting attributes - MAC, IP and Name

Config Rollback, Export/ Import of the Config and AVS tech-support

Firmware and Maintenance groups for Fabric switches

oHave done the jobs of creating and reviewing the test plan using PRRQ and TIMS

Project #4

Project name: SCE – Service control engine

Product description: Cisco SCE provides the solution of Deep Packet Inspection to service providers, which has the ability to control end-user applications such as peer-to-peer applications, security, resource, admission control, policy enforcement and service enhancements such as personalization of content or content filtering

Role: Test Engineer – performance testing and Network Engineer

Technologies and tools: Routing, Switching, Ixia, IxExplorer, UCS Rack servers, DPI, Linux, VMWare, Wireshark

Responsibility as Performance Test Engineer:

oHave done the throughput performance testing for flavors of DPI - SCE8000, SCE10000, vSCE and iSCE using Ixia and Sesame traffic generators

oHave designed Ixia PRT in various scenarios of IPv4 / IPv6, TCP / UDP and IMIX which generates traffic to the SCOS engine

oHave done the routine of capturing real time traffic and pushing to the SCOS engine using Kiwi, Gulliver and Sesame tools

oHave done creating and reviewing the test plan for various throughput

oHave performed Feature testing, Performance Testing, Load/Stress Testing and Regression Testing.

oHave done profiling the performance of SCOS engine by varying the protocols and parameters

Responsibility as Network Engineer:

oAs the ownership of building and maintaining the test-lab infrastructure, installed #95 racks of equipment and test-beds

oHave designed and deployed end-to-end Lab infrastructure of SCE

oHave deployed four IPv4 sub-networks and maintained routing & switching

oHave deployed of VRF, ABF and Static Routing in ASR9000 for iSCE

oHave deployed FARM, Ixia and Sesame test-beds

oHave deployed SUN, HP, IBM and Cisco UCS B & C series servers

oHave deployed DMZ labs for Cisco through Airtel service link

oHave deployed VMWare environment with ESXi and vCenter for maintaining VMs

Personal Data

Father’s name: Palanisamy

Blood group: B+

Born: July 31, 1980

Marital status: Married

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