LathaSethu Resume

Senior Quality Analyst

QA Project Lead, Network Engineer

Executive Profile:

MS (Computer Science) graduate and CCNA certified(ID#CSCO11515706), with more than 15 Years experience in the Software Testing for delivering high Quality Products in a wide variety of products and platforms in a fast paced Development environment . Seeking challenging QA Test Lead position or Network Engineer position.

Career Profile:

• CCNA Certified - CSCO11515706

• 8 years of Manual and Automation/Regression/Sanity Test/Project Lead and Testing in various Cisco Products (L2/L3) in Cisco Systems Inc.

• Proficient in Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies, IP(v4 and v6), MPLS core and IP core, L2VPN, ATOM, VPLS, Multicast, Multicast VPN, Security, QoS, Frame Relay, MLPP, Load Balancing, routing protocols(ISIS, OSPF, BGP mainly and all other routing protocols), MR-APS and High Availability.

• Proficient in testing Cisco routers C12000, CRS (Carrier Routing System) both IOS and IOX platforms.

• 3 Years of Network Management System Tesing for Cisco Voice gateways.

• 1 year Client/Server GUI testing for Cisco IP/TV and IP/VC servers and gateways/gatekeeper/MCUs.

• Project planning including HW and human resource requirements, Engineering Commit proposal and Presentation in many projects and proven ability to complete projects in a timely manner

• Defect filing, tracking and Regular bug Scrubs meetings.

• Weekly Test Report generation and reporting.

• Test Strategy and Test Plan document, Review and Test bed setup for Manual Testing and Testing and reporting for Cisco Products.

• Working knowledge on Router Testers Ixia and Agilent N2X for Data traffic/router Simulation and Load Testing, Stress Testing and Scale testing for Cisco routers.

• Demonstrated debugging and troubleshooting skills.

• Distinguished Team Player as well as a Mentor & Motivator for Team Members and excellent Multi-tasking skills.

• Leading team globally (San Jose, Ottawa and India) to improve quality of the software.

• 7 Years of experience working in Defense Projects including Mission and Flight Critical software.

• Worked from Product Requirements Specification to Aircraft Rollout: Flight Critical Software called FCS (Flight Control System), MPRU(Mission Preparation and Retrieval Unit), HUD(Head-Up Display), MFK and MFD (Multi Function Keyboard and Multi Function Display), DAIR (Dynamic Avionics Integration Rig)

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems: Windows XP/ 2000/ NT4.0, Solaris, Cisco IOS and IOX

Hardware: Cisco 12000, CRS, Sun, Cisco IP/VC 3500 Series.

Programming Languages: UNIX Shell, TCL, C

Office Tools: MS-Excel, MS-Project, MS-PowerPoint

Testing Tools Ixia, Agilent – Traffic Generator, IOS and IOX CLI

Professional Experience:

Cisco Systems Inc, San Jose, CA Mar 2000 – Present

(Cisco (CSCO) is the leading supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet)

Position: Senior Quality Analyst Lead

Total Experience: 7 Years & 6 Months

Development Testing – Team/Project Lead for Cisco C12000.CRS Products Features

Project: Testing MR-APS for new Channelized SPAs OC12/OC48 in IOX 3.5 – GSR:

 As a One person team, Test Strategy, Test planning, test bed setup including 3rd party equipments such as ONS, test execution and test report. Successfully tested the feature and found many day-one issues for this feature.

 The spec GR-253 is referred in addition to the Implementation document and test planning for the compliance w.r.t. the specification.

 Coordinated with Automation team to identify automatable test cases and helped throughout the automation process (TCL) to successfully launch the automation with many suggestions to improve the TC execution.

 Single point of contact for this feature. Released a Document with Configuring and Troubleshooting techniques for this feature which is referred by many Test and Development team and much appreciated and in use.

 Given a detailed TOI (Transfer Of Information) to the Test and Development team and supported many other teams who involved in APS testing.

 Won a CAP award for surfacing day-one defects.

Project: Regression and Sanity Lead for GSR (Gigabit Switching Router) and CRS (Carrier Routing System)

 Driven and Lead a team of 4 Test Engineers in San Jose, Ottawa and India in Regression/Sanity testing for CRS and GSR products for more than a year.

 Scheduled multiple TOI (Transfer of Information) for new test engineers to run Sanity, Analyze failures and debug. Created a Wiki page to help them and development engineers.

 Keep the Development managers and test managers and mainly Release managers informed of all defects and attended daily bug scrub meetings to help close on open defects. This helps get a clean image without any baseline issues for the test team.

 Proposed improvements in Regression/Automation and supported during the updates.

 Won 2 CAP(Cisco Achievement Program) awards for excellent lead and support work.

Project: FIT (Feature Interaction testing) for L3 features in IOX 3.6 - GSR (Gigabit Switching Router)

 Test planning for all supported L3 features and Line Cards/SPAs in 3.6.

 The intention of this testing is to define a scale profile with all supported L3 features in single test bed either with IP core or MPLS core.

 Covered tests with MPLS core and focused on Channellized SPAs with features such as, QoS, MLPP, MFR, LFI, HA, infra testing while having more features in the box such as ipv4/ipv6, MVPN, AToM etc.

Project: Testing for L2VPN (AToM), Frame Relay and 40Gig Fabric in IOX 3.4 – GSR:

 Worked on L2VPN (AToM) project for IOX and with dot1q, qinq and qinany. Setting up 5 routers topology test bed, Acceptance Testing and development testing and reporting.

 Frame-relay feature testing for the IOX. Responsible for Topology design, test plan document and review and Test bed setup with MPLS core which has 5 routers and test equipments to send & receive traffic (Agilent and Ixia testers) and test execution and reporting.

 Lead for Switch Fabric testing. Prepared detailed Engineering Commit(EC) slides for 40gig Fabric and presented the EC to the management and set this as the model EC for the all the new features in 3.4 IOX release. Responsibilities included project planning, resource planning and sharing including person and hardware, test plan, execution planning and execution of test cases and status collection and reporting of the test progress and follow up on issues raised by the team of 3 engineers.

 Challenging as this was the first IOX project I worked. It involves understanding the IOX architecture and understands the differences of IOS and IOX.

 Mentored many team members for the new platform to bring them up to speed.

Project: Project Lead and Testing, VPLS (dot1q, QinQ and qinAny)), Multicast QoS:

 Project lead for the 32SY1 VPLS/ATOM QinQ project with 3 person team. In spite of last minute notice of this lead role, quickly prepared the test plan and started the testing on the proposed start date. Project assignment, test execution, monitoring the progress and status collection and reporting.

 Multicast QoS: Test Planning, Test execution, Defect filing and tracking, bug verification, Test reporting. Worked closely with management on escalating Show Stopper issues so as to complete the project in time.

 This Project was challenging because the lead position was informed very late in the test start time. I was given only 2 days to start the testing. With very little time, I optimized the project planning and shared the test plan writing among the team and helped everyone to bring their test bed for this project and started the test in time without any delays. Well appreciated project by the management.

Project: Working with Customer defects::

 Worked with customer (AT&T) raised defects to work with the customers and account team to repro and help DEs to resolve the issue. Worked in many Show Stopper type of customer bugs and actively helped setting up the network as in customer site and once repro, actively work with DEs in finding the root cause of the issue and resolve it.

 Worked with Telmex customer issue when they had to prove the SNMP polls and rates in GSR.

 China Telecom customer needed help with validating new SFPs that failed in Customer site. Had setup the router topology locally and validated the SFPs in different line cards with deferent images and saved.

Project: Network Management for CMGM (Cisco Media Gateway Manager):

 Project team lead for 6 engineers. Testing of CMGM for MGX8260. Carried out the first release (1.0) dev-testing which involves scheduling, test planning, task assignment to a team of 6 engineers and status update to corresponding managers, executing the test cases and report generation.

 Team lead for the next CMGM release 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 and successfully completed the dev-testing in time which includes also the regression testing.

 The product also includes Unix-Solaris based GIU interface for configuring the supported gateways. Loadrunner is used to create more users to the system to simulate supported load.

Project: CWM (Cisco WAN Manager) – Network Management:

 Project Lead for multiple (4) CWM releases involving test bed network topology, topology setup, test bed configuration, test planning, test execution, status compilation and reporting, Testing and test report generation.

Project: Testing in MGX-8260, VISM, and VXSM Product Lines):

 Involved in Test phase of VXSM, VISM and MGX-8260 Voice Gateway products involving test planning test bed setup/config, test execution, status reporting.

 Test execution for the following features for VXSM: Card management, Stats Upload, Config Upload, Load Balancing and Load Balancing Redundancy, SONET/SDH/48T1E1 testing, Stateful redundancy for VOIP solution

 Executed ECT(Early Customer Trials) for the following features as part of the testing: CAC/Load balancing, TDM COT, Codec negotiation

Project: Testing of Cisco IPTV/IPVC 3500 series products:

 Testing IPVC 3500 series products. Involves setting up the IPVC 3500 series products, gateways, gatekeepers, MCUs.

 Test planning and bug reports and bug repros.

 Test summary report documentation.

 Platform: Cisco IPVC 3500 series products.

 IPTV server and GUI testing: Helped with the IPTV team with the IPTV GUI testing during my work in IPVC project.

 It involved automating using the SilkTest and manual testing.

 Platform: Windows 2000, Windows NT, SilkTest automation tool.

Environment: Windows 2000/NT, Cisco IOS, Cisco IOX, Cisco C12000, Cisco CRS, UNIX, TCL, Ixia and Agilent Traffic Gen, VNC, Remote Desktop, SilkTest, Cisco IPTV 3500 Series, SilkTest, Oracle, LoadRunner.

CEMILAC, DRDO, Ministry of Defense, India Sept 1990 – Oct 1997

(Defense 3rd party Agency to Certify airborne - Software and Hardware)

Position: QA engineer in CEMILAC

Total Experience: 7 Years

Project: Light Combat Aircraft LCA) Embedded software testing and Airbourne certification:

 LCA is an indigenously developed fighter aircraft with quadruple Flight Control System(software designed). The Organization is involved in testing all airborne equipment (HW and SW) strictly adhering to defense standard. The DoD standard followed for SW qualification is DoD-2167A.

 The SW team involved from the beginning of the System Requirement and to the end of Flight Testing.

 Responsibilities involve from the product requirement phase to certify the mission and life critical equipment for airborne software. System requirement to the Software Requirement level is as per the DOD standard 2167A and Test plan and testing and witnessing the test in the fields. All Functional Specification and Design Document and reviews and comments in multiple levels. Code walkthrough was performed.

 I worked in MPRU (Mission Preparation & Data Retrieval Unit), HUD (Head up Display), LMFD (Left Multi Function Display), RMFD (Right MFD), FCS and ground simulator testing for testing airborne equipments on the ground.

Project: Regression/Enhancement Testing:

 Witnessed and executed many regression and enhancement testing of existing airborne software for many fighter aircrafts (such as Jaguar, Kiran etc) and cleared upgrades, changes to software.

Environment: Windows, C, C++

Education:

• BS in Physics, MK University, India

• MS in Computer Science, MK University, India

Work Status: US Citizen

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