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Ajay Sankar

Test System Architect
Bengaluru

Summary

Test System architect with 18+ years experience in Storage Domain and Telecom protocols with main contributions in NAS Replication, NAS heterogenous Migration and HyperVault, with good authority over Test Automation and frameworks.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Principal Engineer

Harman International
05.2023 - Current

Optimise Automation framework to reduce failure percentage and increase the Automation coverage for testing IVI cluster.

Develop Jenkins based CI for execution on daily installation packages

Develop custom Jenkins job for variety of development use cases and maintenance.

Senior System Architect

Huawei
02.2019 - Current

Online NAS Migration: Test design, automation strategy and automation framework design for migration of homogeneous/heterogeneous file systems to Huawei Dorado file systems. Test owner of RMTD, FSM modules for product and tiering to cloud storage over S3 for POC.

Hypervault: Competitor analysis and development high level design for HyperVault feature over SnapSync. As test owner, responsible for end to end test strategy, design, automation framework and execution.

Config-Replication: Test owner for reliability features of Config Replication feature in Dorado.

SnapSync: Responsible for end to end test strategy, design, automation framework, execution and reliability test design and execution.

Dorado Replication: Responsible for test automation framework, test design for sub features and migration of entire OceanStorPacific replication test scripts to Dorado with only library changes.

OceanStorPacific Replication: Responsible for test automation framework of Beta framework and design, execution of sub features. Migration of scripts from Alpha framework to Beta framework.

Senior Technical Leader

Huawei
01.2015 - 02.2019

lwIPv6: Test framework design, test strategy, test design and execution for Ipv6, DHCPv6, TCP6, UDP6 for lwIP over LiteOS. Test execution on hisilicon device for all functional cases. Performance test using IXIA server for simulation of live network. Code review and Grey box testing.

lwIP: Responsible for test strategy, test design and execution for Ipv4, TCP, UDP, ARP, DHCP for lwIP over LiteOS. Code review and Grey box testing.

CoAP, micro CoAP: Owned test strategy, test design and execution, code review and Grey box testing.

Technical Project Leader

Huawei
01.2012 - 01.2015

Protocol Platform Testing: As part of telecom protocol test team, responsible for test analysis, test strategy and design identification, framework changes and test scripting and execution for multiple telecom protocols. Led a team of 5-6 members, responsible for review of test design, test framework support and risk analysis.

Diameter: Handle customer requirements, support dev for design and review, test strategy and test design, test framework automation and test scripting. Simulation and validation of fixes for critical customer/network issues. Development of test framework to handle multi context requirement. Major requirements including Diameter routing, DRA, Diameter proxy, relay and redirect agents. Device a fuzz tool based on Diameter AVP/sub AVP format to test the robustness of the stack.

LDAP: Support to development of multithread framework for testing

nStack: Devise test strategy, test design, automation framework for user level tcp/ip stack. Handle customer issues including simulation and validation of the changes. Travel to China to support testing, handing over to the team in China.


Senior Software Engineer

Huawei
01.2008 - 01.2012

Diameter: Takeover Diameter/RADIUS from China. Handled features like Diameter Backup, Distribution, Diameter Relay, Proxy, Redirect agents.

ENUM QIP: Responsible for takeover from HQ, code walkthrough with development team, identification of vulnerable parts of code and new scenarios for DNS client to handle A, AAAA, NAPTR, SRV queries for iterative, recursive queries.

Software Engineer

Huawei
07.2005 - 01.2008

RADIUS: Designed Radius Protocol testcases, implemented corresponding automation changes and executed the same. Ported framework to flavours of UNIX.

CCXML: Identified functional test strategy, automation framework. Scripted and executed the cases on multiple os platforms as per design.

Education

B.Tech - Computer Science

Mahatma Gandhi University
Kerala
08.2001 - 05.2005

Skills

    Python, scapy, nosetests, TTCN, ASN, C

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Accomplishments

  • War time hero award for commitment towards creating, maintaining the automation test framework and defect finding contribution
  • Multiple Weekly and Monthly awards for defect contribution
  • Top tester award
  • 4 future star awards










Timeline

Principal Engineer

Harman International
05.2023 - Current

Senior System Architect

Huawei
02.2019 - Current

Senior Technical Leader

Huawei
01.2015 - 02.2019

Technical Project Leader

Huawei
01.2012 - 01.2015

Senior Software Engineer

Huawei
01.2008 - 01.2012

Software Engineer

Huawei
07.2005 - 01.2008

B.Tech - Computer Science

Mahatma Gandhi University
08.2001 - 05.2005
Ajay SankarTest System Architect