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Amit Kulkarni

Bangalore

Summary

Resourceful Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 13+ years experience in functional product testing of network and network security products. Delivered functional testing both via manual and automation. Additionally, involved in end to end use case testing from the perspective of customer deployments.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software QA Engineer

Certes Networks (India) Pvt.ltd
10.2022 - Current
  • Product - Traffic Encryption Devices (TNM and CEP)
  • Added support to add HTML report for skipped test cases in the automation framework.
  • Automate the bugs raised if not automated to reduce the manual effort
  • Running regression test pipelines on different platforms
  • Created list of test cases for migration tool and Automated using ROBOT and python 3.3
  • Involved in validating and reproducing the customer Issues.

Member of Technical Staff IV

Colortokens India LLP
10.2021 - 10.2022
  • Produce - Xshield : Zero Trust Segmentation
  • Functional testing of several features of Xshield Platform like Data Archival, S3 Error Handling, Discarding inbound internet traffic, and Data Accuracy
  • Performance testing on measuring ingestion rates of 125k and 250k CPS
  • Wrote python scripts to send traffic for multiple ports using hping3
  • Wrote python script to send long-running sessions using iperf
  • Involved in reproducing customer bugs.
  • Involved in upgrading pods in kubernetes cluster.
  • Involved in debugging kubernetes cluster.

Software Engineer III

Cisco Systems (India) Pvt.Ltd
11.2018 - 10.2021
  • Product - Email Gateway
  • Created new API for executing Stress and Soak test cases using Python and PyATS.
  • Migrating automated test cases from PyATS to ROBOT(In-Progress)
  • Wrote a script to parse the customer's XML configuration and generate a report with all data.
  • Designed testing scenarios for solution testing.
  • Designed and developed automation scripts using Python and open source tools like PyCharm.
  • Identified and tracked defects with CDETS and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
  • Debugged customer issues and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
  • Measured the performance of ESA with different type of traffic using 'SMTP_SPAM' tool.

Sr Software QA Engineer

Certes Networks (India) Pvt.Ltd
03.2012 - 11.2018
  • Product - Traffic Encryption Devices (TNM and CEP)
  • Functional testing of several features on the Certes Network Security platform. Features included DHCP, DNS, SNMP, Certificate Management (PKI), Policy deployment, traffic validation.
  • Functional testing on bare-metal servers, ESXi, KVM running on general purpose servers
  • End to end use case testing for delivering security overlay (L4 encryption) over any transport connectivity (MPLS, IPv4 etc).
  • All testing including developing full functional test plans, manual execution of the test plans and delivering automation coverage for the tests.
  • Integrated Selenium API in internal automation framework for Web UI automation.
  • Worked with Customer Support to reproduce customer issues locally for troubleshooting and bug fix verification.
  • Part of giving the sprint demo's for new features.

Software Engineer

WDC India Private Limited
06.2011 - 03.2012
  • Product - UPS(United Parcel Services)
  • Client - IBM Global Services (India) pvt. ltd
  • Automated web UI test Cases Using JTestdriver Framework.
  • Fixing issues in JTestdriver Frameworks.
  • Running Regression Test suit.

Trainee Engineer

Rachana Infotech Private Limited
10.2009 - 05.2010
  • Product - eBANK – ELECTRONIC BANKING
  • Involved in designing and implementing the '.net' frames in Swing using Java1.5.
  • Involved in creating the API and UI frames to generate yearly, quarterly and monthly banking report.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

KLE Engineering College
Belgaum
08.2008

Skills

  • Test Plans and Test Methodologies
  • Automated Testing Frameworks
  • Manual Testing
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Web and Mobile Application QA
  • Security and Antivirus Software
  • IOS and Android Testing
  • Programming Languages: Python27 , Python33 and Java 15
  • Worked on Selenium 30
  • Cloud Platform VMware ESX40,ESX67, KVM
  • Kubernetes 118, Apache kafka 110, Spark 30
  • AWS(EC2, s3 and Lambda)
  • Computer Networking Basics Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), IPSec, SNMP, switching and routing
  • Tools Used - Scapy, Wireshark, Mausezahn Traffic Generator, JIRA and Jenkins, Zabbix, smtp_spam
  • OEM engineering

Certification

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) EC-Council - Issued Jan 2022.

Timeline

Senior Software QA Engineer

Certes Networks (India) Pvt.ltd
10.2022 - Current

Member of Technical Staff IV

Colortokens India LLP
10.2021 - 10.2022

Software Engineer III

Cisco Systems (India) Pvt.Ltd
11.2018 - 10.2021

Sr Software QA Engineer

Certes Networks (India) Pvt.Ltd
03.2012 - 11.2018

Software Engineer

WDC India Private Limited
06.2011 - 03.2012

Trainee Engineer

Rachana Infotech Private Limited
10.2009 - 05.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

KLE Engineering College
Amit Kulkarni