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Awards and Recognitions
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Arunkumar Ravichandran

Arunkumar Ravichandran

Summary

  • QA professional with 10+ years of experience in testing networking products in NMS/EMS, IOT, Network Security, Wireless LAN technologies
  • Expertise in manual, automation, regression, Scale & Performance, API, security and web application testing
  • Proficient in test planning, analyzing functional specification documents, creating Test plans, Test Setups, defect tracking, reproducing customer Issues, RCA, identifying test gaps, reviewing testplans, test scripts and release documentations
  • Proficient in python, selenium, ROBOT and pyATS framework
  • Experience in virtualization - vmware ESXI and docker containers
  • Experience in leading QA team and achieving project milestones before deadlines

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Technical Leader

VCTI
Bengaluru
10.2021 - Current

Project: IOT-FND (Cisco)

The Cisco IoT FND is a network management system that manages multi-service network and security infrastructure for IoT applications such as smart grid applications.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Lead QA team, assess project milestones and test planning, provide technical support and mentoring to team and conduct weekly calls to track and complete the assigned activities within committed deadlines
  • Bring up test setups - physical, virtual setups using vSphere ESXi servers and docker containers
  • Analyse functional specs, create testplans, manual and automation testing for new features
  • Smoke and security testing for new daily builds
  • Scale and Performance testing for each release
  • FCAPS testing, creating application servers from bare metal and oracle/postgres db installation
  • Manual regression and automated regression testing for each releases
  • Develop automation scripts using python and selenium with Cisco pyATS framework
  • Raise defects in testing features and Verify bug fixes
  • Reproduce customer issues and covering test gaps through automation scripts.
  • Review peer testplan, testscripts and product documentation
  • Provide demo for new features and scale/performance testing results at the end of the sprint/release

Technical Leader

Capgemini (formerly Aricent Technologies)
Chennai
04.2015 - 10.2021

Project: J-WEB (Juniper Networks)

J-Web for SRX routers (firewall and security services gateway) provides on the box GUI management tool that makes it easy to configure, monitor, and maintain and troubleshoot SRX device without using router CLI

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Bring up test setup - physical and virtual using VSRX using vSphere ESXi servers
  • Analysing functional specification documents, create testplans, perform manual and automation testing for new features across all SRX models and browsers
  • Develop automation scripts using selenium, ROBOT framework and python
  • Perform vulnerability testing using burp suite scanner tool
  • Raisse bugs in testing features and Verifying bug fixes
  • Reproducing customer issues and covering test gaps through automation scripts
  • Regression testing for quarterly releases and maintenance releases
  • Review product documentation and provide feedback to technical publications team
  • Mentoring junior team members on technical concepts and troubleshooting issues

Senior Engineer

Capgemini (formerly Aricent Technologies)
Chennai
09.2014 - 04.2015

Project: Ringmaster (Juniper Networks)

Ring Master is a management suite that helps enterprises plan, configure, deploy, and manage WLANs (controller, APs, clients) from a single management console

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Manual testing, reproducing customer issues, raising defects and verifying bug fixes
  • Regression testing for maintenance releases

Member Technical Staff

HCL Technologies
Chennai
11.2012 - 09.2014

Project: CDS-TV (Cisco)

The Cisco TV Content Delivery System (CDS) is a distributed network of CDE running Content Delivery Applications providing ingest, storage, caching, streaming capabilities that collaborate with each other to deliver personalized entertainment and interactive media to subscribers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Testplan and test setup creation
  • Manual and automation testing with TCL, selenium
  • Reproducing customer issues and defect verifications

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
Chennai
08.2010 - 10.2012

Project: CUWN (Cisco)

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution offers secure, scalable, cost-effective wireless LANs. This solution combines wired and wireless networking to deliver high performance, manageable, and secure WLANs with a low total cost of ownership.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Manual and automation testing for new features
  • Automation using TCL and iTest tool

Education

BE - ECE

Saranathan Engineering College, Anna University
Trichy
04.2010

Skills

  • NMS/EMS, IOT, Network Security, Wireless LAN, CDN, L2/L3 protocols, FCAPS
  • Python, pyATS framework, Selenium, Selenium GRID, ROBOT framework
  • Manual, Automation, Sanity, Regression, API, Scale and Performance, vulnerability, Web application testing
  • Wireshark, Burp Suite, SOAPUI, pycharm, git, Jenkins, RIDE
  • Agile, JIRA
  • VMware ESXI servers, Docker containers
  • Oracle, Postgresql
  • Router, switch, WLC, AP, wired and wireless client, AAA, PKI,
  • TCP/IP, VLAN, DHCP, ARP, SNMP, DNS, IPsec VPN, NAT, IPS, switching, routing
  • Windows, Linux

Awards and Recognitions

  • Received quarterly Q awards 4 times from Juniper Networks for productivity excellence
  • Received WOW Award from Aricent Technologies 6 times for individual excellence
  • Received an annual BU award for productivity excellence and team collaboration

Timeline

Senior Technical Leader

VCTI
10.2021 - Current

Technical Leader

Capgemini (formerly Aricent Technologies)
04.2015 - 10.2021

Senior Engineer

Capgemini (formerly Aricent Technologies)
09.2014 - 04.2015

Member Technical Staff

HCL Technologies
11.2012 - 09.2014

Software Engineer

HCL Technologies
08.2010 - 10.2012

BE - ECE

Saranathan Engineering College, Anna University
Arunkumar Ravichandran