Kamal venugopal

Dynamic Senior Staff Engineer with extensive experience at Juniper Networks, excelling in test management and client engagement. Proven track record in optimizing resource utilization and enhancing product quality through effective leadership and process improvements. Skilled in automated testing and technical documentation, driving team success and client satisfaction. Motivated engineer recognized for strong critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, coupled with a successful several-year track record in the industry. Dedicated to offering innovative solutions to eliminate legacy issues and elevate performance metrics.

JIRA, Quality Center, Sharepoint, MS-Teams, Selenium, Toby, Python, Postman, Rest API, IXIA, Breaking point, GIT, Jenkins, AWS, Azure

• Effect of Scheduling on the performance of a Photonic Packet Switch with multiple groups of Partially Shared Buffer and Wavelength Conversion, Photonics'2004 (7th International Conference on Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics & Photonics), Cochin, 12/09/04
• A study of burst aggregation techniques for IP traffic in optical burst switched networks, IASTED Conference, Spain, 09/01/05
• A Comparison between Path and Span Protection in JET based OBS Network, COIN Conf., Korea, 01/01/06

• Test Management
• Project Management
• Resource Optimization
• Process Improvement
• Client Relationship
• Team Management
• Leadership
• Defect Management
• Domain Expertise

• AWS
• JNCIS
• JNCIA

• Experience includes involvement in all phases of SDLC, STLC, and Agile process.
• Working as a Technical Lead Engineer in Juniper SDWAN solution team.
• Coordinated with the development team in evaluating features and developing solution testcases, test bed and guided testers in test activities.
• Conducted product demonstrations and presentations and ensured effective resolution of client reported issues leading to enhanced satisfaction.
• Groomed and mentored a team of engineers working on the next generation cloud-based network management applications. Optimized resource utilization through the allocation of tasks.
• Updated project progress to the senior management and other stakeholders to enable effective decision making and implement effective remedial measures.
• Actively involved in guiding teams on feature testing of new customer premise equipment, working on juniper network management product portfolio for juniper fusion products.
• Functioned as the Qualified CPE for SDWAN deployments in the cloud (SAAS based models) and on-premise deployments of SDWAN.
• Implement agile management ideas by facilitating sprint planning and team-leading stand-ups.
• Led sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to touch base with the development team.
• Expertise in project management skills by handling meetings, analytics, documentation, and business reports.
• Developing and maintaining Traceability Matrix, Test Metrics, and performing GAP Analysis.
• Analyzing defects in development, test & production environment and assigning them to the right team with causes and excellent expertise in Defect Management tool.
• Experience in Install, upgrading, System, Functional, Solution, and High Availability Testing for CLOUD CPE SDWAN products, and NMS/EMS systems for Enterprise and Service Providers.
• Have used Containerization Tools like Docker, Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Expertise in Security protocols and exposure to Routing & Switching domains.
• Experienced in API Testing using POSTMAN.
• Experience in driving the application with Automation tool Selenium.