Nagaraja R
Bangalore
Summary
QA Specialist with over 10 years of experience in test planning, execution, and automation for enterprise and network applications. Proven expertise in validating switching and routing protocols, SD-WAN solutions, and Network Management Systems through both manual and automated testing. Skilled in CLI, REST, and UI automation using Python frameworks, with proficiency in Selenium and Playwright. Experienced in regression testing, rapid failure triage, and utilizing AI tools for efficient test plan generation and automation.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist QA Engineer
HPE (Aruba Networks)
Bengaluru
03.2022 - Current
- Working as Quality Assurance of Aruba Fabric Composer for data center networking solutions.
- Verification and validation of Aruba Fabric Composer workflows for configuring data center networking features.
- Test planning, execution of the test plan for both manual and automation for AFC workflows to configure data center features (Leaf Spine, OSPF, BGP, telemetry features).
- Regression testing for qualifying various releases in Aruba Composer using Rest API automation using python.
Senior Software QA Engineer
Versa Networks
Bangalore
08.2020 - 03.2022
- Working as Quality Assurance of Versa-Director (SDWAN) for flexVNF appliances and deliver high-quality features.
- Manual, Automation testing & Performance testing using Netconf mediation between the Versa-Director and flexVNF appliances.
- Performing Backup/Restore testing, HA Testing, appliance onboarding, ZTP, Template-based Provisioning, Software Upgrade Testing, Alarm testing, RBAC, Multi-Hierarchy, etc.
- Setting up test network using Versa appliances, creating, reviewing test plans, customer documentation & release notes.
- Supporting the team members in solving the technical issues is Versa-Director & flexVNF and supporting both TAC/SE team to understand and debug the field issues.
- REST API automation using python.
- UI automation using Selenium.
Senior Software QA Engineer
Extreme Networks
Bangalore
01.2015 - 06.2020
- Worked as Automation Test Engineer to deploy, maintain and manage Brocade/Extreme SLX-Series, VDX Series, MLX Series.
- Design, develop, execute, and automate tests to validate OSPF, SPAN, sFlow, ACL feature for SLX-Series switches.
- Worked on reproducing bugs found in production environment.
- Worked on regression testing for various releases for SLX-series.
- Helped new joiners in the team on Automation.
- Involved in test script automation review.
- Involved in framework related APIs development.
- Involved in automation related APIs development.
- Involved in testing the automation framework.
Contract DBA
Bharath Electronics
Bangalore
10.2011 - 08.2012
- Worked as mySQL DBA for prestigious project National Population Register undertaken by Government of India aims at creating a comprehensive database of usual residents in India with UID numbers.
- The data is digitized by the data entry centers and will be available in the servers.
- By using SQL queries, we extract the data from the central database for a given district/taluk/village/town wise.
- The extracted data will be given to biometric process.
- By using SQL queries, we do various operations on about 30+ tables of this database.
- As part of this project we also take backup and/or restoring of data into the database server.
Education
MTech - Software Engineering
SJCE
Mysore, Karnataka07.2014
BE - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bangalore, Karnataka06.2010
Skills
- Networking
- Switching
- VLAN
- STP
- Routing
- OSPF
- BGP
- SPAN
- SFloW
- IXIA
- Spirent
- Wireshark
- Java
- Python
- TCL
- Pytest
- Junit
- Selenium
- Playwright
- Windows
- Linux
- Git
- JIRA
- MySQL Database
- PyCharm
- Eclipse
Timeline
Specialist QA Engineer
HPE (Aruba Networks)
03.2022 - Current
Senior Software QA Engineer
Versa Networks
08.2020 - 03.2022
Senior Software QA Engineer
Extreme Networks
01.2015 - 06.2020
Contract DBA
Bharath Electronics
10.2011 - 08.2012
MTech - Software Engineering
SJCE
BE - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University