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Nagaraj S Naik

Bengaluru

Summary

Senior management professional with overall 20years of experience, bringing strategic leadership and operational excellence to drive organizational success. Skilled in project management, team collaboration, and process optimization with keen focus on achieving results. Adept at navigating complex challenges, fostering culture of accountability, and adapting to evolving business needs. Known for strong decision-making, effective communication, and building high-performing teams.

- 13years of experience in IC role and 7 years in management.
- Experience in managing a customer solution testing team with 20+ engineers. - Lead Programs for new release delivery working closes with cross functional teams.
- Drive new product initiatives (NPIs) working with the teams across Geo. Experience in Customer solution design and testing Experience in Data Com L2/L3 Testing and Automation.

Overview

1826
1826
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Sr Manager -QA Engineering

Arrcus Software Solutions
Bengaluru
09.2024 - Current
  • Led cross-functional teams to achieve project milestones and deliver high-quality results.
  • Collaborated closely with peers from other departments to drive organizational success jointly as one cohesive unit.
  • Managed NPCI customer account for end to end testing.

Sr Manager - Test Engineering

Juniper Networks
Bengaluru
07.2022 - 08.2024

• Managed a team of 17 engineers.
• Technically lead Service Provider & Cloud Customer segments
• Instrumental in creating new profile Design & Automation strategy for Service Provider Segment, which would help to qualify multiple customer use cases in short time.
• As a technical manager, I review & analyze customer use case requirements provided by the customers.
• Collaborate effectively with teams across geographies in 3+ continents, direct customer interfacing and stakeholder management.
• Drive Juniper Validated Design (Reference Architecture) for Metro segment in collaboration with PLM team.
• Work with Field team and Customers to Analyze Customer Deployment Architectures, Network Topologies and Test Plans
• Performed role of project lead for 3 releases this year, which included multiple test teams.
• Drive technical sessions every month within the team.
• Involved in design reviews and test plan reviews
• Lead and encourage team to develop new automation tools.
• Strategize and Plan of New equipment procurement.
• Drive and Lead New Product Initiatives (NPIs)
• Work on continuous Improvement and transformation
• Work closely with Tier 1 customers like AT&T, Amazon, Microsoft, Comcast, Vodafone India, Google, British Telecom, Telecom Italia, Alibaba, Baidu, Oracle.
• Recruited, interviewed and hired employees, Interns and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.

Manager - Test Engineering

Juniper Networks
Bengaluru
11.2018 - 06.2022
  • Manage team of 12 Engineers
  • Technically lead Service Provider & Cloud Customer segments
  • Instrumental in creating new profile Design & Automation strategy for Service Provider Segment, which would help to qualify multiple customer use cases in short time.
  • As a technical manager, I review & analyze customer use case requirements provided by the customers.
  • Collaborate effectively with teams across geographies in 3+ continents, direct customer interfacing and stakeholder management.
  • Drive Juniper Validated Design (Reference Architecture) for Metro segment in collaboration with PLM team.

Test Engineer Lead

Juniper Networks
Bengaluru
03.2010 - 10.2018
  • Involved in Interface test of following Interfaces · DSL flavors (ADSL, VDSL, SHDSL), E1/T1 Interfaces.
  • End to End Customer Specific Testing: Involved in customer specific solution or integration test
  • Involved in customer escalations
  • As part of testing workflow involved in following

- Design Test topology,

- Create testplan and get it reviewed.

- Execute testcases manually

- Automate testcases

- Submit to regression test

Senior Engineer

Alcatel Lucent India Ltd
Chennai
07.200 - 03.201

- Involved in functional testing of DSL physical layer features for Alcatel-Lucent DSLAM i.e. ISAM-7300

- Involved in End to end testing of the product

- Automated testcase with APME framework.

- Travelled to Belgium for feature testing of new features.

Senior Engineer

D-Link India Ltd
Goa
10.2004 - 07.2008
  • Involved in development of DSL modem
  • Responsible for Hardware design, Software modifications and testing of DSL modem developed in house R&D.
  • Involved in testing of E1/T1 devices
  • Involved in ISO-9001 process

Trainee Engineer

Reinfold Physical Innovation Labs
Bengaluru
04.200 - 10.200
  • Trainee Engineer

Education

B.E. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Gogte Institute of Technology
Belgaum, Karnataka
07.1999 - 03.2003

Advanced Diploma - Embedded Systems and Real Time Operating System

Cranes Varsity
Bengaluru
05.2003 - 04.2004

Executive MBA - Information Technology and Systems Management

NMIMS
Bengaluru
03.2019 - 05.2021

Skills

  • Project management

  • Program management

  • Capex management for new orders

  • TL9K process

  • Team collaboration

  • Skill building

  • OSPF

  • BGP

  • RSVP

  • MPLS

  • L3VPN

  • RSVP-TE

  • PIM

  • IGMP

  • VPLS

  • IGMP Snooping

  • LAG

  • OAM

  • CFM

  • L2 Protocol Tunneling

  • EVPN

  • Segment Routing

  • QoS

  • VRRP

  • DHCP

  • RIP

  • GRE Tunneling

  • IP Sec tunneling protocols

  • High Availability

  • DSL flavors (ADSL, VDSL, SHDSL)

  • E1/T1 Interfaces

  • Python

  • Robo framework

  • Traffic Generators IXIA

  • Spirent Test Centre

  • GNATS

  • CVS

  • All Junos MX-Series routers

  • PTX Series Routers

  • Juniper EVO Routers

  • PTX-10008

  • PTX-10003

  • PTX-10001-36MR

  • Juniper ACX Series

  • SRX Series

  • J-Series Router

  • Alcatel Lucent ISAM-7302

  • Alcatel Lucent ISAM-7330

  • D-Link Router

  • D-Link Modems

Certification

JNCIA-Junos [Juniper Networks certified associate]

Accomplishments

  • Received CEO Excellence Team Award for working on critical Escalation.
  • Received Test Engineering Star Award 4 times.
  • Received Best Engineer Award for DSL product development.
  • Visited Beijing, China for training on E1 test instruments.

Area Of Expertise

Project management, Program management, Capex management for new orders, TL9K process, Team collaboration, Skill building, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, MPLS, L3VPN, RSVP-TE, PIM, IGMP, VPLS, IGMP Snooping, LAG, OAM, CFM, L2 Protocol Tunneling, EVPN, Segment Routing, QoS, VRRP, DHCP, RIP, GRE Tunneling, IP Sec tunneling protocols, High Availability, DSL flavors (ADSL, VDSL, SHDSL), E1/T1 Interfaces, Python, Robo framework, Traffic Generators IXIA, Spirent Test Centre, GNATS, CVS, All Junos MX-Series routers, PTX Series Routers, Juniper EVO Routers, Juniper ACX Series, SRX Series, J-Series Router, Alcatel Lucent ISAM-7302,7330, D-Link Router and Modems

Timeline

Sr Manager -QA Engineering

Arrcus Software Solutions
09.2024 - Current

Sr Manager - Test Engineering

Juniper Networks
07.2022 - 08.2024

Executive MBA - Information Technology and Systems Management

NMIMS
03.2019 - 05.2021

Manager - Test Engineering

Juniper Networks
11.2018 - 06.2022

Test Engineer Lead

Juniper Networks
03.2010 - 10.2018

Senior Engineer

D-Link India Ltd
10.2004 - 07.2008

Advanced Diploma - Embedded Systems and Real Time Operating System

Cranes Varsity
05.2003 - 04.2004

B.E. - Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Gogte Institute of Technology
07.1999 - 03.2003

Senior Engineer

Alcatel Lucent India Ltd
07.200 - 03.201

Trainee Engineer

Reinfold Physical Innovation Labs
04.200 - 10.200
Nagaraj S Naik