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RAVINDHAR BALUGU

RAVINDHAR BALUGU

QA, Cloud, Security, Automation
Bangalore

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Summary

  • Over 17+ years of Experience in Testing and Designing Automating frameworks for EMS/NMS Products.
  • Expertise in Design/Configuring Network with Security and cloud Topologies for On-Prem and On-Cloud Security Management Products. Specialized in the design and development of API/GUI automation frameworks.
  • Helped to build effective teams and Lead QA activities through the Project lifecycle.
  • Expert Technical Manager accomplished in coordinating department activities and supporting fast-paced production work.
  • Consistently maintains schedule targets and completes error-free work.
  • Easy to get along with and always ready with ideas to improve production with better strategies or equipment recommendations.

Skills

  • Network Security Technologies: Classic, Next-Gen Security Firewalls, NAT, IPsec VPNs, IDP, UTM, SSL, Advanced Threat Prevention, Security Analytics
  • Network Orchestration: SDN, and SDWAN
  • Virtualization: ESXi, KVM, Openstack
  • Operating System: Linux
  • Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift
  • Performance: JMeter, Grafana
  • Cloud Providers: AWS, GCP
  • Languages: Python, Java
  • Scripting: Shell, expect
  • Databases: Mysql, Postgres, Elasticsearch and Redis
  • Web APIs: RESTful, OpenAPI and gRPC
  • Tools/Frameworks: PyTest, Robot, Selenium, TestNG, Jenkins, Git
  • Skills Includes - Team Collaboration, Project Management, Timelines and Milestones, Training Junior Team Members, Client Requirements, Team Meetings, Technical Presentations, Scrum Methodology
  • Leading Projects

Education

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Balaji Institute of Technology & Science - (JNTU)
Warangal
03.2005

Diploma in Electronics And Communication - Electronics And Communication

Govt. Polytechnic
Warangal
03.2002

Certification

  • AWS Solution Architect Associate
  • JNCIP-Security

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

Juniper Networks, Inc
Bangalore, Karantaka
2010.12 - Current
  • Worked on multiple Network and Security Management Products such as Juniper Space, Juniper Security Director (on-premise), Juniper CSO (Contrail Service Orchestration), Juniper Security Director Cloud, Juniper Secure Edge and few other Products as QA/Lead/Automation/Manual.
  • Worked very closely with Product Management, software development and Engineering Leads to understand, review, test and qualify robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
  • Designed Automation Framework from scratch for both API and UI Automation (PyTest and Selenium) for multiple products.
  • Implement end to end CI/CD to build manifest, deploy test bed and run test pipeline for multiple products.
  • Lead and Guided QA Team to cover Functional, Scale, Solution and Automation Activities for overall Project Release.
  • Design and Implement Solution Topology based on Customer Use cases.
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance
  • Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.
  • expectations.
  • Provided direction and guidance to process improvements and established policies.
  • Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns.
  • Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
  • and common goals.

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
Chennai, Tamilnadu
07.2005 - 12.2010
  • Worked on multiple Products of Client Cisco Systems such as Smart Care Next Generation, Small Network Services, Security Device Manager (SDM, ASDM), Access Point Device Manager etc.
  • Involved in Designing Automation Framework for REST API (Java/JUnit),GUI automation frameworks using Java and RFT
  • Test and Automate for all Device management and monitoring features
  • Actively involved in functional, solution, performance testing of all features
  • Test cases design, Review, Execute and Automate features.
  • Configure the Network Topology Solution Test bed for the Solution and Monitoring
  • Review, understand the Functional, API and Product
  • Automated monitoring and security measures to reduce required employee attention.
  • Specifications.

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

Juniper Networks, Inc
2010.12 - Current

Technical Lead

HCL Technologies
07.2005 - 12.2010

B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering

Balaji Institute of Technology & Science - (JNTU)

Diploma in Electronics And Communication - Electronics And Communication

Govt. Polytechnic

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