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Sooriya Narayanan

Summary

I would like a career that gives me rich exposure through diverse assignment and working with people of high caliber. I would constantly look out for challenges, which would help me to achieve my personal and professional goal.


Professional Summary

  • 13+ years of experience in in networking that include Network protocol testing, trouble shooting and automation.
  • Have worked as a regression, manual test and automation engineer.
  • Proficient in manual testing of L2, L3 protocols and System features.
  • Automation experience both in Tcl and Python Experience in Feature testing, System Testing and Customer focused testing Excellent communication skills

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
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Certification
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Work History

Senior Technical Specialist

Nokia Networks
Bangalore
08.2021 - Current
  • Project : Virtualized Network Services - SD-WAN solution by Nuage
  • Reviewing Use cases and Functional specification of new feature and preparing Test plan
  • Manually testing the test cases and 100% automation in parallel
  • Platform : DPDK based NSGs,Controller and REST configurations
  • Testing Routing with BGP/OSPF on access side of SD-WAN solution
  • Worked on bringing up a scale testsuite that has all SD-WAN features enabled with scale to mimic System test defects in a functional testbed
  • Experience in bringing up Virtual machines using libvirt toolkit


Sr. Software Test Engineer

Broadcom - Brocade Communications
Bangalore
04.2012 - 08.2021


Products:

  • Brocade: VDX series 8770,6740,6720 and SLX series 9140,9240,9850
  • Broadcom –Open source NOS- SONIC


Platform :

Routers - SLX 9850,9140,9240 , VDX 8770-4/8, 6720,6740, Individual contributor to test and automate the features

  • Manually testing the test cases and automating them
  • Reviewing Use cases and Functional specification of new feature and preparing Test plan
  • Manually testing the test cases and 100% automation in parallel
  • Helping the development engineers in the bug resolution
  • High priority is given to test the customer specific configurations and scenarios
  • The customer found defects are addressed, debugged, recreated and automated
  • Took ownership in building labs and made sure all lab issues addressed in time so that the network is up always
  • Onsite working experience on multiple responsibilities
  • Convergence testing –manual and automation
  • Doing regression for the automated scripts till the scripts officially taken over by regression team to make sure feature coverage is not missed in any image

Features Tested:

  • STP,PVST,RSTP,RPVST,MSTP
  • OSPFv2
  • BGP EVPN, VxLAN, PIM-SSM
  • SNMP,REST API
  • SPAN,PBR

Software Test Engineer

Alcatel Lucent India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
04.2009 - 03.2012

Project : ISAM-FTTU GPON testing

Platform: FTTU 7342(OLT) ,7330 and ONT

The 7342 Intelligent Services Access Manager Fiber to the User (ISAM FTTU) system is Nokia's flagship Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) solution for use in fiber to the home and business applications. 7342 ISAM FTTU provides triple-play services (voice, video and data) over one fiber strand.


Roles & Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for understanding the requirement, defining test specification, developing & reviewing test cases
  • Reviewing Use cases and Functional specification of new feature and preparing Test plan.
  • Manually test the feature and filing bugs
  • Responsible for Soak Testing with all ONT /OLT types and all features enabled
  • Manual System Testing for checking the CIG ONT compatibility with the 7342 OLT
  • Responsible for Migration tests for all possible migration paths using customer database
  • Root cause analysis for Customer found issues to improve the product quality
  • Daily/Weekly status Reporting of the test execution to the stakeholders

Features Tested:

  • IPV6-ND
  • IGMPv2 Proxy/Snooping
  • ARP
  • DHCP
  • 802.1x authentication

Education

M.S - Computer Networks

Manipal University

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering

Government College of Technology
08.2004 - 04.2008

Skills

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Certification

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Timeline

Senior Technical Specialist

Nokia Networks
08.2021 - Current

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Broadcom - Brocade Communications
04.2012 - 08.2021

Software Test Engineer

Alcatel Lucent India Pvt Ltd
04.2009 - 03.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering

Government College of Technology
08.2004 - 04.2008

M.S - Computer Networks

Manipal University
Sooriya Narayanan