Soumya Saraswat Sahoo
Summary
Experienced in fast-paced environments and adaptable to last-minute changes. Thrives under pressure and consistently earns high marks for work quality and speed.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Network Protocol Test Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
06.2023 - Current
- Specializing in Multicast VXLAN, ensuring robust and scalable network solutions.
- Designing and executing test cases for network protocol validation, focusing on multicast traffic handling in VXLAN overlays.
- Performing packet analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging using tools like Wireshark and TCPdump.
- Working with switching, routing, and tunneling protocols, optimizing network performance.
- Test automation framework used is Pytest.
Network Protocol Test Engineer
Juniper Networks
07.2021 - 06.2023
- Working on the latest deployment models with future products of Juniper.
- Spawning devices across multiple scenarios in the ISP and Enterprise setup.
- Expertise in OSPF, BGP & EVPN-VXLAN.
- Test automation framework is Robot.
Network Test Engineer
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2018 - 09.2020
- Worked in Telecom / Telecom Service / Incident and Problem Management, Network Assurance.
- Client: TELUS Communications Inc. (www.telus.com).
- Responsible for provisioning and Testing PE and CE devices and allocating customer VRFs.
- Participated in planning and implementation for network mergers.
Education
Bachelor of Technical Education - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Institute of Technical Education And Research
Bhubaneswar06-2017
Skills
- Network protocol validation : BGP, OSPF, EVPN-VXLAN and Multicast
- Packet analysis
- Test automation
- Network performance optimization with convergence and stress testing
- Collaborating with TME for recommended customer architecture
- PE to CE provisioning
- Helping customers with Extranet service
Certification
- 6 months Udemy training in CCNP Routing and Switching.
- Juniper Networks Certified Associate, Junos (JNCIA-Junos).
Accomplishments
- Bravo award for creating an extranet connection for high value customer.
- Recognition from Juniper Management and Customer for validating critical CFD.
- QA award in HPE for filing high number of CRs to enhance the code in a release.
Disclaimer
I, Soumya Saraswat Sahoo, hereby declare that all the information stated above is correct.
Timeline
Network Protocol Test Engineer
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
06.2023 - Current
Network Protocol Test Engineer
Juniper Networks
07.2021 - 06.2023
Network Test Engineer
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2018 - 09.2020
Bachelor of Technical Education - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Institute of Technical Education And Research
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