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Venkata Satyanarayana Prasad Badisa

Venkata Satyanarayana Prasad Badisa

Hyderabad

Summary

· 14+ years of Experience in the protocol testing, this includes Design, development and Automation using Python language.

· Knowledge over Layer 2(STP, ARP, VLAN), Layer 3 Protocols (OSPF etc.).

· Experience in Testing of Calix Products like ASM,E9 and ADTRAN Products like TA5000(DSL/PON technologies] / OSP, Brocade switches.

· Good knowledge in configuration and verification of Network devices

· Extensive experience in interacting with Business users at all levels for gathering requirements.

· Extensive experience on development of the Python Scripts for the Test scenario's which needs to be automated with Robot Frame Work

· Experience in Handling On-Site Projects from Client locations

· Actively involved in implementing and maintaining all regression project CI/CD pipelines across different releases.

· Developing automated test scripts based on Acceptance criteria and run the end-to- end test for ASM,E9 of Calix products and Total access 5000 Devices with Different technology cards [DSL, PON technologies]

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Automation Development Engineer

CALIX (Calix India Development Center)
Bangalore
01.2023 - Current
  • Enhanced the effectiveness of automation testing by troubleshooting problems.
  • Enhanced automation regression by incorporating tests targeting identified field problems.
  • Consistently worked on boosting efficiency in test procedures.
  • Managed sprint task estimation and scheduling.
  • Created and implemented a tool for enhancing efficiency in daily tests.
  • Coordinated with multiple functions to develop processes for AXOS product validation.
  • Led development projects from concept to completion, liaising with cross-functional teams to meet engineering specifications.

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad
07.2022 - 01.2023
  • Led client project (Juniper) as an Associate Consultant.
  • Converted manual test processes into automated testing for vSRX use scenarios.
  • Facilitated discussions with the development team regarding unresolved problems.
  • Delivered execution and defect status updates through daily dashboard reports for internal and external stakeholders.
  • Maintained continuous communication with counterpart teams.

Senior Technical Leader – Testing

Capgemini
Hyderabad
07.2013 - 07.2022
  • Led client project (ADTRAN) as Senior Technical Leader.
  • Managed team responsibilities, and coordinated activity schedules.
  • Contributed to developing an implementation dashboard that demonstrates cost savings for clients.
  • Conducted estimations for project requirements.
  • Coordinated with various stakeholders, such as Product Managers, Architects, Dev Leads, and Management, in project planning and design.
  • Led management efforts for international and local Adtran teams.
  • Conducted comprehensive testing across System, Integration, and User Acceptance stages for all releases.
  • Executed comprehensive end-to-end tests for Total Access 5000 devices, with various technology cards.
  • Examined issues and designated responsibility to the appropriate application owners.
  • Facilitated the creation of a comprehensive project document repository.
  • Visited Huntsville to facilitate comprehensive knowledge transfer to the local testing team.

Lead Engineer

Hcl Technologies
Chennai
09.2012 - 07.2013
  • Led client project (Brocade) as Lead Engineer.
  • Performed requirement-based estimations efficiently.
  • Developed comprehensive test cases.
  • Performed extensive regression tests with the Robot Framework.
  • Upgraded existing test cases to ensure compatibility across multiple browsers.
  • Created efficient testing modules using Python.
  • Performed thorough reviews of test case documents created by colleagues.
  • Performed regression testing to verify bug fixes.
  • Logged issues on the defect sheet.

Software Engineer

Ne Technologies India Pvt Limited
Hyderabad
10.2007 - 09.2012
  • Led client project (ADTRAN) as a Software Engineer.
  • Analyzed detailed user needs based on system criteria.
  • Executed tests at the unit level, integration stage, and system-wide.
  • Contributed to continuous evaluation sessions with the client.
  • Provided continuous maintenance for current systems, and updated platforms.

Education

Bachelor Of Technology - Electronics & Communication

V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College
Vijayawada
01.2005

Skills

Layer 2 Protocols

Layer 3 Protocols - RIP/OSPF

NMS Testing

ADTRAN Products TA5000

Brocade Switches

Python

TCL

Windows

Linux

HPALM

Jenkins

Jira

Wireshark

ITest

Spirent

Elmo Traffic Generators

MG-Soft MIB Browser

GitHub

Certification

  • Microsoft certification Azure fundamentals
  • Adtran Technical Solutions Associate
  • Adtran Technical Solutions Professional
  • Green Belt Certification From Spirent On iTest
  • CCNA – Expired
  • Aricent ACP- Python Certified
  • Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner
  • Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master

Projects

Project Title: Automation Development Solution Test Eng for ASM product

Description : ASM 3001 your network by bringing L3 functionality to your distributed Layer 2 access network.

Aggregation Services Manager, Centralized Subscriber Management, Access ,Edge Routing

Industry : CALIX , USA

Project timeline : Jan 2023 – Till date

Team size : 3

Location : Bangalore, India

Role  : Automation Development Engineer as Individual contributor

Responsibilities:

· Design the topo and END to END Solution Test Use cases based on Requirements and getting reviews with Development team, Business analyst and Peer review within the ST team.

· Tracking all the open issues and discussing them with the development team.

· Sending Daily Dashboard report of Execution status/Defect status to internal and external clients, Businesses and development.

· Weekly Tracking Sprint and PI Team Goals

· Try to Resolve the impediments faced by team members

· Covered features like VRRP (BNG and Non BNG Mode) ,L2 Switching features

Project Title : Automation Development Eng for vSRX Product

Description: The Juniper vSRX Virtual Firewall offers the same rich feature set as our physical SRX Series Firewalls in a virtualized form factor. It supports next-generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities, networking, and automated lifecycle management. Security services scale to match network demand, operating at speeds up to 200 Gbps

Industry: Juniper , Bangalore

Project timeline: Jul 2022 – Dec 2023

Team size: 15

Location: Bangalore, India

Role: Automation Development Engineer as Individual contributor

Responsibilities:

· Automated legacy test scripts to test vSRX functionality use cases

· Tracking all the open issues and discussing them with the development team.

· Sending Daily Dashboard report of Execution status/Defect status to internal and external clients,

· Continuously sync ups with Counterpart and development teams.

Project title : Mosaic Cloud Platform(MCP) Plugins for TA5k FTTP products

Description : Mosaic Cloud Platform(MCP) is an User interface Network Management System where we can monitor the configuration, health or alarms which is being used in greenfield customers deploying Total Access 5000 part of Mosaic™ Cloud Platform. The data which is seen in UI is populated form the backend python code.

Plugins will communicate with the device and micro-service for running the tasks. It translates data and perform action to configure and inspect the devices deployed in the MCP. These modules can be installed individually and dynamically loaded into the MCP

Industry: ADTRAN , Huntsville

Project timeline : Nov 2020 – Jul 2022

Team size: 10

Location: Hyderabad, India

Role: Plugin Developer

Responsibilities :

· Product Owner for MCP TA5000 solution [DSL and FTTP products]

· Interface between dev teams and Product Managers, Customer teams, BOs

· ART level syncs with other POs, Cross ART collaboration

· Design and Implement of plugin code to deploy end to end service for Total Access 5000 DSL/FTTP[OLT,ONT] devices using Network Management system [NMS] applications (Mosaic Cloud Platform)

· Involve in iteration planning, system demo, code reviews, troubleshooting

· Deliver MCP features for greenfield customers

· Monitor CI/CD pipeline, ensure timely and quality delivery each PI

· Implementing the unit tests and automation tests for code coverage using Used Robot framework.

Project title : System testing for 4xx ONT [non/ residential gateways] products

Description : 4xx wireless residential gateway, an integrated wireless router and gateway with the industry’s first 802.11ac wave 2 802.11ac 4x4 mimo implementation, designed to deliver near gigabit throughput and the extended coverage to make the fully wireless home a reality.

Industry : ADTRAN , Huntsville

Project timeline : July 2018 – Oct 2020

Team size : 10

Location :  Hyderabad, India

Role : Automation and manual test engineer for all 4xx ONT's

Responsibilities

· Closely work with Product Managers, Architects, Dev leads and Management in understanding and design of the project.

· Managing offshore ADTRAN team as well as onsite team.

· Involved in System, Integration and User Acceptance testing of all the project releases.

· Writing automated test scripts based on Acceptance criteria and run the end-to- end test for Total access 5000 Devices with Different technology cards [DSL, PON technologies] against web applications and client server applications

· Reviewing and assign defect to deferent application owner.

· Conducting knowledge sharing sessions and building a project documents

Project Title : DBT for TA500x and OSP products

Description : Involves implementing and maintaining all regression project ci/cd pipelines across different releases. Develop different regression testbeds for different customers release regression.

Industry : ADTRAN , Huntsville

Project timeline : Jun 2016 – Jun 2018

Team size : 7

Location : Hyderabad, India

Role : Product owner and individual contributor (DBT Engineer)

Responsibilities

· Designing Test cases based on Requirements and getting reviews with Development team, Business analyst and Peer review within the ST team.

· Execution of test cases and Identifying/reporting Defect

· Tracking all the open issues and discussing them with the development team.

· Executing Regression test cases for checking existing functionality works fine in accordance with the new functionality/new code.

· Sending Daily Dashboard report of Execution status/Defect status to internal and external clients, Businesses and development.

· Travelled to Onsite (Huntsville) for Knowledge Transfer to Testing team in USA.

· Reports project progress and Test metrics to Senior Management and Stake holders

Project Title : SHIRE Base Testing [Data Driven Testing]

Description : CLI Regression testing involves execution and analysis of existing CLI tests on multiple technology line cards and report issues, There are four different types of test cases currently being executed those are traversal, walk, syntax, database CLI error check tests. All these tests retrieve the commands from requirement database called SHIRE wherein full command details will be maintained

Industry: ADTRAN , Huntsville

Project timeline: Jul 2013 – May 2016

Team size: 7

Location: Hyderabad, India

Role Product owner and individual contributor (Developer)

Responsibilities:

· Designing Test cases based on Requirements and getting reviews with Development team, Business analyst and Peer review within the ST team.

· Execution of test cases and identifying/reporting Defect

· Tracking all the open issues and discussing them with the development team.

· As a Testing Engineer involved in involved in regression executions and failure analysis . Reporting Jira’s and script issues

· Written good number of utilities using iTest to parse the log files and display failures in Excel format

Project title: Brocade VDX 6730 VCS FVT

Description: The brocade vdx 6730 switch is a 10 gigabit ethernet (gbe) fixed configuration switch with Lan and native fiber channel ports. It supports multiple connectivity options, ethernet storage connectivity for fiber channel over ethernet (fcoe), iscsi, nas, and bridges to fiber channel storage area networks (sans).

Industry: Brocade

Project timeline: Sep 2012 - Jul 2013 (10 months)

Team size: 25

Location: Chennai, India

Role : Developing test plan, report, test cases for VDX Switch feature verification

Responsibilities

· Involved in estimation for respective requirements.

· Involved in Developing test cases and validating the test cases.

· Involved in Regression testing using Robot Framework

· Enhancing the exist feature Test cases for cross browser testng.

· Involved to design test cases using Python.

· Reviewing the test cases written by the team members.

· Involved in Smoke, Functionality and Regression Testing.

· Report the bugs in Defect Sheet.

Project title: Netvanta 83x /Netvanta 80xx DVT testing

Description: Testing major features like aaa, cfm fng, evc-advertisement, file system testing, macaging, ntp, e-lan, ez provisioning, sys-subtend, traffic shaper, end to end eocu solution encompasses the latest mef certified e.shdsl efm network termination units (ntu).

Industry: ADTRAN, USA

Project timeline: Oct 2010 – Sep 2012 (1 year 11 months)

Team size: 5

Location: Hyderabad, India

Role: Developer to implement test plan, cases & report, test execution and reviews

Responsibilities

· Understanding user requirements and system specifications

· Performed unit, integration and system testing

· Actively participated in regular project review meetings with client

· Test software development methodology in an agile environment and provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms

Project title : LSOA (local service order administration) gateway maintenance

Description : The eznumberport is gateway software that communicates ported number data to npacs (regional number portability administration centers). This gateway has created in accordance with the specifications provided by the client requiring common interfaces for the transfer of number portability information.

Industry : Ne tech INC ,USA

Project timeline : Jan 2008 – Sep 2010 (2 year 9 months)

Team size : 15

Location : Hyderabad, india

Role : Developer to implement of Java Server pages for processing requests

Responsibilities :

· Developed Java server pages for processing requests.

· Involved in bug fixing and unit testing.

· Developed software to correct errors, allowing it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance using scripting languages like programming languages like Java, Python, etc

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Senior Automation Development Engineer

CALIX (Calix India Development Center)
01.2023 - Current

Associate Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services
07.2022 - 01.2023

Senior Technical Leader – Testing

Capgemini
07.2013 - 07.2022

Lead Engineer

Hcl Technologies
09.2012 - 07.2013

Software Engineer

Ne Technologies India Pvt Limited
10.2007 - 09.2012

Bachelor Of Technology - Electronics & Communication

V.R.Siddhartha Engineering College
Venkata Satyanarayana Prasad Badisa