Aug 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Oversee end-to-end validation lifecycle for our customers including Designing validation plan, Automation Development, Automation Execution, Report analysis, Deploy new changes, Operate and maintain the feature in a CI/CD model.
• Design framework and tools for Cisco network automation libraries on an API-based architecture. The key focus is on re-usability, scalability and portability. The automation libraries are vendor neutral and support interfacing with REST API and vendor OS like junos, huawei, ios.
• Interfacing directly with customer to identify requirements, understand concerns and propose tailored subscription/transactional offers that fits their needs. Identify resources with right technical skillsets for project engagements.
• Develop libraries for seamless integration of industry standard test automation frameworks like pyATS, ansible and robotframework. This allows for network test automation to be integrated into customer product and software upgrade pipelines and move it into a netdevops paradigm
• Implementing agile: Creating user stories, conducting planning, retrospectives and daily stand-up calls for smoother transitions of change requests. Curate JIRA dashboards and sprints for tracking project metrics

Feb 2020 – Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Leading a mid-sized team to drive innovation in automation. The team has been successful in reducing the turnaround time for test automation by 35% and has increased the automation adoption among networking professionals by 20%.
• Leading a team to adopt to crowdsourcing model to add an extra throughput for test automation. The team has increased the KPI of automation by 40% and has been an excellent initiative for development of skills across the team.
• Developed Python scripts for collecting and charting the automation metrics, giving a holistic view of the progress of the organisation and scope for improvement per fiscal quarter. The project gained appreciation from management team higher in hierarchy and has become a part of their quarterly reporting.
• Conducted trainings in Python, Network Automation, Integrating test frameworks, Devnet Certifications and best practices in automation to uplift the skills of the broader organization. I strongly believe that team-growth is as important as personal growth.
• Developing networking test automation frameworks using Python, Robot Framework, Ansible.
• Automating operation of Viptela SD-WAN and monitoring it's performance. Testing the feature deployments for end customers to ensure a bug-free production deployment.

May 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Technologies: Python 3, PyATS, Cafy, TextFSM, Paramiko, Segment Routing, JIRA, Docker, Confluence
• Softwares: Confluence, JIRA, Box, Smartsheets, IXIA, Spirent.
• Agile: SCRUM, Sprint, Retrospectives
• ● Working on automating tests and policy execution and validation for Cisco devices/topology.
• ● Involves extensive work on various ASR9k, NCS5k and XTC Controllers.
• ● Developed policy generator for scale profile testing which helped manual and automation test team to test upto 16k policies
• ● Handled a complete project under Segment Routing, named Segment Routing Shortcuts which gained recognition for use of common scripts, greatly reducing developent and debugging time
• ● Gained valuable experience working with traffic generators - Sprirent and IXIA. Handled API calls to both using REST Interface and their respective python API.
• ● Extensive experience in efficiently using JIRA, Confluence, Cisco Test Manager 2 and git.
• ● Developed python API for various IOS commands and traffic generators.
• ● Used Google's TextFSM and Cisco's cafy for creating regex parsers to extract parameters needed from the test devices.
• ● Learnt to work under agile methodology following Sprint with a 2 week deadlines.
• ● Conducted and looked after daily stand-up calls for the sprints.
• ● Worked on testing cutting-edge development features in Cisco's Segment-Routing.
• ● Led the team and researched on using virtual devices for the test automation using VIRL and NetSim. Used their REST API for automating topology creation and validation.
• ● Meticulous use of Python 3 libraries and Cisco's in-house testing library - PyATS.

Sep 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr

• ● Mainly concerned with the organizing and managing the events in the college. Representative from the college at the Sectional level.
• ● Lead a team of 7 committee members and managed a group of 84 volunteers for organizing Paanchajanya – 2015.
• ● Worked in team to raise funds worth $400 to meet the operating costs of Student Activities under IEEE

Jul 2013 – May 2014 · 10 mos

• ● Maintaining the server at IEEE GIT and to update the activities of the student branch on the website. Also involved all the correspondence with the section.