Pratik Kunal

Associate Consultant

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of IT industry experience.
Expertise in large scale Telecom/ISP networks.
Hands-on with multi-vendor networking devices.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications Infrastructure Expert with extensive experience in networking protocols and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

MplsRoutingTestingNetworking

Other Skills

MPLS VPNPython (Programming Language)System TestingRouting ProtocolsPolicy Based RoutingQoSJNCISPseudowireNetwork Load BalancingFunctional TestingNetwork Function VirtualizationCisco RoutersPacket SwitchingWeb ScrapingREST APIs

About

17+ years of experience in the IT industry. Hands-on experience on understanding and working on the latest networking OS/platforms, networking protocols and technologies and automation tools Hands-on experience on working on some of the latest Cisco routing platforms Hands-on experience on working on networking devices from a plethora of vendors including Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, Ericsson etc. Extensive knowledge of large scale Telecom/ISP network with IP/MPLS converged core Specialities: IP, MPLS, MPLS-VPN, Converged Core technologies, ISP/Large Telco Core planning, Routing, Switching, QoS, Access Control Lists, Packet Forwarding Technologies, Load-Balancing, Network Virtualisation, Network test automation using Python, Multi-vendor platforms Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel etc.

Experience

20 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Juniper networks

Staff

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Cisco

Technology Lead

Jul 2016 – May 2024 · 7 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

MPLS VPNPython (Programming Language)MPLSRouting

Ericsson

Technology Lead

Nov 2014 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

System TestingRouting ProtocolsRoutingTesting

Juniper networks

System Test Engineer

Jul 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore · On-site

To plan and develop topologies that are suitable for testing the platform/feature to be tested keeping in mind all possible scenarios required to be covered.
To prepare a comprehensive test-plan which involves test-cases keeping DUT/SUT in those topologies and targeting different possible scenarios that can be tested.
To report any defects found while execution of the planned test-cases to PLM, Development and Management teams.
Keeping tab on any new customer faced defects related to the feature/platform being tested and including test-cases in the execution plan if not covered already.
Continuous analysis of any flaws with respect to the platform or the code and suggest improvements to development.
To automate new test-cases in the test-plan to cover any test verifying a new feature and to submit the same to regression teams.

Policy Based RoutingSystem TestingTestingRouting