Karthik AM

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India26 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Over two decades of experience in software quality assurance.
Proven track record in implementing DevOps for faster releases.
Expertise in networking protocols and system testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking and Software Quality Assurance expert with extensive experience in DevOps and system testing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Quality AssuranceAgile MethodologiesSystem TestingDevopsProduct Management

Other Skills

Continuous IntegrationSDNLeadershipTestingTest AutomationEthernetTCP/IPUnixSNMPLinuxRouting ProtocolsRoutingDebuggingPerlNetworking

About

Software Quality Assurance Leader with strong Networking and Security Background. Proven track record of implementing Process and Procedures for enabling faster and stable software releases. Specialties: System Testing, Unit Testing, Networking Protocols, Routing, Wireless Networks,Network debugging, Scripting. Project Planning, Procurement etc You can reach me at mailbox.amkarthik@gmail.com

Experience

26 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

3 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Intel corporation

Director of System and Solution Validation

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Sophos

Senior Director Quality Assurance

May 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Software Quality AssuranceAgile Methodologies

Mcafee

Quality Assurance

Sep 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

Agile Methodologies

Netskope

Engineering

Feb 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Agile Methodologies

Juniper networks

2 roles

Director - System Test

Promoted

Apr 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Continuous Development / Continuous Integration (DevOps) Implementation for L2 features.
▪ Designed test cases for Continuous integration testing covering L2 features like LAG, MCLAG, VLAN, Access Ports, Trunk Port, Native vLAN, STP, RSTP etc.
SDN/vMX Product line ownership
▪ Demonstrated roadmap and qualification of vMX as a product – also handled parity features on vMX. ▪ Handled vMX qualification on AWS, GC, Azure and various other OpenStack implementations.
▪ Interop testing with SDN controller - Contrail
Access line product ownership
▪ Acted as System Test Lead for access market and lower end metro-Ethernet aggregation platforms for Juniper. Successfully led delivery of multiple skus of product family and enabled market success.
▪ Undertook the activity of penetration of Juniper products in Mobile Backhaul market; as a result of which multiple engineering efforts collaborated with sales leading to successful wins across tier-1 customers.
▪ Led system test team for delivery of lower end metro-Ethernet aggregation platform for Juniper

Sr Manager/Manager System test

Jun 2004 – Apr 2013 · 8 yrs 10 mos

Assumed the responsibilities of System Test Lead for Newly developed Trinity line card, which has huge success and deployment across Edge Markets globally
▪ Platform refresh of M7I which is a lower end Multiservice Edge platform. Multiservice Line card for all edge platforms. Line card supports IPSEC, NAT and other L3 services
▪ Successfully led the migration for a GGNS project in partnership with Ericsson from US to India. ▪ Travelled Ericsson Sweden to train them on tools.

Nokia india

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2002 – Jun 2004 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Supervised the design Development and execution of test cases for: o Intelligent services node (GGSN) covering NAT, L2 and L3 services.
Edge Routers covering ACL/Route-map and Platform testing