Laxmisha Nagaraj

QA Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of experience in IT and automation.
Expert in developing automation frameworks and drivers.
Proven track record in team leadership and project management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Virtualization expert with strong skills in automation and driver development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Automation FrameworksMalware AnalysisDeployment AutomationTest AutomationTeam LeadershipDriver Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAudio ProcessingC (Programming Language)C ProgrammingC++Cloud ComputingCore JavaDebuggingDevice DriversDistributed SystemsESXiEclipseEnterprise SoftwareIntegrationKernel Programming

About

• Having overall experience of 17+ Years in IT in the areas of Automation Frameworks development, Testing, Virtualization, Windows/Linux device drivers, Security. • Worked in dual roles as a Technical Team lead and Individual Contributor during my experience in various organisations. As a lead, I was instrumental in building internal teams from scratch, delegating tasks, effective guidance and motivating team members to achieve common goals as well as provide technical acumen. • Strong programming and debugging skills in C, Python, Java. • Good knowledge in OS internals, VMware API’s, Windows Driver development • Good knowledge with various tools/technologies such as TestNG, PyUnit, Maven, Jenkins, Selenium webdriver, TestRail, MS Visio, REST, JSON, HTML • Having a good knowledge in Software Design, Development, Testing and implementation of software using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Experience

22 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs

Current Experience

Fortanix

Sr QA Lead

Jun 2019 – Present · 7 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Fireeye, inc.

Staff Software Engineer

Jan 2015 – Feb 2019 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Automation framework for validating samples from malware repositories and field for behavioral anomalies using custom written rules.
Mimicking the behavior of malware samples using undocumented/documented windows API’s for validating the new VMI(Virtual Machine Introspection) feature in Fireye.
Scripts for collecting the field data, analyzing behavioral anomalies based on dynamic rules. This effort reduced the time taken by the QA team to parse report and analyze logs exponentially from 3 days to 1 hour.
Automated deployment of pre-configured OS images on physical machines via network and USB reduced the amount of time required for installation considerably to 7 minutes from 4hrs

Automation FrameworksMalware AnalysisWindows APIVMIScriptingDeployment Automation

Vmware

Sr MTS

Feb 2007 – Jan 2015 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Primary engineer responsible for design/implementation of front end and back end modules to the new unified test automation framework developed for usage by the validation teams across VMware.
Automation script for validating one of the critical features of ESXi called the timekeeping that sync the time between the Hypervisor and the Guest images.
Led a team of engineers in creating automation test suite for validating the VMware tools and replay debugging feature(http://www.replaydebugging.com). Other responsibilities included developing test plan, test cases and performing white box testing, closely interacting with the dev team and follow up on the bugs till closure.
Using programmable USB device(EZ-USB FX2), we brought in a new kind of testing in validating the complete USB stack of VMware and thereby uncovering lot of bugs during multiple releases.

Test AutomationESXiWhite Box TestingTeam LeadershipTest Planning

Cisc technology pvt ltd

Software Engineer

Jun 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

All the tasks involved in CISC were more of POC(Proof of concept) of which some were enhanced and developed into production software.
Integrated the sampling converter algorithm with kernel audio filter driver for playback and recording data.
Implemented a filter driver that enhances audio stream that is rendered to and captured from a sound card and integrate noise cancellation algorithms in it.
Developed a GFX (Global Effects) filter driver for Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External, integrated the sound cleanup code that removes clicks and hiss while rendering).

Driver DevelopmentAudio ProcessingKernel Programming

Park controls

Software Engineer

Sep 2003 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Implemented a Windows driver for PCI based Multi Protocol Communication Controller.
Implemented a Windows/Linux driver for PCI-GPIB Simulator that can simulate and respond to GPIB commands on bus
Porting of fault diagnostic test programs written in HP-BASIC used for testing 40 LRUs of various armed battle tanks to C.

Driver DevelopmentTestingC Programming