Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

• Working as architect @ Seqrite Lab, Leading SMAP (Seqrite Malware Analysis Platfrom) Project

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Leading scrum team to build malware analysis platform using microservice architecture for internal and external customers - https://hawkkinsight.seqrite.com
• Built CDM (Clean Data Management) system to address all possible use cases related to clean files. Ultimate objective behind CDM project is to minimize False Positives in our AV Products.
• Became SPOC for all AV Update related issues and gradually minimized this dependency with the help of automation, knowledge sharing sessions and introduction of right processes.
• Led project to build an automated pipeline for releasing product, engine and signature updates. Also built automations for False Positive, Functional, Performance and Live Testing so that error free updates are released with minimal manual intervention.
• Technically led scrum team of 5 members, working on third party AV Certifications with the goal to achieve maximum score on performance, efficacy and usability on Certification Tests.
• Prepared performance test setup to assess Impact of our AV products on user experience for various test scenarios such as file copy, http download, app installation, app launch and load website.
• Planned and prepared Backup & Disaster Recovery setup for various on prem critical systems.
• Owned and maintained signature generation database and surrounding automations. Also optimized on disk signature size by retiring signatures based on telemetry analysis.
• Adversary simulation using Mitre Caldera and Atomic Red Team to test EDR Efficacy.
• Analytics over telemetry data collected from security products.

Dec 2017 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurur, Chhattisgarh

• Agriculture Services, Farmers Training, Saplings, Organic Agro inputs

Mar 2013 – Nov 2017 · 4 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• Responsible for QA of multiple projects. Major project includes Symantec Data Analytics Platform, Malware Clustering & Classification system , Data Lake Ingestion Pipeline and File Intel Application.
• Owned malware classification system and developed automations to address requirements of threat researchers such as re-training ML models, identification of active clusters, cluster analysis, sample and cluster labeling.
• Efficacy analysis (False Positive & True Positive) of malware clustering and classification systems on a regular basis. Handling false positive cases.
• Self-learned and introduced CI-CD process using Jenkins for unit test execution, coverage report generation, build creation, deployment and finally execution of BVT and regression test suite.
• Developed automated BVT and regression test suite using python based Robot Framework and Selenium. We also adopted Acceptance Test Driven Development approach.
• Hands-on experience on Big Data Technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, HDFS, Oozie, MapReduce , Kafka etc while testing various apps built on Hadoop based big data system.

Jul 2008 – Feb 2013 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Primarily responsible for functional tests (manual and automation) to test DLP (Data Loss Prevention) Product suits covering Data-At-Rest, Data-In-Motion and Data-In-Use scenarios.
• Test bed creation, consisting of Network DLP appliance and HostDLP which was integrated with McAfee ePO to enable a unified view of the DLP system. Also configured Email Gateway, Web gateway, LDAP Server and McAfee Logon collector.
• Prepared setup to test various network protocols such as HTTP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, FTP, SMB, NFS, LDAP, DHCP, ICMP etc and generated network captures for various automated tests.
• Built terabytes of file repository in automated way with real multilingual content in different file types to test robustness and internationalization capabilities of the product.
• Research on various International Identification numbers such as SSN, CCN, IBAN, ISIN etc and creation of valid/invalid test data as per the applicable algorithmic check.
• Managed QA Lab – Installation, Reimaging and Maintenance of Linux Appliance.
• White Box Testing, Core dump debugging with GDB and Root Cause Analysis at code level.

Oct 2007 – Mar 2008 · 5 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Built Interactive Web Conference solution using Adobe Flex, Flash Media Server and Ruby On Rails with Mysql back-end as part of academic project.
• Implemented Video Recording, Video Upload and Sharing, Audio Video Conference, Multi-user Chat, Whiteboard Annotation, Private Messaging functionalities to provide users a rich collaborative platform.