Lakshminarasimhan P.R

Over 22 Years industry experience in Networking & QA, across wide variety of technologies and tools. Interested in taking up new protocols, tools, challenges. Always on the lookout for work that are experimental in nature, willing to understand the behavior of a scenario / system in Enterprise Networking. With a good mix of technical and managerial skills, extensively worked on improving quality, productivity, and efficiency in Quality Assurance.

• One of highest rated People Managers by direct reports as part of Survey 2015-16
• Recipient of 5 SPARK awards for various contributions from HCL & Cisco Management

• CCNA – Cisco
• CCIP Qos / BGP-MPLS
• Cloud Networking (University of Illinois)

• Enhanced test plan template with pre-defined events / triggers to have minimum viable test coverage of at least 60-70%
• Fixed issues in automation infra, reduced the regression cycle time by 25%
• Plugins/Hooks for Robot framework to reuse existing scripts for
• 1. Memory leak with Memleax / Sanitizers
• 2. Memory leak with repetitive triggers
• 3. RestAPI testing
• Developed tools to validate static/dynamic testbed topologies and services running on the topology
• Mentored team to develop DHCP host emulation over an existing Scapy Infra, which can emulate up to 140 hosts for functional testing, a significant cost reduction compared to IXIA
• Microsoft vNext Datacenter / Fabric test plan execution and delivery for Dell OS9 release
• Implemented Continuous System Test (CST) by writing a superset script, hardening the infra, fixed perennial manual configuration on Windows Servers
• Demonstrated a way to connect low speed/ legacy IXIA cards/ports to VMs running on Ubuntu Server/OpenvSwitch, to carryout functional test for platform independent code. A cost saving effort. This is not possible with ESXi.
• Feature gap analysis to leverage OS9 for campus networking along with the recommended blueprint

• Solutions Workflow Design for OS10
• Test Architect for OS10 based solutions
• Requirements Analysis and authoring Functional Requirement Specification
• System Behavior and Interfaces
• Feature Planning & delivery
• Test plan reviews, Quality gate
• Test Planning
• Feature automation design
• Mentoring
• Hiring
• Scrum / Sprint Planning

Title: Enterprise Test Architect