1. MADHUSUDHANA ANANTHARAMU
1508, Birchmeadow Court, San Jose, CA
Email: a_madhusudhana@yahoo.com
Ph: (408) 990 6025
Summary
12+ years of experience in the field of Networking and Telecom product testing, performance testing &
automation with expertise in the domains SDH/SONET, TCP/IP, L2/L3 and TCL/Expect.
EDUCATION Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and
Communication
PLATFORM Nexus-N7K, ATI-8100, 9000, Brocade NetIron,
Brocade FastIron, Cisco 7600 Router, Motorola
Media Gateway, ATCA, TJ MC-4
SCRIPTING LANGUAGES Tcl, Expect
SKILLS L3 Routing protocols [OSPF, RIP, BGP], Multicast
Routing [PIM-SM/DM], STP/RSTP, VRRP, TCP/IP,
IGMP Snooping, MPLS,Link Aggregation, DHCP,
VLAN, ARP, Ethernet, SONET/SDH
TEST TOOL IXIA, STC, SmartBits, Fanfare (itest),
Ethereal/Wirehark, SilverCreek, and Steel-
Belted Radius
CERTIFICATIONS CCNA-R&S,CCNA-Secutity.
Professional Experience
1. CISCO SYSTEMS Inc. [Nexus 8500] Mar’15- Till date
Currently leading Layer2, Regression and sanity infra for N8500 platform [Fretta-NXOS project]
N8500 is a merchant silicon [Jericho] based data-center switch.
• Leading QA planning, PRD/SFS/Master test plan reviews.
• Setting up complete sanity infra.
• Poring of N9K python based sanity scripts to PyATS.
• Setting up automation infra for porting existing N7K/N9K regression suites.
• Writing/Executing Layer2 test plan.
• Providing test execution status for upper management on a weekly basis.
• Managing a small team of contractors in India for automation & regression activities and also
providing technical guidance for sanity & manual test execution.
2. CISCO SYSTEMS Inc. [Nexus 7000/7700] May ‘12 – Feb’15
As the N7K-Sanity Team Lead, I was responsible for:
• Maintaining and enhancing the sanity infra.
• Planning and integration of new feature’s sanity into production.
• Enabling the sanity for new platform/LC.
• Interacting with counterpart team in India for smooth & effective completion of projects.
• Analysis of sanity runs on different releases involving different features supported by N7K
platform [L2/L3 features, Multicast routing, Data center features]
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2. • Working with the release management team for QA image release based on the image quality,
following up with the DEV team to get the fixes.
• Providing weekly progress/status report to upper management.
3. ALLIED TELESIS Nov ‘11 – May ‘12
As an Application Test Engineer, I was responsible for:
• Writing requirements for L2/L3 features for ATI-8100 series switch.
• Writing Test plans for L2/L3 features.
• Execution of L2/L3 Test plans
• Recreating the issues faced by customers.
• Logging defects and working with dev team to get the fixes
• Helping my team with any of the technical challenges faced
4. HCL TECHNOLOGIES, BROCADE, IP Sustaining Jan ‘11 – Nov ‘11
As a Senior Technical Lead at client location, I was responsible for:
• Understanding the bug fixes going in the releases and coming up with test plan/ test cases to
regress
• Running the theme test plan
• Recreating the customer found issues
• Logging defects and working with dev team to get the fixes
• Helping my team with any of the technical challenges faced
• Providing status report on test execution to client
5. HCL TECHNOLOGIES, BROCADE, FIPS May ‘10 – Jan ‘11
As a Senior Technical Lead, I was responsible for:
• Preparing test plan for CLI, Network management and L3 protocol and execution of CLI and
network management test plan.
• Guiding the team and helping them execute the test cases.
• Providing status report on test execution to client.
• Logging defects and working with dev team to get the fixes
6. CISCO SYSTEMS INDIA PVT LTD, CSG Nov ‘09 - April
'10
As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for:
• Writing test plan for “billing plan user count” feature.
• Execution of “billing plan user count” test plan and tracking it to closure.
• Automation of “billing plan user count” feature using Fanfare tool.
• Porting of HTTP suite from FrameX tool to SRE using TCL.
7. CISCO SYSTEMS INDIA PVT LTD, SLB Nov ‘08 - Oct
'09
As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for:
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3. • Writing SLB performance test plan.
• Executing the SLB performance test plan manually using IXIA.
• Automating the SLB performance test cases using TCL/IXIA.
• Recreating the problems faced by customers related to performance.
• Defect reporting and tracking.
8. CISCO SYSTEMS INDIA PVT LTD, HA April ‘08 - Oct '08
As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for:
• Porting of HA platform scripts to single IP HA platform
• Writing test plan for “Auto configuration sync” feature
• Executing “Auto configuration sync” feature test cases manually
• Automation of HA WiMax test cases using TCL
• Defect reporting and tracking.
9. MOTOROLA INDIA PVT LTD, ATCA Platform Oct '07 – Mar ‘08
As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for:
• HAP Acceptance testing
• Planning and development of Test Plan for middleware testing
• Automation of the tested features using TCL, Expect.
• Defect reporting and tracking.
10. MOTOROLA INDIA PVT LTD, ATCA Sep '06 – Sep ‘07
As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for:
• Testing of L2/L3 features like VRRP, STP, VLAN, OSPF and RIP.
• Automation of the tested features using TCL, Expect.
• Automation using test equipment IXIA
• Defect reporting and tracking.
11. MOTOROLA INDIA PVT LTD, MMGW Oct '05 – Aug ‘06
As a Software Engineer, I was responsible for:
• Testing the SONET/SDH and T1/E1 interface for the MMGW.
• Planning and development of Test Plan.
• Automation of the tested features using TCL, Expect.
• Testing MEGACO commands for these features.
• Developing complete automation suite for SDH alarms, APS functionality and Performance
Monitoring.
• Reproduction of problems encountered in field so as to give the complete information to
developers so that they can go for the fix of the problem.
• Regression testing for all the new releases.
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4. 12. TEJAS NETWORKS INDIA PVT LTD, NETWORK SOLUTION Oct '03 – Sep’ 05
As a Network solution Engineer, I was responsible for:
• Taking care of Installation of Add/Drop Multiplexers at customer premises.
• Configuration of ADM’s as per the customer requirement.
• Conducting Acceptance testing, which includes feature testing like APS, Alarms, and
Performance etc.
• Providing Network Support (TAC) to ensure quick problem fixation and quality service.
• Installation of TejNMS.
• Monitoring and Configuration of the system using TejNMS.
• Testing for TEC- Approval, the tests includes Environmental Tests like: Vibration test, Stability
Test at ambient temperatures, bump test , Parametric tests like: Pulse mask, Jitter, Wander
and Return loss for the STM1 and STM4 SDH systems, Feature Testing like: Alarms,
Protection Switching, Performance Monitoring, and IBC.
• Pre-Shipment Testing for STM-1 , STM-4 products of Tejas Networks
• Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) for STM products
• Coordinating with the sales team for shipment of the systems in accordance with the customer
requirement.
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