DHANUMJAY MUNUGOTI
Nashua,NH
Summary
Results-driven, highly motivated, innovative professional with over 27 years of experience in project test, people management and technical leadership. Proven track record of delivering complex projects on time. Adept at cross-functional collaboration, strategic planning, and problem-solving. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead and motivate teams to achieve exceptional results. Proficient in data analysis and reporting, with expertise in various industry leading software and tools. Seeking opportunities to leverage my skills and experience to drive organizational success and deliver tangible business outcomes. Strong skills in defining clear requirements, software analysis, design, development, coding, testing, maintenance, integration, documentation of 5G and LTE NFs, VOIP, PSTN, Network Security Protocols, IP Routing, Embedded Systems, and Voice, data communication technologies. Extensive experience in testing performance/load/system of embedded, cloud based virtualized and containerized platforms. Excellent scripting/programming skills in Python, TCL and C languages. In depth experience in maintaining of OSPF / BGP / RIP / MPLS routing protocols. Performed consistently best at all levels with hard-work, prudent professionalism with an ambitious, creative, holistic & realistic positive attitude. Well versed in interacting with all the team members, Technical Leads, Business Analysts, VP Of Engineering, Architects, CTO & Marketing Team in developing new technology & product sketches. In depth experience in Project Management and release management/maintenance skills. Versatile Manager with years of experience eliminating problems and flaws to enhance end-user experiences. Deeply knowledgeable in both automated and manual testing methods. Adept at blending statistical analyses of products with human feedback to produce technically sound and easily usable solutions for end-users. Collaborative and open mindset with years of demonstrated industry success.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Test Manager
Microsoft
10.2014 - Current
- Managed large team of 40+ people including managers, individual contributors and contractors
- Expert in ADO, Test Rail, JIRA and PowerBI dashboards for project management and managed projects in Agile methodologies
- Software quality managed, certified and delivered on time for multiple releases of MCC (4G, 3G, 2G), Unity Cloud (5G) packet core network functions
- Lead AO5GC (Azure for Operators 5G core) quality V-Team covering RP (Resource Provider), AOSM (Azure Operators Service Manager), Observability in Azure and End2End test coverage with NFs deployed in Azure and Nexus Clouds
- Designed and implemented many Quality processes and improved DRE (Defect Removal Efficiency) metric of overall product releases over 90%
- Managed 20+ team of outsourced staff (Tech Mahindra) with SOWs, budget planning, tracking deliverables
- Budget planning for external tools, licenses, servers and other simulated equipment
- Championed Quality Initiative project that reviews customer reported issues, add test cases, update documentation, improve requirement clarity and drive software design with customer mindset
- Lead architecture, design and drive next generation automation framework (Endorse) to integrate AO5GC deployments with CI/CD/CT pipelines and logs ingested into AI insights engine to detect defects automatically
- Automated 25K+ test cases for many NFs (SMF, UPF, PGW, SGW, GGSN, ePDG, TWAG, GiGW, GTP-Proxy) in Python, Tcl for release over release regressions
- Best trained with mandatory Microsoft training for people management and network security
- Deployed Virtualized and Containerized Network Functions on ESXi (Vmware), OpenStack, Azure Cloud (AKS) and Nexus Cloud platforms (NAKS), well versed with K8s
- Lead E2E team with large customers (Verizon, ATT, VF and others) call model scenarios simulated in lab environment with internal and external tools (Spirent, Ixia, Developing Solutions), VNFs and CNFs deployed using DPDK, SR-IOV, PPE, VPP technologies
- Performance tested for IPsec, IKK, SWm, S2b interfaces along with VoWiFi and VoLTE handovers on ePDG and PGW
- Designed and developed test strategy, test planning of ePDG and TWAG products from prototype to large scale customer deployments at Verizon and Google.
Technical Lead
Cisco
03.2007 - 10.2014
- Test performance for packet core gateways GGSN, PGW, SGW, MME, T-WAG
- Tested various packet sizes for UDP and SIP, RTP, DNS, HTTP flow throughput performance
- Tested single event performance for VOLTE traffic models including PDN/APN dynamic dedicated bearers and IPSEC/IKEv2 tunnel packet performance for WiFi access gateways
- Tested deep and shallow packet inspection services performance with various rules (HTTP, TCP, SIP) and packet analyzers for optimized packet throughput performance
- Tested control plane events performance for GWs, PDSN, HSGW and MME
- Functional testing on many RADIUS and DIAMETER (Gx, Gy, S6a, S6b, Rf) features for packet core gateways and automated them for easier regressions
- Lead automation architect in performance automation (perl, python and Tcl)
- Design load and performance tests, Congestion control tests, and Negative scenario test suites
- Call model tests with various events like handovers, PDN, UE attach/detaches, tracking area updates and various traffic types DNS, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, VOLTE for customer capacity projections.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Cochin University of Science And Technology
India12.1996
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Nagarjuna University
India05.1995
Skills
- Project Management Tools: Power BI, Excel Pivot charts, JIRA, ADO, MS Project
- Hardware: Cisco ASR5x00, QvPC-Si, QvPC-Di, 2600/3500/7500, Lucent GX550, IXIA, Spirent landslide, TEKELEC Traffic Generator, Smartbits
HP IDACOM, Alcatel lucent soft switch - Operating Systems: Linux, ESXi, VxWorks, pSoS, Lynx, Solaris
Scripting/Coding Languages : Python,Perl, TCL, C, C, Assembly (8086)
NMS : Acuitas, HP Open View, EMS - Debugging tools: GDB, Crash-gdb, Tornado, pRISM Cscope, wireshark
- Version Management: Azure DevOps, GIT, bitKeeper, Clearcase, CVS, PVCS, ECMS
- Defect Tracking tools: ADO, JIRA, GNATS, CDETS, Bugzilla, Citrix-Vantive, Bug Tracker
- Cisco ASR5x00, QvPC-Si, QvPC-Di, 2600/3500/7500, Lucent GX550, IXIA, Spirent landslide, TEKELEC Traffic Generator, Smartbits, HP IDACOM, Alcatel lucent soft switch
- Cisco ASR5x00, QvPC-Si, QvPC-Di, 2600/3500/7500, Lucent GX550, IXIA, Spirent landslide, TEKELEC Traffic Generator, Smartbits, HP IDACOM, Alcatel lucent soft switch
Training
Microsoft: Essentials for Managers: Making it real, Model, Coach, Care, Inclusive hiring, Developing Others, Python programming
Cisco Systems: IP Switching, Forwarding and Routing, Perl, Tcl programming
Lucent Technologies: VPN, Virtual Network Navigator, Multi point to point Tunneling
LG Soft: CMM level 3 training and Architecture of large scale telecom products at Seoul, South Korea
Personal Information
Visa Status: US Citizen
Timeline
Principal Test Manager
Microsoft
10.2014 - Current
Technical Lead
Cisco
03.2007 - 10.2014
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Cochin University of Science And Technology
Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Nagarjuna University