Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Affiliations
Accomplishments
Timeline
Generic

Prabakaran Arumugam

Cupertino,USA

Summary

  • Twenty years of Strong expertise in Network Design, System Testing, Solution Testing and Automation
  • Solution architect for various data center network deployment scenarios, as well as for AI/ML network
  • Technically lead as well as people manager for product deployment testing team and customer use case testing
  • End-to-End Integration testing experience for various L2/L3 Network protocols and technologies
  • Experience in designing and building complex network topology setup based on customer profiles
  • In-Depth System Hands-on, proficient in development of test strategy, and verification methodologies
  • Rich trouble shooting experience and handling of customer escalations
  • Experience in reviewing Functional Specs, Design Specs, Market Requirement Documents for complex solutions or technologies
  • Skilled in Automation design and testing and have Network Automation experience

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineering Sr Mgr

Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale, USA
07.2022 - Current
  • Lead a team of software testers in the development and execution of product deployment testing (PDT) activities for data center deployment and customer use case testing
  • Developed and implemented strategic plans to drive growth and efficiency.
  • Develop and implement test strategies for projects of varying complexity.
  • Collaborate with development, project management, and business teams to ensure that testing activities are aligned with project objectives and schedules.
  • Manage the development and maintenance of test automation scripts and frameworks.
  • Coordinate the use of test tools and technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process.
  • Track and report on test progress, metrics, and results to stakeholders.
  • Ensure that software releases meet quality standards and are delivered on schedule.
  • Supervising the test engineers, setting performance goals, and ensuring that they have the necessary resources to carry out their work.
  • Managing the budget for the test effort, as well as ensuring that the necessary resources, such as routers and switches are available

Software Engineer Senior Staff

Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale, USA
11.2012 - 06.2022
  • Solution architect for different data center deployment scenarios.
  • Lead the team in product deployment solution testing, Solution level test automation, and automation framework development for data center EVPN-VXLAN technologies.
  • PDT Data Center profile-based testing for different EVPN-VXLAN architectures: CRB, ERB, collapsed fabric, OISM, and DCI.
  • Create technical documentation and training documents on EVPN-VXLAN features tested on each Junos release.
  • Manage and execute product deployment testing activities for Apstra deployment and customer use case testing.

Software Engineer

Juniper Networks
Bangalore, India
12.2008 - 11.2012
  • Responsible for Feature testing - Test plan, Manual test and Automation for edge(M,Mx) and core(TSeries) routers
  • Review FS and create ambiguity document
  • Create test plan and manually test the feature
  • Provide automation design document and work on automation
  • Features - L3VPN Route Localization, BGP Peer scaling, AE Scaling, BUM Load Balancing for VPLS network, Firewall and Policer, Kernel Hardening

Lead Engineer

HCL Technologies
Chennai, India
04.2004 - 12.2008
  • System integration testing for c12k platform and features like L2/L3 VPN, Routing, QOS, Netflow, HSRP, logical routing, high availability, redundancy, scale test, longevity test and etc on MPLS setup
  • Wrote TCL script for longevity test and it has been published to entire XR test team

Education

Batchelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

University Of Madras
India

Skills

  • SDN Solutions : Apstra, Contrail Enterprise Multicloud
  • DC Overlay Protocols : EVPN-VxLAN
  • VPN Technologies : MPLS VPN (L2/L3VPN), Multicast VPN, VPLS
  • Routing Protocols : OSPF, BGP, ISIS, LDP, RSVP
  • Multihoming Features: VRRP, HSRP, ESI LAG
  • Interface Features : Class of Service/QoS, Firewall/ACL, Sflow, Policer
  • AI/ML Network Infra : RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCEv2), PFC, ECN, DCQCN
  • Programming/Scripting Languages : Perl/Tcl/Shell/Python
  • Operating Systems : JUNOS, Cisco IOS XR, IOS
  • Products (Switches/Routers) : Juniper MX/QFX, Cisco CRS
  • Traffic Generator Tools : IXIA (IxNetwork) , Spirent Test Center

Certification

  • Juniper Networks Certified Expert Lab Exams in Service Provider: JNCIE-SP
  • Juniper Networks Certified Expert Lab Exams in Data Center : JNCIE-DC
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional : CCIP
  • Linux Systems Programming (3493) Course - UCSC-Extension
  • Python programming - Coursera

Affiliations

  • Proxy advertisements in multihomed networks – Patent No: 10383027B1
  • Improved port mirroring over EVPN VXLAN - Patent No: 11329845B2

Accomplishments

  • Juniper – Five times spot award for excellence in quality of deliverables
  • Juniper – Business Amp award Q2-2020 for enterprise multi cloud solution testing as well as identifying the deployment design issues well in advanced and proposed the new tested reference design
  • Juniper – Business Amp award 2018 for contributions to EVPN-VXLAN testing and deployment reference architecture
  • HCL – Appraised as outstanding performance for continuous three years
  • HCL – Spark award for excellence in productivity, quality and timeliness of test deliverables

Timeline

Software Engineering Sr Mgr

Juniper Networks
07.2022 - Current

Software Engineer Senior Staff

Juniper Networks
11.2012 - 06.2022

Software Engineer

Juniper Networks
12.2008 - 11.2012

Lead Engineer

HCL Technologies
04.2004 - 12.2008

Batchelor of Engineering - Electronics And Communications Engineering

University Of Madras

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Prabakaran Arumugam