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Prakruti Chandrashekar

Fremont,US

Summary

7 years of experience in Software Engineering in Test.Highly skilled in software Design Development in Test. Adept at end to end software design & development including requirement gathering,documentation, infrastructure setup, unit & integration testing, Automation. Have Knowledge and expertise on Network and Security Protocols (TCP/IP, IKE key Exchange , IPSec VPN) , L2/L3 Protocols, PKI Certification,Protocols and Object Oriented Design & Languages. Passionate about Cloud and Security . Proven team player and believe in learning new things everyday.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer QA

Zscaler INC
12.2021 - Current
  • Working for Cloud Security and Reliability team at Zscaler
  • Involved in Testing of Zscaler ZIA security Features and Automation
  • Involved in debugging customer issues .
  • Worked on testing VDI feature for Branch Connector Product
  • Working on testing of Zscaler ZIA SSL, Cloud Applications, File Type, URL filter policies
  • Working on testing Zscaler ZVPN testing with various vendors like Juniper srx, palo alto, fortinet, Velocloud, cisco meraki
  • Developed automation scripts for ZIA policy testing with GRE, IPSec traffic forwarding using python pytest framework
  • Developed automation scripts for SSL Inspection Tests using python pytest framework
  • Developed automation scripts for IPsec protocol testing using python pytest framework
  • Worked on developing sanity test suites for regression
  • Run Spirent tests for IPsec scale
  • Involved in writing Functional Testplans for ZIA features
  • Work with software development, project managers and other cross functional teams to perform functional and integration tests, report Bugs

Software Engineer

Juniper Networks
06.2016 - 12.2021
  • Worked for security firewall product at Juniper
  • Involved in all cycles of software development that includes functional spec documentation, unit test plan, design and implementation
  • Worked on testing PKI Certification functionality for Juniper SRX security Firewall
  • Worked on testing Responder-only vpn feature on SRX firewall
  • Worked on testing Dynamic VPN functionalities for a secure, service-based firewall (Juniper SRX)
  • Worked on testing Licensing Feature for Juniper SRX Firewalls
  • Worked on debugging various customer bugs related to Secure SRX firewalls
  • Worked on development of Unit tests for VPN functionality in Juniper SRX Firewalls using Igloo-JT tool, Toby/robot tools
  • Worked on building regression test environments for testing various SRX VPN features
  • Knowledge in security based protocols
  • Worked on writing functional test plans and testcases.

Software Engineer

Cisco Systems
03.2016 - 05.2016
  • Worked as a software engineer in test in Cisco WebEx team
  • Worked on developing test scripts in Java and writing API’s for WebEx functionality testing
  • Developed API’s for WebEx related features.

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant
05.2011 - 05.2012
  • Worked as Programmer Analyst and supported U.S healthcare giant Walgreens in several Java Projects
  • Designed and developed a graph generator tool which ran as a mobile application and was compatible with iPad
  • Developed this tool to read data from an excel sheet and generate different kinds of charts based on inputs read from the excel sheet
  • Developed this tool using JSP, Servlets and Jfree charts
  • The user interface was developed using JQuery mobile application
  • Developed Unit Test Cases in Java and JavaScript using Junit (Java Unit Testing Framework) and JsUnit.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology

International Institute of Information Technology
Bangalore, India

Bachelors - Information Technology

Amrita School of Engineering
Bangalore, India

Skills

  • Languages: Python, Java, C , Javascript
  • Database: MySQL, Oracle 10g, JDBC, CryptDB
  • Operating System: Windows 9x/2K/XP/7/Vista, Linux
  • Web Technologies: HTML 40, XML, CSS, JQuery
  • Web Server: Tomcat, JBoss 51
  • Source Control and IDE: Eclipse, NetBeans, GitHub
  • Testing Frameworks/Tools: toby Robot, Junit, JsUnit, Igloo-JT, Pytest, Spirent, Selenium
  • Software Methodologies: Agile, Scrum
  • Network Security: OSPF, BGP, Snort, Nmap, IPsec, Kerberos, SSL, TLS, HTTP, DLP, CASB
  • Version Control and tools: GitHub, Jenkins, Cscope, GIRA
  • Cloud: AWS, Google Cloud

Accomplishments

  • Presented Research proposal in IEEE CCEM 2015 Pre-Conference Workshop
  • Presented Research paper in IEEE CONNECT 2015
  • Attended RSA Conference held in San Francisco in the year 2017
  • Secured employee recognition award at Juniper for active involvement in solving release bugs

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer QA

Zscaler INC
12.2021 - Current

Software Engineer

Juniper Networks
06.2016 - 12.2021

Software Engineer

Cisco Systems
03.2016 - 05.2016

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant
05.2011 - 05.2012

Master of Science - Information Technology

International Institute of Information Technology

Bachelors - Information Technology

Amrita School of Engineering
Prakruti Chandrashekar