Praveen Vura

• Competitive Technical Product Marketing Engineer – Product Launch Support, Demos, Competitive
• Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components, and systems.
• Successfully collaborated with cross-functional teams, including Product Management, Product Marketing, and Sales, fostering seamless communication and alignment
• Create competitive product and solution overviews, battle cards, competitive responses.
• Engaged with industry analysts, including Gartner and Forrester, to present impactful demos that strengthened the company's positioning in the market
• Ensured product credibility through engagement with third-party labs, including ICSA, Miercom, and Cyber Ratings, validating and elevating the product's standing

• Next Generation Firewall, Cloud Management, Switches
• Build competitive test beds in the lab
• Performance testing on competitive firewalls
• Develop competitive battle cards and provide inputs to Product Marketing and inside sales
• Build solution test beds and help Product Management
• Support trade shows

• Build End to End system test beds (Switching and Routing).
• System testing – NGFW, Sandbox, Cloud Management
• Performance testing – RFC2544, Security effectiveness (IPS and AV), benchmarking
• Product Management – Create data sheet performance numbers for new products.
• Software verification and validation

Contribution: Testing the functionality of the Golden gate router to meet the requirements of the customers.
Responsible for Integration testing and system tests.

• Upgrade of Golden gate software.
• Testing RFC2544 for bridge and NAT with Spirent test center and IXIA.
• Testing QoS functionality on Gateway Router.
• Sanity tests with CD router package testing.
• Bring up of Golden gate Board with kernel upgrade.
• WIFI Performance testing with TCP and UDP protocols
• Testing of WIFI performance, single band and dual band with IX chariot.
• Testing WIFI functionality with Ralink, Atheros Wi-Fi adapters
• Developing Test strategy and Test cases for new features.
• Execution of Regression tests with iTest.
• Defect logging and validating

• EMS testing with FCAPS functionality and OSS functionality.
• Tested Performance monitoring, Alarm management and state change (Gr-1093) features.
• Tested STP functionality at node level.
• AMP testing with TL1 SBI.
• IPTV multicast testing with VDSL2 profiles with Radius Authentication.
• DSL functionality with respect to AMP and EMS
• FTTN node testing with operational state changes.
• Testing State change operations (GR-1093) of the Ethernet and DSL ports and Application packs.
• Developing Test strategy and Test cases for new features.
• Debugging with SNMP.
• Testing DSLAM with SSL feature
• Testing DSL with RADIUS authentication.
• Defect logging and validating

Fujitsu Telecommunications
Birmingham UK
Sr System Engr.DSLAM