The document provides a summary and experience details of Madhusudhana Anantharamu including 12+ years of experience in networking and telecom product testing, performance testing, and automation. It lists his education in Electronics and Communication Engineering and skills in protocols, tools, and scripting languages like Tcl and Expect. It then outlines his professional experience of over 12 years in roles with companies like Cisco, Allied Telesis, Brocade, Motorola, and Tejas Networks involving writing test plans, executing tests, automating tests, identifying and resolving issues, and managing teams and projects.
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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] Mar15- 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 Feb15
As the N7K-Sanity Team Lead, I was responsible for:
Maintaining and enhancing the sanity infra.
Planning and integration of new features 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 ADMs 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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