Gaurav Malhotra
Senior Sofware Engineer @Cisco Systems
About
Project Management, Test Lead and Scrum Master role with more than 18 years of experience in Testing and automation of Networking, Security products. Experienced in managing deliveries of software projects in conventional and agile models, building & managing highly efficient project QA teams.Quickly learn, Evaluate and Develop proof-of-concept with new software automation tools and provide creative solution based on project needs.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Part of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a next-generation identity and access control policy platform that provides a single policy plane across the entire organization combining multiple services, including authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) using 802.1x, MAB, web authentication, posture, profiling, device on-boarding, guest services, and VPN access into a single context-aware identity-based platform.
Highlights
- Handled QA and Test Automation for ISE(Cisco Identity Services Engine).
- Managing a vendor team of QA and Automation Engineers.
- Facilitate three Scrums and perform all the scrum ceremonies.
- Scoping the Projects, allocating work to team, mentoring the team and following the Agile Methodology.
- Hire, onboard and mentor new team members who developed into high performing team members Prioritizing feature QA automation Deliveries.
- Coordinate with the Product Management/Development/Document teams for successful product releases.
- Proactively manage test readiness, environments, test data quality, resource alignment to meet business objectives.
- Effectively communicate at senior manager / director levels about the project level risks / issues / escalations.
- Coordinated, maintained, and operated the nightly product integration, administered an acceptance and regression runs.
- Leads performance testing efforts for the product using internal tools and open source performance tools Analyze/Distribute customer cases escalated to engineering team, get timely resolution and communicate with customers
- Responsible for designing Test Plan and Test Set-ups.
- Responsible for inproving the FT-CI gaps in CI/CD.
Consultant Test Engineer
Part of regression testing team for Juniper SRX Series Services Gateways.
Highlights
- Managed regression team size of 8 members.
- Involve in regression testing for Key features like VLAN, ALG(Application Level Gateway) and ISSU.
- Setting and creating topologies using SRX gateway.
- Deploving and debuggig the regression test suites for SRX gateway.
Senior Software Engineer(QA)
Part of Barracuda Load Balancer team, Barracuda Load Balance integrates server load balancing and network intrusion prevention into an affordable and easy to use network appliance.For applications requiring persistence, the Barracuda Load Balancer can maintain state using client IP addresses or Layer 7 information such as client cookie.
Highlights
- Manual Testing for key features like Layer 7 HTTP Service,Layer 4 Service,TCP Proxy Service,Redirect Service,RDP Service,URL rewrites,Content Types,Clustering, Multiports, VLAN and SNMP.
- Manual Testing for feature HTTP Caching,Compression,Layer-7 FTP Service and GSLB
- Testing Performance for Barracuda Load Balancer using IXIA tool.
- Designed test plan for key features like Layer 7 HTTP Service,Layer 7 FTP service HTTP-Caching ,HTTP- Compression,TCP Proxy Service,Redirect Service,URL rewrites,Connection Pooling,VLAN, Content Types and Multiports.
- Involve in customer Escalations meetings.
- Setup the Test Beds for Multiports and VLAN.
Software Engineer(QA)
Barracuda Spam Firewall is an integrated hardware and software solution that leverages 12 defense layers to protect e-mail servers in both large enterprise and small business environments. It offers comprehensive protection against spam, virus, spoofing, phishing, spyware, and DoS attacks.
Highlights
- Contributed in framework design and development to perform EndToEnd Regression test for any Intrushield sensor build in Python3
- Code cleanup and modularization of existing so that debugging and fixing an issue becomes easy and code flow becomes understandable.
- Optimized the test framework to take less time in executing the large test suites.
- Understanding the features, writing Test plans and Test cases and developing test suites to automate test execution
Software Engineer(QA)
Barracuda Application Gateway enables IT professionals to comprehensively secure high-value applications in the data center. It improves application availability and additionally accelerate them, thereby simplifying data center management. Barracuda Web Application Firewalls secure mission-critical applications and protect against identity theft, data theft, application disruption and fraud.
Highlights
- Taking care of Automated Testbed, which includes modification of existing automated scripts.
- Involve in function and Performance testing of the Barracuda WAFusing Spirent Avalanche tool.
- Designed test plan for key features like Clustering,Rate control, Virus Scanning,image Analysis.
Contact
Bangalore, Karnataka IN
+91 7019113122
Education
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Present
IIT Kharagpur
PGDIT
Post Graduation in Information Technology
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Present
Institute of Engineering & Technology, Agra(Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, University)
Bachelor
Computer Science and Engineering(CSE)
Skills
Networks Protocol
TCP/IP
UDP
DNS
HTTP/HTTPS
SMTP
SSL
RADIUS
SSH
FTP
SNMP
Product
Cisco Identity Service Engine(CISE)
Barracuda Load balancer
Barracuda Email Security
Proxy
Web Application Firewall
Juniper SRX
IPS/IDS
Wireless LAN Controllers
Cisco Aironet
Cisco Switches
Cloud Technologies
AWS
Azure
Docker
kubernetes
Networks Tools
Postman
wireshark
tcpreplay
httperf
IXIA
Spirent Avalanche
SilverCreek
Burp proxy
IBM AppScan
Networks Security
WAF
owasp Top Ten Attacks
metasploit
SQLBuffer Overflow
Programming/Scripting Languages
python
perl
Certifications
Certified Scrum Master
Certified Product Owner
CCNA
Cisco Green Belt
Cisco Security Space - OWASP Top10
CI/CD Tools
jenkins
CI/CD