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RAGHAVAN
Contact: +91-80-2642 3771 (Res) ; +91-98866 43824 | E-mail: raghavan.cgn@gnail.com
Senior IT Management Professional & technical lead, with around 20 years of work experience
and documented record of strong and decisive leadership in deploying and testing integrated
solutions aimed at modernizing independently developed and implemented application systems
and software products.
Won numerous client accolades for proven ability in identifying system needs, evaluating end-
user requirements, custom designing solutions, troubleshooting for complex information systems
management.
Imbued with leadership qualities, excellent time management, oral and written communication
skills and project execution capabilities.
Excellent communication skills with proven ability in working with/managing cross-functional and
cross-geo teams to achieve common goals.
Proficiency in Manual and Automation Testing,, System testing, User Interface Testing,
Development/Regression Testing, performance testing as well as management of defect & test
environment, planning and reviews.
VALUE PROPOSITIONS
Domain Expertise: Software/Telecom Security and Services
Exposure: 360 degrees hands-on exposure to IPSec, MPLS and VPN technologies, AWS
Cloud
Insight: Insightful knowledge on protocols such as MPLS/OSPF, BGP and RIP.
Proficiency: Adept in design, coding, analysis, writing and execution of test cases.
Technical Expertise:
Main Skill Set: MPLS-VPNs, RSVP, Traffic Engineering (TE), IPSec
Protocols: BGP, OSPF, RIP, LDP, SNMP, NAT
Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Windows
Languages known: C/C++
Scripting: UNIX Shell, Perl
1|P age
Foundational Strengths
IT Projects Management | Software Testing Strategies | Automated and Manual Testing |
Software System Development Life Cycle Models | Scaling and Performance Testing| Software
Quality Assurance | Software Testing Lifecycle Management | Defect Tracking System and
Test Management | Performance Quality Testing | Preparation of Testing deliverables|
Troubleshooting/Debugging| Team Training and Development| Client Relationship
Stewardship |Communication Skills
Career Glimpse
STAFF ENGINEER SOFTWARE, Oct 2006 onwards
(Position Equivalent to Engineering Manager)
Juniper Networks, Bangalore
Job Profile:
Currently spearheading all assigned functions entailed in driving releases after performance
testing through a team of 6 members.
Accountable for enabling seamless releases through scaling and performance verification of
various features from L3 to L7.
Ongoing Project: Voyager/Viking, Duration: Oct 2006 onwards
Platform: J-Series/Australia
Technologies Used: Perl, IP Security, Routing Protocols test automation, Agilent, Ixia
Role: Staff Engineer-Software/Engineering Manager
Project Deliverable: Project entailed automation, manual testing, and mainly regression testing
of the performance and capacity features.
Accountabilities:
Responsible for writing, reviewing test plans, executing test cases, automating test
scenarios, filing bugs, tracking the bugs to closure and mentoring new team members as
the Team Lead.
Managing array of functions entailed in reports generation, data sheet maintenance and
lab establishment.
Holding key interactions with vendors such as Ixia/Spirent apart from US and China
teams.
As Release-lead from SnP team assigned with functions of supervising bug filings, event
flow, consolidation of bugs based on the feature, close interaction with the release and
build teams in US.
Evaluating post execution process and interacting with PLM on the performance data
and its maintenance.
Writing and verifying test plans for execution of assigned RLIs.
Actively involved in automating features and releasing it to regression teams.
PROJECT CONTRIBUTIONS
Project: SimCafe; Duration: Jun 2004-Jan 2005
Platform: Linux
Technology Used: C, shell scripting, SNMP, interoperability with other tools such as RME and
Campus Manager
Project Deliverable: Coding and testing of the simulation tool that simulates networks for
SNMP, HTTP etc.
Contributions:
Instrumental in the design, analysis, coding, enhancements, writing and executing test
cases and extending key customer support.
Contributed to coding and development testing of the tool , writing test cases and
executing them.
3|P age
Project: ISC; Duration: Sept 2002-July 2003
Platform: Solaris
Technology Used: MPLS Virtual Private Networks, protocols such as OSPF, BGP and RIP.
Project Deliverables: Project required extensive of testing of MPLS provisioning module.
Contributions:
As Regression/Feature test lead developed expertise on protocols as MPLS/OSPF, BGP
and RIP.
Pivotal role in developing test cases and executing the same both in India and at the San
Jose facility of Cisco.
Imperative role in the automation of the provisioning module.
Previous Engagements
Educational Brief
Academic Projects:
SNMPv2 Agent and achieving co-existence through proxy Agent
Design and Implementation of RSVP protocol
Trained in: C++, Java, ClearCase Essentials, Perl and Ixia Tools
4|P age
Other Activities
Won many prizes in numerous debates, essay competitions lecture contests both at the school
and the college level.
Personal Dossier
5|P age