Swamy Budumuru

Experience

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  VMware

  Jun 2006 - Mar 2010

  QA Engineer

  ✯ Validation and Qualification of different flavours of Guest Operating System on ESX hypervisor.✯ VMware Tools testing including various drivers that comes as part of tools such as Network (VMXNET, Vlance), SCSI, Memory (memctl), SVGA, Mouse.✯ Automated the testing process of new windows flavours/service packs installation from WSUS and testing the same.✯ Automating the validations using PERL, STAF/STAX tools/scripting languages✯ Infrastructure provisioning solutions like VMware LabManager, VMware StageManager.✯ System Testing and Qualification of VMware vCenter releases. Show less

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  Cisco

  Mar 2010 - Dec 2011

  SoftwareEngineer 2

  ✯ One Man Army of Testing, automating and delivering multiple releases of Nexus1010. It is a physical appliance loaded with windriver/redhat linux compiled with KVM to host different CISCO networking services (Ex: Nexus1000v-VSM, NAM, DCNM) as virtual appliances.✯ Qualifying entire platform on Cisco UCS server hardware.✯ Functionality testing, Scale and Performance testing of the entire platform using Perl and TCL based automation framework.✯ Proactively shared and educated support and channel partners on new features. Show less

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  Citrix

  Dec 2011 - Oct 2013

  ✯ Test & Automation of various IaaS related features for both Citrix commercial releases and open source Apache releases. ✯ Majorly owned Network-as-a-service features including qualification of virtual router features (firewall, PortFowarding, NAT, VPN, LB) and inter-op testing of various networking platforms support in CloudStack (NetScaler, F5, SRX etc..,)✯ Automation and testing of Storage-as-a-service, EC2 compatibility, Clustering, New hypervisor release qualification along with install and upgrade testing of these features.✯ Testing & delivering hotfixes/patches to customers.✯ Working with community and resolving product related questions or any specific features that customers are interested in. Show less

  • Apache CloudStack Committer And Senior Software Test Engineer 2

    Nov 2012 - Oct 2013

  • Senior Software Test Engineer 1

    Dec 2011 - Oct 2012
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  Versa Networks

  Oct 2013 - May 2015

  Lead QA Engineer

  ✯ Performance testing of NFV-related DPDK based platform to ensure higher throughput, CPS, and RPS while maintaining consistent and predictable CPU and memory consumption under varying circumstances✯ Worked with Traffic generators like Spirent Avalanche, Spirent TestCenter and Ixia.✯ Test and Automation using Python and Robot Framework.✯ Automated performance testing with varying input, logging CPU, RAM, network throughput, RPS, and CPS, and creating graphs. use the same data and logs to correlate and locate potential bottlenecks in the system design✯ Provide support, help to drive successful POCs with customers from engineering side Show less

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  Lavelle Networks

  May 2015 - Aug 2017

  Founding Engineer

  ✯ Part of building and testing the initial MVP and showcasing it to strategic investor cum customer✯ Managing and playing different roles based on business needs. Roles such as Solution Architect, Pre-Sales, Test Architect, developer, DevOps.✯ Proactively running POCs to completion then bring the feedback/improvements then prioritise, plan and get them added back in the product.✯ As a solution architect, performing initial sales pitch, solution proposal, running POC along with success criteria, receiving PO and taking care of deployment.✯ As a test architect, test planning, automation, CI/CD, topology bring up automation etc..,✯ As a developer, design and architected a service called Topology service mainly responsible for end-to-end dynamic tunnel stitching along with orchestration edge vm creation across all major cloud platforms.✯ As an orchestration dev lead, migrated existing ZMQ based services to REST API using DJango, Gunicorn & Python based one.✯ Designed and developed an orchestration engine using various open-source tools/libraries such as Terraform, libcloud, Sidekiq with Ruby on Rails.✯ As a GTM team member (especially cloud related), responsible for meeting various cloud partners, getting the product listed on market places by working with Microsoft Azure, AWS teams. Show less

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  VMware Avi Load Balancer

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

  MTS
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  VMware

  Aug 2019 - Dec 2023

  ✯ Responsible for mentoring, advancement in career, performance evaluation, and job satisfaction for a team of engineers (flexible, remote).✯ Prioritize, manage, and coordinate the work of a group of engineers, as well as communicate with partner teams and business divisions to ensure timely release of high-quality software.✯ Responsible for the planning, delivery, and system testing of the NSX Advanced Loadbalancer in on-premises environments (Quality Assurance). ✯ System and scale testing of large distributed networking/product features such as GSLB, Upgrade, Patching, Clustering, and so on, across all releases.Furthermore,✯ Taking care of NSX ALB inter-op testing with various other platforms such as NSX-T, VMware Horizon, VCF, VMC, and so on and collaborating with the partner Business Units.✯ Built a regression/CI,CD team from the ground up that is primarily responsible for regression activity✯ Responsible for assisting with customer escalations in terms of in-house reproducing and providing quick utility scripts as a quick solution.✯ Always providing continuous coaching, mentoring, and equipping the team with the appropriate set of trainings to improve technical leadership within the team✯ Quick bug triaging, quick RCA and getting quick resolution and unblocking the regression, system test runs.✯ Scale and Performance testing of various features to generate and publish configuration maximums, controller and data path sizing details along with Througput, CPS and RPS data. Show less ✯ Complete ownership of System Testing LB (LoadBalancer) on Linux Baremetal and VMware environments for all the releases. ✯ Proactive participation in PRD, Feature/Product design spec, Test design spec reviews.✯ Qualification of NSX ALB features along with different Network Cards and NIC specific features in terms of scale and performance.✯ Building and delivering an end-to-end python-based automation framework for system testing the product.✯ Create automation suites for large-scale environments that closely resemble the customer topology and real-time operations.✯ Proactive in assisting customers with escalations and filling coverage gaps.✯ Creating tools and utilities to aid in the troubleshooting of large-scale systems. ✯ Sharing quick utility scripts with customers to make some tasks easier.✯ Proactive engagement and participation in several of the company's innovative events Show less

  • Senior Engineering Manager

    Aug 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Engineering Manager

    Aug 2020 - Aug 2022

  • Staff Engineer

    Aug 2019 - Aug 2020
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  Broadcom

  Dec 2023 - now

  Manager