1. SANTHOSHA.S.C
1881/10, 4th
main, 12th
cross, vijayanagar 2nd stage, Hampinagar, B’lore-40
Ph: +91-9964278537, Email: sc.santhosh@gmail.com
OBJECTIVES
Looking for an ambitious position in the area of Network Protocol Testing and to fully exercise my
technical and interpersonal skills to achieve a rewarding position in a growth oriented networking firm.
PROFILE
A results oriented individual. Expertise is wide in scope, including L2/L3 Protocol Testing, creation
and documentation of Test strategies, Test cases, and Test lists, deriving Test Scenarios, making full-fledged
Test bed, effort estimation & process improvement projects. Possess a high technical aptitude and a high
level of analytical ability.
Skills Proficiency
• 6+ year and same on Network, Network Protocol Testing and Storage
• Good exposure in Perl, TCl and Python Scripting
• 3.5 years of experience in NetApp Storage
• Strong skill in testing & managing SAN/NAS storage devices using FC, SAS & iSCSI.
• IP Storage Protocols NFS, CIFS, iSCSI over IPv6/IPv4,FC,FCoE, TOE and RSS
• L3 Protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, RIP and BGP (Basics).
• L2 Protocols like STP, RSTP, PVST, MSTP, VTP, VLAN, Link aggregation and LACP
• TCP/IP Protocols ARP, RARP, IP, TCP, UDP, ACL.
• Having an experience in all phases of Project Test Planning/Script-Development/Validation.
• Experience in working with test tools like Lanforge, Spirent Anue, Ixia-Anue, Iperf, Iftest and STC
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION
B. E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering from BCET College, Bangalore
[VTU Belgaum], 2009.
Cisco Certified Network Associate: (CISCO ID: 11884689)
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Scripting : Perl, TCL, Python and Bash-Shell
Technologies : Networking, Storage, Cisco
Tool : Lanforge, Spirent Anue, Ixia Anue, Spirent test center, IPerf & NetPerf

2. Professional Experience
Senior Test Engineer-U3
Sep 2015 – Till Date Tech Mahindra Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka
Project Scope: Test plan design and Automation
Summary of duties:
Validating Test Plans and automating the cases using TCL/Python for features like MAC, VLAN, PO,
Control-BPDU, SPAN, HA, Stress and L2-Forwarding on new cisco Fretta Box
• Validate the test plans and Automate the cases using TCL/Python
• Run the automated cases on latest images
• Analyze the failures and report to Dev team
Module Lead-M2
Dec 2011 – Sep 2015 Mindteck India Ltd., Bangalore, Karnataka
Summary of duties:
Preparing the test plans and testing the Network card’s of 1G, 10G &40G(Emulex) (PCI-e/PCI-x) for the
networking features access protocols PPPoE, ARP, ICMP, VLAN, IFGRP And the advanced features like
Etherchannel, TSO, RSS and IPv6 using Cisco catalyst switches (6500) and Nexus 5K/6K/7K series switches.
• Validation of High Availability of FCoE ports (NetApp filer ports) with integrated CIFS/NFS/iSCSI
stress traffic over IPv4 & IPv6
• Basic Feature Acceptance Testing and Software Quality testing.
• Handling of RCR (Request Customer Requirement’s) in layer 2 & layer 3 domain.
• STP/RSTP/MSTP convergence for performance measurement
• End to End traffic testing with access protocols PPPoE, ARP, ICMP, VLAN and IFGRP.
• Validated NIC/ HBA feature and functionality from various vendors like Emulex, Qlogic, Intel,
Broadcom, Chelsio.
• Configuring Jumbo, VLAN, IFGRP and LACP on both Netapp filer and Nexus 5010/5020 switches and
verify the functionality of NetApp filers NIC ports
• Performing IP Layer testing such as IP Broadcast, IP Multicast, IP Unicast.
• Performed functional testing, volume, robustness, scalability testing & soak testing of DHCP, IGMP,
ARP, VLAN, IFGRP and L2 MAC learning.
• Reproduction and Root Cause Analysis for Customer issues
• Perform debugging and troubleshooting of issues in the field as required, by working closely with
development team.
• Many of the scripts which are reusable across the team and platform, Highlighted one was End to
end Automation

3. Network Engineer
Aug2009-Feb2011 Global Power Solutions, Bangalore, Karnataka.
Summary of duties:
• STP, RSTP,MSTP Performance measurement
• L2 MAC learning is to measure the time taken for Max number of for Residential/Business user
configured.
• Configuring & Stacking core Switches(6850,6600,6224, 9700,6824)
• Executing tests in Product Test/Product Validation phase
• Product Test Strategy & Test list Preparation
• Regression testing for all forwarding models on top of protocol testing.
Declaration
I hereby declare that the details mentioned above are true to best of my knowledge
Place: Bangalore
Date: SANTHOSHA.S.C