About

Abhilash V is a highly experienced Technical Lead (Testing) at Nokia, with over 10 years of experience in manual and automation testing environments. He is deadline-oriented and has a proven track record of delivering high-quality results. Abhilash has experience with automation using Python, bash, and ROBOT framework, and has worked with various network protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, SCTP, OSPF, BFD, and IPSec. He is also experienced in system testing, performance testing, and stability testing. Abhilash has used various traffic generator tools for network functional and performance testing, such as IXIA, TRex, and others. He is well-versed in packet debugging tools such as Wireshark. Currently working at Nokia, Abhilash is responsible for studying and analyzing system level requirements and breaking them down to increase testability. He creates comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives and reviews test plans and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements. Abhilash has performed various testing activities such as functional, performance, stability, and stress testing. He has also performed DFMEA and EDA along with other stakeholders. Abhilash is skilled in automation of test cases using the ROBOT framework and is responsible for first-level analysis of application/customer reported issues. Abhilash has previously worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Aricent, where he handled customer-reported issues, provided RHEL OS security patches to address known security vulnerabilities, and was involved in system architecture and design discussions. He also automated log analysis for KPI analysis using shell/python scripting and reproduced customer-reported issues in the lab. Abhilash provided inputs to R&D to improve system performance, stability, and reliability by providing field scenarios as use cases. Abhilash has also worked as a Lead Engineer at HCL, where he performed requirement analysis for new features and prepared system test case documents. He created and maintained the requirement traceability matrix and performed protocol conformance testing using K1297-G35 tool. Abhilash also performed performance and stability analysis of calls in the Femto network and automated OAM testing using in-house automation framework built using shell scripting. Abhilash holds a B.Tech degree in ECE from JIIT and has relevant experience of 13.35 years. He is skilled in testing, senior software engineering, Python, and software engineering.