About

Ajay Kumar is a highly skilled Software Engineer 4 at Juniper Networks with 10.78 years of relevant experience. He has a strong understanding of SP/Enterprise/Data-center technologies, Layer2 and Layer3 protocols, and basic understanding of L7 protocols. He has experience working on vMX/MX, vQFX, vPTX/PTX, vEVO platforms, and is proficient in L3 routing protocols OSPF, ISIS, and BGP, MPLS protocol and its applications such as L3VPN, L2VPN, and VPLS. He also has a good understanding of label distribution protocols such as RSVP and LDP, and SNMP protocol and JUNOS telemetry interface (JTI). Ajay has handled customer escalations and replicated customer setups locally for testing. He has made significant contributions towards automation frameworks development and support using Perl and Python. He is an expert in IXIA automation using Perl/Python language and robot framework. He is also familiar with DevOps tools like Netconf, Ansible, GIT, CI/CD, and Jenkins. He has a decent understanding of virtualization technologies using KVM, ESXi, and Hyper-V, and basic understanding of cloud technologies and Kubernetes. Ajay has worked as a Test Engineer Outsourced at Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for the development and maintenance of the Automation Framework jSAFE (Juniper Solutions Automation Framework Environment) for testing and providing technical support to the framework users. He also worked on VMX testing and feasibility analysis of a physical profile to VMX conversion. He has exposure to traffic generators like Ixia and Spirent and has been involved in testing/automation/QA activities in his team. He has also worked as a Software QA Engineer 2 at Infinera, where he was responsible for maintaining test-suites for regressions in Virtual-Domain and enhancing suites for good coverage of features and checks. Ajay holds a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) degree in Digital Communication from RV College of Engineering and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from SBIT, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, testing, Python, Ansible, CI/CD, QA, Kubernetes, Jenkins, DevOps, and SDET.