About

Gipson Daniel is a Principal QA Engineer at Ruckus Networks - An Arris Company, with over 14 years of experience in feature testing involving functional, system, performance, scale, regression, ASIC, and API testing. He has a strong background in manual testing and debugging of L2/L3 protocols in enterprise and data center switches and routers. Gipson also has working knowledge of SDN and openflow, as well as FCoE in data center storage area networks (SAN). Gipson has a good understanding of various testing methodologies, different testing types, and overall product life-cycle. His specialties include data center technologies such as TRILL, FCoE, and VxLAN, as well as software-defined networking (SDN) and NFV with Openflow. He also has experience with routing protocols like OSPFv2, OSPFv3, BGP4, BGP4+, VRFs, route policy, BFD, HA, and GR, as well as IP/IPv6 with VRRP, ND, and IPv6 stack. Gipson has worked with mobility protocols like Mobile IPv4 and VPN with IPv4 and IPv6 Layer-3 MPLS VPN. In addition, Gipson has experience with scripting languages like TCL and Python, network management protocols like SNMP, NETCONF, and REST, and working with switching ASICs and network processors. He is familiar with traffic generators like Ixia/Spirent and network debugging tools. Gipson has also worked on ASIC validation of Brocade ethernet chips. Previously, Gipson worked at Brocade as a Staff Software Test Engineer and Software Engineer. He was responsible for validating various L2/L3 features on Brocade VDX series of data center switches and SLX routers, and worked on Brocade VDX 6720 and 6730 series of switches, Brocade 8470 Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter, Brocade FCOE10-24 Blade, and Brocade 8000 switch. Gipson's tech stack includes QA, test, Python, mobile, SDET, and software engineer. With 19.21 years of relevant experience, Gipson is a seasoned QA professional with a deep understanding of data center technologies, routing protocols, and network management protocols.