About

Mula Venkata Laxmana Kumar is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in Datacom (Wireless), Embedded and Application Software. He is currently working as a Consultant at Cisco and is actively seeking new opportunities. Mula has a thorough technical knowledge of Black box and system test methodologies on WLAN products in Linux, Windows, Android, and Brew OS. He has in-depth experience working on MAC level wireless protocols such as WiFi and is proficient in technologies like WiFi/WLAN (802.11a/b/g/n), QoS (802.11e/L2/L3), and Security (802.1X/RADIUS, 802.11i) Testing. He is an expert in Sanity Testing, System Testing, Feature Testing, Compliance Testing, Regression Testing, Performance (Load, Stress, Soak), and Security Testing. Mula has worked with 802.1X servers like Windows IAS, Cisco ACS, and Linux Free radius servers for 802.1X authentication. He has also worked on Performance and Stability Testing with different scenarios using multiple wireless clients and is experienced with tools like Airopeek, IxChariot, Ethereal, Omnipeek, iperf, Bugzilla, and QC tool. Mula is proficient in Test Planning, Test Cases creation, Test Report Summary, Requirement Tractability Matrix, Risk Mitigation, and Resource Management. He has prior experience with test equipment, network traffic generation, performance, and analysis test tools. He also has experience working on infotainment systems for WLAN MAC protocol verification on QNX and Linux operating systems. Mula has previously worked as a Consultant at Intel, where he validated the Wi-Fi connectivity App Proset and worked on CAM Validation (Hotspot 2.0 and WISPr protocol). He has also worked as a Sr. Tech Lead Testing at Aricent. Mula holds a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from JNTU and an SDE in Electronics and Equipment Testing from Govt. Institute of Electronics. With 27.45 years of relevant experience, Mula is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong technical background in wireless technologies and testing methodologies.