About

Tarundeep Sharma is a highly experienced Manager of Software Test Engineering at Arista Networks with over 12 years of relevant experience. Currently, he is responsible for managing the platform test team at Arista, which focuses on switches based on Broadcom StrataDNX family asics like Jericho2, J2C+, Qumran2C, and others. He has vast experience in software/system testing of various networking devices like routers and L2/L3 switches used in SP and Data center. Tarundeep has a strong background in testing various networking platforms based on merchant silicon like Broadcom, Intel, and Cavium Xplaint. He is an expert in platform bring-up testing with specialization in L1, L2, L3, SKU (Fans/Leds/PSU), and performance benchmarking. He has extensive experience in testing various routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, RIP for routers and Data Center switches. Tarundeep has worked extensively on various platform-dependent features like ACL, QOS, PBR, Macsec, subinterfaces, etc. He is extensively involved in manual testing and test automation. He has experience in writing test plans, requirement specifications, preparation and execution of test cases, bug tracking, reporting, debugging, and quality fix verification. He has also handled POC, customer cases/escalations handling, testing customer-specific requirements, and customer deployment scenarios. Tarundeep has tested Arista Platforms with Open networking OS like Sonic. He has visited Huawei HQ in Beijing and Arista HQ in Santa Clara for many POCs and customer deployments. His technical skillset includes Networking Protocols, Networking Features, Platforms, Operating System, Platforms/ASIC, Automation, Open Networking OS, and Testing Tools. Currently, Tarundeep is working as a Software Test Manager at Arista, where he manages the platform test team responsible for StrataDNX (Sand, Jericho2, Qumran2C) and Metamako based Arista switch BRING-UP, platform testing efforts, and platform dependent feature efforts like Macsec, PBR, QOS, ACL, Multicast, Route programming, etc. He is also the test owner for SONiC support on Arista StrataDNX multi asic fixed and modular switches. Prior to his current role, Tarundeep worked as a Technical Lead and System Test Engineer at Arista, where he was part of the platform test team and worked on various network security PD features