About

Vishwanath Gowdar is a Software Engineer III at Cisco with almost a decade of experience in the field. He has a strong background in product engineering, where he focuses on understanding customer needs and converting them into product functionalities by designing the features. Vishwanath is responsible for scoping the feature, feasibility with the product functionality, and executing feature development to testing and automation. Vishwanath's experience ranges from designing the low-level design of the feature to preparing, reviewing, and executing the test feature plans. He also provides support for integration testing, automation testing, sanity testing, and regression testing. Vishwanath is skilled in identifying the automation gap and developing automation for the feature. He is responsible for designing the low-level framework and writing framework code. Prior to Cisco, Vishwanath worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Evolving Systems, where he was responsible for customizing the Service Activation/Provisioning Product (TSA) in OSS/BSS telecom Provisioning. He developed modules for service activation and provisioning products, prepared functional specification documents, and converted them into low-level design algorithms. Vishwanath also resolved production-related issues raised to the Global Customer Support team. Vishwanath also worked as a Software Engineer at IBM, where he wrote business logic for SIM, PBX, and LINK objects for activation, promotions, and services. He was responsible for understanding client requirements and project functionalities, preparing, reviewing, and executing test cases, and involved in kick-off, daily, and weekly status meetings. Vishwanath holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Project Management from Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok. He also has a degree from Sacred Heart College, Shimoga, and Sahyadri School, Shimoga. Vishwanath's technical skills include Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Integration, Web, Mobile, SQL, and more. His relevant experience in the field is 9.79 years.