# Aarti Basani

> Staff Software Engineer, QA at Zscaler

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aartibasani

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Zscaler
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Test Engineer @ Pulse Secure
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Technical Lead for planning, executing and managing QA and automation activities for Pulse Zero Trust Access solution
- SME for Pulse Zero Trust Access product and primary point-of-contact for addressing customer queries and troubleshooting customer issues
- Lead customer onboarding sessions
- Provide product presentations and demos to Board members and Customers
- Provide technical presentations, demos and trainings to Engineering, Marketing and Sales teams
- Support development team and cross functional teams across all phases of testing from planning to execution and troubleshooting customer issues

### Staff Software Engineer @ Pulse Secure
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
- Technical Lead for planning, executing and managing test and automation activities for the project Behavioral Analytics which is an initiative to define and implement analytics use cases in Pulse products. Also, managed automation efforts for various other projects.
- Actively participated in design discussions and a core member of the team that built the product from initial stages
- Designed, built and maintained lab environment for simulating anomalies and attacks like DGA and MAC spoofing.
- Designed and implemented company-wide Python based automation framework for feature automation with a provision to extend it to regression, performance and load testing. 
- Collaborated with cross functional teams including different groups in Engineering, Customer support, Product management, Marketing, Sales and Technical publications.
- Provided multiple technical presentations to engineering, marketing and field teams

### Senior QA Engineer @ Pulse Secure
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Core member of Cloud Secure solution which provides Identity Management capabilities and helps enterprises get secure SSO access to cloud resources.
- Worked on Solution and Integration testing with many Cloud Services and Third-Party IdPs.  Created deployment guides for various integrations.
- Solely designed and developed mobile automation framework for Android and iOS mobiles. 
- Worked on Competitive analysis of Pulse solution with Microsoft Conditional Access. 
- Assisted in multiple customer deployments and POCs. Deployed the product in Pulse network.
- Also worked on various discovery mechanisms like DHCP, SPAN, NMAP, SNMP for Profiler product during this timeframe.

### Member Techinical Staff @ Juniper Networks India Pvt. Ltd.
Jan 2008 – Jan 2014
- Part of the NAC product QA team. Worked on 802.1x, Radius CoA, federation functionality. 
- Performed Integration testing with various switches, firewalls and MDMs and also automated the test efforts.
- Worked on endpoint security/host checker component qualification for NAC and VPN products. Worked on qualifying host check functionality on various flavors of client endpoints (Windows, MAC OS, Linux) with different Juniper Clients (Network Connect, Pulse Client, UAC Client).


## Education
### M.Sc.IT
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aarti-basani-9126ab20

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Last updated: 2026-04-12