■ Developing and executing test plans and documenting results for testing different features on various software versions of the policy generation and micro-segmentation platform to qualify builds for release.

■ Product research and Integration operationalization and end to end testing to release a new product which combines the strengths of ShieldX’s ML based security platform with FortiGate and FortiSwitches.

■ Testing the FortiPolicy software for different targeted environments like Hardware and VMware private cloud.

■ Actively participating in design discussions for different critical features utilizing the system knowledge and experience to provide a customer point of view.

■ Developing new automation scripts and improving existing automation scripts in the pytest based automation framework used by the QA team.

■ Deploying the automation scripts on a Jenkins build server to run at scheduled intervals.

Mentoring and coordinating with other junior team members in a daily sync up to help resolve issues and provide guidance on testing deliverables.

■ Unit testing threat detection rules for efficacy and doing exploit reproduction and attack traffic generation for it.

■ Working with external threat intelligence feeds, Metasploit and BP to improve Threat Coverage.

■ Triaging and analyzing customer logs and telemetry data to create an Early Warning system to proactively find FPs or High Freq. alerts in customer environments and resolving them or alerting Incident Response teams.

■ Bring up and operationalize tools and systems like Rapid7 Vulnerability Scanner, Metasploit, Kali, jmeter and dockers to support either the security research or improve workflow.

■ Supporting the Product Management and Sales functions by enhancing the Demo environment to showcase various ShieldX Threat Platform capabilities in POCs and customer engagements.

Security Research Engineer, Intrusion Prevention System (NSP), July 2017-May 2019

■ Security Content development and Vulnerability Research for McAfee NSP, the IPS product.

■ Developing and improving IPS signatures. Unit testing IPS signatures for known vulnerabilities.

Attack traffic generation, False Positive monitoring.

■ Enhancing and modifying protocol parsing specifications to support new use cases and scenario.

■ Analyzing vulnerability feeds like TELUS and creating IPS signatures to cover the same.

■ Working with QA, Build / Release and Support teams to build and release weekly signature

software to worldwide customer base.

■ Handling customer escalations and interacting with Account managers to understand customer

scenarios and resolve them by educating, improving detection as required.

■ Software Testing and Quality Assurance for McAfee Network Security Platform, the IPS product.

■ Validating IPS signatures for defense against network attacks by running regression tests.

■ Owning the Testing and Maintenance of many features for the NSP, involving different aspects

of Networking and Security. A Key-project for example was Outbound SSL traffic interception.

■ Developing and executing test plans and documenting results for testing different

features on various software versions and automating them in test framework.

■ Executing throughput tests and protocol compliance tests and security compliance tests on firmware for WLAN Access Point.

■ Building test-beds, Developing and implementing test cases for new features in router firmware.