# Brijesh Jotaniya > Staff Engineer @ Fortinet | Software Testing | Threat Detection, Networking and Network Security Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/brijeshjotaniya With over 14 years of industry experience in different fields of networking and information security, I am a Staff Software QA Engineer at Fortinet. I am passionate about helping bring quality products and services that solve customer pain points with innovative solutions in Networking and Security domain. I am also an Ethical Hacker Certified professional who leverages my skills in vulnerability research, threat detection, and attack traffic generation to improve the efficacy and performance of software products and services. Hands-on collaborating with cross-functional teams, such as product management, sales, design, and support to achieve results. ## Work Experience ### Staff Engineer @ Fortinet Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ■ 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. ### Sr. Staff Engineer @ ShieldX Networks Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California, United States ■ 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 Researcher @ McAfee Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | United States 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 QA Engineer @ McAfee Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California ■ 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. ### WLAN Test Intern @ Broadcom Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ■ 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. ### Radio Access Network Engineer @ Nokia Siemens Networks Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Carried out various projects involving RF Network Planning and Optimization in the National NPO Team for 1 year 5 months. A Major project during this tenure was the UniNor - Gujarat circle, wherein I was extensively involved in planning, integration and optimization of the RF network for the GSM operator with 1450 BTS covering 141 towns and 11 cities in Gujarat. I also worked as RF Cluster Engineer, for NSN's Managed Services account of Bharti Airtel - Gujarat circle for 6 months. Was responsible for daily optimization, KPI maintenance / improvement, Drive Test Analysis, Network Complaint resolutions. ### Customer Care Representative @ Motif, Inc Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Ahmedabad, Gujarat Assisted sellers on the largest eCommerce website with various issues for speedy resolution with attention to detail to achieve great NPS score. ## Education ### Master of Science in Electrical Engineering San José State University ### Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications VVP Engineering College - India ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brijesh-jotaniya-7b4a811a --- Source: https://flows.cv/brijeshjotaniya JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/brijeshjotaniya/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12