# Krishna Santani

> Staff Engineer at VMware

Location: Newark, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/krishnasantani

•	Overall 11 years of experience as a Software QA Engineer in the areas of Networking and Datacom testing.
•	Involved in test design and development, execution, triaging, problem reporting and tracking them to closure.
•	Familiar with testing processes right from the functional spec to testcase design, test bed setup, manual testing, automation and regression.
•	Exposure to different switches and routers such as Cisco’s Nexus 9K and 7K series data center switches and Alcatel Lucent’s Omni switches.
•	Experience in working on various networking protocols like TCP/IP, OSPF, RSTP, PIM, BGP, L2/L3 forwarding etc.
•	Object oriented design of automated test suites, developed automation framework, tools and utilities using Python for different networking features. Involved in writing test cases for scale testing.
•	Working on Cisco’s IP Fabric for Media technology, which involves qualifying DCNM (SDN controller) and N9K switch for media customers.
•	Worked in L3 unicast platform testing for Cisco's first DeepBuffer, high-density DC switch. (Jericho).
•	Experience in manual UI testing and automation of test suites for verification of RESTful API for DCNM (controller) application.
•	Experience in working for regression team, which involves maintaining test suites, analysis of test scripts and reporting of issues for different features.
•	Experience in designing and building large-scale test systems and building configurations for testing and debugging real customer scenarios.
•	Involved in review of automated test suites for conformance to feature coverage and automation guidelines.
•	Working experience in networking test tools like IXIA, Pagent, Wireshark etc. 
•	Strong communication skill, active participation in meeting & discussions, collaborative team member, affective listener and strong problem-solving ability.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2012 – Jan 2020

### Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Test Engineer @ Wipro Technologies
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Education
### Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/krishnasantani
- Portfolio: http://twitter.com/ksantani

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Last updated: 2026-04-12