# Kunal Sood > Principal Software Engineer at Broadcom Inc. Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kunalsood • 12+ years of experience in Software Development and QA with strong experience in object-oriented techniques, web and database technologies. • Experience in full life cycle of software development process including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, debugging and maintenance using AGILE methodology. • Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance • Team Lead and Scrum master for the DLP product teams at Symantec. • Worked on building Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) product features using development technologies such as JAVA, Javascript, CSS, HTML and SQL. • Worked with AWS technologies to migrate DLP services from On-Prem deployment to AWS. • Experience in automating tests using Exactor, WebDriver (Selenium) and HttpUnit Frameworks. • Experience working with Jenkins CI/CD environment. • Hands on experience in designing and developing Test Plans as well as executing Test Cases. • Experience in creating automation test suite using PERL and RUBY. • Experience working with the bug tracking tools such as JIRA, E-Track and CA STAR. • Hands on experience working with Java TDD (Test Driven Development). • Experience using build tools such as ANT and Gradle. • Expert in Development and Debugging of Java and C++ Based Code using IntelliJ, Eclipse and Visual Studio. • Excellent experience in White Box, Black-Box, Regression, Unit, Integration, Performance and Usability Testing. • Good understanding of Databases including SQL, MySQL, DBMS and RDBMS. • Superior communication and analytical skills. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Broadcom Inc. Jan 2020 – Present ### Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Worked as the Team Lead and Scrum Master for the DLP feature teams. • Designed and developed DLP product features using JAVA and Web Technologies/Frameworks. • Automated End-to-End test cases using Selenium Web Driver and JAVA based Exactor framework. • Researched and demonstrated the AWS deployment strategy for deploying DLP services in AWS environment using Cloud Formation templates, S3, Lambdas and other AWS services. • Worked with PMs and Engineering Managers to understand customer requirements and derive user stories based on features commitment for the release. • Organized backlog user stories, maintained burn down, and assigned defects. • Worked on various cross team projects to integrate DLP services with other products/technologies within Symantec i.e. ICT (Information Centric Tagging) and Elastica. • Created functional, design and user interface specifications for the product features. • Created test plans, test specs and test cases based on product requirement documents, functional specifications, and customer escalations. • Interfaced with customer-support team as well as customers directly to do root-cause analysis for issues raised in engineering escalations. • Developed and executed unit/functional tests for the new and existing features. • Performed i18n and l10n testing using automated script for detecting hardcoded strings. • Configured Jenkins jobs to execute automated test scripts in Nightly/CI runs. • Participated in code and design reviews. • Mentored new team members on providing guidance on tools/technologies used in the product, creating test plans, creating automated test scripts and performing regression tests. • Worked on defect fixing and troubleshooting together with providing specific conditions for the defect reproducibility in the debugger. • Provide L1 and L2 support for Cloud based DLP SAAS deployment in AWS. ### Sr SQA Engineer @ Symantec Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 ### SQA Engineer @ Symantec Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 • Working on Data Loss Prevention (DLP) product features. • Worked with the QA and Dev team to deliver product releases. • Deliver feature set(s) with high quality in the agile development environment; requirement and functional spec review, test spec development, test case authoring/execution/automation • Test the UI and user experience across multiple browsers and versions. • Worked closely with Dev, PM, Info Dev, Professional Service. • Automate test cases using the existing framework. ### Associate Software Engineer @ CA, Inc Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 • Utilized Agile software development methodologies for performing tasks including bug fixing and implementing new features for the CA Spectrum Automation Manager product. • Researched and developed test plans, set up test environments and execute test cases. • Developed automated test scripts to gain maximum test coverage on the development code. • Worked with development teams to understand assigned modules and new product features including ongoing maintenance requirements. • Reviewed and author technical documentations i.e. release notes and getting started guides. • Managed VMware infrastructure client and vSphere client for managing ESX servers, datacenters, resource pools and virtual machines. • Certified latest product builds by executing sanity tests together with other functionality tests. • Provide Level 2 support for the product. ### Software Engineering Intern @ CA, Inc Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 ### Software Engineer Intern @ Qualcomm Inc. Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 • Developed and designed automation scripts using Perl and VBA for validation of substrate design at each stage of design flow process. • Responsible for extracting critical information from the databases, parsing data into proper format. • Tool development for checking the density of Power/Ground pins across the die area in the substrate design. • Involved in regression, Unit and acceptance testing including debugging. ## Education ### MS in Computer Science San Diego State University ### Bachelors of Technology; B.S.A Institute in Computer Science & Engineering; Technology & Management Maharshi Dayanand University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kunalsood86 --- Source: https://flows.cv/kunalsood JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kunalsood/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12