# satheeshkumar KL

> QA Architect & ADK Specialist | Leader in Agentic AI | Cloud & network security

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

Experienced Senior Software QA Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Python, Java, Networking, Regression Testing, Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), Network security and Test Cases. 
Hands on experience with traffic tool: Breaking point, Avalanche, Spirent, Tcpreplay, Metasploit, canvas
Debugging and bug tracking tools: Wireshark, ICMP, packet tracer and Jira etc.,

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks
Jan 2019 – Present | India

### Q/A Engineer.Senior II @ Akamai Technologies
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
•	Created metric dashboard for Jira and provided key notes to fill the gaps in the SDLC process
•	Selenium frame work developer for automation
•	Contributing the automation framework for DYNO(inhouse framework)
•	Create the automation for unit test and UI automation using saute

### Sr software QA Engineer @ McAfee
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore
•	Created the Open stack Platform on bare metal for the testing environment.
•	Maintaining the different Tenants and allocating the resource for the team.
•	Tested KVM –IPS sensor build and able to make successful release as separate software by single-person ownership covering various range of testing for entire release.
•	Building the performance test-bed using avalanche tool and tested performance of open stack IPS with profiles like HTTP/HTTPS with or without response action.
•	Private NSS test participation by creating attack pcaps through Metasploit, and canvas.
•	Administrating the Esx server and coming up with suitable topology for traffic routing in Esx. Owning the entire QA Esx server setups.
•	One of stock holders for tracking Execution commit for the Opestack cloud IPS product from SFS
•	Automating the test cases for the features I won for manual testing.

### Lead Engineer @ HCL Technologies
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Bengaluru Area, India
RFC compliance testing.
 Stack holder for Live setups from the ISPN clients to Cisco Systems.
 Played key role for testing the performance and capacity of SCE.
 Evaluated critical algorithms and optimizations that best suit the needs.
 Generated automation , tools evaluated and optimised for entire QA
group
 Conducting periodic code reviews for juniors to avoid the regression
performance degradations and to reduce the repetitive codes for modules
 Suggesting Tools by evaluating them and training the team with gained experience on the tools, product and other key areas. Documented all the trouble shooting logics for the product.
 One of stack holders for tracking Execution commit for the product from SFS
 Acted effectively and ramp up at the joining stage to the project with complete picture of PP in SCE. Test cases added with smart enough to avoid the CFD bugs.
 Automated more than 200 test cases using java frameworks.
 Performance and capacity tool is customized to have effective results from legacy module.
 Build stand alone tools to support SM module.
 Preparation of RTM and MPP for the team. Covering status report for individuals in team in weekly basis.
 Worked with top customers like ROGERS, KDG, T-Mobile, Zain etc to perform RCA and identify workaround for their critical cases.


## Education
### Master of Technology (MTech) in software systems
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/satheeshkumar-kl

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Last updated: 2026-04-12