1. RESUME
Thilaga Ramalingam Email: thilak_rl@yahoo.co.in
Phone: +919742500149
OBJECTIVE
To pursue a challenging career and to be a part of progressive organization that gives
scope to enhance my knowledge, skills and to reach the pinnacle in this field with sheer
dedication and hard work.
SUMMARY
• 3 years and 7months of experience in the Cisco systems pvt India ltd.
• CCNA certified
• Have good programming skills in C, Tcl/Tk ,Bash shell scripting and expect.
• Experience in manual, regression, sanity testing and automation of test cases for
Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XR.
• Good at cisco tools like pagent, eARMS and good exposure to Unix environment,
• Good at layer2 and layer3 protocols.
Networking skills
1 Experience in Networking technologies such as layer3 technologies like IP,
subnetting, RIPv1/v2, OSPF, ARP and layer2 technologies like ethernet, STP, RSTP,
VLANS, VTP, trunking.
2 In-Depth knowledge of Cisco catalyst 6500 switch/router architecture
3 Utilities/Tools:have hands on experience using Cisco tools such as Pagent,Earms.
4 Exposure to configuration management system and defect tracking tool.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Software engineer in Cisco as a permanent employee September 2010 to February
2012
• Worked as a software engineer in Cisco (Mafoi at Cisco Systems, Inc.),
Bangalore from September 2008 –August 2010.
• Worked as a software developer in Maxtech technologies from May 2008 to
August 2008
Technical skills
Routing protocols : RIP, OSPF, ARP
Switching : STP, RSTP, VLAN, VTP
Scripting : Tcl/Tk, Bash shell scripting, expect
Operating Systems : Linux, Cisco IOS, cisco IOS XR

2. • EDUCATION
B. E in Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University, May 2007, 75%
PROFESSIONAL PROJECT (AT CISCO):
CISCO –CRBU –NG SCRIPT MIGRATION:
Role: Automation Engineer
Organization: Cisco Systems pvt India Ltd
Duration: Mar’ 11 – Mar’ 12
Responsibilities:
1. Involved in Simulating NG-XR platform topologies required for migrating sanity scripts
using V-SPIRIT/PI-SPIRIT
2. Migration of ISIS, BGP, Sysdb and MPLS sanity suites , running them on the simulated
topology and verifying testcases using ATS/iRace Framework
3. Acquired knowledge of iRace and V-SPIRIT/PI-SPIRIT simulation and setting up the
required test environment and topology for running scripts.
4. Integrated the migrated scripts into automation infra.
5. Build images for various fixes for blocker bugs and patch the workarounds at times to
make progress in the activity
6. Also involved in manual testing of syslog feature for a software release.
Skills acquired:
1. Simulation of NG-XR setup (routers, pagent, routem and tapping (internal/external
server connectivity)
2. Image building and patching by pulling required lineup in workspace.
3. Debugging script errors and setup errors, also debugging issues with feature in software
and raising triages for the same.
4. Knowledge in iRace framework
CISCO –CRBU- ROUTING- C12000
Role: Software Engineer
Organization: Cisco Systems pvt India ltd.
Duration: Sep’ 10 – Feb’ 11
Responsibilities:
1. Involved in testplan writing for the RIP routing protocol
2. Manual testing of, BGP, Lpts, RIP and IGP sanity suites , running them on the MPLS
topology.
3. Have written testcases and verifying testcases using ATS/eARMS Framework
4. Acquired knowledge of eARMS and setting up the required test enviroment and topology
for running scripts.
5. Integrated the scripts into automation routing.

3. 6. Build images for various fixes for blocker bugs and patch the workarounds at times to
make progress in the activity
7. Also involved in manual testing of sanity RIP feature for various software releases.
Skills acquired:
1. Acquired knowledge from the complete DT testing and IXIA.
2. Image building and patching by pulling required lineup in workspace.
3. Debugging script errors and setup errors, also debugging issues with feature in software
and raising triages for the same.
4. Gained Knowledge in eARMS Automation framework.
CISCO –ISBU- VSS- Catalyst 6500 Testing
Role: Software Engineer
Organization: Mafoi Consultancy (Vendor for Cisco Systems.)
Duration: Aug 08 – Aug’ 10
Location: Cisco systems pvt India ltd.
Responsibilities:
1. Improvement in the over-all execution time of script by moving to new ATS tree.
2. Involved in the regression and golden sanity testing of the IOS
3. Writing new TCL scripts and script bug fixes.
4. Porting of standalone system scripts to VSS.
5. Porting of VSS scripts to support on earl8 images
Skills acquired:
1. Have in-depth knowledge in virtual switching systems
2. Have hands-on experience in L2 and L3 protocols
3. Working with VSS golden sanity testing and regression testing
Virtual Switching System (VSS) : Virtual Switching System is virtualization
technology that pools two Cisco catalyst 6500 series switches into one virtual switch,
increasing operational efficiency, boosting nonstop communications (redundancy), and
increasing system bandwidth.
Maxtech – .Net development
Role: Software Engineer
Organization: Maxtech technologies
Duration: May’ 08 – Jul’ 08
Responsibilities:
1. Was involved in a .Net project for a small firm.

4. STRENGTHS
• Ability to communicate and share thoughts and programming skills with others.
• Positive attitude and enthusiastic in teamwork.
• Burning desire in learning and developing new things.
• Self confidence and determination to complete the allotted work
OTHER ACTIVITIES
• Participated in various dance competition and in singing competition.
NIIT PROJECT
1 Under gone training in NIIT from August 2007 to March 2008
2 Completed C, C++, SQL, Java and .Net of the course in 6 months duration.
3 Did mini projects for each module
1 Video Kiosk in C++.
Details: The software for an agency in which the details of all the movies
available are stored. The customer can search the available movies and purchase the
movie of their choices. This project is carried out using data structures.
2 Travel line Transit Agency in Java.
Details: The software project for the transport company, which has two departments
namely, customer relational department (get feedback and complaints from the customer)
and operational department (checks the complaints and give corrective measures to the
customers).
3 Online Library management in ASP.Net.
Details: This is to develop an automated online library management system that has a
centralized database maintaining the information related to books, CDs, audiocassettes
and the registered members. This will help in faster data access and effective
implementing of security measures.
ACADEMIC PROJECT
Title : Rule based prediction for market analysis using apriori
algorithm.
Period : 3 months.
Team size : 2
Description : The algorithm depicts shopping lists for customer to provide
individual and personalized interactions with customers as they navigate through the
retail stores.

5. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name : Thilaga Ramalingam
Date of Birth : 16th Sep 1985
Gender : Female
Nationality : Indian.
Marital status : Married
Languages : English, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam
.
Place:
Date: (R.Thilaga)

6. PERSONAL DETAILS
Name : Thilaga Ramalingam
Date of Birth : 16th Sep 1985
Gender : Female
Nationality : Indian.
Marital status : Married
Languages : English, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam
.
Place:
Date: (R.Thilaga)