Swamy Karnam

Current

Lead Test Automation Engineer at MediaSolv Solutions Corporation
Group manager at Quality Assurance Discussion Group

Past

QA at Verisign
Community Builder at VeriSign
Sr. Software Engineer at IBM

Blindsiders seminar organizer at Lucent Technologies
Consultant at Lucent Technologies
QA and Developer at Various

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Education

Purdue University

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Swamy Karnam’s Summary

Currently working as QA for Verisign.
Previously worked as a consultant for IBM, Lucent, AT&T Bell labs, Motorola, MCI, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard and CFI ProServices

Swamy Karnam’s Specialties:

mostly in networks and communication software.

Work has involved writing proprietary and non-proprietary compilers/parsers.

Swamy Karnam’s Experience

Lead Test Automation Engineer

MediaSolv Solutions Corporation

(Law Enforcement industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Sole QA person for a small startup company
Group manager

Quality Assurance Discussion Group

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

This is a linkedin group to discuss topics related to Quality Assurance.

I led a book reading discussion at my real job "Verisign" and hoping to get volunteers to do the same at their own companies. I have posted a question requesting good books for QA.

I organize a few "happy hour" meetings every year. I am hoping that enough members join this group so that there would be local chapters in major cities doing the same.

I am working on opensource project on a wiki for professional groups. This would make it easier to post meeting minutes, track statuses, vote on topics, etc., etc., It is here at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qawiki

I am working on an opensource project called ETAF -- "Extensible Test Automation Framework". It is also in sourceforge.

This framework is based on test patterns that seem to occur in almost every product I have worked on.

To join: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/76560/48ED13400A7C
QA

Verisign

(Public Company; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2004 — June 2009 (5 years 3 months)

QA for VoIP products. Testing SIP, ENUM, SIGTRAN
Community Builder

VeriSign

(Public Company; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2004 — June 2009 (5 years 3 months)

**Organize Happy hours and other socials

**Run a QA book club

**Organize Knowledge sharing sessions and present on scripting, tools, techniques

**Working on creating some Best Practice papers

** Blogging about common QA problems, how to troubleshoot them and solve them
Sr. Software Engineer

IBM

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

October 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 7 months)

Created a messaging/subscription/notification product to monitor applications
Blindsiders seminar organizer

Lucent Technologies

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

October 1999 — July 2001 (1 year 10 months)

** search for topics and technologies that are fast becoming prevalent or could be prevalent that noone had thought previously and are dislodging encumbant companies

** find speakers for the topic, arrange for them to come speak at Lucent

** Take care that speakers are able to come to Lucent and don't run into roadblocks, preparing posters or comment sheets and other administrative duties to help with the event
Consultant

Lucent Technologies

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

August 1998 — July 2001 (3 years )

worked on an ASN.1 parser, on a Lucent proprietary language compiler, 5ESS switch, Advantage SCP, SS7, TCAP, IS41, AIN0.1
QA and Developer

Various

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

April 1994 — July 1998 (4 years 4 months)

Worked as a contracter on short term projects at MCI, HP, Siemens, AT&T Bell labs, Motorola and CFI ProServices

Swamy Karnam’s Education

Purdue University

BE , Electrical Engineering , 1992 — 1994

did 2 years in REC, Warangal, India before finishing my degree at Purdue

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Swamy Karnam’s Interests:

Hiking

Swamy Karnam’s Groups:

greaterIBM, AT&T Alumni, qadg

The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
QualityNet - Quality Professionals Network
American Society for Quality
Software Testing Club - the online software testing community
Open Source Developers
NANOG - The North American Network Operators' Group
Open VOIP
VeriSign Alumni Group
Model Driven Architecture
The Classic MCI Alumni Group
Software Testing & Quality Assurance
AT&T Alumni
Quality Assurance Discussion Group
VoIP Oriented
Software construction process
QAGuild Network
E-Recruitment Quality Assurance Jobs & Resumes
DC metro QADG