About

Basavaraj Kashigar is a Software Automation Lead with over 14 years of experience in Automation/DevOps/QA in the Networking, Virtualization, Telecom, and Consumer electronics domains of the software industry. He is presently working with DZSi (Formerly RIFT) to build a product for automating the deployment and operations of Virtualized Network Services/NFV, enabling the transition of physical networks to software-based ones. Basavaraj has expertise in Automation Framework development, Team management, E2E Automation, QA, DevOps, and Customer Engagement. He has experience in building CI/CD systems, Root cause analysis, Failure triage, Prioritization per Sprint plans, Remove team impediments, Mentoring Team, and working closely with multi-site Dev teams and Customers across the globe – India, USA, Europe & South East Asia. Basavaraj has hands-on experience in Network Function Virtualization, NFV, 5G, MANO, OSM, SDN, Cloud, Data Centers, Network Orchestration, and Network automation. He has worked with various technologies such as Python, Java, Robot Framework, RIDE, PyTest, Katalon Studio, TestNG, Selenium Webdriver, VB Script, Kubectl, Helm, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine GKE, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, OpenStack, VMware VCloud, VMware integrated OpenStack, Citrix XenApps/Center, and GIT. He has also worked with Linux, Android, SQL, Oracle Timesten, STOS, NSK non-stop HP Kernel, REST API, Database Migration, UI automation, Private/Public Clouds, and has experience in QA, Automation framework development using python, bash, pytest, unittest2. Basavaraj has previously worked with companies like newnet communication technologies and audience communications, a Knowles Corporation company. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from S D M College of Engg. & Technology, Dharwad. Overall, Basavaraj has 15.45 years of relevant experience as a Software Engineer, Kubernetes, AWS, DevOps, QA, SQL, Jenkins, Python, Selenium, Docker, SDET, test, CI/CD, Web, UI, Java, MySQL, Frontend, and Senior Software Engineer.