Rahul Ramachandran

Experience

Define product requirements and manage Juniper's next-generation firewalls and SD-WAN solution.
Evaluate market and business potentials for network security and secure SD-WAN solutions.
Develop and drive distributed enterprises 5G strategy and craft the future of branch connectivity.
Drive product positioning, messaging and manage go-to-market activities.
Expertise in Network Security solutions and secure SD-WAN.
Work closely with engineering teams to drive product design and development.
Interact with customers and partners to showcase Juniper's solution and gather requirements to design simplified solutions.

Define new solutions and extend/customize reference solutions.
Engage in technical customer meetings, including detailed product overview/demos, and in-depth technical conversations.
Engage in GTM activities including design of marketing materials for new products and solutions
Develop and conduct technical field training and solutions deep dive for sales team and customers.
Perform business and technical competitive analysis including Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and others.
Work with engineering to design, implement and improve features and solutions.

Designed and executed customer profile use-cases and test plans.
Tested end-to-end firewall features and services such as Polices, NAT, AppSecure, UTM, IDP, IPsec VPN, HA of Juniper SRX Firewalls.
Performed firewall capability testing in a simulated environment using 3rd party tools, viz. Breaking Point, Ixia - IxExplorer/IxLoad and Spirent.
Designed complex automation test infrastructure for the team and writing automation scripts in Perl for performing test execution.
Mentored interns and new hires by providing training and guidance.

Provided technical support to customers to monitor and manage their network and security devices
Provided on-demand support to customers by live troubleshooting and resolving network issues

Testing telecom services such as MMS, Video and Image transcoding on an end to end call flow
Developed and maintained log management automation tools using LAMP (Perl) stack

Prepared Test Plan, Design Document and generated Test Cases
Created Business Components for automation test cases using BPT framework in QTP
Managed a team of 10 by delegating and coordinating tasks, handling training sessions for new joiners
Periodic tracking and maintenance of defects, created and maintained Defect Prevention Plan document

Product Manager