Karthik Natarajan

About Karthik Natarajan

More than 15+ years of experience in building up, mentoring and managing product verification and sustanance team Involved in Recruitment and retention of the resources with technical competencies Strong project management skills on telecom/network projects/products Well versed with Product Life Cycle/SDLC/STLC/Defect Life Cycle and managing projects in waterfall and Agile methodology Experienced in Project Estimating,Planning, Scheduling, Progress Monitoring, Controlling and Reporting Managing and communicating project status, initiatives, risks and issues to stakeholders Closely working with customers/customer interfacing team, development, defect & change management on defining scope for various product releases Design/verification of Product requirement document, Test strategy, Test Plan, Test cases and Performing Test execution Worked on SDN platforms with openflow and openstack Worked on Layer 2 protocols such as VLAN, Q-in-Q, ARP attacks, STP, RSTP, MSTP, CFM, LAG and LACP Experience in Layer 3 protocols such as IGMP, NDP, HSRP, VRRP, RIPv1/2,OSPF,BGP and MPLS Proficient in Metro Ethernet services (EPL, EVPL, E –LAN and E-Tree) and solution based testing Expertise in SONET/SDH Basic Knowledge in Network Virtualization and VXLAN Good in VOIP and Unified communication using Cisco Call Manager Proficient in NMS/EMS concepts and FCAPS testing Knowledge in TCL/Expect & Python based automation framework Good knowledge in testing tools such as IxNetwork, IxExplorer, IxAnvl, SPIRENT and ANT20

Experience

1. Senior Delivery Manager

   Thinkpalm Technologies Pvt. Ltd

   Mar 2026 — Present · Chennai, IN

Education

• Bishop Heber Higher Secondary School

  +2, Physical Sciences

  1999 — 2000

• Anna University Chennai

  B.E, E.C.E

  2001 — 2005

Skills

• Gsm
• Test Design
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Test Management
• Integration
• Telecommunications
• Test Cases
• Manual Testing
• Functional Testing
• Embedded Systems
• System Integration Testing
• Clearcase
• Pre-Sales
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Unix
• Ccna
• Test Strategy
• Agile Methodologies
• Project Delivery
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Protocol Testing
• Quality Center
• Black Box Testing
• Testing
• Resource Management
• Switches
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Soapui
• Xml
• Software Quality Assurance
• Stp
• Performance Testing
• Tcp/Ip
• Defect Tracking
• Test Execution
• Sip