Vishal Basant Gupta
About Vishal Basant Gupta
Vishal Basant Gupta is a Software Test Engineer (Networking) at Arista Networks with extensive experience in network testing, automation, and cloud technologies.
Company
Currently, Vishal Basant Gupta works at Arista Networks as a Software Test Engineer (Networking). He has been with Arista Networks since 2023, with a hybrid work arrangement based in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States.
Previous Positions
Vishal has held various positions in the network engineering and testing field. Before his current role at Arista Networks, he worked at Northeastern University as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2022, and as a Network Test Engineer Intern at Arista Networks for 7 months in 2022. His earlier roles include R&D Senior Testing Engineer at Ribbon Communications (2018-2021), Network Operation Engineer at NTT Global Networks (2016-2018), and Senior IP Engineer at ZTE Corporation (2014-2016). He also interned at Siemens Enterprise Network in 2012.
Education and Expertise
Vishal Basant Gupta has obtained a Master’s degree in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications from Northeastern University, where he studied from 2021 to 2022. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from the University of Mumbai, completed between 2010 and 2014. His expertise includes proficiency in traffic test equipment like Spirent and Ixia, advanced scripting in Python and Bash, and knowledge of networking protocols such as MPLS, BGP, and TCP/IP.
Skills and Tools
Vishal is equipped with skills in various domains of networking and software testing. He is proficient in using software tools like JIRA, Siebel, TEST NG, TM4J, and Zephyr for Jira. Additionally, he is experienced in cloud technologies including EC2, S3, Route53, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, and ACLs. He also has expertise in network automation tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Terraform, and operating systems such as Arista EOS, Cisco IOS, and Juniper Junos.