SUMMARY:

• Over 20 years if progressively increasing responsibilities and experience in managing complex projects
• Solutions - driven professional with extensive experience in R&D engineering, delivery management and test governance
• Specialized in end-to-end Performance, System and System Integration Tests of Telecom Products
• Extensive experience in functional, regression, stress, ad-hoc, UAT, smoke testing
• Strong people management skills as second line manager
• Perform critical and complex engineering activities and provide advice
• Conduct reviews and assessments on the quality and suitability of a range of projects
• Provide assistance to Verification and Validation activities, including scoping, planning, reviewing, provide recommendations and contribute to the system acceptance
• Apply Engineering knowledge and experience to identify risks and uncertainties and manage them accordingly in the system product life cycle
• People management, motivate and mentor developing engineers
• Scoping and planning how engineering tasks will be completed in order to meet necessary engineering outcomes and schedules, including making risk-based decisions on what tasks receive priority of effort
• Authoring and reviewing test/trial test instructions and test reports
• Authoring and reviewing formal engineering reports such as technical investigation reports
• Organizing and coordinating test activities
• Authoring and reviewing engineering plans
• Best Practice, pragmatic project management and governance methodology. Simplify processes, practices, templates, reports and dashboards. 20 years’ experience with Waterfall, Agile, Hybrid, PMBOK
• Worked with Agile Teams and Product Owner in creation of the Prioritized Product Backlog and in definition of the Done Criteria, Facilitates Prioritized Product Backlog Review Meetings
• Managed onsite/offshore high performing Agile teams with Business and Technology for Application Development, Production Support, Testing and Maintenance
• Facilitated Agile Ceremonies like Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning, Capacity Planning, Sprint Burn down, Velocity Management, Impediment Management, Demo & Retrospective sessions, Product Backlog prioritization, Story Pointing, user story gathering & Release Planning
• Experience with Project Planning, reporting, resource planning and execution. Strong Project Management skills like product planning, estimation, and resource plans
• Solid understanding in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Product
• Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) including requirements gathering, analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment
• Firm ability to research, analyze and translate complex business and technical information to stakeholders, SME’s, and developers at all levels of the organization

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Enterprise Technologies: FTTx, Network Traffic Emulation, Telecom, Wireless, RAN, Routing (OSPF, RIPv2) & Switching Protocols, STP, VLAN, TMN, NMS, EMS, FCAPS, OSS, BSS, VPN, Triple Play, MPLS, VPLS Platform testing on Linux/UNIX, Windows

Servers: Microsoft Project Server, VMWare vSphere, MySQL, Qmail, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, Apache, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, POP, IMAP, Samba, NFS, NAS, Squid

Cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS, SaltStack

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing a divestment project as part of DTM (Divestment Transition Management) test team to deliver parallel five streams of work
• Managing the Infrastructure project to segregate network, business continuity site, e-mail, intranet and telephony
• Interact with business team as well as project delivery to plan and track progress in the governance meets
• Collaborate with the IT teams to deliver the solution
• Manage vendors implementing the changes and supporting the delivery

Confidential

Test Delivery Manager

Responsibilities:

• End to end accountable of test deliveries of new capability introduction on nbn networks as part of Complex Products (CPST) portfolio
• Facilitate the service team in major agile ceremonies such as Program Increment planning sessions as part of SAFe Agile framework and as a Servant Leader
• Document practices, management of external dependencies and risks, ensure value delivery and drive continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD)
• Participate in scaled agile / lean transformation activities by coaching leaders, teams and iteration leads in the new processes and mind set
• Manage Multi-technology mix (FTTx, HFC, Wireless, Satellite, RAN & Aggregation) test program deliveries by:
• Defining test strategies for test epics & FTAR (First Time Application Release)
• Preparing and executing System Integration Test (SIT) Strategies
• Allocation of resources to test, install, configure and integrate new capabilities
• Manage Test capabilities in pre-production (SIT1, SIT2, ED) and in production
• Ensure stakeholders such as product owners, operations achieve acceptance
• Handover to the Operations team
• Manage the resource allocation for the NTF (National Test Facility) test release trains
• Act as delivery manager for the releases through PI planning, iteration plans, maintain scrum boards and other agile practices
• Participate in governance activities with the cross functional teams such as Business, PMO, Operations, Deployment, Integration Engineering and Integration & Configurations and vendors
• Generate the test reports for the completion of test program
• Participate in defect management in coordination with defect managers

Sr. Manager, System Test

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and executed System Test Strategies and test plans for MSAR, routing, wireless RAN technologies
• Planned, managed the Software System Test Projects across the product lines of the organization whose R&D teams are spread at 4 R&D centers (France, Sofia, Belgium and India)
• Reported the project status with dashboards
• Chaired various meetings with project status with project team, senior executive management & cross functional leaders
• Reviewed the test artifacts, specifications, scripts, test results etc.
• Managed 18 team members by providing regular written & oral performance feedback, performance reviews, managing resource aspirations, managing day-to-day conflict & managing resource allocation and supervision. Team consisted of roles including test managers, testing leads, technical leads and testers

Sr. Development Manager cum Engineering Site Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Singapore R&D as Engineering Site Manager
• Managed Engineering operations involving Software Development, SQA (Software Quality Assurance), Hardware (FPGA) & Technical Writing teams
• Aligned and coordinated strategies with Product Management and peers in other functions like sales, manufacturing, tech support and marketing
• Achieved Engineering releases as per product roadmaps, engineering processes and standards for products CellAdvison to test 4G RAN network
• Managed 34 team members by providing regular written & oral performance feedback, performance reviews, managing resource aspirations, managing day-to-day conflict & managing resource allocation and supervision. Team consisted of roles including project managers, test managers, technical leads, testing leads, developers, testers and technical writers

Engineering Director, QA & Solutions Delivery

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall software quality directives across product offerings of the company, directly reporting to VP Engineering at US office
• Contributed in additional roles for the job in a start-up environment as Technical Service Deployment Manager across South Asian countries (India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand) deploying and supervising the services at leading telco networks.
• Accomplished successful UAT tests with test teams from client telco
• Lead SQA test team to operationalize the test strategy
• Created Test Strategy, Master Test Plan, status reports
• Managed 8 team members by providing regular written & oral performance feedback, performance reviews, managing resource aspirations, managing day-to-day conflict & managing resource allocation and supervision. Team consisted of roles including testing leads and testers

Manager, QA Test Engineering

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed enterprise releases (FastIron, CES & CER platforms) and service provider (NetIron MLX & BigIronRX platform) QA test teams
• Planned and set-up a new test lab at Bangalore CoE (Center of Excellence)
• Represented Test team in review of Project Plans, Product requirements, design & test strategy discussions
• Worked closely with Development, Product Management teams to determine the scope and type of testing to be conducted
• Planned test validation activities like test planning, test cases review and execution
• Managed 12 team members by providing regular written & oral performance feedback, performance reviews, managing resource aspirations, managing day-to-day conflict & managing resource allocation and supervision. Team consisted of roles including testing leads and testers

Sr. Software QA/Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed test program with portfolio of Projects of IxLoad, IxNetwork, IxVPN, IxDiagnostics, IxLicensing for software test releases
• Tracked and maintained the dashboards to track up-to-date status of the running projects
• Chaired the cross-functional meetings on weekly basis
• Designed and lead the development of automated framework
• Key driver in establishing the Software Test processes and methodologies, practiced and adopted Agile development model, product gate processes
• Managed 74 team members by providing regular written & oral performance feedback, performance reviews, managing resource aspirations, managing day-to-day conflict & managing resource allocation and supervision. Team consisted of roles including test managers, technical leads, testing leads and testers

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created Test Plan, Test Case for assigned features on Sniffer Distributed s6040 & Visualizer
• Reviewed the Test Plan, Test Cases of Testing Team Internally and contributed with review comments to improve test coverage.
• Execution of the Test Plan, Cases and bug reporting, bug verifications
• Created test scenarios/setups using IXIA & Spirent Traffic emulator in R&D lab environment

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced & developed transferable skills in multiple roles of this start up environment: as Software Tester, IT support, CMMI core team member & level 3 tech support as Cisco TAC member.
• Contributed in Cisco TAC (Technical Assistance Center or Technical Customer Support) for entire EM-Factory product line with impressive response & resolution time to customers worldwide.
• Created software validation strategy, plan & test cases as per organization’s quality standards. Exercising the planned test coverage on software products. Creating end-to-end test setup.
• Reviewed the Test Plan, Test Cases of Testing Team Internally
• Created test setups using Cisco PGW, Cisco SimCafe & MIMIC for:
• NMS/ EMS systems with Cisco Voice solution
• Cisco PGW, MGCP implementation
• FCAPS, fault management, OSS, BSS

Network Administrator / Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced skills in network and system administration with international voice career operations of H.323 network, service provider in NOC.
• Administered complex network, system & multi-vendor ISP/ILD production environment.
• Setup and maintained production VoIP carrier & ISP network at NOC. Involved in the testing of the network and the services with the international & national Telco’s according to the inter-connect agreements