SUMMARY:

Seeking a technically challenging position in the area of Networking, providing a highly motivated, progressive, friendly environment which allows the pursuit of career advancement and expand my knowledge and skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Cisco 2600, 3600 series, 2800, 3800 series ISRs, Alcatel - Lucent 7342 FTTU, Nokia IMS, HSS, P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF

OS: Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Cisco IOS

Languages/ Scripting: TCL/Expect, Unix Shell, XML

Protocols: TCP/IP, H.323, MGCP, SIP

Technologies: Routing, ATM, Frame relay, VoIP

Wireless: Knowledge in 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g

Traffic tools: Callgens, Pagents, abacus, Spirent Test Application

Engineering tools: DDTS, CVS, EDCS

VoIP tools: Cisco Call Manager, Abacus, Empirix Hammer

Tools: CSCCON, Pagent, Spirent Test Application 2.32, Wireshark, Microsoft Visio (Testbed topology design), Microsoft office

Build Tool Maven, Hudson: Webservices: SoapUI

Courses: VCA-DCV, MCP, CCNA, CCNP-BSCI, CCIE-Voice(Written), CCVP-CVOICE,IPTX(Cisco IP Telephony Express Specialist), QoS, GWGK, TUC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Core IMS elements, install, upgrade, debug and troubleshoot day - to-day issues seen with SIP/IMS/Voice calls which involves Cisco BTS Access Tandems, IMS-P-CSCF, I-CSCF, S-CSCF, HSS. Good Experience with setting up virtualized IMS platform with VMware ESXi hosts and its components - vSphere, vMotion, vCloud, vDirector installed on Cisco UCS platform.
• Responsible for isolating issue with particular node, co-ordinating calls with Vendor Engineers and raise defects as part of TWC and track the same for fix.
• Responsible for fixing up maintenance schedules and install patches and upgrades on network elements
• Responsible for debugging and fixing day-to-day issues seen with Empirix-XMS monitoring system and its network elements: Probes, HCOS, HPOS, ROS and its maintenance which involves upgrades, patches.
• Expertise with monitoring tools: Empirix XMS and other twc tools to isolate and debug issues, preparing metrics report for management.
• Co-ordinating calls with Vendor Engineers on a bridge for fixing issues, to resolve faster and thereby minimizing subscriber impact.

Confidential

Architect - Technology

Responsibilities:

• Involving in VoLTE testing and validation with SIP/IMS Network Elements: P-CSCF, I/S-CSCF, HSS, TAS, CTS, BGCF, MGCF, with EPC Core and Inter-operability between protocols, Primary Lead and point of contact for H2S testing and production support.
• Involved in integration testing of VoLTE and IMS in different zones and validate calls between different endpoints such as VoLTE, CVoIP, PSTN, debug failures using different packet analyser tools, during LTE attach, IMS Registration, calls, isolate the failures, Co-ordinate troubleshooting sessions between different vendors
• Also used Qualcomm XDM(QXDM), QCAT to take device logs out of VoLTE device. Also involved in setting up server environment for traffic tools, logging, archiving and troubleshooting issues. Also involved in tool evaluation meetings to discuss on VoLTE requirements with Spirent, IXIA, EXFO.
• Apart from VoLTE testing, also owned installing, configuring and troubleshooting Windows /RedHat Linux/ Solaris servers which will be used for remote desktop, log collection archives.

System Integration Testing

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Integration Testing of UCDS Modules involved 14 modules which mainly consists of Service Session Manager, Geo-Mapping Services, Asset Manager, Subscriber Information Services, Key Management Services, License Management, Content Delivery Network, Rights Information Management, Configuration Manager, Transcoder and Chunker and its sub-components in integrated platform.
• Also managing team which is responsible for module level testing in different Use Cases.
• After reviewing all the requirement specification, Managing team involves reviewing the testcases from team members, comments for its relevance, for the change, conducting meetings for integration testing, bringing up action items, tracking team activities, recognize efforts and giving improvement areas.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• In Confidential, Involved in requirements breakup, creating test plan and uploading in HP-QC. Also Managed different sub teams within this project: xfinity manual testing, automation testing, performance testing, DB testing, POC testing. training for developing technical knowledge, track on daily activities by team members, conducted appraisals, setting objectives, recognizing them for good efforts and provide them on improvement areas.
• Manual testing different functionalities of app-to check regular POC and analyze logs using Splunk and New-Relic Tool.
• Attending daily task plan meeting with customer(onsite), distributing task to the team members and make sure for completion, updating to customer. Also trained the team in finding bugs through Debug log analysis of the box.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in creation of test data for testing Juke application which involved converting a video file to different supporting formats(AVI, MOV, WMV, MP4, etc) with different combination of video bandwidth, sampling rate, screen dimensions, audio codecs with different sampling rate, channelized audio, etc.
• Involved in creating testcases for the given wireframes to sufficient feature coverage.
• Involved in testing these features when the build is ready and filing bugs, tracking the same.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed four sub-teams within this project, Confidential QA Team, Universal Remote Testing, Mobile App testing for Confidential, Automation Testing for Confidential and tracked the status of each of these team on bugscrub(which includes bug filing, validity and closures), value adds, Exploratory testing, training for developing technical knowledge, track on daily activities by team members, conducted appraisals, setting objectives, recognizing them for good efforts and provide them on improvement areas.
• Being in Agile scrum, have conducted Daily stand-up meeting, task assignments to team members for testing builds for delivering the product on time, conducting reviews, hiring resources, scheduling and training new hires, initiatives for bringing value adds to customer.

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• To perform System Testing on FTTU 7342 GPON Product lines. Manual testing of L2/L3 on 7342 OLTs, ONTs using different builds.
• 7342 OLT consists of racks, shelf, to insert LT and NT cards in shelf-slots and ONTs(which reside on customer premises) can be connected through Optical cable from LT(CO).

Confidential

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Building testbed, testing features manually according to test plan and automating tests, running weekly builds and Release builds.
• Other tasks include Team Management, Interviews, Mentoring, Training new hires.
• Handling VoIP testbeds which tests H.323, MGCP, SIP features, test and automation of VoIP.
• VoIP testing of Cisco’s 2600 series, 36xx series and 2800, 3800(ISRs) building setup, testing and automation.
• Testing involved primary and Cisco Unified Call Manager scenarios, Digital and Analog Endpoints, DSP firmware, CME testing, VoIP: H.323, MGCP, SIP Testing, testing with different Codecs G711, G729, G726, testing with VoIP, VoIPoATM, VoFR, VoATM, VoIPoFR, Interoperability testing, Testing with different T1/E1 cards, preparing xml tags for voice call features, testing with different voice codecs, Automation in Tcl.

Confidential

Senior Wireless Technical Support Associate

Responsibilities:

• Technical Voice support for installing and configuring Dell truemobile 802.11a/b/g wireless card and router and setup a wireless network.
• Supporting the customers in troubleshooting and fixing problems with wireless card / router, software problems, other problems that arise due to file and printer sharing in Windows XP/2000/Me/98. Setting up Wireless network with PDA, Desktop PC and laptops.