Fixed Access Network R&D Test Design,Operations & Implementation
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Professional Summary
An ISP Network professional based in Toronto having 10 years of Telecom experience with specialization in Fixed Access Networks Testing across various stages of Product Development Life Cycle.
Acute knowledge of L2/L3 QoS Test Domain ownership for the R&D Fixed Access products such as 7302 ISAM /7330 ISAM FTTN (ANSI/ETSI) / 7367 ISAM SX-16F /7360 ISAM FX
Deft in crafting the clear test project plan with tasks, milestones and effort for the new requirement change requests and for the release regression in adherence to PDLC.
Expertise in analysis the requirement, effort estimation, design, develop and evaluate the test strategy, test plan, execution & document the test requirement and procedure for the RCRs and for the Product test verification & validation in a release.
Experience in collaborating with cross functional teams and in managing huge RCRs for multiple projects and exposure to work in Agile methodologies.
Proficient in network design activities of deploying new/existing technologies and services for L2/L3 Protocols in Fixed Networks.
Specialized in Regression, Functional, System, Stress, Usability, Acceptance and Performance testing of ISAM Fixed Access Products.
Proficient in end to end testing of protocols such as L2/L3 QoS, VLAN, VPLS, DHCP, PPP, IGMP, ARP, LAG
Exposure in IP Routing, STP, OSPF and MPLS
Proven expertise in D-Link Switch, Alcatel 6450 Omni Switch, Alcatel 7210 Service Access Switch, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, 7750 Service Router and 5520 Access Management System.
Proficient in traffic tools like AX4000 and Spirent Test Centre
Deft in ADSL, VDSL, SHDSL Modems and 7705 SAR (Service Aggregation Router)
Exposure in PEARL & TCL-TK scripting language and proficient in handling REDHAT Linux OS
Area of Expertise
Technical Management Event Management Incident Management
Problem Management Operations Management Technical Support
Continual Service Improvement Traffic Tools R & D Test Prime
Requirement Analysis Test Strategy Planning Test Case Designing
Test Planning Product Test Verification Product Test Validation
End to End Testing Fault Reporting Reporting Tools
Technical Skills
Application Layer Protocols : DHCP, DNS, Telnet, SSH, xFTP
Network Layer Protocols : IPv4, QoS, IGMP, ICMP, RIP, OSPF, MPLS
Data Link Layer Protocols : Ethernet, QoS, VLAN, VPLS, PPP, MAC, ARP, xSTP, LAG
Traffic Tools : STC, AX4000, PCTA, Ethereal, Wireshark
Configuration Tools : ClearCase, ASTRA
Bug Reporting Tools : DDTS, ClearQuest
Operating Systems : Linux, Solaris, Windows
Network Management : CLI, TL1, AMS, AWS
Education
Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology) from Anna University, India from 2001 to 2005.
Employment History
Worked as Technical Specialist at Nokia (Former: Alcatel-Lucent India Limited) from September 2009 to May 2016.
Worked as Software Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent India Limited from December 2005 to November 2008
Work Experience
Employer : Nokia
Role : QoS Copper Test Domain Owner
Responsibilities:
Lead QoS testing efforts in R&D lab for verifying & validating the Fixed Access Products.
Performed QoS architecture test verification and validation services prior to deployment and made recommendations on changing the architecture to prevent customer dissatisfaction which lead to successful deployment.
Participated in Development Architecture reviews and providing consultation to test engineers.
Assisted management team on QoS test engineering services in early stages of PDLC.
Worked on the development of QoS module for the R&D Fixed Access products.
Collaborating with the internal groups in Engineering, Product Development, Network Architect and Product Line Manager to design network solutions and enhancement. Provide reports and recommendations to management.
Drove and participated in network design activities of deploying new/existing QoS technologies.
Technical Lead test prime for QoS RCRs projects from gathering test requirements to closing out the project in all releases.
Supports system development to determine test development needs, assess problem areas, and develop testing process solutions.
Ensuring QoS Test Coverage for the domain across the various stages of Test Life Cycle.
Ensuring the domain quality for the solution (across the releases).
Participate in Feature Agile Workshops as appropriate to understand the feature scope requirements, the testability issues and ensure the solution for the same.
Prepare impact analysis of the new feature on the other regression features and communicate the impacts to the regression team.
Ensure clear documentation are done for the new requirements.
Interact with RLAB Owner to plan the coverage of domain on all hardware and ensure that its integrated in the setup as expected.
Provides network testing support for the test engineers to include test planning, test description documentation, test procedure development, test execution and reporting.
Reviews test requirements, plans, descriptions, and reports to ensure the quality.
Assisted in writing TCL/TK scripts for automating tests.
Assisted in Preparing the test plans for L2/L3 QoS using RFC's
Participate in the Demos/f-done ceremonies in order to ensure the quality of deliverables and make sure that acceptance criteria are met, and all necessary deliverables are available.
Assisted Reproducing network related customer issues.
Acted as expert engineer for complex issues
Participate in RCA meetings and conduct RCAs for the issues reported post DR4.
Enhance the test coverage based on the findings of the RCAs
Contribute to problem reproduction for Red CCIs or other customer issues on the need basis and make sure that the same scenario is tested in the on-going release.
Trained and developed training for the on-boarding procedure for newly-hired engineers.
RCRs Handled as QoS Responsible:
RCRs
Release
Clients
FR: s-vlan: p-bit not copied to c-vlan
ISR34
Internal
P-bit traffic counters
ISR40
TDC-DNK
8 CoS support for 2.5Gbps VDSL LT
ISR4102
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM-DEU
Increase CBS on Westport LT
ISR4204
TDC-DNK
DSCP mask filter for IPv6 on CATAN
ISR4601
TDC-DNK, TELIASONERA-SWE
7367-SX: ACL
ISR4601b
TELECOM ITALIA-ITA
7367-SX48V 4 upstream queues: 2 SP and 2 WRR (TI only - CDE flag)
ISR5001
TELECOM ITALIA-ITA
NELT-B : Downstream QoS session profile support on HC-UNI/NNI - Inc 1
ISR51
TELE2-NLD, ETISALAT-ARE
NELT-B VLAN/QoS resource pooling - Inc 1
ISR51
Orange - Corporate, TELE2-NLD, SWISSCOM-CHE, ETISALAT-ARE
P-bit tagging in downstream/upstream for S+C VLAN forwarding - CATAN + IXP
ISR51
TELEKOM AUSTRIA-AUT, BRITISH TELECOM-GBR, TELE2-AUT
Disable policing of RIP/ARP traffic on data plane in US.
ISR51
TELE2-NLD, DEUTSCHE TELEKOM-DEU, BELGACOM-BEL
7363 MX: p-bit tagging in us/ds for S+C vlan fwd (BT feature)
ISR5101
BRITISH TELECOM-GBR
7363 MX: IGMP traffic must be marked with p-bit 6 - CDE for BT
ISR5101
BRITISH TELECOM-GBR
7363 MX: p-bit traffic counters on single port
ISR5201
AT&T
NELT-B HC-UNI : control plane packet policer
ISR5201
Maintrac AB Sweden
policing feature line up on NDLT-J (vs NDLT-F)
ISR5202
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM-DEU
C VLAN pbit remarking for S+C Cross Connects
ISR5202
FASTWEB-ITA
Support Uplink port shaping (single rate) for Spumante based
ISR53
NBN Co
7367 SX (CATAN based): support Uplink port shaping (single rate)
ISR53
NBN Co, Copper-NAR
switch off ICMPv6 protocol rate limiter in transparency cross connect mode
ISR53
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM-DEU, Copper-NAR, TELIASONERA-SWE, BELGACOM-BEL
P-bit tagging of control plane traffic - minimal implementation
ISR53
TELECOM ITALIA-ITA, Copper-NAR
Actual Queue Load monitoring and TCA alarm
ISR54
BELGACOM-BEL
Increase VLAN pbit counter NDLT-J/K for parity with FD LT dimension
ISR55
TDC-DNK
Advanced QOS on xDSL trtcm + DEI awareness
ISR5501
TELECOM ITALIA-ITA, BRITISH TELECOM-GBR, NBN Co, VODAFONE-ITA
C VLAN pbit remarking S+C Forwarders
ISR55
FASTWEB-ITA
Improved User Defined Lanx Filter Mngt
ISR34
FRANCE TELECOM-GBR
[Core1]Port range in cpu-filter
ISR54
Cox Communications
Rate-limiting of Broadcast/DLF/Unknown Multicast on iHUB
ISR50
CHUNGHWA TELECOM-TWN, SINGTEL-SGP, Hong Kong Broadband Network Ltd
Support upstream pre-emption in ADSL2+ PTM mode on ANSI 7360 DSL LT
ISR5201
AT&T-USA, Copper-NAR
Role : ANSI PT/PV Release Regression Test Prime
Responsibilities :
Estimate & plan the release effort for PT/PV regression.
Drive test case strategy & designs with inputs to test engineers.
Be a critical reviewer of test cases and ensure quality of test designs.
Ensure the Test Case Review by the Key Stakeholders is done.
Make sure that Test Lists are uploaded to Astra and Test Specification is available for the regression, performance, stability & security tests.
Perform various L1/L2/L3 Regression tests on Vectoring, Multi-pair Bonding, Fall back in xDSL lines, Redundancy, QoS, L2 Forwarding, VLAN/VPLS, DHCP, PPP, IGMP, L2 CFM, LAG & LACP.
Make sure that the 100% new test cases are executed before rDR2
Be part of the rDR2 approval process
Identify the regression Test Cases for the new features and ensure it is included.
Mandatory reviewer for all the Test Lists/Test Cases designed by the other test Teams
Collaborate with Feature Teams to identify the regression Test Cases for the new features during the reviews and guide the feature teams for selecting the automation tests.
Clear understanding of Product Backlog and Acceptance Criteria.
Participate in the PBR discussions to get the view on the domain evolution on the need basis.
Participate in the Demos/rDR2 ceremonies in order to ensure the quality of deliverables and make sure that acceptance criteria is met and all necessary deliverables are available.
Participate in RCA meetings and conduct RCAs for the issues reported post DR4.
Enhance the test coverage based on the findings of the RCAs
Contribute to problem reproduction for Red CCIs or other customer issues on the need basis and make sure that the same scenario is tested in the on-going release.
Releases Handled as Product Test Regression Release Prime:
ISAM Release
Target Customer
ISAM Release
Target Customer
ISR5102
NAR Customers
ISR53
NAR Customers
ISR5101
NAR Customers
ISR5201
NAR Customers
ISR4601
NAR Customers
ISR5001
NAR Customers
FGN 4.4.01
AT&T/TELUS
FGN 4.2.10p
AT&T/TELUS/MTSA
FGN 4.3.10d P03
Bell Canada
FGN 4.2.10m/h/f/d/b
Bell Canada
FGN 44
AT&T/All
FGN 4.2.10k/j/g/e/c/a
AT&T/TELUS/NAR
FGN 4.3.10f
AT&T/All
FGN 4.1.02c
CodeTel
FGN 4.3.10e
AT&T/All
FGN 4.2.10
AT&T/Bell Canada/TELUS/MTSA
FGN 4.3.10d P02
Bell Canada
FGN 4.0.01e
Bell/Aliant/HT/BT
FGN 4.3.10d P01
AT&T
FGN 4.2
AT&T/Bell Canada/TELUS
FGN 4.3.10d
AT&T
FGN 4.1.02b
Bell Canada/TELUS
FGN 4.3.10c
Bell Canada/TELUS/AT&T
FGN 4.1.02
Bell Canada/TELUS
FGN 4.3.10b
Bell Canada/ AT&T
FGN 4.1.01
TELUS/SaskTel
FGN 4.3.10
AT&T/Bell Canada/ TELUS/Frontier
FGN 4.1
TELUS/Bell Canada
Role : Product Test RCR Prime
Responsibilities :
Analyze the new requirement, estimate the test effort, design, develop and evaluate the test strategy, test plan, execution & document the test requirement and procedure.
Collaborating with Feature Teams to clarify the testability issues.
Drive test case designs with inputs to test engineers.
Plan, execute and report on the test results to project management.
Creation of automation scripts to verify functionality.
Participate in the demos to see the test quality and understand the outstanding issues.
Maintained bug status reports and drove to resolution including verification of fixes
Be part of the feature-Done approval process.
Ensure regression testcases for new features are available for the future releases.
RCRs Handled as Product Test Prime:
RCRs
Release
Clients
Multi-Vlan Phase I & CCL for QoS
ISR31
KPN & CT
Multi-Vlan Phase II
ISR33
KPN & CT
Multi-Vlan on xDSL LTs
ISR35
KPN & CT
Connectivity Fault Management (IEEE802.1ag)
ISR35
Belgacom & KPN
Introduction of HiCap LTs with new IWF CATE
ISR37
Telstra
Allow MAC@ movement (ANSI XD)
FGN42
AT&T/Bell Canada / Telus
System Level Vectoring VDSL2 line card for ANSI XD platform
FGN4210
NAR Customers
8 Port ADSL2x Bonding & VDSL2 Bonding
FGN4210
NAR Customers
Support the ability of an EVLT-N planned as an EVLT-F
FGN43
NAR Customers
System Level Vectoring Processing Module for ANSI XD platform
FGN43
NAR Customers
NDSL-F on 7360 testing in R4.6.01
ISR4601
NAR Customers
7360 FX SLV VDSL2 Line Card (NDLS-E) for ANSI Market
ISR4601
NAR Customers
Porting ALU VCE SW to 7367-SX (ETSI & ANSI)
ISR5001
NAR Customers
7367 SX-12VP bonding
ISR5101
NAR Customers
Bonding fall-back configuration for vectoring
ISR5101
NAR Customers
SLV interop between ISR-based platform and FGN-based platform (SLV LT in ISR part)
ISR5101
NAR Customers
Support upstream pre-emption in ADSL2+ PTM mode on ANSI 7360 DSL LT
ISR5201
NAR Customers
Implement Vectoring and Bonding on 7367 ISAM SX-12VP
ISR5201
NAR Customers
ANSI port: Bonding fall-back configuration for vectoring
FGN44
NAR Customers
Testing 8 port bonding in combination with vectoring
FGN44
NAR Customers
7367 SX (CANTAN based): support Uplink port shaping (single rate)
ISR53
NAR Customers
Role : Product Regression Test Engineer
Responsibilities :
Executed test cases and presented the test results to project management team.
Maintained bug status reports and drove to resolution including verification of fixes
Used DDTS bug tracking system to report and track bugs
Project : Testing Vlan, PPPoE, IPoA, IPoE & QoS ISR30 Client : China Telecom
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