Apoorv Khare

**** ********* **** ***-***, Fremont, 94536 267-***-**** ac8nps@r.postjobfree.com

Lead QA Engineer, MS Telecom (Work exp. 8+ years)

SUMMARY

●QA Lead/Sr Engineer in Mobile & Wireless industry - highly adept in developing and implementing QA methodologies, test strategies

●Test strategy, Test Envt, Test case development, review - planning and execution for both manual and

●automation.

●Hands on – Functional, Regression, Automation, Conformance Test, System testing, Load testing, IOT

●Skilled professional with in depth working knowledge of Wi-Fi Direct, SIP/IMS based services and various other telecommunication technologies

●Experience working with major OEMs (Samsung, HTC, LG etc) and carriers (TMobile, Sprint, Vodafone etc).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Open Garden, Oakland CA Dec’17 – Present

Lead QA Engineer

●First QA hire of the team – built scalable test infrastructure (Appium) from ground.

●Define, execute and continuous improvement of QA processes

●Created test repo system using TestRail and integrated using REST APIs into our test infrastructure.

●Developed automated testcases/scripts for Android, iOS and React Native apps.

●Automated Battery test and performance of Android apps.

●Involved in Bug Triage/Prioritization along with VP of Product and Engineering.

●Part of Sprint planning and execution team.

●Defined KPI metrics that helped find exit criteria of native Android and iOS app.

●Developed Android CI/CD (Travis, Jenkins) build system.

●Familiarity with Wi-Fi Direct technology and Blockchain (Stellar).

●Manages team of crowd source (Applause) testers spread across the globe.

●Hired Sr QA Engineer(iOS) and supervised a few interns for a couple months.

Sonus Networks (formerly TAQUA LLC, formerly Kineto Wireless), Fremont CA Feb’11 – Dec’17

Senior QA Engineer(Mobile)

OTT (Over the Top) Android app - Provide SIP based voice and SMS/MMS services over Wi-Fi.

●Write, execute and review IOT test plans.

●Proactive in understanding Product requirements, feedbacks and setup early test networks for unit testing.

●Knowledge (Intermediate) of SIP - Registration, call flows, Audio codecs, SMS over IP, MMI, USSD.

●Troubleshooting and analysis of SIP/RTP based issues.

●Configured and successfully built small scale SIP(Kamailio), IMS(OpenIMS), HLR/HSS, Security and Media Gateway for SIP simulation.

●Deployment and Provisioning of Taqua proprietary client Activation Server (AcS) - effort was from ground up Hardware selection - Dell 1950 Server, VMWare vSphere OS installation, configuring VMs and deploying AcS in hot standby to handle 10 million users.

●Manage Jenkin based automated continuous integration builds.

●Point of contact for Field Engineers during IOT phase.

Mobile client Automation (QA Lead)

●1.5 years of experience working on automation(testing) framework.

●Android app development to make same script work across OEMs.

●Experience setting up onsite Cloud server to access remote devices.

●Monitor, Reporting, developing and improving automated test coverage.

Sprint Wi-Fi Calling (embedded Android app) - every Android smartphone (Samsung, HTC, LG, etc.) has this embedded app

●Integral part of QA test plans and test cycles – IOT, Functional, Regression, System Validation and Integration Testing – SIM API, Radio API validation, Audio quality (NDK and SDK)

●Troubleshoot IKE AUTH / IPSec / Modem RIL / SIP / IMS / VoIP call flow problems – MO/MT, 911 Emergency calls with & without cellular coverage, SMS & MMS etc

●Customer interaction with OEMs (like Samsung, LG, HTC, Sharp, Kyocera), Carriers(Sprint) and Vendors (Ericsson, Alcatel, Mavenir)

●Good understanding of QA processes and methodologies – Agile and Scrum

Kineto Wireless Feb’11 – July’14

QA Engineer/Technical support

TMobile Wi-Fi Calling (Past)

●Driving, syncing and working with Off Shore team in India.

●Worked on GAN/UMA client products

●Android Build engineer - Compiled various Google AOSPs(Gingerbread to Kitkat) for ARM-x86.

Rio Networks, Portland OR May’10 – Jan’11

Network Engineer

●Configuring of Service series Alcatel-Lucent routers and switches for adding MPLS and eBGP functionalities.

●Data provisioning/de-provisioning ATM, T1s, also enabling Broadband services ADSL2+, SHDSL, VHDSL.

●Updating IP allocation table, maintaining internal Wikipedia for customer support team in lieu of troubleshooting and configuring broadband services.

●Maintaining and configuring Cacti trees, Nagios (back end and web interface).

●Setting Layer 2 point to point VPN - Epipe, Cpipe, IES, and VPLS for Ethernet services over MPLS network.

●Supervision of last mile technology (DSLAM) - planning, configuring and provisioning Broadband services through Multi Access and Aggregation Service (Adtran TA 5000).

●Developed tools for automatically collecting SNMP information from Cisco routers.

●Configuring VLANs, VTP Domains, LAN Switching and STP.

●Implementation of TCP/IP and related Services - DHCP/DNS.

TATA Consultancy Services, Mumbai India Jan’08 – Jun’08

Assistant System Engineer

INDEPENDENT PROJECTS

●Modify codec during SIP Call (using PortSIP SDK) – Visual C# Mar’15

●Built Chat client system in JQuery, PHP and MySQLi – Web programming Jan’15 – Mar’15

●Created SFTP client server program – socket programming in C. Oct’14 – Dec’14

EDUCATION

New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ

Master of Science in Telecommunications Jan 2010

Courses: Computer Networks, Mobile Wireless Communication, Broadband Networks, IP Telephony

Master’s Thesis –"Enabling Smart Grid Communications via MPLS” (http://www.slideshare.net/apoorvkhare/thesis-body-3038364) GPA: 3.63

National Institute of Technology Raipur, India Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Telecommunications May 2007 GPA: 3.60 (Honors)

SOFTWARE SKILLS

Languages(familiarity): testNG, Java, MySQL, JQuery, JSON, PHP, Python(in learning)

Bug reporting tool: JIRA, Team track, Clubhouse

Simulator: Open IMS, Kamailio SIP server, Taqua T7100 Media controller, Agilent 8960

Technology/Protocol: VoIP, SIP, E.164, TLS, IMS(xCSCF), HSS, LTE, RCS, Gb, Iu, Gm, UMTS, LTE, VOLTE, TCP/IP, 802.1x

Blockchain(familiarity): Stellar

ACHIEVEMENTS

●Employee of the month, Kineto Wireless, Inc. Dec 2011

●Best Employee Award, 3rd Quarter Rio Networks (2010) Sep 2010

CERTIFICATION

●Cisco Certified Network Associates (Certification expired in Jan 2011) Jan 2008

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

●“Study of TCP - REFWA” - analyzing TCP for long distance satellite communication. Dec 2009

●“Comparative study of various bulk-transfer TCP protocols” - TCP Reno, BIC, CUBIC, Compound, High Speed protocols, were compared through ns2 simulator. Apr 2009

●“Modulation techniques of LTE (Long Term Evolution)” - Review of downlink - OFDMA, uplink - SC-FDMA schemes in LTE. Dec 2008

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