Engineer Customer

Vani Khadabadi

Mobile: 425-***-****

Email: acglfn@r.postjobfree.com

Skype ID : vans22

Experience Summary

. 12 yrs of experience in Verification and Validation of Telecom

products for enterprise and service provider customers.

. Expertise in Unified Communication (UC) technologies including SIP

trunking, Session Border Controller (SBC), IP-PBX, PSTN gateway.

. Global Client experience as Onsite Coordinator at ERICSSON - Sweden,

NORTEL - RTP NC, TELSIMA - Slovenia

. Working as Lead Engineer for Vidyo client from December 2013

. Test Lead at Cisco Systems, from Feb 2007 to July 2012

. Sr. Software Engineer at Wipro Technologies, from Oct 2000 to Feb 2007

Technical Summary

. Experienced Test Lead who excels at managing, scoping, budgeting

projects along with execution

. Prioritize projects to align with Business goals and execute in a high-

pressure environment

. Proven track record of delivering products successfully on schedule

with quality

. Experienced in collaborating with cross BU teams and interfacing with

customers

. Adept at all phases of Software Life cycle - Requirement Analysis,

Customer needs Identification, Functional Specifications, Testing

(Plan, Execution) and Beta testing, Customer support

. Experience in interacting with customer facing TAC team, Product

marketing team, Product Development Teams

. Extensive knowledge of Telecommunication VOIP Protocols SIP, H323,

SDP, H.248, MGCP, Major Audio/Video Codecs

. Experience with Cisco Unified Communication Portfolio products like

CUBE (Cisco's Session Border Controller), CUCM (Cisco Unified

Communication Manager) and CME and CTS (Cisco Telepresence System -

Cisco's Video Endpoint)

. Experience with Vidyo's Personal Telepresence products like Vidyo

Desktop (VD), VidyoWeb, Vidyo extension for Microsoft Lync

. Extensive Knowledge on Video and Video related services like Video

Xcoding, Video Codes

. Extensive Hands on experience of working on various Cisco's IOS

platforms like ISR (Integrated Services Router), ISRG2 (ISR Second

generation) and ASR 1K (Aggregation Services Routers)

. Extensive hands on experience working with various Audio and Video

Phones (7965, 9951, 9971, RT Phones and Analog Phones)

. Extensive knowledge on Audio and Video Transcoding, Video codecs.

. Extensive hands on experience on Performance Testing using Abacus 5K,

Navtel

. Understanding of L2-L3 protocols like TCP/IP, OSPF, RIP, BGP

. Understanding of MPLS - LDP

. Knowledge of router/switch configuration like Cisco

. Experience in trouble analysis with technical expertise, Debugging and

troubleshooting of local and remote testing environments.

. Experience on Partner Management (Work assignment, Tracking)

. Good knowledge and hands-on experience of test tools

. Designed and developed web applications on Windows platform using C#,

.NET 3.0 for Subscriber Authentication and Autherization Solution for

Communication Service providers

. Experience in troubleshooting SQL issues

. Automation with scripting language Tcl/Tk

. Customer Demo setup for NEC Japan, Nortel

Technical Skill Set

Domain Knowledge Telecom - VOIP(UC), NGN

Protocols SIP, H.323, H248/MEGACO, RTP/RTCP, SIGTRAN, SDP,

TCP/IP, SS7 ISUP (ANSI, ITU ISUP), National variants

of ETSI ISUP, INAP, ISDN, QSIG

Scripting Tcl/Expect, Unix Shell scripts

Languages

Operating Systems Linux (Red Hat), Unix -HP, Windows XP, IOS

Testing Tools SIPp, Wireshark Packet Analyszer, Solinet,

Abacus(Spirent), Camelot (In-house), callgen

(Pagent), QA Robot(Agilent), K1197, Spirent Protocol

Analyzer, Kallice, Kwanda

End Point Cisco Telepresence(CTS 1K, 3K), Tandberg, Polycom,

applications X-lite, VidyoDesktop (VD)

Languages C, PROTEL (Nortel Proprietary Programming Language),

C#

Databases MS SQL Server 7.0/2000/2005, Tomcat

Configuration/Test CVS, PLS (Product Library System - Nortel

Management Proprietary), JIRA

Achievements

. CAP award for the outstanding performance in Project Lithium, Cisco -

2008

. CAP award for the outstanding performance in Project Boron, Cisco -

2009

. CAP award for the outstanding performance in Project Release 17,

Cisco - 2011

. CAP award for the outstanding performance for Uplifting Customer

Defects, Cisco - 2010

. Won First Prize in Wipro Tech Forum - MPLS LDP Stack

Academic Qualification

B.E (Electronics & Communication) from G.I.T College of Engineering,

Belgaum - Karnataka

Project Summary

Tata Elxsi Pvt. Ltd.

Role - Senior Specialist (2013 - Till today)

Client : Vidyo, Inc

Vidyo, Inc. pioneered Personal Telepresence enabling natural, HD multi-

point videoconferences on desktop computers and room systems. VidyoRouter

architecture eliminates an MCU while delivering error resilience and lowest

latency conferencing and broadcast solutions over the Internet. Vidyo's

solution utilizes H.264 Scalable SVC and SIP interoperability.

Roles & Responsibilities

. Defining Test strategy for Unified VidyoDesktop, Vidyo Extension for

MS Lync products

. Developed Test Plan for Unified VidyoDesktop, Vidyo Extension for MS

Lync

. Providing Test Solutions for various Vidyo products like VD, VidyoWeb,

PanoRoom, Vidyo Extension for Google gadgets, MS Lync

. Co-ordinating the test engineering activities with the Software

development and product management teams

Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

Role - Test Lead (2007 - 2012)

Product - CISCO Unified Border element (CUBE)

The Cisco unified Border element (CUBE) is critical component of Cisco's

Unified Communication Portfolio. It's Cisco's IOS Session Border Controller

(SBC) that interconnects independent voice over IP

(VoIP) and video over IP enterprise networks for data, voice and video

transport.

Projects

. Cisco Telepresence (CTS) Video Solution Interconnects with CUBE and

SIP Video Enhancements

. CUBE features to interwork Cisco Telepresence System (CTS) over

customer NTT's Next Generation Network (NGN)

. DSCP Policing and Marking for DoD (Dept of Defence)

. Bandwidth based CAC (Call Admission Control)

. Dual Video - H.234 and H.239

. CUBE on ASR(Aggregate Services Router) Platform - This project

provided the capabilities of IOS Symphony code on ASR platform in

order to scale the Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) from capacity

of 1000 calls to capacity of up to 15,000 active calls

Roles & Responsibilities

. Project Requirement, Analysis, Functional Specification, Scoping and

Estimatioon, Reporting, Risk Analysis and updates to the stakeholder

. Performing test scope and testability analysis, Creating Test Plan and

setup of the testing environment

. Testing the features and interoperability with CTS and 3rd party Video

Endpoints (i.e., Tandberg, Polycom)

. Define automation strategy, and identifying the automation tool

. Provided support to customer during deployment and Beta Testing

. New Product Introduction (NPI) Training to customer facing TAC Team

. Expertise on the following :

o Call Routing and Dial Plans

o Transcoding - Audio and Video codecs

o DTMF Interworking

o FAX

o Secure calls using SRTP

o Call Admission Control (CAC)

o Gain and Attenuation using DSPs

. Testing features like

o SIP Video with CTS Endpoints registered to Cisco Unified Call

manager (CUCM)

o Delayed-Offer to Early Offer Video

o Delayed-Offer to Early Offer Video

o H.323 Dual Video with Tandberg and Polycom Endpoints

o CTS -CTS call through NTT network - bandwidth handling, Record-

Route, and Service - Route support, and Registration support via

DHCP

o Pass through of unknown Headers, SDP and Content/MIME types

o Performance of ASR (Aggregation Services Router) Platforms (15k

calls)

o High-Availability (HA) and ISSU (In-Service Software Upgrade)

Wipro Technologies

Role - Sr. Software Engineer (2000 - 2007)

Projects

. Nortel CS2000K (Communication server) belongs to the succession

Network portfolio, designed to realize the Nortel Networks vision of

Unified Networks to convey voice, data and multi-media traffic with

equal ease.

. Wipro MPLS - LDP Stack Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) provides

a framework to switch layer 3 packets based on short path labels

rather than long network addresses. Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)

is a protocol in which routers are capable of exchanging label mapping

information.

. MSP Automation

Ericsson CPP (Cello Packet Platform) is a Telecommunications platform

used for several different products. MSP - Media Stream Processing is

a component of CPP.

. Nortel DMS -100(Digital Multiplex Switch) is a Nortel's version of TDM

(Time Division Multiplex) Switch

Roles & Responsibilities

. Actively participated in Requirement analysis, Functional

Specification, Scoping and Execution

. Maintenance and Sustenance of Communication Server ( CS2K ) - SIP,

ISUP, TGCP

. Implementation of features like COT and Recovery procedures for GWC

Robustness

. Acceptance Testing of MPLS-LDP Stack

. Automating Test Object Functionalities of MSP Component of Ericssion

CPP

. Created team building activities that included stand up meetings,

buddy programs, cross reviews increasing team involvement in project

executions

. Product Validation for PRI and CCS7 Protocols - CLI, MCID, ECT, CFU,

CCBS, CCNR, and 3PTY

. Feature Validation Group- QSIG protocol - QSIG Path Replacement, CCBS

Interworking with ISDN

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