Asghar (“Sondro”) Khalafi

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603-***-****

Bedford, NH 03110

acytyb@r.postjobfree.com

SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE

Knowledgeable, creative and result-oriented SQA engineer with more than 15 years of experience in high technology system test, and system quality improvement. Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills in complex test beds and test case design. Ability to work as part of a team and handle multiple tasks as well as interact with various departments upstream and downstream in the organization.

Skills

Experience working in start-up environment.

Analyzing requirements and developing test scenarios for the customer requirements

Research & develop test tools

Testing, Debugging and product/process improvement

Highly experienced in working with Offshore Team

Team Collaboration, Coaching & Mentoring

Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

Technical Skills

Languages: Familiar with Python, TCL, SQL Querying

Operating System: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, XP, 7, 10, Android OS, IOS

Protocols: IP, TCP/IP, BGP4, OSPF, RIP, MPLS, MPLS BGP VPNs, Bridging,

Wireless technologies: Wifi, P25, 3G (CDMA 2000))

Network Environments: T1, E1, LAN/WAN, LTE, Wifi, public saftety band 14, 3G / 4G, P25

Test Tools: Spirent Smartbits, Agilent test equipment (PXT Wireless test equipment, router tester), various protocol analyzers such as Sniffer, Wireshark, Ethereal, TCPdump

Bug Tracking Tools: Rational ClearQuest, HP ALM – Quality Center

Professional Overview

Harris corporation, Chelmsford, MA 2008-2016

Senior Software Quality Assurance / Mobile QA Engineer

Analyzed requirements and developed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases for next-generation multiband LTE, encrypted advanced IP voice, data and video Push to Talk App on IOS, Android and Windows OS platform and executed the test plan for all the platforms on all the releases.

Installed and trouble shoot PTT software running on Unix and Linux platform.

Created and executed test plan for MBC200, LTE Mobile Router capable of communicating over Public safety Band 14, Commercial LTE networks, Wifi, Ethernet and 3G network.

Developed and executed regression and sanity tests for mobile application on iOS, Android, and Windows Client that interoperability with Land Mobile Radio (LMR) included P25, OpenSky radios, MaestroIP and Symphony dispatch Consoles.

Worked with offshore team on testing new features developed for LMR radios on P25 network.

Investigated issues and escalated the same to developers with probable root cause.

Reported and tracked bugs, replicated reported customer bugs, verified bug fixes and new functionalities, regression tests on a new releases.

Perform tests on various features of Agile development process.

Run regression and sanity tests for every release of software life cycle including Mobile application for iOS, Android, Windows Client and LMR radios over WIFI or LTE.

Accountable for development and execution of tests, identifying defects in software based embedded push-to-talk system operating on commercial 3G, Land Mobile Radios(LMR) and multi-bands LTE networks

Developed test summary reports for upper management.

AIRVANA INC., Chelmsford, MA 2004-2008

Senior Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer

Analyzed requirements for various features stored in DOORs developed test plans, test scenarios, and test cases and provided testing for radio access network product. Features included Inter RNC Dormant HandOff (A13), QoS, Inter RNC Mobility Support (A16 active Inter RNC HandOff).CellDM (Cellular Diagnostics and Monitoring), DCITO (Dynamic Connection Inactivity Timeout),

Created UTO (Universal Test Objective) for all the features.

Provided customer support to verify problems discovered in the field and tested the software patches developed to fix the bugs.

JUNIPER Networks / UNISPHERE / REDSTONE, Westford, MA 1999-2004

Senior QA Engineer

Developed test plans and provided testing for MPLS BGP VPNs (RFC-2547). Features included Carriers Carrier Hierarchical VPNs, OSPF between PE to CE, OSPF Sham Link, OSPF remote neighbor, Rip remote neighbor, BGP, OSPF, RIPI and RIPII, Rip Dynamic Interfaces, and Shared IP interface.

Using TCL designed and developed automation script for stress, capacity, and performance testing

Designed and developed interoperability testing with various Cisco routers.

Performed scaling, negative, and performance/capacity testing.

Created configuration test scripts using an embedded C API.

Previous Experience

1997-1998 3COM CORPORATION, Boxboro, MA

Senior QA Engineer

1995-1997 CABLETRON SYSTEMS, Rochester, NH

Software / Systems Engineer

Education

Electrical Engineering, University of Southern Maine

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