AMIN ALI M

Solutions Architect, Nokia Solutions & Networks, Chennai

IMS/SDM/LTE/UDM Telco Core Test SME, CI/CD, DevOps, Tech Project Management 10+ years Chennai, India adb0cb@r.postjobfree.com +91-808**-***** Solutions Architect

• Provide blueprints & technical leadership to design, develop & execute automated tests on 3G, 4G and 5G Core Telecom Network Functions in Nokia R&D.

• Head the deployment and integration of SDM and IMS nodes in Opensource, VMWare cloud and physical hardware blades (HP, ATCA etc)

• Subject Matter Expert for functional & performance tests. Owner of Nokia Diameter Protocol Interface Specification documents.

• Interpret business requirements for customers like Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, Telus

& Softbank to articulate the needs, evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes to ensure the highest quality across.

• Lead the CI/CD operations and DevOps teams for an open-source Akraino Edge Stack, co-created with AT&T demonstrating delivery to LF community (Linux Foundation)

• Incorporated cloud solutions like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Containers, Pods etc, GIT/Gerrit and AWS solutions in CI/CD actively to improve quality, compliance & reduce risk, costs by automation of builds & robot tests. Technical Project Management

• Understanding new project requirements, estimating costs, MWD, define short and long product vision, product backlog management, release planning etc.

• Collaboration with onshore, offshore, infrastructure and customer teams in Agile/SaFe Lean Agile by creating user stories, prioritizing user stories in JIRA, holding daily SCRUM, groom backlog, work with development and test teams.

• Preside a team of 15 in scrum meetings, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review and Retrospective using Kanban boards.

• Identifying test case scenarios, strategizing test procedures, writing, executing and debugging, creating test reports, identifying risks, providing mitigation plans, meeting exit criterions, ensuring deliverables/KPIs and demo product progress.

• Effective communicator with leaders and other stake holders; briefed team on projects and program statuses and results; planned and dispensed detailed administrative and verbal reports on project/feature readiness.

• Identifying & recruiting talent with skills pertaining to telecom domain, cloud solutions

& automation scripting. Trained and mentored over 50 engineers resulting in achieving readiness of team member within few weeks

Telco Product Owner

• Lead cross-functional CI and SCM solution teams formulating Proof of Concepts and development of build/release/test evaluation matrix and working across product teams to drive technical strategy and direction to meet market requirements and KPIs.

• Achieved 100% success of functional tests and demonstrated 98% success in CI regression tests in multiple releases as a Test Lead.

• Reduced 15 hours of execution time for every nightly build of ~10k test cases by collaborating with solution architects, development and SCM teams.

• Reduced 50% of execution time & repetition by automating end-to-end applications like Netact, Performance test framework & CI robot framework.

• Developed policies, standards, guidelines, governance and guidance to provide ongoing success and performance metrics of functional application tests.

• Experience in design and development of daily/APS software builds and installation scripts including source code control, code review gating mechanism and review board in GIT. SKILLS/TOOLS

• Python, shell, Ansible, TCL, Expect, Perl, SQL and VB.

• Jenkins, Git/Gerrit, Nexus, Sonarqube, Mariadb, LDAP, Fossology etc.

• IPSL, ROBOT, Rammbock, HP Onboard Administrator, CBIS, CBAM, CAM, Hypervisor, Clearcase, JIRA, HP MQC, Valgrind, TCov, Perdacol, Codenomicon, Hotuser, Eclipse. ACADEMICS

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science (2005 – 2009) From Madras Institute Of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India AWARDS and ACCOLADES

• Nominated as Aspiring Leader and underwent a 6-month program with the Leadership Academy at Nokia, Bangalore, India with a select 30 first time leaders in 2018.

• Four-time STAR AWARD winner for automation of daily builds, application installation, end- to-end testing, analyzing and troubleshooting CI issues, and quantifying Performance KPIs.

• Won the DIRFT – Do It Right First Time Award for successfully bringing up and testing the application HSS with VMWare solutions.

EXTRA CURRICULARS

• Member of the Emergency Response Team at NOKIA, Bangalore, India.

• Part-time Tutor at the http://www.friendsofchildrentrust.org.

• Social worker & volunteer at the http://altlawforum.org/ at Bangalore.

• Volunteer with the enthusiastic cleaning group http://www.theuglyindian.com.

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