SANTHAKUMAR PRABAKARAN
Doha, Qatar,+974******** / +919*********, *.***********@****.***
SUMMARY
CSM & ISTQB Certified - Professional Software Test Lead with 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance and a graduate from LIBA on specialized course in Software Testing and Financial services SKILLS
WORK HISTORY
Vodafone Qatar – Network Core Modernization (P1, P2, P3, P4), 10/2017 – Current Test Lead – Qatar
Vodafone Qatar to modernize their networks with new technologies started upgrading the Network Elements with the latest infrastructure to improve the QOS. PHASE 1 - Upgradation of the Network Elements which includes HLR, AUC, HSS, MNPDB, EIR and AAA
• Nokia implemented its Nokia's One-NDS (Network Directory Server) replacing the legacy SDM, thereby consolidating the subscriber data into a single unified platform PHASE 2 - Upgrading MSC & PCRF Implementation
• Alcaltel’s Wireless call server is replaced by NOKIA MSS – impacting the complete call scenarios
• Nokia’s SPS is installed to implement various speed limits for various products
• Co. Ordinating with different roaming partners and testing all roaming scenarios and CDR’s
• Part of Live production team on migration all LAC from Legacy WCS to Nokia MSS
• SDLC & Quality Assurance
• Telecommunication - BSS Testing
• Financial Services - BFSI
Functional
• Software Testing Methodologies
& Phases
• Waterfall, Agile
• Requirement Gathering, Test
scenarios & Test script
Preparation
• Test Management, User Stories,
Traceability matrix, Defect
Management, Report generation
• CIT,SIT,UAT,PAT
• Huawei Convergent Billing Solution CBS 5.5
(CBP OCG, BMPAPP, UPC,GMDB, AR&DC,
GL, AAA,UVC)
• Ericsson BSCS
• CRM Applications – Oracle Siebel, Microsoft
Dynamics
• Test Management Tools: IRTT,Quality Centre
10,HP-ALM Enterprise tester
• Defect tracking tools - IRTT,Quality Centre
10,HP -ALM,JIRA
• Basics of Performance testing,Unix,SQL
• WinScp,Putty,Toad,PLSQL,WireShark,Soap UI
• Banking Applications : EBS 208 - Eclipse,
Systematic -3270 Mainframe
PHASE 3 & 4 – Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) & Voice Over Broadband (VoBB) Implementation
• As an Associate Test Lead - Starting from understanding the scope of the changes and prepared the test strategy and test plan, test design
• Being a part of the Core Network Team for planning and setting up of Core Network elements including - NDS, WCS, STP, MSS, GMSC, SGSN, GGSN
• Proactively identifying the areas to be tested and the appropriate methodologies
• Validating the environment readiness and preparing the test data for various phases of testing
• Coordinating with application owners for the integrations and performing the CIT to ensure the integrations
• Working closely with NOKIA team for verification and Validation of the deliverables including the migration strategy and traffic methodology – SIT
• Testing the E2E applications including SIEBEL CRM, ORACLE including (OSM, ASAP, AIA, BRM, UIM), COMVIVA-USSD, ONMOBILE-PRBT, OCS(Alcatel-Surepay), Mobile portability – SYSTOR, IBM-UNICA from business perspective in UAT
• Part of the Operations team in deployments for OAT – Operations Acceptance Testing & PVT-Production Verification Testing & PPVT - Postproduction Verification Testing
• Real time call scenarios Testing & Roaming scenarios testing using SIGOS tool
• Products covered in scope of testing – Mobile, Fixed line, Enterprise Products – (SIPT, Ethernet, Leased line, MPLS, IPLC), DAPN, Pearl
DU - UCBS Implementation P1D2, 04/2017 to 09/2017
Associate Test Lead - Dubai
• du Telecom, the second largest and one of the largest telecom player in the Middle East has embarked on a large-scale transformation program ‘TAMKEEN’.
• Migrating the existing functionality of Oracle IN to Huawei CBS
• Moving the Mobile Rating functionality for Postpaid Voice, SMS and VAS services from BSCS to Huawei CBS
• Supporting the project by performing CIT, E2E
• To be a part of TQC Support, Go-Live Support
• Exposed to applications – TIBCO, HPSA, OM, Siebel CRM
• Developed and ensured adherence to testing standards and best practices
• Part of creating comprehensive test plans, test scripts, support testing objectives Huawei — TelOne - OCS 5.5, 10/2016 to 02/2017
Senior Test Engineer — Zimbabwe
• TelOne is Zimbabwe's sole fixed telecommunication services provider that is 100% owned by the government of Zimbabwe providing Voice, Internet and Data services. The purpose of the project is to delivery HUAWEI CBS system to replace the current BSS&OSS system. HUAWEI delivered HUAWEI OCS 5.5, UVC, AAA and replaced FIN, UVC, AAA
• Project Management Activities-Efforts Planning, Daily, Weekly & Monthly Reporting to Client
• Managing the team or executing the function test cases during the IOT, E2E, UAT and multiple phases of Dry Runs
• Part of the Migration team to prepare the migration methodology
• Post Live defects management and part of maintenance for specific period
• Assist the Customer to execute UAT test cases and training the users on system
• Record defects and complete regression testing
• Debugging the logs to identify the root cause of defect and assisting R&D to find resolution of functional defects
• Prepare test plan, test cases, test data and tools Ericsson — ZAIN Kuwait BSS Transformation, 05/2016 to 10/2016 Senior Test Engineer— Chennai
• To achieve the convergence of prepaid and post-paid on one platform by migrating the functions of rating, billing, account receivables, invoicing and debt collections from legacy TABS to Ericsson's CBIO platform and Siebel CRM
• Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives for SIT
& UAT test cases in Phase 2.1 for both Prepaid and Postpaid
• Designing and executing test scripts for Reports validation
• Recorded defects and coordinated issue resolution with development team and functional leads
• Reviewed test plans and scripts and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements
Huawei Convergent Billing Solution CBS 5.5, 03/2016 to 04/2016 Huawei CBS 5.5 DSV Training — Huawei Technologies, Whitefield, Bangalore Huawei conducted a training on CBS 5.5 to deliver a high-quality testing to its clients. Scope of the training includes-
• UAT Testing
• Performance testing
• Security testing
• Automation
• Reliability testing
Gained knowledge on all the functionalities of CBS 5.5 Won the Best Performer Trainee Award for Batch 2 DSV Training Ericsson AB - Falcon SIT, 02/2016 to 03/2016
Senior Test Engineer — Chennai
• Business CRM Implementation, for both SMB and Enterprise segments which is planned to be delivered over three phases, with the first phase focusing on a customer's journey from Customer Acquisition through to Order Management. In Round 2 certain products are automated which are sent to order provisioning automatically.
• Execution of SIT test cases for Release 2 & Execution Status report CITI Bank - G2C V3.0 — UAT Core Banking Implementation, 02/2015 to 02/2016 Test SME - APAC and North Asian Region — Chennai
• Modules Managed – IMPACS, ODDS, IV
CITI Bank - G2C V2.0 — UAT Core Banking Implementation, 10/2014 to 01/2015 Test SME - APAC and North Asian Region — Chennai
CITI Bank - G2C V1.0 & V1.5 — UAT Core Banking Implementation,08/2013 to 09/2014 Offshore Test Consultant (Functional) - for APAC – Chennai EDUCATION
Executive Post Graduate Programme - Financial Services and Software Testing, 2014 Loyola Institute of Business Administration, Tamil Nadu - Chennai Trained in the concepts of Testing, SDLC, Telecommunication, Banking and Insurance Domain through two- year full-time course at Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA) Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication, 2012 Anna University - Velalar College of Engineering and Technology - Erode Classification - First-class
CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Scrum Master – I, Scrum.Org.
ISTQB Foundation level
PMP (Training Completed)
CURRENT EMPLOYER
Maveric Systems Limited
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