Siddhesh J Rane

Senior Solution Engineer- *G/*G/Virtual Packet Core/NFV •Ontario, Canada •

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Telecom Specialist with over 14 years of experience in Telecom Network Planning, Solution Designing, Integration, Support, validation & Testing. Interaction with end customer to understand the project requirements and existing network architecture to implement end to end solutions. Understand the local culture and customs of our customers to strengthen the trust in a relationship. Deliver the project based-on the customer’s business requirements. Experience in delivering the projects in many countries and sometimes work under the pressure to accomplish the timelines.

SKILLS

AAT (Automated Acceptance Tests)

Automation of 5GC acceptance tests

QA Testing/Analysis Tools

PDC tool (Performance Data Collection), Ericsson Toolbox for EPG/MME, Wireshark Analyzer, cdr_decoder & deasn9 for EPG/MME, outline_R2A170 CDR decoder for EPG, Basic DevOps and automation tools.

EBM Data Parsing, Parse UE Tracer Data

3GPP Standards:

TS 23.501: System Architecture for the 5G System

TS 23.502 Procedures for the 5G System

TS 23.402 Architecture enhancements for non-3GPP accesses (Release 9)

TS 23.401 Enhancements for Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) access

Bug Tracking Tools

Jira, METIS, Clear Quest

Telecom NFV

RedHat OpenStack, VMware EXSi, Dockers and Kubernetes, SRIOV and OVS/ VIRTIO on CEE.

Operating System:

Installation of Ubuntu, SUSE Linux 11 Enterprise, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Windows 7- 10

Protocols

GTPv1/v2, Diameter, Radius, HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, BGP, IPSec VPN, RTP, SIP, SCTP, IP, SS7, SIGTRAN, OSPFv2, VRRP

Industrial Experience:

Service professional – Ericsson Canada Inc.

August -2021 to present (1.4 Years)

1.Contribution in Ericsson’s Business Development efforts

Multi-Vendor/Partner IOT(Inter-operability Testing) testing for AT&T

a.Led a team of 8 to 10 technical experts from Ericsson, AT&T, and other vendors.

b.Tested 5GC critical scenarios in AT&T LAB such 5G Mobility Management, 4G-5G Interworking – Handovers, IMS Voice Fallback to EPS(HO, Redirect), SMSoNAS.

c.Identification and escalation of technical challenges such software limitations/faults of all vendors including Ericsson to achieve the end results.

Worked with pre-sales team to demonstrate product features to North American customers and AT&T

AAT 5GC Load Test Demo from R&D - AT&T and Ericsson

a. Written by Mr. Brian Liu, MANA DS PC & CS Pre-Sales & Solutions “I would like to thank Siddhesh for his effective AAT 5GC demo to the AT&T team today. Very encouraging comments both from the AT&T team and the Ericsson AAT R&D. Special thanks for his hard work in updating the demo cases to demonstrate how the AAT tool can help with the E2E troubleshooting has been very helpful.”

Participation in seminar for North America Digital Services:

a.Participated in AME(all employee meet) and spoke for 5-6 minutes on below topic more than 400 employees joined.

b.Area for speech

-Automation and its benefits over conventional ways of testing.

-Contributions and Achievements in AT&T project (from ~X days per run to ~few hours)

Awards and Recognition

a.Partner Award -

“Recognized for extensive effort, hard work, and dedication. Thank you for being a great partner towards the success of North America Packet Core projects”

b.Thank you from MANA management

“Team I want to personally recognize you for your excellent contribution towards North America projects. Your work is appreciated by your peers, project managers, and line management. I realize that many of you have to work in odd hours, and especially in these COVD times under a not so helpful working environment. But you have stepped up to the project needs and have made a meaningful impact.”

“Siddhesh is very instrumental in AT&T 5GC Program and doing a very good job in AT&T 5GC testing role using AAT for TCs validation. He is a thorough professional and his knowledge on 5GC is helping the team to reach the milestones”

Actively involved in innovation.

Day-to-day work

1.Automation of new tests and testing of the new and existing old features on every PCC, CCRC(NRF) SW releases to ensure a proper behavior of NFs before delivering the SW releases to the AT&T LAB.

Executing more than 100 5GC E2E tests along with 300 AMF test cases.

Identify bugs in the SW delivery and report the issue to R&D for bug fixing.

Automation of existing manual tests. -

2.AAT latest SW deployments in SIO LAB to enhance the speed of automation and increase the test coverage. It is a continuous activity.

3.Documentation of AAT configuration and WoW to open the single AAT Core platform for multiple users in the project and immediate recovery of AAT services.

Training and Knowledge sharing-

1.Interviewing new candidates and train them on AAT, 5GC NFs and involve them in day-to-day activities.

2.AAT Knowledge sharing Session with project team.

Coordination

Daily interaction with project team members, R&D Team and AAT Acceleration Team(Inda) for automation and testing.

Product Improvements

Successfully identified and escalated SW bugs to R&D to correct it in the next PCC/AMF/SMF or AAT SW releases.

Senior Solution Integrator - Ericsson Global Services Pvt. Ltd

April-2013 to present (8.4 years)

Solution Designing, Consulting, Integration & Support, Testing on 5G Network, WiFi Core, EPC-LTE, UMTS in Containerized, NFV/Cloud & Native Environments.

Node Expertise: PCC-AMF, SMF PCG- UPF, EPG, MME, WMG (virtual & Native) Projects Delivered.

1.Hands-on experience on the deployment, integration and testing of 5G network elements such as PCC (Packet Core Controller) - AMF (Access and Mobility Management Function), SMF (Session Management Function). PCG/UPF (User Plane Function).

2.Deployment/upgrades of AAT (Automated Acceptance Tests). Automation of 5GC tests to reduce the time required for the manual testing of 5GC nodes.

3.Good knowledge of 5G Core concepts, Architecture, Protocols.

4.Hands-on experience on deployment of Ericsson’s containerized environment (ECCD). ECCD is based on Kubernetes and Containers.

5.5G Lab hands-on to basic use-cases for 5GC by using Dallas such as AMF, SMF registration in NRF, UE registration, UE R&D context creation, UE R&D session deactivation, UE Service request.

6.Coordination with CSR handler, R&D team to resolve product specific issues.

7.Planning & Designing (HLD, DLD, NIR) of customers’ network with the availability of existing network architecture and requirements.

8.Tracing of 3GPP interfaces and analysing protocols in different test scenarios to troubleshoot the network issues in 5GC, LTE, UMTS, GSM architecture. (Diameter based interfaces S6a, SWm, SWx, Gx, Gy, GTPv1 / GTPv2 based Gn, Gp, S2b, S11, S5S8 S1u SWu, S1-MME, Iu-PS ).

9.Worked in MANA for AT&T, ASTCA, Comcast, Nextech, Bluegrass, Eastlink, CWW, LGS, GCI.

Details of the Project work:

Client: AT&T

Duration: May 2020 to till date.

Role: Resident Engineer

1.Deployment of 5GC LAB – PCC 1.8 - AMF, SMF, UPF, vDallas, AAT

2.Deployment of AAT, Automation of manual tests, Execution and verification automated tests with AT&T

3.Test Case creation in JIRA tool.

Comcast 5G EPC (vEPC in Enterprise Core)

Client: Comcast Duration: August 2019 to till date.

1. 5G EPC testing.

2. Operation & Maintenance of 3 vEPGs and 2 vMMEs.

3. vMME up-gradation: vMME 1.20 to 1.32

4. vEPG up-gradation: vEPG 1.2 to 1.10

- Achievements:

1. Restored the DSDS Core after license issue on MME, EPG, HSS and CUDB.

2. MME upgrade in emergency after Power shutdown activity and restored the core.

Ghana Geo Redundancy Project

Integration; EPG-M (Juniper) Client: Airtel Ghana

Duration: Feb 2015 - Aug 2015 Location: Accra, Ghana

1.HLD and DLD preparation, Integration of EPG-SSR, SGSN MkVIII, GSS & TS.

2.Coordination with customer to execute the installation & plan the network activities and test cases.

3.C- PIC & U-PIC Hardware expansion of live EPG-M (on live network)

GCI EPG-SSR upgrade 1.x to 2.x

Client: GCI, USA Duration: Dec 2019 to till date.

1.MoP preparation and execution of upgrade EPG-SSR from 1.8 to 2.8

Bluegrass vWMG 2.2 SA/SI

Client: Bluegrass, USA Duration: Jan 2020 to till date.

1.Preparation of Low Level Design to deploy 2 vWMG 2.2 on BSP platform.

Turkey SGSN Integration, Acceptance

Client: Avea Telcom Duration: Sep 2014 - Oct 2014 Location: Istanbul, Turkey

NODE: SGSN MKVI

1.Responsible for the Installation of SGSN & GSS.

2.Execution of the acceptance test cases & verification of the test results with the end customer (AVEA).

3.Tracing of all the Interfaces by using ITC traces, decoding & verification of the S-CDR by using deasn9.

Etisalat Egypt Combined virtual EPG 2.8 deployment using Openstack (CEE 6.5 Mitaka)

Location: Cairo, Egypt Client: Etisalat Duration: April 2019 to July 2019

1.HOT package preparation for virtual EPG

2.Flavor, Image, neutron networks, stack creation in openstack using ATLAS.

3.Installation based on SRIOV and OVS mix mode.

4.Execution of acceptance test cases.

Taiwan EPG-SSR Integration, commissioning tests

Client: Chunghwa Telecom Duration: May 2014 - Jun 2014 Location: Taiwan

NODE: EPG-SSR

1. Responsible for the Integration of EPG-SSR in 4G-lte & 3G environments.

2. Preparation, execution and verification of test cases, results with the end customer.

3.Tracing of all the Interfaces (s11, s5s8 & s4) on WIRESHARK, decoding & verification of the PGW CDRs on outline tool

Vodafone Turkey EPG, SGSN-MME and vWMG Integration.

Node: virtual EPG, SGSN-MME MkVIII, virtual ePDG (WMG) Location: Istanbul, Samsun, Antalya – Turkey, India

Client: Vodafone Turkey Duration: Jan 2017 to March 2019

1.Upgradation of vEPG node to new software.

2.Preparation and execution of ATP document with Vodafone customer:

Execution of system, Service test cases (AAA, Credit control and Policy control test cases over Gx and Gy interfaces.

Execution of SACC (Service aware and Changing Control) DPI, Header rule test cases.

3.S-P-GW complete configuration and migration of live APN traffic.

4MoP preparation and execution for expansion of 2nd magazine in two SGSN- MME MkVIII 15B CP7

5Configuration, testing and commissioning of virtual WMG ePDG (evolved Packet Data Gateway) on vmWare platform. Successful, voWiFi call testing and execution of integration and service test cases.

Airtel Bangladesh SAPC P&D (SPAC/ PCRF & EPG)

Client: Airtel Bangladesh Duration: Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

Location: Bangladesh: Node: SAPC/ PCRF & EPG/ GGSN

1.MS planning & designing of SACC solutions (SACP & EPG)

2.SAPC Pack modification & addition based on the customer requirement.

Algeria Telecom Mobilis- EPC testing & SGSN-MME Integration

Client: Algeria Telcom Mobilis Duration: June 2016 to Aug 2016

1.Execution of EPC test cases on EPC- EPG and SGSN-MME. Integration of SGSN MkVI, GSS & TS with other PACO nodes. DNS configurations, TAC addition.

Packet Core Expansion (SGSN), SGSN integration

Client: MTN Duration: Jul 2013 - Sep 2013 Location: Bangalore Site: Offsite

NODE: SGSN- 2011A HW - MKVI

1.Gb Interface Frame Relay to IP Traffic migration of 6 BSCs

2.Project planning to implementation of different features

3.MOP & CLI Preparation to implement APN Redirection, Misconfigured MT, RAN Cause codes in S-CDRs, Support for Non-Support for Non-Standardized UEStandardized UE.

4. Planning & implementation of features MOP & CLI Preparation for RNC (Iu) & STP (Gr) Integration

Airtel Nigeria SGSN-MME Integration:

Node: SGSN-MME MkVIII; TS (terminal server) & GSS Installation & Integration;

Location: Nigeria- Lagos and Abuja (Airtel) Client: Airtel Nigeria Duration: Oct 2015 – Dec 2015

1.HLD and DLD preparation for 2 SGSN-MME MkVIII, GSS & TS

2.Integration of new SGSN MkVIII, GSS & TS with other PACO nodes at Lagos and Abuja.

3.Execution of the hardware & service acceptance test cases & verification of the test results with the customer & back office team.

Africa Gy & Gx Interface Integration, Service aware config (EPG-GGSN)

Client: Airtel Africa Duration: Jun 2013 - Jan 2015

Location: Bangalore NODE: EPG -GGSN

1.MOP preparation and execution to configure Gy interface in Zambia, Malawi, SL, Ghana, DRC (Goma, Lubumbashi & Kinshasa), Congo-B & BF EPGs.

2.Service aware configuration in GGSN & troubleshooting of Gy diameter interface

3. APN traffic migration (INTERNET, BLACKBERRY, WAP of more than 22 APNs) of more the 3 lakes customers of Zambia & Ghana from OLM to new CCN.

Senior Packet Core Engineer - Nokia Siemens Network Pvt Ltd

August 2008 to March 2013

Experience on configuration, integration, commissioning, O&M and troubleshooting of Packet Core Network Elements like SGSN (DX200), ATCA SGSN (of SGSN), GGSN/PCEF (FISN & FING), DNS, PCRF, PGW (NG10), RADIUS, CISCO 7609 Multilayer switch, 3750 switch on customer premises.

Worked on knowledge of architecture & call flow of LTE-EPC network.

hands-on experience on CS core nodes (Nokia MSS HLR MGWs).

Network Administrator - Orange Business Services. (Trimax Computers Ltd)

November 2007 to July 2008

Configuration of Nortel Passport ERS8600, Bay Stack5520 48T-PWR, BayStack5510-48T- PWR, Bay Stack 470-48T, IP PHONE 2002).

System Monitoring of uplink ports configuration, system up time,CPU utilization, links utilization.

Installation of Bay Stack5520-48T (Stacking). Configuration of uplink ports MLT(Multi Link Trucking)SMLT,DMLT, IST, VLAN creation, Upgradation of Router, Switches. configuration Routing protocols -(RIP, OSPF), VRRP.

Training's & Certifications

Ericsson Certified Associate Evolved Packet Core

VMware vSphere 6 Foundations Exam

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Honors & Awards

Employee Partnership Award: Ericsson Canada

- Contribution in AT&T project in Jan 2021

ACE Award: Ericsson India Global services Pvt Ltd

- Contribution in Vodafone Turkey project

POWER Award: Ericsson India Global services Pvt Ltd

- Contribution in the team and have very good feedback from project delivery

- Competent in handling MME, EPG, WMG products and cloud platforms.

Scholastic

Bachelor’s Degree: Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer.

University: Mumbai University.

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