R D Quality Manager
Resume:
Surender Kancharla
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Skill Summary:
●Over 19+ years of IT experience in System Testing, Functional & Performance testing and integration of RAN products end to end.
●5+ years of IT experience into Cloud computing, Kubernetes, and Nokia cloud platform.
●Experience in RAN Products integration – SON, NetAct, Advance Configurator, and real Network Elements.
●Authored Test Strategy, Master Test Plan for various Programs across multiple Releases.
●Support test plans creation for LTE and 5G SON Modules thus ensuring quality of test cases in CI.
●Act as a decision maker if there is ambiguity concerning test scope / interpretation of test results.
●Participate in Feature screening providing comments & effort estimates to the Program.
●Drive Quality improvement actions as part of Q-initiatives and contribute to transformation activities in the organization.
●Continuous Improvement management (incl. quality, RCA/EDA, efficiency) in co-operation with Lead Quality Manager and Lead Change Leader.
●Left shifting verification to R&D Tribes and Squads.
●Understands the different viewpoints of other stakeholders in reaching a win-win situation while not sacrificing the technical quality .
●Interfaces with product management and BU/DU Architects/Engineers for test solution related prioritization, investment balancing, Influences the creation of right product strategies etc. for the domain .
●Test specification and estimating the efforts for the activities relevant to system testing.
●Consult R&D teams to resolve issues amicably and provide feedback about the quality of the software thus recommending product improvement ideas.
●Work closely with project teams (product owners, project managers, Vendors etc.) to meet QA commitments and align delivery priorities with business objectives.
●Plan, monitor, manage and execute all testing activities for all releases.
●Own the complete End-to-End responsibility for the Quality of System Under Test.
●Knowledge in all phases of software development life cycle from Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Release and Deployments. Worked in multiple development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid)
●Exposure to multiple customer onsite locations to demonstrate Product capability, features and involve in the product Acceptance by customers.
●Demonstrate strategic and thought leadership in QA to continuously improve processes and methodologies across various testing disciplines like feature testing, automation testing, performance testing, user interface testing, security testing, etc.
●Define, track, and monitor key QA delivery and people metrics such as schedule, cost, quality, utilization, productivity, etc.
●Document and analyze test results and make recommendations to improve overall quality.
●Team player, leader, as well as an individual contributor.
●Involved in Product Deployments, Upgrades, Functional Testing, Black Box Testing, Regression Testing, Performance, Load & Stability & Integration testing.
●Supported different customers in various releases and Post release activities & deployments.
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Engineering from JNTU, Hyderabad.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Cloud technologies: Redhat Open Stack, Nokia cloud, Amazon Web Services - AWS- EC2
Database Systems: OracleDB2, MSSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, AWS RDS, Cassandra
Virtualization Technologies: VMWare ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM, Virtual box, Citrix Xen
Application Servers: Web Logic Application server 9.x, 10.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x/7.x, Red Hat JBoss 4.22
Operating system: Redhat OCP, Redhat Linux, Cent OS, Solaris, Windows
Roles played:
Test Architect
Validation Architect
Product Owner
Area Product Owner (APO)
Area Test Owner (ATO)
Scrum Master
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Company: Nokia Networks.
Project: Eden NET SON (Self Organizing Networks) - Classic SON, Cognitive SON & Cloud Native Eden Net Tenure: September 2017 to present
Role: Test Architect
Project: Nokia EdenNet helps customer automate operations and realize the full potential of existing 2G, 3G, 4G networks while also supporting transformation to 5G. Providing a centralized SON platform, it automates operations across multiple technologies, eliminating complexities from multi-vendor and multi-layered networks. Cognitive functions give the chance to update the software automatically, without participation of the operator which does not need to send requests for upgrade manually. The software solution Nokia is programmable. The developer kit (Software Development Kit) and the open interfaces API is for this purpose used.
Roles & Responsibilities:
●Authored both Product/Area Test Strategy and Release level Master Test Plan for new features & regression testing for the program.
●Participated in pre P2 milestones technical activities with Product Management, Program Management and Architecture team.
●Authored & reviewed Test cases both Functional, Stability, Load & Performance for 2G, 3G, LTE and 5G SON Modules and the System.
●Hands on experience in Deployment, Upgrade & Integration of the product on Redhat OCP 4.12 platform along with other needed Adaptation layers.
●Replicated customer NCDRs in local labs to evaluate & provide patches/fixes for customer issues.
●Authored the SAT manual for the product and involved in execution & support of tests in various customer networks.
●Ability to work closely with customer, R&D teams to ensure high quality and timely delivery of builds and releases.
●Strong ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying, execution & maintenance.
●Ability to grasp latest technologies and to properly apply new tools to build applications.
●Good Interpersonal Skills, team-working attitude, takes initiatives and very proactive in solving problems and providing best solutions.
Company: Nokia Networks
Project: Context Aware SON
Tenure: February 2013 to August 2017
Role: Test Architect
Project: Provisioning resources in cloud providers like AWS using cloud formation. Creating and managing complex CI/CD pipelines and taking care of regular deployments. On call production support and deploying microservices in Kubernetes cluster using Ansible. Integrated pipeline with Docker, Maven, Selenium testing and Ansible to manage CI/CD pipelines.
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Contributed to Test strategy and Master test plan for the SON program across Releases.
● Solved complex problems by understanding dependencies across solution/system boundaries related to CI.
●Contributed to Devops strategy, plan and Roadmap for various products depending on the individual product need and setup.
●Handling migration of devops environment spread across sites and tools with top priority to ensure delivery of the high-value features in short periods of time through cross-team collaboration.
●Worked on Build & Build Automation Tools, Scripting, SCM and repo creation, branching and repo management, Open-Source CI system/tools and handling the Artifactory, Nexus, Docker, Ansible etc.
●Execute and design an optimized workflow for automated test framework inside and outside the SUT for the test executions.
●Understood and well versed with below tools used in the project:
oContinuous Integration servers
• Configuration management
• Deployment automation
• Containers
• Infrastructure Orchestration
• Monitoring and analytics
• Testing and Cloud Quality tools
• Network protocols .
Company: Nokia Networks
Tenure: July 2005 to Jan 2013
Project: NetAct, Mediations framework, Tango Subscriber Manager
Roles Played: ATO (Area Test Owner), Sr. Test Leader. Substitute for APO.
Project: Nokia NetAct is a open EMS Suite used to implement element management
functionality in OSS products and in Network Elements out of the box (CM, FM
and PM platforms). NetAct application is generic so that they can work with any
network technologies and network elements from any vendor; MF (Mediation Framework) is a platform to expedite the development of Mediations providing a set of libraries thus eliminating the need for point to point integrations.
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Support Program to break down the work content from technical perspective.
●Contribute to Test Guild and e2e Product Test Strategy creation.
●Own test strategy of a product/system, including testability, logging strategy, etc.
●Prepare and own master test plan for product/system releases.
●Participate in pre P2 milestones technical activities with Product Management and Architecture team.
●Clarify release level requirements, identify the main change and main impact for testing and ensure release specific aspects are well covered during testing phase.
●Support test plans creation and ensure quality of test cases in CI and Drive Quality improvement actions .
●Act as a decision maker if there is ambiguity concerning test scope / interpretation of test results.
●Continuous Improvement management (incl. quality, RCA/EDA, efficiency) in co-operation with Lead Quality Manager and Lead Change Leader.
●Left shifting verification to R&D Tribes and Squads.
●Continuous optimization and modernization of test environments (HW and configuration).
●Verification technical interface towards Lead Test Architect, A&S, PdM, Product Owner for feature screening (FS1TA/FS2), Feature Test Planners & Feature Test Lead nomination, test impact analysis.
●Representing and Contribution to Test communities in the Organization.
●Interact with other Verification Architects for cross Competence Area technical cooperation.
Company: IBM
Tenure: July 2003 to June 2005
Project: Sprint technologies
Role: Software engineer
Project: Sprint technologies is American telecommunications company. The billing system of the product has to validated as per the requirements and also do the performance tests before delivering to the customer.
Roles & Responsibilities:
●Involved in POC of various releases in the product.
●Involved in e2e functionality of the product from Installation, Upgrade, Configuration, maintenance. Supported the product in various fields of Continuous integration, NE integration, Product Verification testing etc.
●Support Program to break down the work content from technical perspective.
●Contribute to Test Guild and e2e Product Test Strategy creation.
●Own test strategy of a product/system, including testability, logging strategy, etc.
●Prepare and own master test plan for product/system releases.
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