Engineer Project

Nirmal Singh

Email: *****.*********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To work in an organization that nurtures professional growth, rewards innovation and creativity and values integrity and hard work

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Having more than 5.8 years of industry experience in various Software Testing Methodologies, Standards and Processes.

• Worked on Onsite projects with OTE Telecom Greece, British Telecom, Alcatel-Lucent Belgium and Alcatel-Lucent Italy.

• Strong Experience in Managing Projects and a Test team of size of 4-8 people

• Strong Experience in Testing Client Server Applications and Web Based Applications

• Strong Experience in writing Test Plans and developing Test Cases

• Strong Experience in Black Box testing, System Integration Testing, Load Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing

• Strong Experience as a Coordinator between the Onsite and Off shore teams

• Experience in Test Management tools like Mercury Test Director

• Experience in Bug Tracking tool like Bugzilla, Mantis, MKS

• Extensive experience in Mentoring, Coordinating and Leadership roles

• Experience in Effort Estimation and Project Planning

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Presently working with Alcatel-Lucent, Gurgaon as Engineer leading a Test Team from July 2006 to till date

• Worked with Sapient Corporation Ltd, DLF Cyber Greens, Sector 25 A, Gurgaon, Haryana, India as a Associate QA from September 2005 to June 2006.

• Worked with Infotech Enterprises Ltd (formerly TeleAtlas India Pvt Ltd), Noida, U.P., India as a Software Test Engineer from January 2004 to September 2005.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Post Graduation: MCA [Hamdard University, 2001-2004]

Graduation: B.Sc(G) [DU, 1997 – 2000]

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems - Windows XP, UNIX

Data Bases - Oracle 9i, MS SQL 2000, MS Access

Automation Tool - Simulators, Load Simulators, K1297

Software Engineering Tools - Test Director, MKS, Bugzilla, MS Visual SourceSafe

WORK EXPERIENCE (with Alcatel-Lucent)

1 Project Details

Client : OTE Greece Telecom

Name : Advanced Free Phone Service and Televoting

Technology : C++, Java, OSP 2.4 (Alcatel-Lucent Proprietary)

Protocol : SIP, INAP, TCAP, SS7

Description: : OTE Greece, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization is Greece's largest telecommunications operator, providing services to consumers, Greek and foreign businesses, as well as public agencies. OTE Telecom wanted the following services to be deployed in their existing Networks:-

Free Phone (FPH)

Universal Access Number (UAN)

Premium Rate Service (PRM)

Help Menu Service (HMS)

Televoting (TVS)

Team Size : 8

Duration : From May 2009 to Till Date

Role : Test Lead

Location : India, Greece

Responsibilities : Test Estimation and Resource Planning, Requirement Analysis, Communication with client on Requirement Walkthroughs and reviews, Test Planning, Review of the Test Cases, Managing the test bed in Alcatel Test tool, Co-ordination between Development Team and Testing Team, Weekly Status Meetings, Mentoring Team Members, Status Reporting, Onsite Coordinator, Load Testing, System Integration Testing in Greece, Acceptance Testing in Greece

2 Project Details

Client : CHUNGHWA Telecom, TAIWAN

Name : One Number (Corporate Mobility Manager)

Technology : C++, Java, OSP 2.4 (Alcatel-Lucent Proprietary)

Protocol : INAP, TCAP, SS7, SIP

Description: : Chunghwa Telecom is a leading Telecom operator in Taiwan. The Customer wanted the Corporate Mobility Manager (CMM) product of Alcatel-Lucent which is the complete Fixed Mobile convergent product for the telecommunication operators addressing the enterprise market. CMM offers a large set of services fully integrated together in a consistent way. It provides the organizations with the following features:-

• Voice/Multimedia Voice Private Network functionality allows a company constituting a community, associating a dedicated numbering plan and benefiting from special call rates;

• Virtual PBX functionality offers advanced network PBX-like services insuring the maximum reach ability and increasing the call completion rate.

• IMR functionality allows offering dual phone (fixed and mobile) services.

• A transversal management and provisioning facility allows the different actors using CMM controlling the application for all the different functionalities

Team Size : 6

Duration : August 2008 – April 2009

Role : Test Lead

Location : India, Taiwan

Responsibilities : Test Estimation and Resource Planning, Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Review of the Test Cases, Documentation, Managing the test bed in Alcatel Test tool, Co-ordination between Development Team and Testing Team, Weekly Status Meetings, Mentoring, Status Reporting, Onsite Cordinator, System Integration Testing

3 Project Details

Client : British Telecom

Name : CORE IN, Supplementary Services

Technology : C++, Java, OSP 2.4 (Alcatel-Lucent Proprietary)

Protocol : INAP, TCAP, SS7

Description: : Alcatel-Lucent is providing IN services to the British Telecom IN division. The CORE IN is used for delivering Basic and Advanced Services to the subscribers. The CORE IN is collection of various services and the Supplementary service is used for providing the Out-of-Area Exchange Line replacement and Protection for high priority customers. These services run on three different switches bought by British Telecom from Alcatel-Lucent, Siemens and Ericsson. The testing of the services involves testing call flow scenarios on all the three switches.

Team Size : 7

Duration : Feb 2008 – July 2008

Role : Senior Test Engineer

Location : Belgium

Responsibilities : Requirement Analysis, Test Estimation, Test Planning, Review of the Test Cases, Documentation, Co-ordination between Development Team and Testing Team, Weekly Status Meetings, Mentoring Team Members, Status Reporting, Onsite Coordinator, System Integration Testing, Load Testing, Acceptance Testing along with the Customer

4 Project Details

Client : VSNL

Name : Flexible Routing & Charging

Technology : C++, Java, OSP 2.4 (Alcatel-Lucent Proprietary)

Protocol : INAP, TCAP, SS7, SIP

Description: : VSNL bought the FRC (Flexible Routing and Charging) product using the SIP protocol, the project required the testing of the FRC on Object level and Call level using the Alcatel A5020 softswitch.

Team Size : 8

Duration : Jan 2007 – June 2007

Role : Senior Test Engineer

Location : India, Italy

Responsibilities : Requirement Analysis, Test Estimation, Test Planning, Review of the Test Cases, Documentation, Co-ordination between Development Team and Testing Team, Weekly Status Meetings, Mentoring, Status Reporting, Onsite Coordinator, System Integration Testing, Acceptance Testing Onsite at Alcatel-Lucent Italy Labs

5 Project Details

Client : Alcatel-Lucent France

Name : Flexible Routing and Charging

Technology : C++, Java, OSP 2.4 (Alcatel-Lucent Proprietary)

Protocol : INAP, TCAP, SS7

Description: : Flexible Routing and Charging product is a suite of services providing the service features.FRC product offers enterprises, domestics subscribers a telephony service to get calls where they want, when they want, with the charging model they require:

Solutions for enterprise are based on marketing number (non geographical numbers): these can be short numbers from two to five digits or longer numbers with prefixes such as #800, #900, #1800.

Team Size : 10

Duration : July 2006 - Jan 2007 & July 2007 - Jan2008

Role : Senior Test Engineer

Location : India

Responsibilities : Requirement Analysis, Test Estimation, Test Planning, Review of the Test Cases, Documentation, Co-ordination between Development Team and Testing Team, Weekly Status Meetings, Mentoring, Status Reporting, Onsite Cordinator, Creation of the Regression Suite, System Integration Testing, Acceptance Testing Onsite

WORK EXPERIENCE (with Sapient Corporation Ltd., Gurgaon)

1 Project Details

Client : Sprint-Nextel, USA (mobile service provider)

Name : ATLAS - Inventory Management System

Technology : JAVA

Description: : ATLAS is an inventory management system and Sprint-Nextel is using this system for managing their inventory of more than 60,000 Cell Sites. Nextel is part of a dynamic industry. Assets continually move through the Sprint-Nextel network due to maintenance, enhancements, new site builds, and a number of other reasons. Effective asset management is essential in allowing Nextel to succeed in the communications industry.

ATLAS Applications Details:

ATLAS is having 4 different applications and 1 Interface:

a. EMPAC (developed by Indus Solutions, USA): is Asset management system. Used for work order, stores, asset, employee etc managemt.

b. PowerPac (developed by Indus Solutions, USA): used to correct data discrepancies between system records and the actual disposition of equipment.

c. mWareHouse (developed by Infowave Solutions, USA): used for issues/ receipts of item, inventory functions, search, RMA transactions.

d. mFieldWorks (developed by Infowave Solutions, USA): view asset configurations, site-specific operational information, and inventory availability in Cell Site.

e. CSI (Custom System Interface): This interface make link between different databases and environment (like Peoplesoft, EMPAC database).

Team Size : 8

Duration : September 2005 – May 2006

Role : Associate Quality Assurance

Location : India

Responsibilities : Analyzing the Requirements with the Business Owners and Development Team at the client site in US, Test Planning, Review of the Test Cases, Involved in preparation and sharing of Testing status Reports and Testing Results with the client, Weekly Status Meetings, Functional, System, Integration & Regression Testing, Defect validation, Interaction with onsite Co-ordinator, Regression Suite preparation

WORK EXPERIENCE (with Infotech Enterprises Limited)

1 Project Details

Client : Siemens

Name : Siemens VDO Validation

Technology : Borland Delphi 5.0, Oracle

Description: : Validation of the Geographical Databases

Project Summary: The goal of the “Validation” project is to deliver Siemens VDO Format/Geographical Data Format ,validation services to its customer. The customer for the Validation project is the PSE (Process Software Engineering) group at Belgium & Harsum. The major objective of this software validation team is to validate each new Toolbox/ Converter version before its release towards the product lines

Team Size : 10

Duration : January 2004 – September 2005

Role : Software Test Engineer

Location : India

Responsibilities : Requirement Analysis, Test Planning, Test Cases Writing, Documentation, Co-ordination between Development Team and Testing Team, Weekly Status Meetings, Status Reporting, Onsite Coordinator, System Integration Testing

• Understanding the Siemens VDO Format which is a standard format for geographical databases

• Preparing Test plan, Test Cases for various types of Testing i.e. Functional, System Testing

• Execution of Test Cases

• Reporting and tracking of bugs

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