SUMMARY
LTE/4G Engineer with nine years of extensive professional experience in telecommunication wireless industry blend with proven team management/ leading skills and individual contribution towards owning various testing activities namely test planning/development, execution, debugging troubleshooting, analyzing, reporting.
In my current role at SAMSUNG, owns system testing for TD-LTE RAN validation at NRT lab (Network Readiness Testing) for SPRINT's next generation LTE Spark. Interact with development, field, devices and other functional teams to analyze customer issues and provide solutions.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communications Engineering Aug 2002 - June 2006
UTTAR PRADESH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, LUCKNOW, INDIA
Undertaken Post Graduate Diploma in Embedded System & VLSI Design Aug 2006 - Dec 2006
C-DAC, NOIDA, INDIA
WORK EXPERIENCE
LTE Systems Test/Lead Engineer, (Samsung/Sprint) 05/2013 to present
Designed developed and implemented test cases for 3G/4G technologies and interacting with system design team to feedback improvements needed.
Leading a team of 8 resources for validating the major TDD-LTE releases to provide timely exit to FIT markets involving upgrade/Regression/New Features/Inter-Vendor IOT’s/Performance test execution.
Providing technical 4G RAN support to SPRINT explaining all the system design and associated configuration that should be deployed eventually. Bridging the occasional technical gaps between systems team and SPRINT associates.
Preparing all the technical reports summarizing test results/failures for every major/minor release.
Responsible for validation of SON and traffic management features within Samsung and Inter-vendors (HUWAEI, NSN, ALU, ERC)
Assisting in lab maintenance, software upgrades, test automation as required for the overall advancement of IOT Lab and the team. Performed analysis of test results and prepared comprehensive system level evaluation reports which verify and validate system performance.
Involved in different phases of test cycles namely Sanity testing, Functionality testing, Load & Stress testing using UE simulators (Aeroflex), Performance testing using channel Emulators, Regressive testing and new feature testing.
Establish interoperability and compatibility test plans to validate operation under required configurations for CDMA IOT per CDMA certification forum interoperability requirements & LTE IOT per CTIA interoperability requirements.
Testing and validating protocols in 4G access networks as per 3GPP on both 4G (FDD & TDD-LTE) technologies. Upon execution analyzing Layer 2 and Layer 3 messages to make sure hardware/software validation.
Quality Assurance Test Engineer/Senior Software Test Engineer, Larsen & Toubro InfoTech Ltd. (01/2007- 05/2013)
Client: Qualcomm Inc. San-Diego-CA
Design and developed the test plans for PTT on different platforms (8655, 8927, 8930, 8960) using 3G & 4G technologies (LTE, CDMA & EVDO) running on Android platforms (JB, ICS, Gingerbread, Vanilla).
Documenting and communicating progress and status to management. Created detailed QA documentation including Test Readiness report, Test result report. Creating trouble tickets (CRs) for anomalous test results, investigating issues with developers, feeding back inputs to systems engineers for further enhancements/improvements and other testers, retesting to verify fixes.
Testing PTT over 3G & 4G air interfaces (LTE/EVDO/1X/WCDMA) which includes verification of the call flows as per 3GPP (camping, bearer’s establishment, QoS, transition between RRC connected to idle states and vice-versa, RACH procedures, Multiple PDN connectivity requests, PDCP and RLC configurations etc.), creating, modifying and executing scripts on simulated eNodeB (slimcat).
Analysis, Automated and Manual Testing, Test Plan Development, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) preparation, Bug Tracking, Bug Fix Verification.
Responsible for the Multimedia features & MODEM verification/validation cycle including design, writing functional specification and program specification,, test planning and execution over the air using 4G & 3G technologies for various chipsets.
Test execution is followed using Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) consisting of various test phases like sanity, regression, unit &integration, performance, stress/load, adversarial testing.
Client: Samsung Telecommunicat...
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