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Freelance Manager/Test Architect/Test Analyst London, Greater London, UK

11yrs,telecom software dev & testing, UE stack-UMTS,GSM,ETSI std,SymS60 feature testing,C,C++,TTCN & PERL,test strategising & scripting,verification/validation,IOT/FT,automation & metrics,Prince2Found

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Hourly Rate / Cost:£35.56 per hour
Daily Rate / Cost:£284.44 per day
Available From:Now
Seller ID:326530
: Offers a discounted hourly rate to registered charities

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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé

A Senior Software Professional with a wide range of experience in the mobile handset industry dealing with various modem protocols namely 2G/3G/HSPA/IMS/GAN/LTE as well as application framework namely Symbian S60. He is a confident player in this domain for more than 10years, able to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Proven leadership skills involving managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve their objectives. First-class analytical, strategic and problem solving skills. Dedicated to maintaining high quality standards & very focus to meet critical deadlines.

2009-2006 - Freescale Semiconductor -into a product development company ; as a test manager & lead. Responsibilities included test
validation of Freescale's cellular handset platform to various OEM namely SAMSUNG.

2006-2004 - Aricent(Flextronics) Technology - into a service business with a horizon of providing test
consultancy to ALCATEL(IMS/GAN\0 & INFINEON(UMTS dual stack).
2004-2000 - MOtorola India - into a product development company. as a protocol stack tester & coder
for UMST & GSM respectively.
1998-1997 - Telco,India as a Graduate Engineer for EPABX programming & maint.
1997-1996 - ALTOS India as a Graduate trainee for MOther board testing.

Employment History

(Dec 2007 to May 2009)

Test Manager

Bangalore, India

Freescale Semiconductor develops the single core modem platform targeting various OEMs(like SAMSUNG, NOKIA. MOTOROLA) to embed their application Framework namelySymbianS60.

Responsibilities and achievements:
• Being part of functional test development ,providing support to whitebox testing & end to end black box testing. This would lead to understand the features in details & if needed work closely with the dev team to understand their implementation versus test supported to be provided.
• Participated in the requirement analysis of AT cmd interface & translated them into testcases.
• Active contribution in delivering testcases for various functional features like SIM/USIM, AGPS etc.
• Strengthened inter team(development & validation) collaborative relationship by providing design verification support.
• Led team to define the testcases for API based testing for customer’s test binary testing for various non-modem component namely camera, audio, video etc terminal equipment.
• Performed Quality Audits & follow on recommendations were implemented.


(Oct 2006 to Nov 2007)

Senior Technical Contributor

Bangalore, India

Work in collaborative partnership with Rhode&Schwarz to create test strategy, test specification, developing MLAPI+ (C++ based) scripts to validated Rel5 feature namely WB-AMR. Similar approach was taken up with Anritsu for developing another rel-5 feature namely NACC.
• Technical ownership of creating sanity & regression test case list for functional execution against Freescale’s dual core platform release testing.
• Taking ownership of the lab equipments & upgrading their software releases to ensure that it met the Freescale platform capabilities.
• Expedited new technologies namely HSPA & LTE to make sure platform development team receiving the right information regarding test vendor’s capability.
• Oversaw & maintained the software configuration management activities for whole platform validation.
• Led a team of 10-12 at inter-site as well as at intrasite.


(Feb 2006 to Sep 2006)

Test co-ordinator

Bangalore, India

• Technical ownership of creating sanity & regression test case list for functional execution against Freescale’s dual core platform release testing.
• Expedited new initiative ‘platform independent application oriented smart phone’ & ramping up a team of 3-4 to understand the requirements & plan for test execution.
• As & when needed plan for test development say for HCS or optimised MIB selection etc.
• Managed project execution & reporting the status to key stake holders with various metrics, risks & issue logs, escape defect , action plan & dashboard statistics.


(Aug 2005 to Feb 2006)

Technical Lead

Gurgaon, India

Flextronics would provide testing services to ALCATEL’s convergence network group in Gurgaon dealing with S-CSCF node of IMS & UNC of GAN.
Responsibilities:
• Formulated test strategy for functional testing of S-CSCF node of IMS.
• Created functional testcases to various interfaces namely HSS, Mi, Mj, Mc, Wm & other SIP interface with S-CSCF. Similarly security & performance related test cases were also created.
• Participated in the regular CCB & highlighting the technical issues.
• Led & motivated team of 8 to meet the deadlines.

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• Detailed study of UNC specification, understanding of various UNCs & procedures, states etc.
• Test planning for discovery, registration, call control, messaging. Packet calls, Handover etc. including stress & performance scenarios.
• Test specification, preparation for these identified scenarios.
• Traceability versus gap analysis against the feature requirement doc.



(Aug 2004 to Aug 2005)

Individual Contributor

Aricent Technologies(earlier known as Flextronics Software System), COMNEON,Germany

Dual RAT integration test development on Anritsu 8480 in Comneon, Germany (1year), Responsibilities:
• Based on 3GPP protocol specification implementing HO scenarios in TTCN.
• Validate the tests against reference handset NOKIA 6630 etc & bring them part of regression test suite.
• Functional testing of their dual stack dual core mobile handset.
• Provided test development support to various component builds.
• Reproduced various IOT issues in the laboratory environment to speed up the resolution process.


(Feb 2004 to Aug 2004)

Technical Leader

Aricent Technologies(earlier known as Flextronics Software System), Gurgaon,India

Led a team of 3 to implement C based TTCN parser.
Responsibilities:
• Proposal for test environment to perform the functional testing.
• Mentored 3 new recruits to implement a TTCN parser using C.
• Successfully developed 10000 lines of code & tested using sample TTCN script.
• Usage of rational purifier helped team to debug the memory leaks & hence taking the corrective action.


(Apr 2000 to Feb 2004)

Senior Software Engineer

Motorola India Electronics Limited, Hyderabad, India

Mainly contributed to 3GPP protocol study, test development to validate UE L3/L2 & later on moved to GSM protocol stack development projects.
Responsibilities:
• Implemented Network Selection Algorithm in GSM-Amps mobile handset, coding in C, unit testing using gdb & integration testing on HW.
• Implemented various scenarios like CS-call in GSM/AMPs, HO between GSM>AMPs, cell selection in GSM , failure scenarios in GSM.
• Implemented Mobile Test platform based on generic object design & interfacing through a test simulator, coding in C++, interface testing using 8480 with real UE.
• Led a team of 3 to develop TTCN scripts for testing UE 3G - RRC, RLC, MAC & RAB.
• Led a team of 2 to implement J2ME based Location Based Client application.
• Led a team of 5 to test various system features available on 3G phone.


(Jan 1997 to Aug 1998)

Graduate Engineer

TATA Jamshedpur, India

Programming & maintenance of state of the art Lucent Digital Exchange was having capabilities of 2000. Responsibilities:
• Worked as a telecommunication Engineer to maintain the SLICA card of the digital EPABX.
• Participated in design & coding of the Electronics Telephone Directory System.


(Jul 1996 to Jan 1997)

Graduate Engineer Trainee

ALTOS India Limited, Gurgaon, India

ALTOS India was engaged in assembling & testing of DELL mother board. Responsibilities:
• Engaged in Mother Board testing in the production line.

Professional Qualifications

1) APMG accredited "Prince2 Foundation" qualified.
2) MS Project Professional Certified.
3) Attended training on "Leadership" skills.

Education

(Aug 1998 to Mar 2000)

Jadavpur University

Master of Engineering in Telecommunication(major Computer), 84% overall in 3 semesters.


(Sep 1992 to Jun 1996)

NIT, Durgapur

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering, 76% overall in 8 semesters.

Cellular Plaform validation Expert modem & application

SKILLS/ABILITIES :

3G/2G, protocol stack development & white box testing using C\C++, hands on coding
in C/C++, participating in UT, IT etc & debugging using gdb. Oversaw 8-10 cellular software development & testing project from requirement analysis till customer release for large scale projects involving Symbian S60 integration & testing. Well proven track record & leadership in driving the team, inter team communication & working in collaborative environment, process oriented & demonstrate best practices.


MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Successful implementation of network selection algorithm (in C )for Motorola’s GSM-AMPs handset brought the project till integration phase.
• Understanding of legacy GSM codes & implementing the latest band switch & handover algorithms saved huge man hours.
• Active contribution of implementing mobile test platform (in C++) for test case validation saved huge revenue of my org to by pass purchasing further software upgrade from test vendors.
• Solved major test requirement gap analysis & follow on recommendation with time driven test development approach, which would otherwise halt meeting 100% testability aspect of the final deliverables.
• Maintained team spirit & motivation to bring a steady execution & regression efforts over a span of 10months for 10-12 major releases which helped comparing performances of parallel projects.

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