Ankit Chouksey Email & Phone Number

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Responsible for operational leadership encompassing Delivery Management, Project Management, Stakeholder management, and Client handling as a SPOC• Managed Portfolio of diverse technologies as a part of Large & Complex Engagements, geographically dispersed teams, including Vendor resources• Identifying customer needs and overseeing service delivery within the business context• Manage demand/supply of work from R&D Projects/Product/CRs development and forecast timelines and costs• Defining and managing priorities against the available capacity of team members• Engage closely with Sales, Project Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Sponsors, and customers for program health and progress updates• Work with POs, BAs, Solution Architects, Sales, and Customers to cater to future needs with the latest technologies, functional and non-functional requirements• Determining ways to reduce costs without sacrificing customer satisfaction• Plan, drive, execute and manage multiple projects in parallel• Supported a team of up to 100 associates with a mix of project managers, leads, architects, business analysts, developers, and testers

Pune Area, India

Media & Content Management/Scheduling/Rights Management/Finance & AuditA complex bespoke system was implemented for a Tier-I content aggregator in the media domain to manage the content acquisition and processing (contract and rights management, metadata management, scheduling, and financials). The metadata management system is the backbone for a channel broadcaster that helps manage rights across domestic and international territories. Enabling various broadcast channels - linear, video-on-demand (transactional and subscription-based). The finance module can address different flat fee and royalty calculations for hundreds of suppliers.• Project planning and execution, resourcing, scope management, timelines & milestones tracking• Managing and negotiating changes, scope, schedule, cost, and delivery• Liaise with key stakeholders in accordance with customer priorities to deliver in the fast-paced environments• Liaise with the onsite and offshore teams to ensure all the milestones (requirement elicitation, validation, UAT, Deployment, etc.) in the releases are met as per the agreed timelines• Facilitate Scrum of Scrums and unblock teams• Manage CRs and get deployments done in the production for features, enhancements, bug fixes• Keep track of all the versions released for the whole suite of applications• Make sure the fixes and enhancements are developed on the correct codebases• Define and refine processes for continuous delivery

Pune Area, India

Project Description:Redknee's Turnkey Converged Billing (TCB), Next Generation Rating & Charging (NGRC) solution• Provide technical guidance to the team and assist in the solution designing• Administer and Participate in Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, and Sprint Reviews• Work with teams, POs to select stories for SCRUM, to determine story efforts• Coordinate with other scrums, E2E team, product management, and support teams• Review and groom Sprint backlog, Product backlog for priorities of stories with product owners• Share status with stakeholders like Sponsor, Higher Management, PLM, support, E2E teams, and customers• Manage - debugging & Reporting of bugs, issues• Adhere to the defined processes, deliverables, artifacts • Handle RFEs, Change Requests to provide estimates• Support the team technically, work as an individual contributor if required, conflict resolution• Work on resource allocation, effort estimation, capacity planning, test planning, strategizing, etc• Review requirements, business use cases, Stories, Epics, Test cases in Jira• Plan and deliver releases at various stages (Testing cycle, Pre-UAT, UAT, and Production)

Pune Area, India

Project Description:Redknee's Turnkey Converged Billing (TCB) and Next Generation Rating & Charging (NGRC) solution.TCB and NGRC together allow carriers to configure and manage subscribers, rating, charging, billing, mediation, provisioning, invoicing and promotions for various combinations of voice, data and messaging services that are offered to subscribers. TCB internally consists of a powerful real-time rating and charging engine with a high-performance in-memory database along with an intelligent billing suit.My team in R&D is responsible for the complete development lifecycle of these solutions.Responsibilities Include:• Release prime for various features, change requests and minor/major releases.• Regular interaction with the client, design team, and development team.• Requirement analysis, test strategy formulation and resource alignment to commit deadlines to external agencies.• Design review, test plan review meetings and defect prevention planning to ensure high-quality deliverable.• Test planning and execution (manual and automation).• Execution status tracking and reporting to ensure timely deliveries.• Knowledge sharing and mentoring peers.

Gurgaon, India

Project Description:NEC's LTE-SON solution enables an operator to quickly find the best configuration while gradually iterating self-optimization. Specifically, the operator can plan a configuration change using self-optimization functions on radio qualities created by a radio propagation simulator. It improves the Efficiency of Network deployment and operation, collects and analyzes data in order to reconfigure the network, reduces field survey frequency with the use of measurement instruments, and user quality improvement and quality enhancement by self-optimization and self-healing.Responsibilities Include:• Successfully completed onsite integration and testing at NEC, Japan.• Requirements study and analysis.• Test planning & test case writing.• Review and execution of test cases.• Functional, system, regression, load, stress, performance, integration testing.• Testing major and incremental upgrades.• Interaction with the Client and Development team.• Defect Tracking and Recording Test Results.• Preparing and sending weekly status reports to the client.• Preparing case-studies of the module for knowledge sharing.

Gurgaon, India

Project Description:Performance Intelligence Center (PIC) formerly known as Integrated Applications Solution (IAS) platform provides the tools service providers need to capture network traffic data and convert it into useful business intelligence for troubleshooting, managing traffic, roamers and services, as well as revenues. With its powerful and configurable filtering, PIC sorts through the data to create comprehensive dashboards and reports for all departments within the service provider's company. PIC includes a comprehensive array of performance management and revenue management capabilities that provide reliable real-time or historical information based on network traffic.Our product validation team is responsible for complete testing life cycle of this product.Responsibilities Include:• Requirements study and analysis.• Test planning & test case writing.• Review and execution of test cases.• Functional, system, regression, performance, IOT testing.• Testing major and incremental upgrades.• Interaction with the Client and Development team.• Interaction with the lab support team.• Reporting Test Defects using IBM’s Rational ClearQuest.• Defect Tracking and Recording Test Results.• Preparing and sending weekly status reports to the client.• Preparing case-studies of the module for knowledge sharing.• Grooming team technically and professionally.

Noida Area, India

Project Description:Deployment, Integration and Acceptance Testing of HLR/EIR node and Migration of subscribers for TTSL (Docomo) & Uninor.Responsibilities Include:• Deployment (installation and commissioning), Integration and Acceptance Testing of HLR and EIR node. • Functional, system, regression, performance, load, stress, IOT and acceptance testing.• Test planning, test scripting, test execution, test reporting.• Subscriber migration from Huawei HLR to NSN HLR, provisioning of subscribers data using LDAP.• High end troubleshooting of the mission critical, real time HLR issues like issue in LU, MT call/sms etc.• Providing RA support.• Automation of process, report generation and health checkups.• System performance, KPI and fault analysis.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: • Lead coordinator of Cultural/Sports events and Tech fests • Lead member of Placement cell • Lead member.

12Th, Mathematics

Activities and Societies: • Represented Science models at inter-school and state level • Lead coordinator of Cultural/Sports events.