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Bengaluru, KA, IN

Leading the Dish Wireless Core Engineering team in India building the first virtualized standalone 5G wireless network over public cloudEstablishing the center of excellence for wireless core engineering, hiring the best talent, building and growing the team ground up Deploying, Integrating and validating solutions in live production environment, CICD.

Created the test process, ramp up and project management of the validation deliverables for IMS and CNCS products; helped to achieve 1st CNCS product releaseDriven key initiatives for services and care team onboarding for new releases and improving overall customer experience for new rollouts

Leading engineering teams for product verification and achieving commercial readiness for multiple 5G/4G core network products across various domains on containers/cloud for global customers and markets.I led the product verification teams for validation of 4G core products incl CSCF, DRA and 5G core products like SCP, SEPP, BSF and cnDRA. I expanded the.

Bengaluru Area, India

I led 5 geographically distributed engineering teams comprising of 60+ team members including Engineering managers, Architects, Release Managers and Engineers involved in IMS solution and network verification activities. I drove the end to end test strategy, functional and non-functional test deliverables, handled release and delivery management.

Bengaluru Area, India

I managed the functional and feature verification in IMS for CSCF products across multiple software releases. This included interop tests with other network solution elements real and simulated as per the SDLC waterfall model. I was involved in driving robustness program to improve the stability and robustness for multiple products before mass deployment..

Bangalore

I was responsible for building the RD labs from scratch for HIQ solution in Bangalore. In this role I was the project manager and collaborated with other product teams globally including US, Brazil and other locations, worked with finance and logistics teams, third party vendors, sub contractors and internal RD teams to setup the labs with floor area of.

Bangalore

I was responsible for all System Test Activities for Kodiak products like PTT services, Voice and Value Added Services like Conferencing, Messaging. I was leading the team for the Test Planning, Strategy, Estimation, Resource Allocation, Tracking, Bug Analysis, test execution Improvement activities, Coverage analysis. I led the team and handled delivery of.

Bangalore

I was the Project Lead for product & system test for GSM Wireless Soft switch (MSC) for various releases. I was involved in Preparation of Test Strategy and Specification, Planning, Resource Estimation, Scheduling and manpower allocation. I was also involved in Customer support activities for pilot customer rollouts and recreating customer issues in R&D.

Bangalore

I was the design lead and responsible for test case design, test specification preparation, test planning, feature and regression test execution & customer support activities. I worked on telco grade soft switches and class 4 switching products deployed in NAM region. I performed the protocol conformance tests for Megaco and MGCP stack from scratch. These.

Kochi

I was responsible for managing rollout and maintenance of GSM networks in Kottayam, Kerala region. I was part of the 4-member team which won the CEO award for fastest GSM network rollout in Kerala region.

One Year Certification Course, Senior Management Program

Post Graduate Diploma In Business Administration (Pgdba), Customer Relationship Management

Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics Engineering

Model Engineering College, Thrikkakara

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