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Texas, United States

Richardson, Texas

Richardson, Texas

Senior Quality Assurance | BNEW – Product System Verification & New Product Introduction Large Office System Integration & Verification • Primarily manage System/Nodal capacity, performance, upgrade and maintenance testing in the Packet/VoIP CDMA labs. • Developed and executed testcases for testing software updates resolving customer field issues as well as new feature requests.• Leveraged Waterfall and Agile methodology.• Function in a Cloud Ecosystem Environment (CEE) that is prime for development of installation procedures on the Hyperscale Datacenter System (HDS8000) hardware platform which includes Juniper EX3300, Cisco ASR 9001 routers and DELL R630 servers. The project also included exposure to RESTful APIs, Ansible, Python and SQL.• Certified OpenStack Administrator.• Install and configure the Bind DNS (Linux/Ubuntu) servers for Sprint ENUM testing.• Upgrade ERS8600 and Redback SE1200 routers and validate software upgrade procedures.• Execute any configuration and testing for issues on ERS8600 and Redback SE1200 routers.• Created and updated scripts to execute test cases and collect data using PERL, Expect and Shell.• Worked on the development and validation of XA-Core MSC (TDM) to VSE Call Agent (IP) cutover procedure.• Primed the Cutover for IOS LPP (TDM) to the ISA (IP) migration and performed capacity assessments as well as robustness testing.• Possess testing required competence in IS-826, IOS, NOIS, CCS7, H248, SIP, LMSD and MgSip among others.• Implement the configuration and upgrades for the A2P and H248 Media Gateways (MGWs) in the large office lab environment.• Ericsson internal tools include CMUST (EBSC simulator), MBE (mobile/bts simulator), CMUST-MG (MGW simulator).• Additionally, company internal tools incorporate Sun Servers running Oracle/Linux software for the CNM data server.• Reproduced business critical field issues in Verizon and Sprint networks and worked with Design base teams to resolution.

Richardson, Texas

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer GPRS Core Network Robustness • Prime for GPRS4.0 Core Network Robustness testing. Responsible for test plan development, creation of test execution strategies, and providing feedback to management for improvements of testing efficiency and coverage. • GPRS test nodes include Passport based SGSN, HP-SIG, and GGSN (Shasta/Contivity).

Richardson, Texas

Strategic Platform XAC/SPM Quality Assurance• Performed and reported the results for capacity benchmarking of the UCS DMS-250 & DMS-500 XA-Core platform based on strict call mixes and configuration requirements from our customers.• Performed and reported the results for nodal capacity of series three (3) peripherals such as SPM, LIM and LIU7.• Installed, maintained, and operated traffic generation test equipment necessary for benchmarking and large office systems testing.• Provided guidance for the engineering of traffic for the large office SPM lab (56 SPM) as well as the ATM succession and IP succession large office labs.• Integrated specific telecom products and services on the DMS250/500 toll switch market for customers such as MCI, Qwest, Sprint, and Williams Communications Group. • Integrated new products such as IOM, XA-Core and SPM, and other new Nortel Networks products working closely with management to determine configuration requirements to adopt standards for test coverage.• Provided internal technical consultation to recommend large and small captive office configurations for implementing new product test.• Tested and supported software features and delivered milestone software loads to customer sites.

Richardson, Texas

Senior Software Support Engineer, MCI Support• Generated software patches to resolve issues gating the VO of MCI DMS-250 and DMS-ACD product deliverables.• Achieved 100% reliability rate for my patches (0 defects out of 58 patches).• Software prime for MCI/Concert/Avantel VO activities.

Richardson, Texas

Verification Office QA Engineer, MCI Support • Performed and reported the results from benchmarking/capacity testing for MCI DMS-250 product deliverables.• Performed setup and maintenance of traffic generation test equipment (MGTS/INET/TRES).• Responsible for executing and reporting results for MCI Large Systems Test effort in the FAST Office (First Applications Systems Test).• Responsible for tracking all issues encountered during testing to successful resolution.

West Monroe, La

Supervised my squads/platoon for assigned construction projects as well as disaster mitigation and relief efforts.