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Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Demonstrated strong program , stakeholder management including Tier-1 Telco Customers and influencing skills owning multiple complex programs within Cloud Networking Engineering and Cloud Networking Engineering Productivity teams.Significant AccomplishmentsSpearheaded complex Tier-1 Telco engagements, modernizing customer Telco NF workloads from on-premise to Google Cloud.Oversaw four vertical engagements across Cloud Networking and Telco EngProd, achieving over 90% OKR delivery consistently.Successfully launched the migration from hardware-based worker nodes to virtualized GCE VM-based Edge Sites, reducing both capital expenditure and software engineering hours.Successfully launched the Marconi/GDC lab in Bangalore, securing collaboration from stakeholders across REWS, GEN, ENG, ENGPROD, ORDER MGMT, and EFS teams.Demonstrated foresight and strategic thinking by formulating the cross-cutting program 1P Anthos Networking CI Upstream Validation, spanning multiple teams including GDCE EngProd, GDCE Eng, TNA Eng, Athos ACM, and Anthos Networking. Cultivated strong relationships with stakeholders to secure their support and commitment.Exhibited innovative thinking by proactively proposing the use of the existing Marconi lab to establish GDCE racks, providing crucial input for future expansion decisions.Conceptualized and proposed the inclusion of Continuous Validation of 3P NF workloads within GDCE's SDLC and integrating with CI/CD pipleline

Bangalore

Successfully managed the Testing division of all the Virtualized SBC's both in Private cloud(Openstack) and in Public Cloud(AWS,Azure and GCP)Pioneering the Testing team in Network Processor(Fast Path Testing) and End to End Media validation.Hands on experience on various Virtualized platforms like VMware, KVM,HyperV,AWS and Openstack.Successfully managed the first ever Cloud Sonus SBC program from QA and DevOps perspective and managed the teams across the globe, that was successfully deployed in Tier 1 Customer site.Managing the IMS QA/SVT team in Sonus BangaloreTesting the Signaling Gateway product (SGX)of Sonus Networks.I am currently involved in the regression testing of SGX, besides reviewing the Testplans of the new features.The key skills gained are ISUP,SS7,IP,M3UA,SIGTRAN

I was working as a Senior test Engineer, at huwei for Tellin - Oveseas project in Shenzhen china

I was working as a Test Lead, leading a team of 4 testers in charging functional area for Alcatel S12 switch

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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