Faizan Baig Email & Phone Number

Plano, Tx, Us

Plano, Tx, Us

Richardson, Texas, United States

Verizon uCPE Product & Maintenance Engineering Testing• uCPE product testing by testing latest release of Adtran (fka Adva) Connector (hypervisor) Operating System across various Dell R-series uCPE and Lanner uCPE Whitebox machines• Building test plans with designing elaborate test cases• Setting up Adva OS day-1 configurations for multiple WAN scenarios • Ensuring BGP connectivity is maintained throughout the test• Invoking OpenStack module to enable VM instantiation via heat stack deployment• Deploying various VNFs as test to ensure Adva OS is properly deployed• Troubleshooting and debug issues if any arises• Writing/updating Methods of Procedure (MOP) documentation and installation guides• Providing onsite support to the offshore IT team • In addition, worked on setting up a PoC environment topology, completed with various VMs and VNFs e.g. Cisco Cat8Kv etc., for an extensive End User Experience (EUX) project to provide onboarding support for two different vendor products, Cisco’s ThousandEyes and Keysight’s Hawkeye network monitoring tools re-spectively

Plano, Texas

AT&T MSFT Azure DevOps Testing (MCOM) (08/2018 – 05/2022):• Working on Microsoft Azure to build and test base environments using built-in CI/CD pipelines • In-charge of orchestrating and build virtual platform sites using MCOM guides and wiki pages to establish SDN enabled components. Sites brought up with the use of various in-house & third party/open-sourced softwares, such as below but not limited to:o Kuberneteso Prometheuso Grafana• Working closely with the development team to establish better platform for SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (Network function virtualization) in AT&T’s cloud-based architecture• Creating System, Functional, Regression test cases and performing System testing on various components to validate the integrity of the software code within the newly established MCOM environment• Creating Defects and often participating into the debugging sessions with the developers• Providing support for the teams that onboard and guiding them for any new platform change• Using bash scripts to validate post install platform health checks• Complete familiarity with the CI/CD pipeline and continuous interaction with the operations team • Lead on providing the code release handover to the operations team, at the end of each scrum cycle, across multi teams• Day-to-day usage of tools such as, GIT, Github, JIRA, Jenkins etc.AT&T GFP-CPE (05/2014 – 08/2018):• Served as a key member of system testing team on AT&T GFP-CPE (Global Fault Platform – Customer Premise Equipment) projects.• Supported Network management systems to test fault management for client-side network equipment such as Routers, Switches, Access points, WAN solutions, Firewalls etc. for various vendors as Cisco, Juniper etc. with the help of SNMP v2 & v3 traps.• Created and executed automated bash shell scripts to complete automate testing scenarios without any human intervention.• Executed Python scripts to parse and fetch outputs from JSON/XML files.

Commerce, Texas

• Conducted various exams for the students from Department of Mathematics. Exams ranged from Teacher's exams to Competency Level exams.• Invigilated and ensuring the provision of the ideal test taking environment.• Sorted out and put together the day's exams which were to be taken back to the department.

Karachi, Pakistan

• Served as a direct medium between the client and the development side to ensure effective communication.• Developed and maintained a project schedule encompassing for all major administrative tasks necessary for a project.• Assured availability of essential project resources.• Organized and coordinated meetings between the clients and project managers. Responsible for keeping track of time zones.• Prepared the meeting topics and was responsible for readying the meeting's minutes.• Resolved cross-functional issues at project level.• Managed project scope and changed control and escalating issues where necessary.• Worked closely with clients to ensure the project meets business needs.• Worked closely with Project managers to assign tasks based on the team member’s competencies. • Ensured adherence to deadlines.

Karachi, Pakistan

• Catered RFPs to create a project document.• Designed and prepared mockups, wireframes for efficient delivery of ideas.• Analyzed a project, assessed its requirement specifications and often carried out its potential Return-on-Investment (ROI) study.• Prepared proposal documents.• Reviewed, revised, and often modified documents prepared by others.• Created quotation documents for projects.• Coordinated project feasibility, cost and determined resources.

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, Gpa 3.7

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Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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