» An insightful Senior Lead/Technical specialist with 17+ years of experience in Networking and Telecom domains across reputed organizations like Nokia (former Alcatel-Lucent), Aricent,Tech Mahindra (Formerly Axes). » Mentorship, technical team drive, leadership and operational excellence on technologies. » Presently part of a business-critical product portfolio as a Lead, End-to-End Validator includes Team Management, Usability, Functional, End to End/System/Performance, Regression and Smoke/Sanity testing. » Involved in Team planning, Budgeting, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Test Design & Execution, Quality Analysis, System Engineering/Feature ownership, Feature Review, Requirement Analysis, High Availability/Disaster Recovery Testing, Data Integrity & Security and RCA for customer issues.» Expertise in Customer Requirement Analysis, Technical team guidance, Problem Forecasting, and Troubleshooting skills. » Analytical thinker and good interpersonal skills. Technical Knowledge:» DevOps – Ansible, HELM, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Artifactory, GIT, JIRA & Confluence» Kubernetes – Multi-Node Kubernetes Cluster configuration & Simplified VM (RDOF deployment)» Automation: RIDE/ROBOT Framework» NMS/EMS: Fault Management, Configuration, Accounting & Security» Integration Containers: MariaDB/SQL, ElasticSearch with Kibana, OpenTsDB (including HDFS & HBASE), REDIS, Prometheus with Grafana, Kafka & Zookeeper, Keycloak, FluentD, Ingress Controller» SDAN Solution: High Availability, Geo/Disaster Recovery, Zero Touch Provisioning, Intent-Based Networking (IBN), Software Upgrade, Health Monitoring, Inventory & Alarms» Tools & Interfaces - GUI, NBI, CLI (NetconfC/MGSoft), SOAP UI, Wireshark & VMware/Virtualization/BareMetal» Programming Languages: Basics on Shell scripting & Python» Protocols: xDSL,Vectoring,ATM,BPON,GPON,NGPON,ISAM,SNMP, Netconf/YANG & L2/L3 Networking protocols, IPFIX» Security Tools: Codenomicon, Nessus, NMAP, Report Preparation» Methodologies: Waterfall & AGILE.» Cloud Technologies: Basics on GCP (Google Cloud)