Santhosh Kumar Email & Phone Number

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Driving Cloud Native packet-core 5G and 4G solutions, End-to-End Solution Validation, Automation, Escalation and SustenanceMicrosoft Mobile Packet Core (MMPC) is a software-based solution designed to provide a highly scalable and flexible packet core for mobile networks. It is built on multiple platforms including Microsoft's Azure cloud platform and Nexus, OpenStack and WMWare based On-Prem platform. MMPC provides a range of features and capabilities, including support for 4G and 5G networks, network slicing, and advanced analytics and reporting.• Lading a diverse team working on a wide range of technology and solutions including SMF, UFP, NRF, PCF, PGW, SGW, GGSN, CUPS C-Plane and U-Plane. Unity Cloud and AO5GC over a diverse set of platforms including VMWare, KVM, Azure and Nexus platforms.• Prepared End-to-End cluster like lab to validate customer deployment, including the VLAN Networking, link-aggregation, load-balancing and routing • Understanding the customer feature requirement and their use-case, gathering customer requirements, preparing customer-focused testbed and test plan, testing the solution and customer delivery.• Cross functional team collaboration for faster delivery and handling customer escalation. • Oversight Requirements, Test Strategy Planning, Deployment and Feature Implementation.• Oversight Effort Estimation for new features and release-over-release activities.• Performance benchmarking and release-over-release performance improvements.• Leading the drive of achieving 100% automation. We have delivered zero touch patches under CI-CD-CT framework with no manual intervention.• I Played a key role in the growth of the team, taking part in team-building activities, keeping the team engaged, and highlighting the importance of developing a motivated, skilled and high performing workforce. • Performance Evaluation, Impact Measurement and Rewards discussion.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pune Area, India

Summary17+ years of enriched experience in Software Engineering, QA Project Management, 5G Microservices, Datacom (Switching, Routing & Security ), 4G packet core in Virtualized environment (Vmware, KVM ), CI/CD based Automation framework & Customer EscalationsTechnical Summary• Managing team of 10-15 accomplished System /Solution & Functional testers working on 5G Microservices, 4G-CUPS(Virtualized), ICUPS and Legacy Gateway (SGW, PGW, SaeGW and GGSN) Solutions.• Managing Tier-1 customers ( VzW, ATT , TMO, Vodafone, STC, Reliance , KDDI ) release cycles and post release escalations • Strong knowledge on IPv4/IPv6, TCP/IP full stack, L3 Routing Protocols, VLAN Networking and MPLS.• Hands-on experience on Load-Balancing, Link-Aggregation and ECMP• SPI and DPI for various protocols including HTTP, TCP, UDP, FTP, WAP, RTP/RTSP.• Hands-on Experience on Network Security, Firewall, TLS, DDOS, NAT, CGNAT and IPSec.• 1+1 Geographical Redundancy, High Availability and N:M Redundancy• Working knowledge of the Hypervisor technologies including KVM and VMware• Developing Test Strategies (Manual & Automation), Analysing product requirements, Designing End-to-End Test Solutions, Assessing Project level Risk Analysis & Mitigation, Estimations & Metrics analysis for QA release cycle• Hands on Experience on Cisco flagship packet core platforms: ASR5000, ASR5500, SI/DI, Ultra-M, K3s/K8s cloud-native, Cisco Router 7600 series and Nexus series• Efficient organizer, motivator, team player and a decisive leader with the skills to motivate teams to excel & win• Have working experience of Agile and Waterfall model of software development cycle.• Trusted/Un-trusted WiFi and their integration to LTE core network, functionalities, procedures and call flows.

Pune

• Establishing and enforcing Standard Test Processes and Deliverables (including defect management and quality metric reporting) within the gated process to streamline testing and support manual testing efforts• Managing the development and execution of automated & manual test scripts and procedures; maintaining a high degree of functional expertise on target systems• Hands on expertise on Creating Test Architecture, High Scale System Testing, Performance Measurement, Customer Replicated Solution lab, Automation and Reliability Testing of the complex system.• Collaborating with software/systems personnel for testing applications using Functional Testing, User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing methods during the product life cycle• Interacting with team members to ensure smooth progress of project work; ensuring adherence to quality norms throughout the implementation process• On time delivery of High Quality Product and Services to demanding customers.• Collaborating with developers, programmers, project managers & clients to understand the scope of each feature, impact areas and technical complications that need to be considered while writing test cases• Understanding the customer feature requirement and their use-case, gathering customer requirements, preparing customer-focused testbed and test plane, testing the solution and customer delivery.• Cross functional teams’ collaboration for faster delivery and handling customer escalation. • Preparing the ATP and validating them.• Preparing the MOP for critical functionality.• Session Recovery, Geographical Redundancy, High Availability, Aggravator and Upgrade/Downgrade testing.• SPI and DPI for various protocols including HTTP, TCP, UDP, FTP, WAP, RTP/RTSP.• Hands-on Experience on Network Security, Firewall, TLS, DDOS, NAT, CGNAT and IPSec.• Diameter based protocols like Gy, Gx, S6b.• Billing including EDRs, EGCDRs and PGW-CDRs.• Content Filtering, Blacklisting, Tethering detection and P2P.

Pune Area, India

GTPv1/v2, GTPP, VoLTE, WiFi (S2a/S2b), VoWiFi, ACS, RADIUS/S6b, Diameter (Gy), Gx, IPSec, L2TP, BGP, MPLS, Framed-Route, LI, billing mediation etc.

Gurgaon, India

Working on the MPLS, BGP/MP-BGP, FR and ATM core network, build with CISCO Routers and NORTEL Passport switches.Resolving the customer reported problems.

Mumbai Area, India

Tested various VoIP Soft-switches and Media GatewaysWorked on various tools including NAVTEL/Abacus/Landslide Prepared Test plan and Project Plan for VoIP solutions.

M.Tech, E&Ece, Cgpa 9.41

M.Tech in Telecommunication System Engineering. Had Taken Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks and M.Tech Project and Published two papers on it.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mit Moradabad, First With Honours (85.6%)

BE in Electronics & Communications