Candidates About

 

Kedar Namjoshi

Certified Scrum Master with QA credentials

Seeking assignments in Business Analysis, Quality Assurance domain with an organization of repute

 

 

·          Accomplished professional with nearly 12 years of experience in Manual & Automation Testing, Telecom Network Planning, Deployment & Integration.

·          Hands-on technical and managerial experience in telecom R&D with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Asia’s largest IT services and business solutions provider.

·          Strong ability to plan, deploy and maintain wireless networks for Ericsson CDMA products and third party equipments in a R&D environment.

·          Deft in addressing live sites issues pertaining to configuration, networking & upgrades of Ericsson's North American Telecom Operator's Packet Core network.

·          Skilled in performing training programs to provide technical guidance to different teams; liaising with cross-functional teams (design and testing) to produce project deliverables with stringent deadlines.

 

 

Organization	Project Name	Client	Role	Duration	Location
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd	Media Gateway Regression	Ericsson Inc.	QA Lead	April 2015 - Till date	Dallas, Texas
DSBR (Salesforce CRM)	National Grid Transco. UK	QA Lead	July 2014 - March 2015	Mumbai, India
CDMA Product Verification	Ericsson Inc.	Project Lead	Nov 2013 - Jun 2014	Mumbai, India
Customer Network Support CDMA	Ericsson Inc.	Project Lead	Dec 2012 - Oct 2013	Mumbai, India
India Lab Operations	Ericsson Inc.	Project Lead	July 2008 - Dec 2012	Mumbai, India
Reliance Communications Ltd	Wireless Planning - Intelligent Networks	Reliance Communications	Planning Head	Jul 2007 - Jun 2008	Navi Mumbai, India
Lobo Staffing Solutions Pvt. Ltd	Intelligent Networks - NOC	Idea Cellular, Vodafone, TTSL	Associate Engineer	Jun 2006 - Jun 2007	Mumbai, India
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd	CDMA Provisioning	TTML	Apprentice	Nov 2004 - Dec 2005	Pune, India

 

Customer:                                 Ericsson Inc.

Role:                                        QA Lead (CDMA, SIP, H248)

Period:                                     Apr’15 – Till Date

Technical Skills:                                    Requirement Gathering, Manual Testing, Automation Testing, SIP, IPv4/IPv6, 

                                                         Jenkins

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Continuous integration of the automated test cases using Jenkins & Robot framework.

·          Leading a team of 4 working on Media Gateway Nodal Regression testing.

·          The testing involves functionality & regression testing of Ericsson Passport15k based media gateway platform.

·          Testing covers narrowband and wideband codecs (AMR, AMR-WB, PCMU, EVRC family).

·          Creation of automation scripts for various call scenarios on CMUST, CTDAT tools.

·          Creation of POCs on SIP, IPv6 & IPv4.

·          Performing reviews with the development teams and driving technical reviews for test plan, test objectives as well as reviewing design functional description and system architecture documents

·          Liaising with design and system level test teams for identifying the coverage areas of test; identify missed coverage, overlapping coverage to synergize the coverage areas

·          Conceptualizing test plan, technical reviews & executing the test cases.

 

Accomplishment:

·          Created POC on SIP calls on IPv6/IPv4(Dual Stack) using soft phone clients.

·          Created POC on OpenDaylight SDN controller using Mininet network emulator.

 

 

 

Customer:                                 National Grid Transco. (UK)

Role:                                        QA Lead (Salesforce CRM)

Period:                                     Jul’14 – Mar’15

Technical Skills:                                    Requirement Gathering, SFDC Testing, Web application testing

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Leading a team of 4 working on Salesforce dotcom (SFDC CRM) testing.

·          The testing involves functionality testing of tender management application for National Grid Transco. (UK)

·          Evaluating and understanding the Functional Requirement Specs (FRS), System Architecture Doc (SAD), High Level Design (HLD) documents

·          Performing reviews with the development teams and driving technical reviews for test plan, test objectives as well as reviewing design functional description and system architecture documents

·          Liaising with design and system level test teams for identifying the coverage areas of test; identify missed coverage, overlapping coverage to synergize the coverage areas

·          Conceptualizing test plan, technical reviews & executing the test cases.

 

 

 

Customer:                                 Ericsson Inc.

Role:                                        Project Leader

Period:                                     Nov’13 – Jun’14

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Involved in conducting and driving technical reviews for test plan, tested objectives as well as review design functional description and system architecture documents

·          Liaised with design and system level test teams for identifying the coverage areas of test; identified missed coverage, overlapped coverage to synergize the coverage areas

·          Conceptualized test plan, technical reviews & executed the test cases.

·          Aligned the PV labs with the VO sites configuration

 

 

Customer:                     Ericsson India Global Services Private Limited

Role:                            Project Leader

Period:                         Dec’12 – Oct’13

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Accountable for receiving CSRs (Customer Support Requests) in SMS tool

·          Handled CSR within the team; performed analysis of the issue & search in KNOVA/METIS for solution of the issue if already present and carried out investigation of the issue & provide final solution to it

·          Liaised with different PLM groups for issues related to software

·          Involved in raising 7x24 activities for execution of the action plans in maintenance window; create solutions in METIS for issues unique in nature

·          Support area covers all PMSC core nodes like MTX, MGW, CBM, CMT, CNM, ERS8600, GWC, MS20x0

·          Performed:

o    Technical training sessions for team members for competency building

o    Project review meetings

 

Accomplishment:

·          Played a vital role in resolving highest number of CSRs

 

 

Customer:                                 Ericsson Inc.

Project:                                     India Lab Operations

Role:                                        Project Leader

Period:                                     Jul’08 – Dec’12

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Review the user requirements and technical/design specifications documentation

·          Requirement gathering by conducting meetings & reviews with Designers, testers & client side Architectures

·          CDMA network nodes commissioning, Sustenance & Testing activities of Ericsson Telecom Equipment such as MSC, BSC, BTS & Data Equipment like Routers, Switches, Contivity, Call simulation tools and PDSN etc.

·          ATCA MSC server commissioning using the NTPs / IMs, upgrade and Testing with Ericsson peripherals

·          Commissioning/upgrades of packet MSC nodes such as VSE blades (Typhoon, CA, NSA, SSG etc.), MGW, USP, CBM, CMT, CNM etc. using the Upgrade NTP’s and IM

 

Accomplishment:

·          Accredited with the Best SME Award

 

 

Project/Company:                     Reliance Communications Limited, DAKC Navi Mumbai

Period:                                     Jul’07 – Jun’08

Location:                                  Navi Mumbai

Role:                                        Deputy Manager Wireless Planning

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Managed daily analysis of IN-IVR congestion report & planning of E1 augmentation to minimize the congestion

·          Facilitated solutions to new business requirements for prepaid subscribers.

·          Raised work orders with detailed MoP for BSS Ops to implement the changes in SCP/SDP for the new features.

·          Involved in planning IN nodes (SCP, SDP, and remote IVR) for Reliance GSM services rollout

 

Project/Company:                     Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, Mumbai

Client:                                       Vodafone, IDEA & TATA Teleservices

Period:                                     Jun’06 – Jun’07

Location:                                  Prabhadevi, Mumbai

Role:                                        Associate Engineer IN NOC

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Extended technical support for the network & IN platform related issues to the mentioned clients

 

 

Project/Company:                     TATA Teleservices Maharashtra Limited, Pune

Period:                                     Nov’04 – Dec’05

Location:                                  Shivajinagar, Pune

Role:                                        Apprentice

 

Responsibilities across the tenure:

 

·          Managed FWP telephone installation & provisioning along with field engineers

·          Ensured configuration of landlines in Lucent Wireline Switches

 

Automation Framework:             Jenkins, Robot (Continuous Integration)

SDN                                         Opendaylight SDN controller, Mininet network emulator

Scripting                                   Python

Telecom/Telephony Specific:     Switching, WIN, VAS, CDMA/GSM Call Processing, VoLTE, IMS, 1xrtt data, CallP, HLR, VLR, Networking (IPv4, IPv6, IP Multicast, IP Routing, Dual Stack configuration) and Data Networks

Test Areas:                               VSE Nuking, Feature Test, Integration Test, Acceptance Test, Sanity, Backward Compatibility Test.

Protocols:                                 H.248, SIP, SS7, NOIS, CAMEL

Process:                                   Knowledge of SDLC, STLC, Ericsson Engineering Methods.

Tools:                                       Wireshark, HP Quality Center, Adobe Framemaker, Asterisk, X-Lite, Linphone

Operating Systems:                   HP Unix, Linux, Windows

 

 

·          Scrum Certified Product Owner

·          Scrum Master

·          ITIL Foundation

·          PRINCE2 Practitioner

 

 

·          Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics from Pravara Rural Engineering College Loni, Pune University, India in 2004

o    Research / Project: PC Based 8 – PID Controller using Fuzzy Logic

·          Diploma in Industrial Electronics from V.P.M's Polytechnic, Thane, India in 2000

o    Research / Project: The Electronic JAM