Asim Qazi, BSS Operations Specialist: Team Lead Postpaid Charging & Billing Operations

Asim Qazi

BSS Operations Specialist: Team Lead Postpaid Charging & Billing Operations

Telenor Pakistan

Location
Pakistan - Rawalpindi
Education
Master's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
19 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months

BSS Operations Specialist: Team Lead Postpaid Charging & Billing Operations at Telenor Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since May 2011

As a BSS/ Postpaid Billing Operations Specialist, I am responsible for managing Telenor Pakistan’s over-all postpaid billing activities. This
includes running day to day operations of billing system, trouble shooting and performing health checks. I am also responsible for configuring new product/price plan & discounts & liaise with vendors/business for all correspondence. The Key responsibilities includes:
- Supervising a team of Charging and billing professionals.
- Ensuring Core operation like Billing, Invoicing, Rating and Payment processing
- Data Analysis and Data Quality Management
- Assisting End Users by providing the solution of issues logged on Service Manager and the root cause analysis for a permanent fix.
- Identification and prevention of revenue leakages with the help of TRAP (Telenor Revenue Assurance Process)
- Conducting Analytical reviews with end user to gauge the Operational Excellence
- Managing Change Releases of BSS implementing complete SDLC
- Effective communication with vendors and End users
- Operational Process Automation

Technologies & Tool: Infinys Rating And Billing, Oracle 10g, DOC1, HP-UX Unix, Shell Script.

DWH & System-X Operations Executive at Telenor Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • May 2010 to April 2011

I was System-X and DWH operations team member, I as operations executive was responsible for overall operational activities. This includes running day to day operations of System-X, trouble shooting and performing health checks. I was also responsible for configuring new campaigns & liaise with vendors/business for all correspondence. My key responsibilities includes but were not limited to:
- Ensuring Core operation like Campaign Management, ETL Monitoring, Bonus Posting and accuracy
- Data Analysis and Data Quality Management
- Assisting End Users by providing the solution of issues logged on Service Manager and the root cause analysis for a permanent fix.
- Identification and prevention of revenue leakages with the help of TRAP (Telenor Revenue Assurance Process)
- Conducting Analytic reviews with end user to gauge the Operational Excellence
- Managing Upcoming business need in form of CR
- Effective communication with vendors and End users
- Operational Process Automation

System-X is Teradata based campaign management solution to enhance customer loyalty and reduce churn by up-sell / cross sell offers to Telenor Pakistan subscribers.

Team Lead Web Development at Advanced Communications
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 2005 to March 2010

I was in different roles during my stay at Advanced Communications, from a junior web developer to Team lead Web Development. Supervised a team of web developer/designers throughout the development of HostingController (http://hostingcontroller.com) product and its supporting utilities.

Hosting Controller provides full management to perform all administration tasks related to web server management, Server
Migration, DNS, Mail, Database connections, database backups and restoration, website statistics, sending email alerts and
Reports, complete management and integrated auto billing. All HostingController Web Panel users can efficiently manage and maintain their FTP & Web based sites. Hosting Controller provides the flexibility to use any operating system (Windows, Linux), Cluster Management with single UI, Built in Load Balancing Component and a fully customizable interface with Multi-lingual
support for all right-to-left and left-to-right languages.

Education

Master's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Butto Institute of Sciences and Technology
  • July 2005
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Punjab University
  • August 2001

Specialties & Skills

Web Development
System X
Telecom Applications
IT Operations
Billing Systems
Databases
Telecom BSS Operations
DWH & Campaign Management System Design & Operations
Microsoft based Web Development
Shell Script
IT Systems Automation

Languages

English
Intermediate
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

Six Sigma Yellow Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012

Hobbies

  • Travelling, Computer Based Games, Cricket