Pradeep AR, Lead Engineer  (Network)

Pradeep AR

Lead Engineer (Network)

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering
Experience
9 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 1 Months

Lead Engineer (Network) at MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2011 to August 2013

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS DURATION: SEP 11 TO AUG 13
Project: DAP Box Test
Feature: L3 Routing protocols (OSPF, RIP v1 & v2)
Designation: Lead Engineer (Network)

Role and Responsibility: -
➢ Leading a team for performing the New Feature and Regression Testing
➢ Review of a feature right from the requirements gathering stage. This included requirements review with the customer, feature design review, unit test case recommendation & results review
➢ Providing scope, resource and time estimates for projects presented to QA for testing.
➢ Developing test plans and approving test cases
➢ Verifying the Test Cases as per the Test Plan
➢ Managing the smooth implementation and testing of the application.

Technical Leader - Testing at ARICENT GROUP
  • India - Bengaluru
  • July 2010 to August 2011

Project : S1C Interface for MME
Designation: Technical Leader - Testing
Client : STARENT (CISCO)
Duration : JUL 10 - Aug 11
Product Description :
Designed exclusively for the wireless industry, the Cisco® ASR 5000 Chassis provides an ultra-high density solution for deployment in wireless carrier and operator environments. The ASR 5000 is a high-performance, carrier-grade platform that offers industry-leading wireless data capacity while enabling numerous integrated applications for additional revenue generation.
Role and Responsibility: -
 Leading a team for performing Regression for New Release/Patch Testing
 Providing scope, resource and time estimates for projects
 Verifying the Test Cases as per the Test Plan
 Executing the Test Cases
 Bug tracking using Bugzilla Tool

Senior System Engineer at IBM INDIA PVT LTD
  • India
  • September 2008 to June 2010

Project : GSM PRODUCT VERIFICATION
Designation: Senior System Engineer
Client : Nortel Networks
Duration : Sep 08 - Jun 10
Role and Responsibility: -
 Led the team for performing the Regression testing
 Led a team of four Engineers whose primary tasks is to ensure that current release features were intact w.r.t Advanced Service package involving Intelligent Network. Bugs were reported through Clarify.
 led a team of three Engineers whose primary tasks is to ensure that previous release features were intact irrespective of the codes in current release w.r.t Call-P involving Roaming scenarios. Bugs were reported through Clarify.
 Developing test plans and approving test cases
 Documenting, tracking, & communicating test plans, test results, analysis
 Managing the smooth implementation and testing of the application.
 Delivering & implementing the project as per scheduled milestones.
 Providing scope, resource and time estimates for projects presented to QA for testing and analysis.
 Providing weekly QA test status and progress reports as appropriate to top management .
 Verifying the Test Cases as per the Test Plan
 Co-ordinate with onsite team members to analyze whether the given requirements can be executed in the IBM lab environment.
 Co-ordinate with Project leads to identify various metrics involved
 Executing the Test Cases.
 Mentoring the team in better understanding of Test cases
 Active participation in commissioning Nortel NSS20/DMS 100 switches.

Network System Engineer at SASKEN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY LTD
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2005 to August 2008

Project : GNTS
Designation: System Engineer
Duration : Sep05 to Aug 08
Client : Nortel Networks, US

Role and Responsibility: -
 Level-2 Product Support for Nortel DMS 100/250 Switches andLightBridge Intelligent Network. Technical Issue Resolution of the problems escalated by Switch-NOC.
 Prepared test cases for both DMS nodes, IN node and executed the test cases.
 Simulating field issues in Sasken Test lab.
 Developed Test cases, configured the lab and executed the Test case specifically for testing ALCATEL Intelligent Network is interworking with DMS 100/250 switch with CAP3 enabled.
 Developed Test cases for testing Nortel’s patch BNG25, BNG50, and BNG60
 Active participation in Problem resolving/Product Testing on various issues like MSC/VLR/HLR/STP/USP/SDM Problems, Call Processing, Roaming/Handover Problems, SMSC/MMSC/VAS/IN inter-operability issues, Billing/GCDR Issues, Provisioning, Backup/Dump/Restoration Problems, HLR Mated Pair Automatic Cutover & Recovery, Network Signaling Issues, POI Interoperability Issues etc.
 Strong Knowledge in SS7 and CAP.
 Escalating and Inter-working with the Design team for product specific issues. Coordination with Packet Core and Access Core Team for problem resolution

Officer-Technical (CONSULTANT) at MERU CONSULTANCY LTD
  • India - Chennai
  • May 2004 to May 2005

Role and Responsibility:
 Operation and Maintenance (OA&M) of Ericsson Charging System 3.0 which includes CCN, SDP, MINSAT, VS, AIR, EMA.
 Daily Maintenance Activities like analyzing prepaid Reports for the customers, System Health Check, System Backup
 Support for implementation of new service logic for updated features
 Activities such as Subscriber distribution on IN for load balancing (SDP number series migration), IN upgradation, making changes in the system according to procedure provided by Planning team
 Tariff configuration and feature deployment according as required by customer
 Troubleshooted CCN CDR related issues & provided support to Revenue Assurance (RA) team.
Voucher Group ID Mapping, AIR, HLR and SOG configurations.
Configured & established signaling links between SDP, CCN, SCP, STP and MSC.
 Technical coordination with hardware vendors such as SUN, HP and the others for hardware upgrades and maintenance issues.
 Coordination with Core, NSS, OSS and VAS teams with initiative and responsibilities to ensure smooth operations of the nodes

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • at Rajalakshmi Engineering College
  • April 2004

BE (Batch - 2004) Branch: Electronics and Communication Engineering College: Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai.

Languages

Tamil
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

LTE (Training)
Training Institute:
MOTOROLA
Date Attended:
October 2011
OSPF, IP (Training)
Training Institute:
MOTOROLA
Date Attended:
October 2011

Hobbies

  • Photography
  • Driving