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Deepanshu Negi

Technical Lead Engineer- Telecom Product Validation
Gurugram,Harayana

Summary

Focused Product Validation Engineer, dedicated to staying apprised of all new engineering tools and techniques. Committed to applying emerging technologies to streamline product Validation and Customer Experiences. Adheres to ascribed business and engineering goals by driving constant process innovation and iterative improvements.

  • 14+ years of Telecom Product Validation/Testing/Automation Experience.
  • Cross-Functional Lead for Product Validation + Automation, Solution Testing.
  • Adept to Agile Environment: Automations/Tools/Scripts/Open Architectures/Open APIs - Network Simulations and Continuous Validations.
  • End to End testing of EMS, NMS, Packet/Optical Transport (PDH/TDM over Packet/CE services, SONET/SDH, OTN, DWDM) products
  • Telecom management protocols: TL1, SNMP, CLI, NETCONF, GRPC, REST
  • Traffic Generators (Ixia/Spirent/OMNIBER/DLW/ONT)
  • Scripting Languages : TCL/Python
  • Authoring High/Low Level Test Plans for various Product Features.
  • Responsible for Optimizing/Enhancing Automation Infra/Suites.

Overview

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6
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years of post-secondary education
14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead Engineer (P3) - Product Validation

Ciena
Gurugram, Haryana
10.2016 - Current

Current Project: Ciena 6500 Reconfigurable Line System (RLS)

Responsibilities:

  • Cross-Functional Prime for Product Validation + Automation Teams.
  • Lead Pseudo-code development for PV Regression Feature Automation suites, Automation Framework Enhancements, Automation Requirement Alignments, Progress Tracking, Automation Validations and PV TOIs.
  • Product Validation Automated Scripts Development.
  • Established and Developed Automation Assisted Manual Test (AAMT) infrastructure for usage over Large Scale Network Simulations for Hardening Activities.
  • Release Test Case Executions and Validations.

Applications:

  • Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
  • C-Band CDC ROADM
  • C+L-Band CDC ROADM
  • Features: Commissioning, Faults and Pinches, OTDR, PM, Alarms, Connection Validation, Photonics/Service Provisioning, ASE Management, SPLI, Wayside, ZTP, Licensing, Robustness, Performance and Stability along with NBI (CLI,Netconf, gRPC, Rest) coverage.

Project: Ciena 6500 Packet Transport System (PTS)

Responsibilities:

  • Authoring High/Low Level Feature Test Plans.
  • Performing Release Test Case Executions and Validations.
  • Product Validation Automated Scripts Development.

Features:

  • PDH/TDM over Packet/MPLS cloud
  • New Circuit Pack (1:N PDH Protection Card) Introduction and Validation

Project: Ciena Centaur

Responsibilities:

  • Authoring High/Low Level Feature Test Plans.
  • Release Test Case Executions and Validations.
  • Product Validation Automated Scripts Development.

Features:

  • OTN Protections
  • OSRP/Control Plane
  • New Circuit Pack (Wave Logic 5 Nano) Introduction and Validation

Module Lead Engineer (G8) - Product Validation

Cisco
Bangalore, Karnataka
11.2014 - 09.2016

Project: Cisco NCS4k (Scapa)

Responsibilities:

  • Authoring High/Low Level Feature Test Plans.
  • Release Test Case Executions and Validations.
  • Product Validation Automated Scripts Development.
  • Directed, mentored and monitored support engineers for improved Validations and Executions.
  • Optimized PV Automations during design review process.

Features:

  • TDM/Packet over OTN/DWDM
  • OTN Protections/GMPLS
  • Multi-chassis
  • Cisco IOS-XR software infra

Module Lead Engineer (P2B) - Product Validation

Ciena
Gurugram, Haryana
07.2012 - 11.2014

Project: Ciena Centaur

Responsibilities:

  • Authoring High/Low Level Feature Test Plans.
  • Performing Release Test Case Executions and Validations.
  • Analyzing/Troubleshooting and Reproductions of Customer Field issues.
  • Technical Trainings to new team members.

Features:

  • OTN switching (Embedded Sonet/SDH, CBR, ODUj)/Protections/TCM/OSRP-Control-Plane
  • Alarms/Co-relations/PM/Service-Provisioning
  • Robustness and Scale Tests

Senior Engineer (P2A) - Product Validation

Ciena
Gurugram, Haryana
10.2009 - 07.2012

Project: Ciena Core-Director

Responsibilities:

  • Co-Authoring High/Low Level Feature Test Plans.
  • Release Test Case Executions and Validations

Features:

  • OTN switching (Embedded Sonet/SDH, CBR, ODUj)
  • Sonet/SDH switching (Eth over Sonet/SDH, Linear/Ring Protections)
  • Alarms/Co-relations/PM/Service-Provisioning.
  • Robustness/Scale and Performance Tests.

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka
02.2008 - 10.2009

Project: NGADM - Alcatel Lucent

Responsibilities:

  • Release Test Case Executions and Validations

Features:

  • SDH switching (Eth over SDH, Linear/Ring Protections)
  • PDH services
  • Clock/Synchronization Functionality
  • Equipment protections
  • GUI and CLI interface

Project: OME-6500 - Nortel

Responsibilities:

  • Release Test Case Executions and Validations

Features:

  • SONET switching (Linear/Ring Protections)
  • Clock/Synchronization Functionality
  • GUI and CLI interface

Trainee - Telecom Product Validations

Wipro Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka
11.2007 - 01.2008

Project: Trainee Program

Responsibilities:

  • Training: Testing Services in Telecom Industry
  • Classroom based Readiness Programs and Assessments.

Subjects:

  • Fundamentals of Telecom - Advanced Optical Networks (SONET, SDH), WDM, and DWDM.
  • Testing Concepts
  • Basics of Pearl and TCL/TK
  • Basics of QTP

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Krishna Institute of Engineering And Technology
Ghaziabad
08.2003 - 05.2007

Senior Secondary School -

Sherwood College
Nainital
03.2002 - 04.2003

Higher Secondary School -

Sherwood College
Nainital
04.2000 - 03.2001

Skills

Product Validation

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Awards

  • Thank You Spot Award - Core Value: Outstanding People : Differentiated Automated contributions to Release.
  • Applause Spot Award - Core Value: Customer First: Helping a different team with Network Simulations and Commissioning.
  • Bronze Spot Award : Exceptional initiatives, contribution and mentor-ship during Release.
  • Applause Spot Award - Core Value: Outstanding People : Exceptional Release planning and Executions.
  • Applause Spot Award - Core Value: Innovation : Developing Scripts for PV Team usage.
  • Thank You Spot Award - Core Value: Innovation : For improvisations on Customer Issue Reproducibility processes.

Timeline

Technical Lead Engineer (P3) - Product Validation

Ciena
10.2016 - Current

Module Lead Engineer (G8) - Product Validation

Cisco
11.2014 - 09.2016

Module Lead Engineer (P2B) - Product Validation

Ciena
07.2012 - 11.2014

Senior Engineer (P2A) - Product Validation

Ciena
10.2009 - 07.2012

Project Engineer

Wipro Technologies
02.2008 - 10.2009

Trainee - Telecom Product Validations

Wipro Technologies
11.2007 - 01.2008

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Krishna Institute of Engineering And Technology
08.2003 - 05.2007

Senior Secondary School -

Sherwood College
03.2002 - 04.2003

Higher Secondary School -

Sherwood College
04.2000 - 03.2001
Deepanshu NegiTechnical Lead Engineer- Telecom Product Validation