Khushwant Arora

Professional Summary & Applauds:-

• ISTQB Certified Test Management Professional with 16 years of experience in the Packet Core, RAN and ENM Projects with excellent portfolio of Product Validation and team management.

• Strong knowledge and experience in Test management & Team Leading. Led projects successfully by delivering scope within time, budget & quality.

• Working as Test Manager with Ericsson for mangling the Test Activities and Project Activities related to Ericsson RAN, Packet Core & ENM.

• Handled 7 Resources for Manual & Automation Testing Efforts.

• Responsible for resource planning, motivation and execution.

• Strong communications skills, and a demonstrated record of handling Team and Managing Testing Projects.

• Good interpersonal skills and experienced with managing relationships

• Measuring Testing activities and providing suggestions for continual improvement in processes & competency .Helped in Preparation of TM competency framework.

• Working Knowledge of Ericsson RAN ,ENM CORE products Like PCC/PCG , BBU, DUL, DUW & ENM.

• Worked for 5G Packet Core , RAN & ENM Project which involves Testing of PCC ,PCG & ENM products of Ericsson.

• Wide Expertise of Testing & Product validation with the Giants like Facebook, Capegemini & Ericsson.

• Resource Handling , Team Leading .

• Daily Task deals with Planning, Test case execution reports, Making Trouble (Bug) report, Execution Tracking, Coordination with Different Team for Testing.

• UAT Test Plan Preparation , Completion , Exit & demonstration to Customer .

• Managing Daily , Weekly & Monthly meeting with customer .

• RCA Preparation, Client Handling, Planning & co-ordination.

• Worked as a Technical Lead in RAKUTAN JAPAN for E2E testing of CISCO vEPC & vRAN.

• Worked as LTE Test Consultant for Facebook Open Cellular Project in APAC HQ Singapore & MPK California.

• ACE Award Winner for Outstanding Performance from Ericsson India Ltd for Q4 2010.

• Power Award Winner for Q1 2016.

• Winner of Flex trainer Award for E2E Network level Competence Program.

• Winner of WOW- Team Excellence Award from Altran India .

Project  History

Sep 2021 -Aug 2022 (5GC Signaling - Telefonica Germany)

• Managing Test Activities for 5G Core components like AMF/MME(PCC) , SMF/SGW (PCG), CCRC,NRF etc.
• Increasing Competence & domain Knowledge of Testers for 5G Signaling Domain.
• Prepared competency Framework for Grooming up new Testers.
• Managing AAT CCRC FT implementations & Testing .
• Test execution , Project Cordination ,Making daily Execution reports & Customer Interface for Testing Activities.
• UAT, Regression & Test Plan Preparation & Execution.

May 2021 -Aug 2021 (ENM Testing - Vodafone UK )

• Managing Test Activities for around 3300 Plus Test Cases .
• Team Handling of resources for Manual & automation Testing for ENM.
• Test case execution Reporting, Resource Handling & Stake holder Management.
• Project timelines were hard , but we successfully delivered the product with good quality Testing & it was appreciated by customer as well.

Rakuten Japan (Tech Lead-ALTRAN)

• Managing Test efforts for VRAN & vEPC for Rakuten Japan.
• Successfully implemented MEC, RDC , Dual Stack ,ICSR and IP pool Allocation Features for Rakuten LAB & Production environment .
• Create and manage plan for communications, providing formal and informal status updates to all relevant stakeholders .

Oct 2018 -Jul 2019 Facebook TIP

Open Source Project

• Integration, Trial,Testing for Facebook TIP project related to open cellular & Magma EPC .
• Successfully tested various Interface E2E Scenarios between EPC Core and RAN Open Cellular.
• Creating test Environment. Assigning resources & performing Feature/Functional Testing.
• Making Test case execution reports, Making Trouble (Bug) report, SWCR Tracking.

Dec 2017-Oct 2018 

E2E Competence Development Program

• Preparation of Inter Domain Competency Framework for all CSR handlers fram all major domains .
• A training program was build based on actual use cases of various Domain CSRs rather than usual theoretical trainings.
• This training program was appreciated by Ericsson India Education Academy & Awarded as well.

ISTQB

• Date of Birth: 07/11/86
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Indian