Nadeem Ahmad
New Delhi
Summary
Enthusiastic and analytical AI/ML and Automation solutions Professional with over 13 years of successful career with diverse roles distinguished by commended performance and proven results across Telecom BSS/OSS domain In-depth knowledge in Azure, Kubernetes, Intelligent Network, 5G, Network Slicing, NFVI, Open Stack, ECCD, CEE, SDN, IMS, VoLTE, VoWIFI, VAS, Virtualization, CORE Network, Charging/Billing Product Configurations Led architecture and design efforts; developed and maintained application architectures for various business functional areas; resolved integration and interface issues between various applications or systems with focus on optimizing software performance and scalability Excellent Track record in planning, designing and implementing the integration process as well as creating documentation for the process Established and enforced Standard Test Processes & Deliverables (including defect management and quality metric reporting) within the gated process to streamline testing & support various testing efforts Built, managed and delivered project management of multiple practices across diversified cultural locations; vast exposure in developing, maintaining, testing and releasing solutions Interacted with the client's business and IT teams to gather, define, clarify and refine requirements; guided the architecture and design of applications
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Lead
Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
NOIDA
05.2016 - Current
- Managing E2E solution delivery starting from requirement gathering to feasibility study, Impact analysis and then design, implementation, testing till production roll-out
- Engaged in business configuration for SDP, AIR and testing for the same
- Acting as the Lead System Tester of Business Configuration and preparing HLD & LLD
- Working with revenue assurance teams
- Writing customer questionnaire & solution document
- Studying and analysing customer requirements - FRS (Feature requirement specification), DS (Design Specification)
- Creating test strategy (types of testing, rounds of testing, tools), Use case and Test Scenario Analysis
- Analysing interfaces between various Products, Preparing Integration Test Strategy for IOT and performing impact analysis
- Reporting defect found during the System Testing and follow-up with Defect-Fixing including Re-Testing and Regression Testing to ensure the correct Defect Fix
- Preparing Version Test Report (VTR) for each round of Manual & Automation test execution
- Liaising with customers to solve the queries and supporting them during system configuration
- User Acceptance Testing of Basic Services & Features and inform R&D about any functional gap between the requirement
- Identifying technical and business processes design gaps and risks in any proposed solution with the ability to further add solutions to those gaps and risks
- Working on CBiO end to end solution analysis test design and test execution including BSCS
- Developing automation tools
- Working as 5G & Cloud Instructor for BSS & Charging Team
- Working on Python scripts.
Implementation & Integration Engineer
Megasoft Ltd.
Hyderabad
02.2014 - 04.2016
- Engaged in business configuration, integration, configuration verification, troubleshooting
- Configured business by completing end-to-end business configuration for new requirements such as new offer-based charging including PAM, DA, Rating, Policy, SDD trees, and so on SMA configuration
- Made script to fasten the delivery and saved time and cost.
Software Test Engineer
Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
02.2011 - 02.2014
- Solution analysis, test template for mobile Post-paid, fixed lines & Test Design and implementation for mobile Post-paid, Pre-paid, fixed lines and Supporting on site team
- Solution analysis with onsite team for all test scenarios
- Finding feasibility & clarity for every single test case
- Doing E2E Test design for all feasible test cases
- Supporting team members to understand Rating scenarios in CBiO Test design and saved time
- Providing deliverable on time and followed the time lines very strictly
- Using confluence and Jira from offshore
- End to end test execution including API/web service.
Education
B.Tech. (Electronics and Communication) -
Aligarh Muslim University
01.2010
M.Tech.(AI ML) -
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)
Skills
- Solution Architecture
- Integration Management
- Software Testing
- Project Management
- Requirement Mapping & Gathering
- IT Solution Designing
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk / Contingency Management
- Team Building & Leadership
- Domain/Protocol Knowledge: Prepaid Charging, Interconnect Billing Configuration, Prepaid Product Configuration, Business Configuration, IN Call flow, CAMEL, OSI Model, Telecom GSM Architecture, Telecom IN (OCS/BSS), Telecom Security, CBiO, SS7, CAP, INAP, MAP, ISUP, Diameter (Gx Gy and Gy Interface), AAA, Sy/ESy/Rx/Ro, DCCA, CC-API, UCIP, VSIP, RPC, CIP/IP, SDLC, STLC, VoLTE, IMS, DRA, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), SOAP (WEBSERVICE), Revenue Manager, Cloud Fundamentals, Hypervisor, vCenter, VSwitch, VMotion, ESXi, VMware, Open stack, VNF, NFVI, TCP, UDP, 5G, Public Cloud, HTTP/2, N28, N40, NCHF
- Database: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, SQL
- Operating Technologies: Windows Family, Linux, Unix
- Tools: FTP (FileZilla), Secure CRT, PL/SQL, Xmanager, Toad, SOAP UI, UltraEdit, Diameter parser, Putty, JIRA, VSphere VM, DB Visualizer, Wireshark, WinSCP, REST
- Software Methodology: V-Model & Agile methodology
- Testing Methods: Manual Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) or Acceptance Test Procedure (ATP), Version Upgrade Testing
- Languages: Python, Java, Jason
Certification
- Scrum Fundamentals certified credentials
- AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt
- Rackspace Cloud University Certificate
- Digital Marketing Associate
- Corporate Sales Associate
- Ericsson Certified Associate - Ericsson 5G Core Certification
- Ericsson Certified Associate - Ericsson Cloud Certification
- Ericsson Certified Associate - IMS (ECP-303) Certification
- Aviatrix Certified Engineer - Multi-Cloud Networking Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Notableaccomplishments
- Highest category Ericsson Business Impact Award
- Received the certificate of appreciation award for outstanding performance from region in Ericsson
- Bagged The Maestro Excellence Award for most compelling service delivery solution of the year in Ericsson
- Executed Al Madar Project with extraordinary business impact and cost saving
- Secured appreciations from TuneTalk technical team for contributions resolving issues
- Valued with Appreciations for providing support to Airtel Pune managing critical charging issues as well as handling Airtel Jersey Post Release Projects
- Power Award: Q2, Year 2020
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 08/20/84
Languages
- Malay
- English
- Urdu
- Hindi
- Arabic (basic)
Projects
DNA 5GC OCS, Finland, Solution Architect, Charging System, Sept 2021 - Present, Managing customer requirements, PDU interaction, change request handling, proposing cost efficient solution to customer involving Ericsson and 3pp products., Working and knowledge of CNIS, Impact Analysis, Solution Design of 5G OCS & cCAF, Solution Design related support for CAF20.1-CAF21.0-CAF22.2 upgrade, E2E functionality check after upgrade, CAF configuration., Testing via Robotics framework, Answering customer questions, Troubleshooting, deployment. CAF (Charging Access Function) 21 DVA, SDU India, Softbank 5GC, Japan, May 2021 - Sept 2021, Working and knowledge of NFVI architecture including Ericsson CCD, NFVI Management domains (FCAPS), Using Ericsson Orchestrator & NFV ETSI MANO, Working in CEE environment & fully aware of OpenStack components, Used Cloud SDN switch (CSS), In Softbank 5GC Solution, CGF Architecture in Commercial Lab as well as Commercial (Production) Setup will comprise of multiple Ericsson Mediation HA Clusters deployed via E-VNFM over CEE. Evolved Virtual Network Function Manager (E-VNFM), will be integrated with Ericsson Mediation (EM) deployed on CEE, Testing all Features of 5G, Attending meetings with all stakeholders & HELPING team in troubleshooting via TCPDUMP of http/2, Working in this project for CAF (Charging Access Function) Installation, Configuration, verification, UAT, Impact Analysis & Business Configuration, For Alarm Softbank used PFOS just like SNPM and ENM tool used for alarm & Probing/active probing Airtel Kenya Post-paid Convergence & SACC Optimization, Solution Architect, Charging System, May'2020 - Jan'2021, Led end-to-end SAPC related business configuration, validation, configuration verification, troubleshooting and Jira administration, Analyzed BC sheet and LLD/HLD, Mentored team & clarified doubts of monitoring team and supporting MS team in solving issues, Verified business configuration for Post-paid convergence and New Business configuration for SACC Optimization including PAM, DA, Rating, Policy & SMA configuration, Used automation tools as a team available in N365 with right consciousness which is exceptional. Solved issues raised by testing team and answered queries raised by region and customer Airtel, Kenya using ENM for Probing and alarm Veon Banglalink AIR&SDP Business Configuration, Bangladesh, Solution Architect, Charging System, Sep'19 - Mar'2020, Engaged in business configuration, integration, configuration verification, troubleshooting, Configured business by completing end-to-end business configuration for new requirements such as new offer-based charging including PAM, DA, Rating, Policy, SDD trees, and so on SMA configuration, Made script to fasten the delivery and saved time and cost AMX Colombia Test Design CS, Solution Architect & Test Design Engineer, Charging System, Since Jun'19, Solution analysis, test template for mobile Post-paid, fixed lines & Test Design and implementation for mobile Post-paid, Pre-paid, fixed lines and Supporting on site team, Solution analysis with onsite team for all test scenarios, Finding feasibility & clarity for every single test case, Doing E2E Test design for all feasible test cases, Supporting team members to understand Rating scenarios in CBiO Test design and saved time, Providing deliverable on time and followed the time lines very strictly, Using confluence and Jira from offshore, End to end test execution including API/web service Zain Jordan VoLTE & VoWIFI SDP BC, Solution Architect & Integration Engineer, Charging System, Mar'19 - May'19 MT CAR CS 17 Expansion, CAR, Solution Architect & Integration Engineer, Charging System, Sep'18 - Mar'19 IDEA IN Expansion, India, Integration Engineer, SDP I&C, Feb'18 - Mar'18 Zain Static Changes in IVR, KSA, Senior Integration Engineer, Jan'18 - Jan'18 OOREDOO HXC Swap, KUWAIT, Solution Architect & Integration Engineer, Dec'17 - Jan'18 Zain ADM work in Business Configuration, KSA, Solution Architect & Integration Engineer, ADM work in Business Configuration, May'17 - Oct'17 Zain Single Rating System, KSA, Integration Engineer, Jan'17 - Mar'17 ViVa IN SWAP, ViVa Dominicana, Integration Engineer, Nov'16 - Dec'16 MTN-CI IN Swap, West Africa, Integration Engineer, Oct'16 - Nov'16 TUNETALK SDN BHD, Malaysia, Implementation & Integration Engineer, Feb'14 - Apr'16 Bharti Airtel Limited, India, Software Test Engineer, Jul'11 - Feb'14 NCELL BSS, Nepal, Associate Software Test Engineer, Feb'11 - Jul'11
Timeline
Technical Lead
Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
05.2016 - Current
Implementation & Integration Engineer
Megasoft Ltd.
02.2014 - 04.2016
Software Test Engineer
Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2011 - 02.2014
B.Tech. (Electronics and Communication) -
Aligarh Muslim University
M.Tech.(AI ML) -
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)
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