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Rajneesh Chopra
Project Manager/Techinical Manager
NEW DELHI,DELHI
Summary
Result oriented techno-leadership professional having 18+ years of experience in Banking and other diverse domains. Expertise in leading geographically located teams, including guiding and managing the team member's development, career goals, performance reviews and inspire to improve. Delivered complex business value involving multiple stakeholders and inter-dependencies with other business and domains. A highly motivated individual lives by the core values of integrity and accountability ensuring delivery is to the highest standard. Experience in delivering end-to-end solutions for large organization.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Manager/Project Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2019 - Current
- Successfully remediated more than 100+ applications for ANZ Bank running on End of Life Infrastructure (EoL) to new infrastructure (on-prem, VCF, VMC and AWS)
- Liaised between business and technology units to manage delivery schedules for applications.
- Worked closely with customers to evaluate various types of risks such as impact, reputation and regulatory.
- Guided, coached and lead project teams, delegating tasks and evaluating performance and progression of project pace.
- Communicated cross-functionally with technology leaders across analysis, architecture, build, quality assurance, deployment and support teams on project execution.
- Created, managed and integrated application interoperability while coordinating updates and developing test cases.
- Communicated project status, delivering audience messages and change management with clients.
- Evaluated customer impact risk, reputation risk and regulatory risk.
- Managed deliverable estimates, negotiated resource conflicts and allocated resources.
- Increased employee productivity through training and mentorship.
Solution Specialist
Coriant GmbH & Co. KG (Infinera)
04.2014 - 04.2018
- Implemented corrective actions to fix root causes of various issues.
- Resolved customer issues quickly and efficiently to enhance overall customer satisfaction ratings.
- Identified issues through root cause analysis to implement corrective action.
- Provided top product quality control and inspection, eliminating downtime to maximize revenue.
- Worked for various Product Releases for 63xx family as Release Lead
- Optimize internal and external communications through weekly meetings, conference calls, and emails while serving as conduit between teams, departments, and management
Network Specialist
Nokia Siemens Networks
10.2012 - 04.2014
- Interface to Product Line and regional customer teams to create a customized transport solution for CSPs and ISPs.
- Preparing Optical Network proposals for telecom operators across the globe.
- Working with regional sales and account teams for analysis and evaluation of customer's network requirements and providing them network solutions.
- Planning and solution designing for Access, Metro, Regional, Core, Long Haul DWDM, SDH and OTN Networks, Management System and Services.
- Expertise on Optical Network Planning, Designing and Optimization tools.
- Providing inputs to R&D for features necessary in roadmap as per the market requirements.
- Creation and updating of product configurations for tendering, contracting and demand planning.
- Creating final customer presentations for End to End transport solutions
- Providing consultation to bidding teams from solution perspective and for answering technical queries as per the RFX's.
- Setting guidelines and Quality review processes of deliverables including Statement of Compliance (SoC),Bills of Quantity (BoQ), Technical Solution Descriptions (TSD), Service Solution Descriptions (SSD), Care Service Calculation, renewals and Network Deployment Calculations, Link Budget, Availability Calculation based on customer pain points.
Test Lead
FIBCOM India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2010 - 10.2012
- Managing Fibcom 63xx Product Family that includes SDH, WDM, OTN and Ethernet features project with help of Team of 10 testers.
- Planning the Test Lifecycle, Number of Resources and Time Lines for the current project as per the scope.
- Providing the input regarding the test flow and test Iterations to the test team as well as the other teams including the development teams.
- Training to team members and new employees, project update to Program Owner and providing initial details regarding the decisions for the scope of the program both financially and as per customer commitment.
- Automated and Manual Testing of Embedded software of SDH, OTN, DWDM, SONET & EoSDH equipment through various tests like. System Test, Smoke Test, Network Test, Max Test, Regression Test.
- Induction of “Perl Scripting” in automation and monitoring a dedicated team towards implementation of desired goals and specification as per Product Requirements ( For FIBCOM India Pvt. Ltd )
- Project postmortem and EPR analysis after completion of project and implementing shortfalls & EPR's in upcoming project.
- Product Approval initiative for the Marketing and the PLS(Product Launch Support) Department
- Service Pack and E-patch testing of previous covered projects.
Senior Test Engineer
Kring Tellabs India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2005 - 04.2010
- Planning the Test Lifecycle, Number of Resources and Time Lines for the current project as per the scope.
- Providing the input regarding the test flow and test Iterations to the test team as well as the other teams including the development teams.
- Training to team members and new employees, project update to Program Owner and providing initial details regarding the decisions for the scope of the program both financially and as per customer commitment.
- Automated and Manual Testing of Embedded software of SDH, OTN, DWDM, SONET & EoSDH equipment through various tests like. System Test, Smoke Test, Network Test, Max Test, Regression Test.
- Project postmortem and EPR analysis after completion of project and implementing shortfalls & EPR's in upcoming project.
- Product Approval initiative for the Marketing and the PLS(Product Launch Support) Department
- Service Pack and E-patch testing of previous covered projects
Member of Technical Staff
Logic Eastern India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2003 - 08.2005
- Used Rational Test Manager for making Test Plans and implementing the test cases provided using Test factory.
- Used Rational Robot for writing scripts and implementing external functionalities required.
- Used Rational Clear Quest for reporting Defects to the software team.
- Used Rational RequisitePro for penning down the requirements of the system and internal linking with the other Rational Tools.
- Used Rational Real Time for Code Coverage and Memory Profiling of the software code written.
- Rational GUI scripts for EMS Testing.
- C coding for using external functions with Rational VU Scripts
Education
High School Diploma -
Mahanagar Boys' Inter College
Lucknow 07.1993 - 1994.07
GED -
Mahanagar Boys' Inter College
Lucknow 07.1994 - 1996.07
Bachelor of Science - Computer Applications
Christian Degree P.G. College
Lucknow 08.1997 - 2000.07
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
K.L.E Society's Of Engineering & Technology
Belgaum 09.2000 - 2003.07
Skills
Project Management and Project Planning
Change Management
Employee Recruitment
Client Relationship Building
Technical consulting
Problem-solving aptitude
Decision-Making
Team Leadership
Self Motivation
Teamwork and Collaboration
Infrastructure Migration and remediation of End of Life applications for ANZ Bank
Cloud Migration (On-prem to VCF/VMC and VCF/VMC to AWS Cloud)
Perl Scripting
Beginner level at Machine Learning using Python
Rational (Rational robot, Test Manager, Requisite Pro, Rational Administrator, Rational Clear Quest & Rational Real Time)
Test Log, Remote test instrument
PVCS Tracker and Tera term pro / Hyper Terminal
JIRA ticketing
CVI, Pumpkin and LMIP Browser
SNMP Browser, MIB Browser ( for Layer1 and Layer2 Ethernet automation)
Expertise on telecommunication instrument like ANT20, ONT50, ANT5, ONT506, IXIA and N2X (for Ethernet, SDH and Fiber channel)
Operating Systems: MS-DOS, MS-Windows 9x, 2000
Real Time Operating Systems: VxWorks Version 202
Programming Languages: C, C, COBOL and Java
DBMS: DBASE III, FoxPro, RDBMS: Oracle, MS-Access, Visual FoxPro60
Application Software: Microsoft Office, Lotus, WS4, Visual Basic 60
Accomplishments
- HCL Talent Achiever's Award for FY21-22
- Automated migration from manual and traditional way to complete migration for 26 countries within 2 years with minimal Vendor support
- Acknowledged by Delivery Manager for single handedly completing migration of 33 website in a single application
- Promoted from Senior Technical Lead to Technical Manager within one year from joining.
- Expertise Release Lead. Have released more than 40+ applications within 2 years
Certification
IOT from Cognixia
Interests
Listening to Music
Watching movies
Enhancing Technical Skills to cope up with the growing Industry
Timeline
Technical Manager/Project Manager
HCL Technologies
11.2019 - Current
IOT from Cognixia
07-2019
Solution Specialist
Coriant GmbH & Co. KG (Infinera)
04.2014 - 04.2018
Network Specialist
Nokia Siemens Networks
10.2012 - 04.2014
Test Lead
FIBCOM India Pvt. Ltd.
05.2010 - 10.2012
Senior Test Engineer
Kring Tellabs India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2005 - 04.2010
Member of Technical Staff
Logic Eastern India Pvt. Ltd.
12.2003 - 08.2005
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications
K.L.E Society's Of Engineering & Technology
09.2000 - 2003.07
Bachelor of Science - Computer Applications
Christian Degree P.G. College
08.1997 - 2000.07
GED -
Mahanagar Boys' Inter College
07.1994 - 1996.07
High School Diploma -
Mahanagar Boys' Inter College
07.1993 - 1994.07
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