Rekha Raveendran
TECHNICAL MANAGER
Pune,Maharashtra
Summary
PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT
- Technology professional with 11 years of focused experience in Testing of Wireless (Wi-Fi, WiMax, 2g, 3g, 4g), Network protocols (L2, L3, L7), Cable broadband, EMS/NMS and Project Management.
- Having extensive experience in leadership role with excellent negotiation and communication skills, capable of providing authoritative guidance and advice to both in house and third party teams.
- Experience in managing a technical team, average size of 23 both onsite and offshore.
- Experience in project metrics and audits.
- Extensive experience in forming a new team from the scratch.
- Extensive experience in handling customer escalations and account management.
- Experience interacting with direct customers, technical engineers ,managers and other stakeholders across regions.
- Extensive experience in entire project life cycle, requirements gathering, planning, estimation, identifying risk, project tracking,execution and post release activities.
- Having good understanding of the full development life cycle & QA process
- Having extensive experience in translating business processes into clear and comprehensive QA test plan
- Experience in team building and training new test engineers
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates
4
4
Language
Work History
Full Time Parenting - Stay at Home Mom
Private Family Office
Pune, Maharashtra, India
07.2015 - Current
- Skills gained include working under intense pressure as well as superior efficiency of managing tasks within constantly changing and unforgiving timelines.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
- Worked flexible hours across night, weekend and holiday shifts.
- Maintained my link with industry by completing Foundations of Project Management ,VMware Data Center Virtualization - Core Technical Skills for Taara and still willing to learn more.
- Excellent teacher and trainer for a highly energetic 6 year old daughter.
Technical Manager
TECH MAHINDRA - CISCO
Chennai , Bangalore, Pune , Mumbai
12.2012 - 06.2015
- Managing team of Test Engineers for Cisco Web Element Manager
- Responsible for overall management of test team
- Preparing test plan & test Cases based on the system requirement, Preparing Risk Analysis, Reviewing Test Case and Defect - RCA, and Traceability Requirement Matrix
- Track all activities against plan and co-ordinate execution of this plan.
- Provides regular and accurate reports to stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Responsible for conducting Reviews of test cases prepared by the Team.
- Ensures adherence to test schedule and tracks it on continuous basis.
- Ensures timely completion of system testing with 100% coverage.
- Monitors system testing progress, inform project management for major technical issues and making recommendations on their resolution
- Working with CISCO Onsite Engineers for testing coordination
- Publishing test results in TestDb and logging defects with CDETS
- Identifying knowledge gaps and arranging Training
- Developing and Managing WIKI pages for current project
- Collating different project metrics for trend analysis
- Ownership on Delivery Excellence Initiative
- Ownership Post Harvest Meeting, Project Review Meeting, Project Audits
- Hands on experience working on ASR5k device and testing of PDSN, Femto, LTE, SGSN, GGSN and MCRDBS
- Handling customers from different geographies on support cases in deployment.
- Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources.
- Managed implementation of new technological improvements resulting in increased efficiency.
- Managed deliverable estimates, negotiated resource conflicts and allocated resources.
Test Lead
MINDTREE - RADISYS CAVIUM
Bangalore
02.2008 - 03.2010
- Functionality testing of data path software on the AMC Card.
- Performance, Functionality tests with IxExplorer & Smart bits.
- Test case documentation & updation in test link.
- Client Interactions for the bugs related to data path software.
- Preparation of weekly and monthly status report.
Validation Engineer
C-Dot Alcatel Research Centre
Chennai, TAMILNADU
09.2006 - 01.2008
- Interoperability testing of CPE with various BS in an end to end network environment.
- Participated in the first base band integration of CARC CPE with Alcatel BS at Stuttgart.
- Test planning & Execution for IOT, Wimax protocol conformance & Application testing.
- Performing stress & load tests with IXIA tools.
- Worked with Protocol Conformance Tester (Anite) for Wimax Certification purpose.
- Exposure to TTCN3 scripting language.
- Client Interactions for fixing various software related issues.
Design and Development Engineer
TATA ELXSI -Stretch Inc
Chennai, TAMILNADU
04.2006 - 09.2006
- Identification of Test cases & test data for MS Coding of Main script in TCL which involves the following activities.
- Initializing BSMAC through main script.
- Executing range/set of MS test cases based on run time input specified
- Logging test results based on the groups of test cases executed.
- Conformance Testing of VxWorks based Atheros AP.
Design and Development Engineer
TATA ELXSI -Atheros
Chennai
06.2005 - 03.2006
- Functionality Testing of Atheros AP to test various features associated with a VxWorks oriented Atheros AP like MBSSID, Extended Security Conformance Testing of Atheros AP over various 802.11 standards viz.,802.11a/b/g, 802.11d, 802.11e, 802.11i.
- Preparation & Execution of Atheros's System test plan for MAT, Extended Security , WPA, WPA2 Interoperability Test Plans (AP & STA)
- Execution of Designing a consolidated topology to fit in TELTAF framework into the existing topologies setup above for automation purpose.
Application Engineer
SLASH SUPPORT- Netgear
Chennai, TAMILNADU
01.2004 - 03.2005
- Web testing of the 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g standards ,Wi-fi Wireless Routers & Access Points
- Functionality testing of the Application Software's for the 802.11 a/b/g standards Wireless Cards (PCI & PCMCIA), Routers & APs.
- Setting up & maintaining the test bed for defect reproduction.
- Technical support for Netgear WLAN Devices.
Education
B.E - ECE
07.1999 - 05.2003
Skills
Network Protocol Testing
Wireless Testing
NMS/EMS Testing
Cable Broadband
Python Scripting
Technical project planning
Agile project management
Risk mitigation planning
Documentation Management
Planning and Coordination
Product release
Test Automation
Quality Assurance Testing
Additional Information
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
- Best Performance Award at Slash Support Pvt Ltd
- CPE DR4 Achievement Award at C-Dot Alcatel Research Centre
- Team Spot Award at Mind Tree Ltd
- Pat on the back Award at Tech Mahindra Ltd
- Best Team Award at Tech Mahindra Ltd
- Valuable Team Player Award at Tech Mahindra Ltd
Certification
VMware Data Center Virtualization - Core Technical Skills for Taara
Timeline
Foundation of Project Management by Google
05-2022
VMware Data Center Virtualization - Core Technical Skills for Taara
03-2022
Full Time Parenting - Stay at Home Mom - Private Family Office
07.2015 - Current
Technical Manager - TECH MAHINDRA - CISCO
12.2012 - 06.2015
Certified Wireless Security Professional by Planet 3 Wireless Inc.
02-2010
Test Lead - MINDTREE - RADISYS CAVIUM
02.2008 - 03.2010
Validation Engineer - C-Dot Alcatel Research Centre
09.2006 - 01.2008
Design and Development Engineer - TATA ELXSI -Stretch Inc
04.2006 - 09.2006
Certified Wireless Network Associate by Planet 3 Wireless Inc
02-2006
Design and Development Engineer - TATA ELXSI -Atheros
06.2005 - 03.2006
Application Engineer - SLASH SUPPORT- Netgear
01.2004 - 03.2005
Periyar University - B.E, ECE
07.1999 - 05.2003