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Work History
Education
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Accomplishments
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Sahithya Ravichandran

Sahithya Ravichandran

Senior VOIP Engineer
Chennai,India

Summary

Senior Engineer with over 12 years of expertise in telecom software testing, customer support, and software implementation. Demonstrates a track record of operational excellence, leadership success, and a thorough understanding of the operational elements required for customer success.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Engineer

Servion Global Solutions Pvt Ltd
Chennai
03.2022 - Current
  • Implemented and managed a Cisco UCCE deployment across 13 countries for a major South African telecom provider.
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed UCCE solutions that met or exceeded customer expectations.
  • Created ICM Inbound and Outbound configurations and Configured Cisco Call Manager, CUSP, CUBE, CUIC, and CCMP
  • Responsible for collecting and configuring business configurations in UCCE system.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Senior Test Engineer

Door Sabha Nigam Limited
Chennai
05.2021 - 02.2022
  • Managed test activities and ensuring continuous improvement in the testing and deployment processes.
  • Collaborated with inter-departmental and operation teams to assess product usage and provided technical advice to improve the quality of engineering.
  • Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives.
  • Completed functional and regression tests of new software builds to assess performance and success of bug fixes.
  • Identified and tracked software defects and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
  • Provided necessary demos to deployment and operation teams on new features.
  • Prepared installer and documentation for deployment.
  • Trained junior testers in company standards, testing protocols and testing software

Senior Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
Chennai
10.2020 - 04.2021
  • Gathered requirements from various LOBs and developing ICM Inbound and Outbound configurations to solve complex business problems.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Agent Login and Call Flow in ICM and CVP systems.
  • Collaborated with Cisco Team to resolve technical issue escalated to Cisco.
  • Streamlined key process by implementing a method to improve efficiency.
  • Assisted and carrying out the change management process.

Senior Test Engineer

Telekonnectors LTD
Chennai
03.2019 - 10.2020
  • Participated in end-to-end activities such as planning, implementing, and testing various conferencing solution functionalities, as well as present test reports.
  • Supervised test activities and ensured continuous improvement by tracking, test cases and bug reports.
  • Prepared installer for deployment, created deployment documentation, and improved deployment processes on a continuous basis.
  • Trained junior testers in company standards, testing protocols and testing software.

Senior VOIP Engineer

tekVizion Voice Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Chennai
04.2017 - 02.2019
  • Created test topologies / improve existing topologies for various UC versions such as CUCM, CUC, IM&P, and Social Minor.
  • Proven ability to learn new product quickly and gained strong leadership skills by managing projects individually from start to finish.
  • Configured and integrated third-party UC applications with Cisco collaboration products, as well as test to certify the third-party applications, including detailed test report and configuration guide.
  • Developed new test cases and test plans for new application types, as well as revising existing test plans to meet customer needs.
  • Communicated directly with customers about status and issues from the requirement till completion.
  • Worked well in a team setting, providing support and guidance

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro Limited
Chennai
08.2010 - 09.2016
  • Developed and managed test topologies for various UCCE versions and incorporating new features.
  • Created comprehensive test strategy, test plan, test case to support testing objectives.
  • Tested functional and regression of new features or updates in comparison to existing UCCE and EIM-WIM solution.
  • Analysed and reproduced Customer Found Regression (CFR) and Customer Found Defect (CFD) with a root cause analysis report from QA perceptive.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues in lab setups, as well as assisted development and customer teams in reproducing customer-reported issues.
  • Developed and performed performance testing of UCCE and EIM-WIM solution to qualify the hardware and software with IOPS Data.

Education

Masters of Technology - Software Engineering

BITS Pilani
Rajasthan
04.2011 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Communication and Computer, Science

SASTRA UNIVERSITY
TamilNadu
06.2007 - 05.2010

Skills

Solution Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing, Exploratory Testing, Localization Testing, Performance Testing, Negative Testing, Installation Testing, Web Testing, Interoperability Verification Testing

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Accomplishments

· Received the "Prodigy" award for my involvement in Cisco's EIM-WIM testing activities.

· Acquired the "Feather in my cap" award for completing the testing of contact centre reporting at a rapid pace with high-quality.

· Reduced a test plan of 1000+ test cases to 350 test cases for use in regression and acceptance testing, thoroughly covering all product features, which supported in the discovery of 200+ defects in a release and Received client management's "Best productive engineer" award for discovering the most defects.

· Has successfully guided a three-person team through a critical stage of a product release.

· Tried localization testing in a customer environment and received positive feedback from client managers for the extensive coverage.

· Implemented test and bug tracking tools, resulting in a significant improvement in the team's process handling methods.

· Received Servion's individual contributor award within the first year of employment.

Timeline

Senior Engineer

Servion Global Solutions Pvt Ltd
03.2022 - Current

Senior Test Engineer

Door Sabha Nigam Limited
05.2021 - 02.2022

Senior Consultant

Capgemini Technology Services India Ltd
10.2020 - 04.2021

Senior Test Engineer

Telekonnectors LTD
03.2019 - 10.2020

Senior VOIP Engineer

tekVizion Voice Solutions Pvt. Ltd
04.2017 - 02.2019

Masters of Technology - Software Engineering

BITS Pilani
04.2011 - 05.2014

Senior Project Engineer

Wipro Limited
08.2010 - 09.2016

Bachelor of Science - Communication and Computer, Science

SASTRA UNIVERSITY
06.2007 - 05.2010
Sahithya RavichandranSenior VOIP Engineer