Pragyandipta Mahapatra (+91) 797-864-8158

[email protected]
Bangalore

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

To work in a competitive environment that effectively utilizes my analytical, interpersonal, leadership and
organizational skills to conceive and achieve solutions. The solutions which help the organization in not
only meeting its targets, but also allowing it to grow, thereby, enhancing my own skills as an individual
and as a key player in the organization's development.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 11+ years of experience in the field of Telecom testing and operations of Telecom projects.

 Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience on 4G-EPC nodes such as PGW, SGW, MME, SGSN,
PCRF and OCS.

 Good working knowledge on 5G nodes such as SMF, UPF, AMF, NRF, UDM and PCF.

 Good experience on verification of IMS node such as P/I/SCSCF, BGCF, MGCF, MGW, IBCF, HSS
and TAS.

 Good experience on feature testing, end-to-end testing and integration testing of LTE/VoLTE
network of AT&T. Hands on experience on troubleshooting issues found in production environment
in the Night of Lunch.

 Extensive experience on B-VoIP and IMS product SIT and End-to-End testing in lab and production
environment.

 A Solid and challenging career in Telecom Software Development, Testing and deployment.

 Good experience in Lab Network Designing, reproducing customer issues and troubleshooting.

 Good experience on NFV (iaas), SDN –Controller, troubleshooting and repairing of vNFs.

 Good experience in Creating/ managing Virtual Machines, Red-hat Open stack-cloud Deployment &
Administration with HP GEN8 (Hardware).

 Basic knowledge on Kubernetes, Docker and hands on experience on containerized platform.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Windows, RHEL, CentOS

Operating Environments

Telecom Domain VOIP, IMS, 4G-LTE, VoLTE , 5G

Cisco: IMS ASR5k , Broadsoft (BVOIP softwares), Ericsson SBG/BGF, ALU eNB
Product Knowledge Samsung MME/S-PGW/SMF/AMF/NRF/UPF

E2E Network Knowledge AT&T VoLTE N/W, AT&T Hosted VoIP N/W
Navtel (EXFO), EAST (Nethawk) , BroadSoft UC-one Soft clients,
Tools & Utilities Avaya One X client, Xlite, IRIS, JDSU, QXDM, Landslide, Splunk and Nagios XI.
Scripting language TCL/TK, Python

Bug Tracking Tool JIRA, HP QC

Agile Process Software Rally, TMATS

Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
Red-hat Open stack

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
 Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from Biju Pattnaik University of Technology
(BPUT) in 2006.

Experience Details:

 Currently working as a Technical Lead in Aricent Technology, Bangalore (Karnataka). (2018

Oct to till date)

 Previously worked as a Technical Architect in Tech Mahindra Limited, Bangalore (Karnataka).

(2012 Dec to 2018 Oct)

 Previously worked as a Principal Quality Analyst in EXFO ELECTRO-OPTICAL ENGINEERING

INDIA PVT ltd, Pune (Maharashtra). (2008 Dec to 2012 Nov)

Project Details:
Project #1 Current Project

Project Name : Samsung vEPC and 5G core SVT

Project Duration : Oct 2018 to till date
Domain : 4G, 5G
Client : JIO, KT, SKT, LGU & 3UK
Role : Technical Lead
Test Area : Functionality and performance testing

Project Description:

Samsung's Mobile Packet Core system is composed of both a Packet Core Controller and a Packet Core
Gateway. Each component integrally supports multiple radio network technologies including 2G, 3G, and
LTE simultaneously, while providing combined MME/SGSN and S-GW/P-GW/GGSN functionalities,
respectively. Samsung’s Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) provides operators the flexibility they need to
manage the flood of IoT and user device traffic. Samsung has already developed four 5G Nodes such as
SMF,AMF, UPF, NRF and NSSF in both virtualized and containerized platform.
The SVT testing scope includes:

In 5G core : Testing of all new features of SMF,UPF, AMF, NRF and NSSF.

In 4G core: Writing TCs and testing of customer MRs and regression testing of MME/vMME, S-PGW/vGW-
C/vGW-U before all major releases.

My Responsibilities:
 1. Designing and reviewing of test cases for all new features of 5G nodes - SMF, UPF and NRF.

2. Involved in Manual Testing of SMF, UPF and NRF features in both virtual and containerized
platform.

3. Involved in system verification testing of S-PGW/vGW-C/vGW-U features for different customers.

4. Involved in the EPC core SIT of all major patches released to different customers.

5. Providing customer support in case of any field issue in 4G.

6. Defect tracking – logging defects and tracking the defects to closure.

Project#2 (worked at Onsite (Austin, USA) till April 2017)

Project Name : AT&T Virtualized Collaborate B-VoIP network Testing

Project Duration : March 2015 to Oct 2018
Domain : VoIP, IMS, Virtualization
Protocols Used : SIP, Diameter, UDP, TCP, RTP, H248, SMTP, XMPP, SNMP, XCAP
Client : AT&T, Austin, Texas
Role : Technical Architect
Test Area : Design Validation Testing, End to End testing

Project Description:

AT&T legacy Hosted VoIP networks provides a hosted IP Solution suitable for Business markets. The goal
of current project is to consolidate all existing AT&T Hosted Voice services on a common virtualized
platform. In this project AT&T deploys a new hosted voice service which will consolidate the existing
business IP Hosted voice services onto a single, common, scalable Cloud Environment which is managed
by OpenStack. AT&T Hosted Communications VoIP Platform is composed of Cisco/Broadsoft, Ericsson
Juniper vNFs and pNFs and offers services to AT&T Enterprise/Business Customers.

My Responsibilities:

Lab Design Validation Testing:-

 Preparation of Openstack heat templates, environment files and SDN-C files.
 Instantiation of all lab VMs on ATT’s SDN using Openstack Heat templates through AT&T ECOMP
Self-Serve software such as ASDC and VID.
 Creation of VM snapshots using nova and glance to backup application state into glance images
periodically. 
 Installation of Cisco/Broadsoft VOIP applications on the VMs using Broadsoft NFM.
 Maintenance and Basic System Health check of VMs which includes resource usage, storage, VM
sizing, Network configurations, Connectivity, Redundancy, Security Hardening, Alarms & Logs
Verification, VM failure testing VM image Backup & Recovery.
Service Validation Testing:-
 Writing and reviewing test cases for AT&T collaborate BVoIP Network services and calls.
 Collaborate BVOIP End to End call flow testing using various IP phones (Polycom, Cisco, Aastra)
and AT&T branded Cisco/Broadsoft UC-one Soft clients and TeamOne client.
 AT&T Collaborate new service testing i.e. Multi-Party video conference, My room chat session,
SMS, Push Notification for incoming calls and chat using google/apple servers, federation with 3rd
party (such as Skype for Business), Hub Integration with Google services for Collaborate soft
phones, Call recording using Dubber, CALEA, LDAP, Xcap over Ut interface, various supplementary
services: such as MOH, CFU, CFB, CFN, Call transfer, Call center, Call Park etc.
 Performance / spike testing of Broadsoft AS and NS.
 Troubleshooting the UC-one issues and Collaborate service issues by involving Cisco Engineers.
Project #3 (Worked at Onsite, Atlanta, USA)
Project Title : AT&T VoLTE n/w Testing
Project Duration : August 2013 to March 2015
Organization : Tech Mahindra
Client : AT&T, USA
Domain : Wireless (LTE & SIP/IMS)
Test Area : End-to-End Testing

Project Description:

LTE (Long Term Evolution) is introduced in the AT&T mobile network recently. LTE service
implementation happens in various phases for various services. Testing scope includes testing of
end-to-end network functionalities across all network elements and testing of various 4G mobile
services including broadband and voice services in various phases.

My Responsibilities:

As a senior test Engineer for the AT&T LTE Lab Testing, involved in the following activities:

 Test plan design, preparation, reviews and execution of test cases for the VoLTE network.
 Involved in End to End testing of LTE and VoLTE features in maintenance window for post volte
lunch testing at different cities of USA.
 Actively involved in troubleshooting the live issues found in Network on the night of lunch.
 Testing of VOLTE scenarios i.e. IMS Registration, Re-Registration, De-Registration, MTM, MTL,
CSFB, SRVCC, Policy & Charging control functionality and Supplementary features [CFU, CFNR,
CFNRc, CFB, Call Hold and Conference] of VoLTE network.
 Testing of LTE scenarios i.e. LTE Attach/Detach, Dedicated Bearer activation/Deactivation, TAU,
RAU, IRAT-HO, X2 and S1-HO of LTE network.
 Defect tracking – logging defects and tracking the defects to closure.

Project #4

Project Title : CISCO (IMS MITG ASR5K Testing)

Project Duration : December 2012 to August 2013
Organization : Tech Mahindra
Client : CISCO
Platforms : Linux, starOS
Tools : Mistle, ATS (CISCO proprietary)
Protocols Used : SIP, Diameter, SDP, UDP, TCP, SCTP, RTP/RTCP/SRTP and MSRP
Responsibility : Quality Analyst

Project Description:

Starent Networks’ Session Control Manager (SCM) provides IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) capabilities
while providing a migration path to a complete IMS architecture. The Session Control Manager is a
software upgrade to the company’s industry leading ST16 Intelligent Mobile Gateway. Cisco ASR 5000 SCM
consists of an IETF-compliant SIP Proxy and Registrar, a 3GPP IMS-compliant Proxy Call Session Control
Function (P-CSCF), an Interrogating Call Session Control Function (I-CSCF), a Serving Call Session Control
Function (S-CSCF), an Emergency Call Session Control Function (E-CSCF), a Breakout Gateway Control
Function (BGCF), and an Access Border Gateway (A-BG). This network element performs SIP routing,
translation and mobility, admission control, authentication, and registration; admits or denies packet
network access based on pre-established policies and procedures; performs localized policy selection and
enforcement for rapid decisions; and provides
multimedia call detail records.
My Responsibilities:

 Developing the automation scripts using Tck/Tk & python.

 Testing IMS entity P/I/S-CSCF (ASR5K), communication with HSS, CDF, PCRF and AS for different
SIP/Diameter signaling flows.
 Executing the Test cases related to Registration, Subscription, Basic Calls and different
supplementary services using MISTLE tool.
 Testing the Diameter Accounting Request/ Answer Avp’s for ACR-EVENT, ACR-START, ACR-STOP &
ACR-INTERIM records towards CDF.
 Testing the Diameter AAR/AAA Avp’s towards PCRF
 Testing the different scenario's using NAT & BRIDGE mode procedure in IMS network running on
ASR5K
 Bug Tracking and reporting using work request tool

Project #5

Project Title : EXFO VOIP and IMS simulator (Navel Interwatch) testing.
Project Duration : December 2008 to Nov 2012
Organization : EXFO ELECTRO-OPTICAL ENGINEERING INDIA PVT Ltd
Client : CISCO India, ALU, SONUS, ACME Packets, Juniper
Platforms : Windows XP, Solaris, Linux
Tools : Navtel (IW-M7, IW-R14 and IW- QA-604), Wireshark
Protocols Used : SIP, SIP-T, SIP-I, Diameter, Megaco, SDP, UDP, TCP, SCTP,
RTP/RTCP/SRTP and MSRP
Responsibility : Quality Analyst

Project Description:

EXFO’s InterWatch (Navtel) is a powerful test platform designed for today’s voip and IMS network. It
can generate up to 4000 calls per second using a single chassis and be scaled to support 256000 unique
emulated endpoints. Some of its key features are VoIP and IMS device and network testing , Session
border controller, security gateways and border gateway function testing , IMS P/S/I-SCSCF and HSS
testing, Presence and IP Centrex application server testing , Packet Cable CMS testing ,VoIP proxy and
registrar testing , Voice, video and DTMF generation and analysis feature, load, regression, performance
and scale testing. Below are some applications of the Interwatch:

SIPFlex: Complete test lifecycle coverage: feature, negative, load, regression, interoperability and
scalability testing for any SIP-based network elements such as SBCs, IMS P/I/S-CSCF, IP centrex servers,
persence servers and SIP proxies. DiameterFlex: This test suite was designed to test IMS HSS over Cx,
Dx, Sh and Si interface. It integrates the subscriber and IMS entities (I/SCSCF/AS) in a single test bed.
Also it can be simulated as a charging client/server in Rf,Ro,Rx interface of IMS and Gx interface of LTE.
Megaco/H248 BGF: The IMS Border Gateway Test Suite was designed to test the IMS border gateway. It
integrates the subscribers and the controller into a single flexible but easy-to-use GUI-driven test bed to
perform numerous tests. IMS ProxyFlex: The IMS ProxyFlex Provides key functions of the IMS Proxies
such as P/I/S-CSCF. It emulates the IMS subscribers supporting IMS AKA and IPSec as well as the rest of
the IMS core network, which includes the IMS core and HSS—all on a single test platform.

My Responsibilities:

 Design the test profiles using InterWatch as per the test case.
 Regression and performance testing of test cases.
 Setting up the Lab in Pune for IW R14 and QA-604 with L2/L3 Switch & Router.
 Taking active part in Customer Calls, Customers satisfaction, delivering the qualitative Product to the
customer in time with less defects.
Personal Details

Father’s Name : Rabindra Nath Mahapatra

Marital Status : Married
DOB : 16th May 1984