Raghavendra Rao
PMP® Telecom Professional
38 years old
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
14+ years of experience in telecom sector, including Product management, Integration & Verification Test Management, Quality Management and Driving Automation.
Career Objective: To pursue a highly rewarding career, seeking for a job in challenging and healthy work environment where I can utilize my skills and knowledge efficiently for organizational and self growth.
Career Objective: To pursue a highly rewarding career, seeking for a job in challenging and healthy work environment where I can utilize my skills and knowledge efficiently for organizational and self growth.
SW Maintenance Manager - Fault Control Board Owner
Nokia Solutions and Networks
Since June 2019
Full-time
Bengaluru
India
- Contd. assignment from Poland. Drive SRAN Maintenance content for multiple releases.
- AirFrame Products SWM Owner - Help team build up and manage SW releases.
LTE SWM Product Manager
Nokia Solutions and Networks Sp. z.o.o
September 2017
to May 2019
Full-time
Wroclaw
Poland
- Technical mgmt with R&D, Fault Coordinators, Verification team for issue correction
- Close coordination with Program Manager for SW releases
- Drive the Fault Control board, decision on SW release content planning; Owner of list of open generic faults data
- Responsible for SRAN, LTE, Small Cells, WiFi product lines
- Process Improvement introduced to FM, LGF and FCB activities.
- Drive automation in product release activities, FM processes, List of Generic faults data creation, FCB platform across product for daily pronto handling and assessment.
- Tools Used: Pronto, WFT, Jira
- Scripts: VBA ( Excel )
LTE RAN Expert Consultant
Nokia Solutions and Networks
September 2015
to August 2017
Full-time
Chennai
India
- NAM (for TMobile) Care case handling for LTE RAN network products
- Involved in troubleshooting and providing technical analysis for the issues, Coordinate with Design, R&D team, Customer Interface/Support
- Issues covering LTE legacy and new features, KPI degradation.
- GDC Lab Technical SPOC for LTE issues, troubleshooting, integration, commissioning and feature verification.
- Customer documentation and report under Impact Assessment for various new RAN SW releases for - Optus Australia.
- Tools used: NCT, RESOLVE, NetAct, MACTTI, EMIL, QCAT, BTS Site Manager, BTS Syslog.
- Role: Technical Lead/Team Member
LTE RAN Project Lead
Ericsson Japan K. K.
April 2014
to June 2015
Full-time
Yokohama
Japan
- Support various commercial customer (KDDI/UQ, SBM/YM) project activities, verify RAN legacy functions including VoLTE, CSFB, Handovers, Carrier Aggregation, 4x4 MIMO Throughput, other and new feature implementation, OSS Support, SW upgrades, Troubleshooting, Issue analysis and Automation.
- Coordinate and support for Customer Demo and Acceptance test
- Role: Project Lead/Team Member
RAN LTE I&V Test Manager
Ericsson Japan K. K.
May 2012
to March 2014
Full-time
Yokohama
Japan
- Requirement Handling & Verification Scope: 4AP steps (12B, 13A, 13B, 14A) requirement analysis and node level test scope definition. Producing SoC at the end of each AP step.
- TR/Issue Handling: Drive the issue priority setting, troubleshooting, reproduction and other activities. Follow up with SW design and System teams for correction deliveries. Performing Fault slip through analysis (RCA) for the customer issues.
- CR Handling: Change request or new feature analysis for test scope updates using CQCR.
- Coordination with X-Functional teams: Engagement with various cross functional teams – System team, SW design team, radio verification team and factory production team.
- Technical support: Backup office support for Inspection test – Q&A handling, test scope & planning, pre-Inspection test exercise; QAT – Support for test specification and test report preparation; Interface for production test – SW & HW updates.
- Project Management: Associated with Project Manager in test schedule, task coordination and resource planning. Providing weekly & monthly reports to the Program Manager.
- Project Baseline Maintenance: I&V document maintenance and templates.
- SW maintenance: Verification scope and follow up of SW corrections for customer delivery; SW latest test configuration baseline maintenance.
- Automation: Driving the tools and automation team to increase automation for the legacy test scope. Innovative idea provided for efficient testing.
- Drive Customer Meetings, Project Follow-up meetings.
- Process specifications and Knowledge sharing: Defined I&V general process and various WoW. Knowledge sharing of TM activities to other members.
- Maintenance project handover: Since the commercial launch and SW update to 13B during Feb 2014. The project is now closed with successful achievements and Maintenance project is created.
RAN LTE Verification Quality Manager
Ericsson Japan K. K.
January 2013
to January 2014
Full-time
Yokohama
Japan
- KPI definition and driver for achieving the goals for verification performance including number of fault slip through and bug fix & verification turn-around-time.
- Direct Reporting and Monthly follow up with SDO JP RAN Quality Manager
LTE I&V Engineer
Ericsson Japan K. K.
November 2011
to April 2012
Full-time
Yokohama
Japan
- Requirement Test analysis, Test Plan, Test Specification, Test Execution, Issue summary & Test Report for LTE(eNB) OAM modules including Supervision and control, Fault Handling.
Support for other modules (Call & Traffic, Start & Loading) preparation, Review and Test Execution. - Role: Team Member
UMTS (WCDMA, HSPA) System SW Integration Test and Automation Engineer
Samsung Electronics
March 2009
to October 2011
Consultant
Suwon
South Korea
- Software Integration testing of Samsung WCDMA/HSPA+ Network elements (RAN). Also, test automation framework/application development to optimize and perform regressive testing. It includes study of feature implementation and defining test cases for testing of the feature in RAN. WCDMA (Rel. 4~7) air interface testing, debugging and bug reporting.
- Role: Team Lead/Team Member
Senior Software Engineer
L&T Infotech
July 2007
to October 2011
Full-time
Bangalore
India
- Design and Development of various tools/applications:
Auto-Multi Call Simulator (Android App/Java)
IP-RNC Config & Debug tool (Java)
WCDMA Test Automation Framework (Java)
Read Test Log Analyzer (Python)
Log Manager Tool (C++)
PLD Rule Adapter Tool (C++)
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5G
Advanced
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4G / LTE
Good
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3G / UMTS
Intermediate
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QXDM & Scripting
Good
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IP Technology
Good
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Product Management
Advanced
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Program Support
Advanced
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Technical Management
Advanced
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Test Management
Good
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Quality Management
Good
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Release Management
Good
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Fault Management
Good
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Testing
Advanced
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Test Automation/Scripting
Advanced
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SW Impact Assessment
Advanced
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System Integration & Verification
Advanced
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Software Development
Advanced
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Test Planning & Design
Advanced
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Fault Slip Through Analysis
Advanced
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Root Cause Analysis
Advanced
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Care Case Handling
Good
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VB Script
Good
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Python
Good
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Java
Good
- https://github.com/raghurao4
- Technology: AI, Renewable Energy, EMVs
- Finance: Stock investment analysis & learning
- Sports: Squash(Amateur though!), Cricket, Indoor games
- Social: Teaching, Photography
- Other: Startup, Entrepreneurship, Green house farming
