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Praveen George

Wylie,TX

Summary

Solution and Performance Validation Engineer with 17 years of experience in software quality assurance, testing methodologies and providing technical leadership. Extensive domain knowledge in 5G/4G Wireless Core, Cloud based containerization and virtualization technologies. Hands on experience in testing 5G/4G VNF, CNF Wireless core products.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Solution and Performance Validation Engineer

Microsoft Corporation
01.2018 - Current
  • Responsible for testing 5G/4G/3G/2G Core products - test plan development, functional, integration, scale, reliability, performance and Solution end-to-end testing
  • Leading 5G Core QA team
  • Integrating and testing 5G Cloud Native Products - AMF, SMF, UPF, NRF, NSSF - in Azure, Azure Operator Distributed Systems, KVM, Openstack, Openshift Kubernetes environments.
  • Integrating and testing 4G VNF's -vMME, vSSF, vSGW, vPGW - in RedHat Openstack based environments.
  • Performing Interoperability Testing, Performance testing, Conformance Testing, Stress/Capacity/Scalability/Traffic testing, and Trials support
  • Conducted multiple customer demo's to Tier1/2 Operators showcasing 5G Core capabilities •
  • Creating Grafana dashboards for KPI/KCI monitoring and debugging

Technology Lead

Infosys Limited
12.2010 - 12.2017
  • Responsible for virtualizing platform to host virtual CMTS for Comcast.
  • Responsible for writing ansible scripts for bulk installation of Ubuntu, DPDK/Mellanox drivers, Kubernetes, docker, telemetry applications.
  • Responsible for Product Verification of virtualized Mobility Management Entity(vMME) in Openstack(with and without contrail), VMWare and KVM environments.
  • PLM support engineer for Ericsson Smart Edge Router

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
09.2006 - 08.2010
  • Involved in the Implementation Specification, design, coding, unit testing, functional testing and bug fixing of handover module for Orthogonal Sub Channel feature, AoIP and Packet Abis
  • Involved in the design, development and unit testing of IGMP module.
  • Involved in the integration testing of IGMP, RSTP, LACP, VLAN and basic Ethernet module
  • Involved in the design and development of a testing tool to test the capacity of SIP based OOMA server.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology
Kottayam, Kerala
06.2006

Skills

5G

  • Azure, Openstack, VMware, KVM, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Native computing
  • Microsoft 5G Standalone Telecom Products - AMF, NRF, NSSF, SMF, UPF and HPE AUSF, UDM
  • Private 5G in Azure stack edge
  • Strong knowledge of 5G call-flows, procedures, and interaction of AMF, NRF, NSSF with other nodes gNB, AUSF, UDM, SMF, UPF
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, a docker container orchestration tool

4G/3G/2G

  • Strong knowledge in Affirmed vMME, vSGSN, vSSF
  • Sound knowledge of LTE call-flows, procedures, and interaction of MME with other nodes eNB, SGW, PGW, MSC/VLR, HSS, S4-SGSN, Gn-SGSN

Opensource tools/Traffic Simulators

Timeline

Solution and Performance Validation Engineer

Microsoft Corporation
01.2018 - Current

Technology Lead

Infosys Limited
12.2010 - 12.2017

Senior Software Engineer

Wipro Technologies
09.2006 - 08.2010

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication

Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology

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