Parvez Ahmad

10760 Aderman Avenue, #86

San Diego, CA 92126 

Phone: + 1 858 693 7460 (res)

             + 1 858 705 1448 (cell)

            Email:parvez84@yahoo.com

OBJECTIVES

 

Seeking a challenging position in the telecommunication industry where I can use my experience to contribute to the growth of the company.

 

SUMMARY

 

·   14 years of experience in wireless industry

·   3+ years of experience as manager leading modem carrier acceptance test, functional test and new feature test for LTE FDD, LTE TDD, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, GSM/GPRS and Dual SIM

·   Excelled in developing test strategy, test equipment and resource planning, tasks prioritization for different platforms, tracking test execution ensuring timely completion with quality and managing  risk

·   Developed team with strong technical background mentoring and training new team members

·   Successfully led teams in different locations around the world ensuring teams in all locations work together as one team

·   Excellent team worker with good communications skills, highly motivated and quick learner

·   Always looking to improve the test process by evaluating lessons learnt during past projects

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

  Manager (February 2011 –Current),                                  

  Mobile System Test

  Broadcom, San Diego

·   Lead for new feature verification for modem across all technologies (2G/3G/HSPA+/LTE/TD-SCDMA/Dual SIM/IMS VoLTE). Responsibilities include

o   Define test strategy for new features from planning phase to commercialization

o   Identify new features by going through the Marketing Requirement Document, Product Requirement Document and Plan of Record of new platforms

o   Evaluate test equipment roadmap, identify test equipment, negotiate price and make budgetary plans

o   Identify engineers as feature lead for the features and make sure that the test plans are ready and reviewed by development and systems design team

o   Track and report execution progress making sure that the program deadlines are met

o   Evaluate Field and IOT results in addition to the lab testing to declare the correct maturity level of new features.

o   Identify Risks, communicate it to the program and senior management and take steps to mitigate the risks

o   Make sure that the test cases are automated and added to regression for future platforms

·   Lead for Carrier Acceptance modem lab testing. Responsibilities include

o   Define Carrier Acceptance test strategy for main chipset platform and derivative platforms

o   Identify test equipment and packages for ATT, TMO, CMCC and VZW. Goal is to maximize coverage in lab, minimize duplication and costs.

o   Track and report execution progress, identify risks and take steps to mitigate risks

 

·   Lead modem functional testing for all technologies. Responsibilities include

o   Define test strategy for modem functional test covering 3GPP specs, feature interaction, failure scenarios, race condition for Phy, MAC, RRC, NAS and IMS.

o   Use the attenuator setup to execute pre-IOT testing in Ericsson, ALU and Datang drops.

o   Analyzed failures from IOT and field to identify test coverage holes and take steps to increase test coverage

·   Arranged weekly Training Sessions within the group so that knowledge is shared among the different team members. Recorded training sessions and slides were arranged in confluence page for future reference

·   Worked with the Tools development team to use database for entering results and generating report for both modem and carrier acceptance testing. This helped us to move away from using spread sheet to enter results.

·   Designed the modem system test confluence page so that all test plan, test equipment, test results can be found easily.

 

Senior Staff Engineer (August 2007 – January 2011)                                  

Mobile System Test

Broadcom, San Diego

·   Led the team to test HSUPA feature.

·   Led the functional and performance test team for R99 WCDMA features.

·   Provided technical leadership for studies on UE performance related to System Acquisition, Out of Service Handling and Measurements.

·   Developed test plan for different features including Out of Service, System Determination and Inter-frequency hard handover.

·   Developed test cases for UMTS phones using Anritsu RTD to verify UE protocol stack.

 

Senior Engineer (March 2004 – July 2007)

  UMTS System Verification

  Texas Instruments, San Diego

·   Executed signaling conformance (34.123) test cases for UMTS UE using Anite, Anritsu 8480, Aeroflex 6401 AIME.

·   Led the debugging effort of the failed test cases.

·   Participated in Interband Work Item group of 3gpp and specified test cases in 34.123

·   Developed TTCN test scripts for Cell Broadcast and Interband test cases for European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)

·   Developed TTCN test scripts for internally specified test cases

·   Worked with the team to define and improve execution process including automation

 

Engineer (July 2003 – March 2004)  

CDMA System Test

Motorola, San Diego

·   Developed Feature Test and Feature Interaction Test plan based on Marketing Requirement Specifications (MRS) for IS-2000 phones.

·   Executed CDG-57 tests on IS-2000 phones using Racal 1x-AIME Base Station Emulator.

 

Engineer (January 2001- July 2003)           

CDMA System Integration

Ericsson, San Diego

·   Led a group of engineers to make sure all handoff functional requirements are verified for cdma2000 base stations.

·   Involved in the planning of testing the integration of a third party EV-DO base station with the existing cdma2000 base stations

·   Developed test specifications and test plan based on system requirements and system design documents for cdma2000 base stations. Developed test plan for paging and access channels, handoff, service negotiation, R-SCH, power control, QPCH.

·   Performed integration tests to verify compliance of interfaces and features of cdma2000 base stations, debug problems and file trouble reports.  Features tested in the lab include Soft/softer handoff, Power Control, R-SCH, Hard handoff, Overhead Channels.

·   Automated test cases by developing library and test scripts using Tcl. Assisted in developing guidelines for automation so that the automated test cases can be executed in batch

·   Executed CDG Level 2 (CDG 57) testing for different vendor mobiles in the interop lab.

 

Engineering Intern (June 2000-August 2000)                                                 

CDMA System Integration

Ericsson, San Diego

·   Completed a high level test document specifying the testing of different features for cdma2000 base stations.

 

Teaching Assistant (August 1999-December 2000)                                         

Virginia Tech

·   Worked as instructor in lab for undergraduate students for Electrical Engineering and Physics departments

 

Operation Engineer (Dec 97-Dec98)        

Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Ltd

Bangladesh

·   Regular operation and maintenance of AMPS based wireless system.

 

EDUCATION

 

·               MSEE, Virginia Tech

Graduation: December 2000. GPA: 3.83/4

 

·               BSEE, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Graduation: July 1997. CGPA: 3.73/4

 

ASSOCIATION

 

Treasurer, Association of Bangladeshi Students, Virginia Tech (Aug 99- Aug 00)

 

REFERENCE

 

Available upon request