Ridgewood, NJ

Cell: +1 646-409-0216

Email: srivastava.pooja20@gmail.com

SUMMARY

·                          6 years of experience in the telecom involving 2+ years in network side protocol stack development and 4 years in handset side testing ( conformance testing, performance testing, sanity               and regression testing)

·                          Extensive experience in protocols like HSDPA, HSUPA, GSM, CDMA, LTE and, IMS

·                          Strong knowledge of RRC, RLC, MAC, PDCP, NBAP, NAS protocols in CDMA/LTE.

·                          Good understanding of 3GPP, GSMA standards and GCF/PTCRB certifications.

·                          Hands on experience with protocol testing tools like Anite, Anritsu, Agilent, IT3 probe and UE log               capturing tools like QXDM, AT command tools like hyper-terminal

·                          Thorough knowledge of Systems development life cycle in Analysis, Design and implementation with documentation in all stages.

·                          Experience in customer interfacing role.

·                          Excellent communicator, team player with good analytics, trouble-shooting and debugging skills. Have worked as an individual contributor and as a team lead in large team.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Technologies	GSM, GPRS, CDMA/UMTS,  HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, IMS
Languages	C, C++, SDL
Testing Scripts	TTCN 2/3, Tcl/Tk
Simulation and Software Tools Debugging Tools	Anite 9000, Agilent 8960/9000, Anritsu, IT3 Comprion platform, Rhode and Schwarz, Anite CT/SAS QXDM, QPST, Hyperterminal, Anite log Analyzer
Configuration Management Tools	CVS, VSS, MKS, Clearcase

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

·                          Company: HCL TechnologiesDuration: Jan, 2011 – July, 2012

Location: Noida, India

Role: CDMA/LTE Test Lead

Team Size: 7

HCL worked with Anite for development and maintenance of 2G, 3G Conformance test cases for GCF/PTCRB certification and development of LTE protocol test cases.

Key Achievements-

·               Managed release cycles for Anite Conformance Toolset aligned with GCF/PTCRB certification cycles. Raised and implemented CRs from 3GPP TSG GERAN, RAN and PTCRB meetings.

·               Performed device pre-certification testing on RIM and Android UEs using Anite CT, Network simulators like Agilent 8960/9000, Comprion IT3.

·               Prepared and executed test suites for SIM/USIM/USAT testing and UE RRC/RLC/MAC protocols. Performed log analysis and troubleshooting using debug tools like QXDM and AT commands.

·               Worked with UE vendors like Qualcomm, RIM, Samsung for resolution of customer issues and test equipment vendors like Agilent and Comprion for troubleshooting.

·               Handled resource allocation, planning, reviews and customer interfacing for the project release cycle.

 

Environment:   C++, TTCN, Anite tool set, Qualcomm test tools QXDM/QPST, AT command set

Specifications: 3GPP 34 series, 3GPP 51 series, 3GPP 25 series, 3GPP 27.007

 

·                          Company: Interdigital (IDCC)Duration: August, 2008 – July, 2009

Location: King of Prussia, PA, USA

Role: Senior UMTS Test Engineer

Team Size: 6

The project involved validating the HSPA (UMTS R6) protocol stack solution on organization’s proprietary platform. The team was multi-site team, with members spread across US, Canada and India.

Key Achievements-

·   Built test benches for 3G validation testing and developed test cases for HSPA data transfer. Was involved in testing of layer 2/3 of UE protocol for HSDPA/HSUPA control and data planes, root cause analysis, raising and fixing CRs.

·   Performed Conformance and performance testing with Anite products. Worked on Anite products for PT/DT/CT/SAS/SAT(H).

·   Provided mentoring and training to offshore team members.

 

Environment:   C++, TTCN, Anite tool set, AT command set

Specifications: 3GPP 34 series, 3GPP 51 series, 3GPP 25 series, 3GPP 27.007

 

 

·                          Company: TAVAS SystemsDuration: Aug, 2007 – July, 2008 

Location: Long Island, NY, USA

Role: Consultant

Team Size: 5

Client: Interdigital

 

Worked with Interdigital as a consultant for testing on 3G protocol stack on the handset side.

 

Key Achievements-

·  Worked  on L2/3 system testing, debugging and bug fixing for control and data planes, scenarios involving HSDPA/ HSUPA setup, I-RAT handovers, compressed mode, state transfers, Robust Header Compression (RoHC). Implemented 3GPP CRs.

·   Involved in System Integration and verification using the GCF/PTCRB Test Cases as well as R99, R5 and R6 Engineering Test Cases for the 3GPP compliance.

 

Environment:   C++, TTCN, Anite tool set, AT command set

Specifications: 3GPP 34 series, 3GPP 51 series, 3GPP 25 series, 3GPP 27.007

 

 

·                          Company: AricentDuration: June, 2003 – Feb, 2007

Location: Gurgaon, Haryana

Role: UMTS Network Engineer

Team Size: 15

Client: Nokia

Worked in UMTS network protocol stack for Layer 3(L3) protocol development for Nokia RNC(Radio network controller).

 

Key Achievements –

·  Developed UMTS RRC software solution for Nokia RNC. Worked in Control plane signaling scenarios for RRC protocol and configuration of RLC, MAC and FP through RRC.

·  Implemented HSUPA/HSDPA control plane solution for Nokia UMTS. Part of requirement gathering, writing the software feature specification, software design, development and unit testing for the HSUPA implementation in RRC.

 

Environment:  RTOS (IPA 2800 Platform), proprietary RTOS, C++, SDL, ASN.1, CVS, MS-Visio, UML, Nethawk analyzer, Nokia proprietary testing and debugging tools.

Specifications: 3GPP specifications version 6.10.0

 

·                          Company: Quark Media HouseDuration: Jan, 2003 – June 2003

Location: Mohali, Punjab

                Role – Project trainee

 

Provided support for animation, video and audio to Quark XPress – page layout software for print and web. The Quark XPress web documents can be exported as a SWF file and SWF files can be imported into XPress documents for web.

 

Environment: C++, Microsoft .Net, Macromedia Flash, UML, Windows NT, MAC OS-X.

 

EDUCATION

·                          Master of Computer Applications (2004)

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

 

·                          Bachelors of Sciences (2001)

PPN Degree College, CSJM Kanpur University, Kanpur, UP, India.