Shankar Arya

Experience

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  CelPlan Technologies, Inc. (CelPlan)

  Oct 2007 - Jun 2008

  RF Survey Engineer

  • RF survey for testing the feasibility and installation of the system.• Site selection for achieving optimum coverage in required geographical area by collecting Hot Spots.• Determination of Antenna Height and Orientation.• Conduct and Manage line of sight survey for Microwave Links.• Determination of azimuth angle towards the far end & MW antenna height.• Checking the obstacles, AMSL variation & Clutter on the LOS by route track method.• Map study and preparation of path profiles (Path loss, terrain data). Show less

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  Nutek India Ltd

  Jun 2008 - Dec 2008

  Drive Test Engineer

  • Responsible for troubleshooting all types of drive tests, coordinate vehicles and other drive team members, equipment arrangements and setup driving tools with all types of scenarios and configuration.• Coordinate routine activities for various test teams, schedule drive tests, cluster assignments, thereby exhibiting excellent leadership & management qualities.• Managed the inventory of phones, laptops, antennas, gps, scanners, and other equipment.• Define drive test routes that ensure sector orientation checks and soft handover to all first tier neighbors.• Exhibit excellent trouble shooting abilities whenever issue arises during the data collection drive Show less

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  Adacellworks Wireless Engg. Private Limited.

  Jan 2009 - Jul 2009

  Drive Test Engineer Rf

  • Performed Drive test for Reliance operator• Responsible to complete the annual coverage and performance drive test analysis.• Debug the network related issue in field and report to lead• Post process the logs and submit reports to client.• Analyzing common field issue like handover failure, call drop, etc.• Optimization of sites for overshooting by giving Antenna tilts.

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  TVSICS

  Jul 2009 - Jun 2010

  Drive Test Engineer Cordinator

  • Managing the drive test team and support them with any GSM network related issue • Post Processing the Field data collected by field engineer and present same to the customer • Analyze any issue in the field and resolve it by guiding either field engineer or network operator • Protocol stack analysis for field test issues including Call Drop analysis, Call Setup failures, Handover failure, data stalls.• Experience in resolving issue like call drop, handover failure ,ping pong handover• Cluster drive for whole city and check issue related to network and update to the network team Show less

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  Mindlance

  Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

  Senior Software Engineer

  Experience on mobility management like LTE handovers(X2, S1). Idle mode procedures like cell resection. Debugging and root causing issues on LTE data throughput validations Experience in feature testing and generating reports. Allocation and sharing of work within team/among peers. Analyzing UE log(qxdm),CDM log(Femto) for any bug

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  Aricent Techologies

  Jun 2014 - Aug 2015

  Tech Lead

  SON Feature Testing like ANR CSFB Testing  SRVCC Testing Mobility Management Like Handovers  Experience as a LEAD for eNode testing in Client Location (Cisco) Analyzing different quality check like RLF, Call Success Rate, Handover success rate etc

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  Wipro

  Aug 2015 - Feb 2022

  Technical Project Manager(5G,LTE,Automation)

  Throughput Testing and Log AnalysisMobility Testing and Log AnalysisUSER Plane and Control Plane Testing and Log Analysis Retainability Optimization LTE low throughput analysisORAN Knowledge Spec ORAN Alliance SRVCCExperience in Managing 4G and 5G teams.Experience Managing OSS Development Team with Scrum Frame Work Achieved an efficiency improvement of 25% within the teamStake Holder Management, Scope Management, Vendor Management ,Risk Management ,People ManagementManaging customer expectation from outsourcing partner sideManage RAID (RISK, ASSUMPTION, ISSUE, DEPENDENCY) and RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed)Coordinate all Ceremonies including PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, and Release Planning and Backlog Refinement meeting.Coordinating Scrum of Scrum to overcome dependencies for other feature teamsPreparation of delivery Plan for a product Leading & monitoring the performance of team members (KPIs) to maintain excellence in project operations Provide key performance metrics to the Head of IT on the deliveries and benefits realization of change implementationsTaking care of all deliverables, Estimations, Planning, Team / People management, Client interaction. Managing Confluence and JIRAs tools for fruitful results Managing multiple projects with diverse team of professionals and optimize resource utilization among projectsConducting daily and weekly review sessions with team and customer to discuss & resolve project issues Guides team through continual improvement processProven capability to quickly ramp-up teams and handle new & diverse activities Experienced in building an open, trust based relationship with customer Show less

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  Mavenir

  Feb 2022 - now

  Technical Program Manager

  1) Currently managing group of 30+ direct and 30+ contract employees to provide CI\CD infrastructure, Precommit infra for 5G (both NSA and SA) and 4G programs.2) Involved in testing of NSA Massive Mimo features ,SA tdd Features, OAM feature testing ,SA fdd features ,LTE features .3) Act as a bridge between Vendors and customers for deliveries 4) Involved in batch runs with Automation for regression testing .This include 500 to 600 cases run via automation5) Interact and coordinate with 3 different partner programs through monthly sprints.Regression All automated TCs are run on multiple Testlines and releases to ensure no regression for different customers (NEC, Airtel, Dish, Verizon). Coordination with ST, Dev and SE teams to ensure reliability of automated TCs. Periodic revisions and enhancements are done to ensure that TCs are up to date. Testlines: Responsible for planning, BOM creation, bring-up, allocation, Maintenance and utilization of 40+ end-to-end Testlines in multiple locations. Partner programs: Interact and coordinate with 3 different partner programs through monthly sprints. Show less