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Pankaj Verma
Date of Birth –June 05, 1979
Having 14+ years of rich experience in OSS/ NMS & Casino Gaming domain and looking for a
challenging position where I could hone my skills and strength in conjunction with the Company’s
goals and objectives.
Domains: OSS | NMS |Network Analytics | Service Assurance |
Telecommunications|Casino Gaming
Professional Synopsis
➢ Currently working in CrossOver as Chief Architect for CICDOps team
➢ 7+ years of experience in testing OSS/ NMS, Fault/ Performance, Service
Management/ Assurance, ETL & other telecom applications.
➢ 4+ years of experience in developing Java based applications
➢ 3 years of experience in Systems Engineering where I contributed my skills in
performance tuning of applications.
➢ Good hands on over Ansible, Docker & Kubernetes. Used Ansible with Docker to
completely automate software deployment processes in virtual environment.
➢ Good experience in designing Test Automation Frameworks in Fluentlenium/ Selenium,
Protractor, Java, Rest Assured and JMeter
➢ Good hands on over Perforce (P4V) and Git.
➢ Proposed a white paper to tune JBoss Application Server for its efficient use in Service
Assurance applications.
➢ A good understanding of SDLC and Agile Software methodology.
➢ Proposed a strategy to migrate Service Modeler & NetExpert for Internationalization
(i18n)
➢ Worked over Service Assurance, SLA, IPTV & QoSM Solutions.
➢ Worked over Performance, Fault & Configuration Management solutions.
➢ Worked over SNMP, SONET, IP, Auto Discovery, Protocol Agents & CORBA
Access applications.
➢ Simulated Routers, Switches, Hosts and other SNMP devices using Network Simulation
Toolkit
➢ Good hands on over Java, UNIX Shell scripting, PL/ SQL, Network Simulation
Tools.
➢ Explored Rational Performance Tester, JMeter, Squish, BadBoy, MIMIC, HP Load
Runner, Silk Performer and AppLoader for their use in different components of the
application.
➢ Developed Java applications using CORBA Access & RMI for use in NetExpert &
Service Modeler
➢ Developed multiple small Java clients to generate load & stress on various applications
using SQL Loader & UNIX shell scripts
➢ Excellent communication & presentation skills.
Corporate Exposure
Organization
CrossOver
Duration
May 2018 - Till Now
WDTS India Pvt. Ltd.
Mar 2017 – May 2018
Domain
Operations & Support
Casino Gaming
OSS, Performance
Management, Network
Analytics, Wireless
OSS, NMS, Fault &
Performance Management,
Service/ Customer Assurance
MYCOM OSI Solutions India
Pvt. Ltd.
July 2015 – Mar 2017
OSI Incorporation (A Mycom
Group of company)
July 2007 – June 2015
Agilent Technologies
International (P) Ltd.
Nucleus Software Exports
Ltd.
Nov 2005 – July 2007
NMS, Telecommunications
Mar 2004 – Nov 2005
Retail/ Corporate Banking
Solutions
Projects/ Components Undertaken
CrossOver
Project
Storage Importer
Migration
CICDOps
Client
Duration
MessageOne
May 2018 - July 2018
All Product Teams
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
CrossOver (May 2018 – Till Now)
Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects:
➢ Worked as Chief Architect to support the MSCentralization Factory Operations for CI/
CD involving resolving day to day support issues and providing support to all product
teams
➢ Support to different teams involved issues faced in Jenkins, Jervis, TeamCity &
ElectricFlow build issues running over AWS EC2, CDH and VMWare platforms
➢ Created and configured EC2 instances running as build agents for TeamCity, Jenkins &
Jervis
➢ Collated performance data and compared results obtained on running builds over k8s,
CDH & VMWare
➢ Tested first VMWare and TeamCity integration to analyze the feasibility of VMWare
VMs acting as build agents in TeamCity and Jenkins
➢ Recently did a migration of EC2 Linux based agent to VMWare using RSync
➢ Worked over deployment of sample application on k8s, CDH & VMWare using central
Jervis Ansible framework
➢ Worked as Chief Architect on docker compose based products to migrate them to
kubernetes
➢ Migrated docker compose based artefacts to k8s by converting docker compose and
ansible scripts to Stateful Sets, PVCs, Services & Ingresses
➢ Deploying and running the k8s artefacts to ascertain the accessibility of the application
running inside k8s pods
➢ Created Pipeline scripts and jobs as per TeamCity build configuration for CI, IB & RC
builds for Ignite SBE & SBStd products
WDTS India Pvt. Ltd.
Project
Client
Table MI
MGM
Duration
Mar 2017 – May 2018
WDTS India Pvt. Ltd. (Mar 2017 – May 2018)
Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects:
➢ Worked as a Solutions Architect to design new Solutions to be integrated with current
software framework and help Test & Development teams to simulate Casino Gaming
Table operations
➢ Designed a solution using Sparkjava REST framework to simulate the Gaming Table
operations. Integrated already developed C++ application with Sparkjava based REST
framework to call C++ APIs using REST java calls and initiate the gaming functionalities
for e.g. PlaceBet, TakeBet, PayBet etc.
➢ Followed Agile Kanban process to develop the application
➢ Used Salt deployment tool to configure large number of VMs to host product
microservices
MYCOMOSI (Mar 2014 - Mar 2017)
Project
Client
ProAssure
ProInsight
DTAG
Telefonica
Duration
May 2016 – Mar 2017
Mar 2014 – May 2016
MYCOMOSI (Mar 2014 – Mar 2017)
Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects:
➢ Currently working on Docker to automate the software deployment process inside docker
containers using Ansible along with Jenkins in a Continuous Integration environment.
➢ Working on a framework where several docker containers are linked to each other and
software deployment and test process is fully automated and virtualized.
➢ Used VMWare vSphere to create VMs and then perform testing of various products over
the created VMs
➢ Following Agile process and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)
➢ Using Gherkins, Cucumber, Java & JUnit to cover User Stories of ProInsight (A
Service Network Analytics application).
➢ Using REST Assured & Fluentlenium to automate APIs & UI of ProInsight.
Objective Systems Integrators Inc. (Jul 2007 – Feb 2014)
Project
Corba Access Server
DataManager
Client
Sprint, AT&T
AT&T
Duration
Feb 2012 - Feb 2014
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Protocol Agents
Internet Protocol Manager
Service Modeler
Auto Discovery
Network CommandCenter
Advance Performance
Management
Advance Fault Management
Gateway Agents
T-Mobile, AT&T, VzW,
TeliaSonera etc.
SureWest
Vodafone Netherlands
SureWest
T-Mobile, AT&T, VzW,
TeliaSonera etc.
Sprint
Aug 2011 – Dec 2011
AT&T
AT&T
Aug 2008 - Oct 2008
July 2007 - July 2008
Jan 2011 – July 2011
Jan 2010 – Dec 2010
Aug 2009 - Dec 2009
Apr 2009 – Aug 2009
Nov 2008 - Mar 2009
Objective Systems Integrators Inc. (Jul 2007 – Feb 2014)
Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects:
➢ Development of System Engineering plan and send it for review to various teams.
➢ Worked as a System Engineer to find out the core performance bottlenecks and various
OS, Network, Database & Application parameters to propose a plan to further tune the
application.
➢ Developed a proposal to use the DataManager for gathering LTE KPIs.
➢ Simulated LTE KPIs, UMTS network to send performance KPIs to the application.
➢ Development of Java programs, UNIX Shell scripts, SQL Loader scripts to populate
the Database with the LTE KPIs
➢ Analyzed and tested the functional and performance testing of the application.
➢ Extensively used Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for capturing database snapshots
to find bottlenecks in the database.
➢ Proposed tuning areas of the application as a whole.
➢ Used JConsole, UNIX Shell scripting to gather and monitor various statistics of the
resources under utilization.
➢ Used AdventNet Network Simulation Toolkit 6.0 to simulate Cisco 3600/ 7600
Routers, Solaris based Servers, Windows 2000 devices, Printers, Switches &
Multiplexers.
➢ Used SNMP and Cisco IOS for the simulated devices to perform Stress and performance
testing.
➢ Tested Telnet, Shell, SNMP, TCP-IP, X.25, Serial, XML, Database based protocol
agents for performance and functional testing.
➢ Development of Java programs, UNIX Shell scripts, SQL Loader scripts to test
mentioned protocol agents.
➢ Created Java based utilities to test applications.
➢ Proposed the deployment architecture for an IP Management application to manage an
SNMP
➢ Based network.
➢ Used JMeter to automate the performance testing of Portal.
➢ Provided a plan for the scalability of the Service Modeler by tuning in the areas including
JBoss Clustering, Thread Pooling, Logging, Caching, JVM Tuning.
➢ Evaluated Apache Tomcat tuning area with Load balancing using mod_jk and
mod_proxy, mod_rewrite
➢ Used 3G KPIs in the system to actually simulate a part of 3G Network.
➢ Faced issues while discovering simulated networks and coordinated with Rocket
Software to resolve the issues.
➢ Sniffed SNMP packets using Wireshark (Ethereal) to find out the issues in the discovery
applications.
➢ Generated reports on comparative analysis of two discoveries to synchronize the network
inventory with the physical network for future uses.
➢ Proposed the deployment architecture for an Auto Discovery application to manage an
SNMP based network.
➢ Incorporated the actual VzW (Verizon Wireless) and Sprint environment for using the
Network Command Center to monitor their different zonal networks for alarm
processing.
➢ Sent bulk alarms by simulating Switches having Line Cards & Ports and filtered alarms
on the basis of no. of Switches, Line Cards & Ports.
➢ Created deployment architecture to use multiple operators within a zone using LDAP
mechanism for authentication.
➢ Used Load Balancing mechanism in a master/ slave fashion to distribute the alarm
processing.
➢ Performed Stress and Performance testing to find out the Variability, Scalability and
finally the bottlenecks in the application.
➢ Studied Gauges/ Graphs/ Tabular data being reported to the application for functional and
regression testing.
➢ Integrated IP Management application with the Advance Performance Management
application to process performance data gathered from SNMP devices.
➢ Developed Java scripts to be used with the AdventNet Simulation Toolkit 6.0 to send
fault data to the application.
➢ Tested Fault, Delay, Threshold, Correlation & Throttling mechanisms of the application.
➢ Tested Shell, Telnet, BCN, TCP-IP, SNMP & File based Gateway Agents.
➢ Used Rational XDE Tester to functionally test the application. Developed generic
methods in XDE to be used across the whole application.
Agilent Technologies International Pvt. Ltd. (Nov 2005 – Jul 2007)
Project
Internet Protocol
Assurance
Client
Sprint, AT&T
Duration
Nov 2005 - Jul 2007
Agilent Technologies International Pvt. Ltd. (Nov 2005 – Jul 2007)
Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects:
➢ Automated testing of Internet Protocol Assurance application using XDE Tester
➢ Generated generic libraries of tests to be used in different tests of the application
Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. (Mar 2004 – Nov ’05)
Project
Client
Duration
Lending, Cash Management
Mar 2004 – Nov 2005
Shinsei
Nucleus Software Exports Ltd. (Nov 2005 – Jul 2007)
Tasks and Responsibilities in various projects:
➢ Had been contributing to the testing process by manual as well as with automated tools.
like QA Load and QA Run.
➢ I was responsible for building test plans, formulating test strategies, creating test scripts
and executing them.
➢ Involved with the performance testing of banking products using Rational Performance
Tester & Rational Robot
Technical Exposure
Domain
Skills
Areas of Interest
Programming Languages
RDBMS
Operating Systems
Continuous Integration
Automation Tools
Performance Monitoring Tools
Authentication Mechanisms
Application Server(s)
Web Server(s)
Network Simulation Tools
Build Tools
Virtualization Tools
Containerization Tools/
Frameworks
NoSQL
Configuration Management Tools
REST Development Frameworks
Cloud Platforms
Computer Networks, Wireless Systems, Networking
Protocols, OSS, NMS
C, C++, Java, XML, CORBA, JavaScript, Shell Scripting,
Cucumber, Gherkins, Groovy
Oracle 9i/ 10g/ 11g, 12c, MS SQL Server, MySql
UNIX, Windows 7/ XP, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX
Jenkins, TeamCity, ElectricFlow, Jervis
JMeter, Bad Boy, Rational Performance Tester, QA
Load & QA Run, Selenium, Fluentlenium, REST
Assured
JConsole, Oracle Enterprise Manager, VisualVM
PAM, LDAP, OAuth, SAML
JBoss 6.0, WildFly, Jetty
Apache Tomcat, JBoss WS
AdventNet Simulation Toolkit, MIMIC, net-SNMP
Maven, Ant, Gradle
VMWare vSphere, VirtualBox, Vagrant
Docker, Kubernetes
Elastic
Ansible, Salt
Sparkjava
AWS
Educational Details
Year
Qualification
Institution
2006-09
MS (Software Systems)
BITS, Pilani (Distance Learning Programme)
2001-04
MCA
Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad
1997-‘00
B.Sc.
1997
XII (CBSE)
Air Force School, Kanpur
1995
X (CBSE)
Air Force School, Kanpur
B. Nd. Degree College, Kanpur
Co-Curricular Activities
➢ Attended a corporate professional training on Agile software methodologies
➢ Attended comprehensive professional training on Elastic NoSQL alongwith Logstash
& Kibana
➢ Got consistent outstanding performer recognition for successive quarters.
➢ Active member of TM Forum and TechRepublic.
➢ Spend leisure time on creating beautiful web sites using Drupal framework.
➢ Active member of the Placement Committee, Institute of Management Studies,
Ghaziabad.
➢ Active member of the Alumni Committee, Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad.
➢ Organized and was awarded with a participation certificate for MELANGE 2003, an
event that took place at Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad.
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