Sundaram Ramaswami

Manager - eSIM QA & Integration @ Vodafone

About

Ever since my childhood I've had two distinct traits - Attention to detail and good communication skills, and I try to apply them in all avenues of my life, be it personal or professional. Although I graduated with a B.E degree majoring in Electronics, I've always had a strong affinity for mobile technology, which ignited my career in the telecom sector. I've worked in the telecommunications industry for over 7 years and I specialize in quality assurance and project delivery. I currently handle eSIM QA and market integration at Vodafone Intelligent Solutions in Pune, India. I'm also inclined towards leadership responsibilities and team management, and I lead a small QA team at Vodafone which oversees various projects. I've been involved in a wide array of services previously such as mobile testing as well as SIM profiling and deployment. I'm quite passionate about Formula 1. Over the past several years, I've had this thought of creating F1-centric content and I finally decided to go deeper into the sport. When I'm not working, I run a channel called 'F1 StatsGuru', where I constantly post articles on the latest happenings in the sport along with reviews, analysis, statistics and quizzes. I also curate podcast episodes covering the different facets of Formula 1. As an individual, I'm constantly intrigued by newer technologies and by how things work. I'm often curious and motivated to learn new skills and languages, and I also enjoy conducting trainings and workshops. I hail from Kerala in southern India but was born and raised in the Middle East in Bahrain. Travelling has been a crucial part of my life, in addition to being a huge stress buster. Apart from letting me disconnect from work, it enables me to interact with new people and learn about different cultures, cuisines, and experiences. Professionally, I've travelled to Australia, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Kenya, Morocco, Germany and numerous domestic locations in India, for official field trips or other work commitments.

Country

India

City

Pune Division

Industry

Telecommunications

Skill

eSIM, Team Management, Quality Assurance, Telecommunications, WCDMA, GPRS, Manual Testing, Mobile Communications, Strategic Planning, SIP, 3G, Mobile Devices, GSM, QXDM, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Leadership Development, Market Integration, Field Testing, Wireshark

Experience

Manager - eSIM QA & Integration

Vodafone

2021-3 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Deputy Manager - eSIM QA & Integration

Vodafone

2018-6 - 2021-3 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Pune, Maharashtra

Formula 1 Statistician & Content Creator

F1 StatsGuru

2019-2 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos

Technical Consultant

Thales Cyber and Digital

2015-6 - 2018-5 · 3 yrs

Mumbai Area, India

Clients: RJIL, Vodafone, Airtel, Idea, BSNL, RCOM, Tata, Aircel. Responsibilities: - Collect, clarify and formalize plug/embedded SIM requirements and use dedicated tools from Gemalto to track all necessary requirements. - End-to-end co-ordination with different teams for profile development. - Vast internal project management duties and follow-up throughout the implementation progress. - Track and validate deliveries by other Gemalto teams. - Deliver test cards in accordance with agreed upon timelines and quality standards. - Planning & execution of testing, reporting bugs & analysis, customer support & final delivery management. - Gain a strong understanding of card product requirements. - Use industrialization tools to define the customer profiles specifications (data processing, electrical, graphical, packaging). - Provide technical support in the validation phase within a BAP project. - Follow-up on multi-sourcing/porting projects implemented by the multi-sourcing team. - Develop, validate and document SIM card personalization applications during projects life cycle. - Providing demos and POCs for different solutions, responsible for technical efficiency & QA. - Good understanding of 3GPP & 3GPP2 standards(GSM11.11, GSM11.14, USIM-TS31.102, ISIM-TS31.103). Wireless Technologies & Protocols - GSM, UMTS, LTE, VoLTE. Profile Types - SIM/USIM/ISIM, eSIM, M2M, MultiSIM

Field Test Engineer

Marquistech

2012-10 - 2015-5 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Mahape, Navi Mumbai

Clients: Nokia, Microsoft, Blackberry, Lenovo, Lava, Ninetology, Intel, Qualcomm. Responsibilities: - Liaising with clients to perform comprehensive carrier/specification acceptance testing of GSM/UMTS/LTE capable global devices and chipsets. - Hands-on field testing experience on all available network operators in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa market region. - Responsible for test planning and execution, log collection for errors and local logistics. - Execution of rigorous stability tests on live networks during mobility and stationary conditions to test the functionality and stability of the device. - Execution of build performance testing in TDD LTE and FDD LTE areas. - Execution of drive tests related to voice mobility, roaming networks, PS/CS calling, weak fields, dial-up networking, and location based services. Also includes functional testing of data throughput, cell reselection & RRC connection setup procedure in lab and field environments and verifying the behavior in conformance to 3GPP specs. - Primary log analysis of issues and providing the client with necessary information. - Creation of reports for clients including comprehensive details of issues and observations for the handsets under test as well as logging of all errors found into internal databases for tracking purposes. Wireless Technologies & Protocols - GSM, UMTS, LTE, VoLTE. Test Tool - QxDM, QPST, Wireshark and various client specific tools Bug Tracking Tools - Lotus Notes, Jira, BugZilla, Redmine, E-Service, Integrity10