Himani Yadav has over 7 years of experience in the telecom industry testing wireline data networking elements such as switches, routers, and protocols including STP, RIPv1, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, HSRP, BGP, IPv6, IPVPN, MPLS, and OSPF. She has experience with functional, performance, load, regression, acceptance, and scalability testing. She is proficient in debugging, troubleshooting, and understanding the bug life cycle. She has worked with tier 1 service providers globally, including projects involving design, testing, troubleshooting, and reporting.

1. HIMANI YADAV
HIGHLIGHTS
• 7+ years of quality experience in Telecom industry primarily in the domain of Wireline
Data Networking.
• In-depth technical knowledge of Wireline Data Network & Concepts, Network Elements
e.g. Switches, Routers etc and important Layer 2 & Layer 3 protocols e.g. STP, RIPv1,
RIPv2,IGRP, EIGRP,HSRP,BGP,IPv6,IPVPN,MPLS, OSPF and tested on Cisco
7609/Huawei CX600D as BAN in MEN, EoSDH, TDMoIP.
• Experience in various kind of testing such as functional testing, performance testing, load
testing, regression testing, acceptance testing & scalability.
• Experience in Cisco Contact Centre Testing.
• Exposure on L2 Ethernet Switch field deployments – Customer/Provider Bridging of
multiple L2 protocols.
• Proficient in executing complex assignments with a right blend of technical and analytical
skills.
• Having strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Complete understanding of the (Defect) Bug Life Cycle; beginning from the moment they
get raised to the point they get fixed.
• Experience in working in global customer environment. Worked with Tier 1 Service
Provider Vodafone UK at their head office in UK .During the assignment my main roles
and responsibilities include:-
o Working on important projects such as Core Data Design, Video -meet
Anywhere, CPE Enhancements etc.
o Responsible for preparation of High level and Low Level Design
o Preparation of Test Cases and Test procedures
o Execution of test cases & troubleshooting
o Interop Testing
o Preparation of Final report of validation, BUG report
• Exposure to working on various network devices e.g Cisco ASR and ISR platform
routers, Telllabs Switches, 7300 Ethernet Switches, 7300ECPE etc.
o Worked on different hardware such as SWITCHES(Tellabs 7300 series , DLINK
& CISCO Series such as Cisco 3400 as BN in MEN network), SDH
Equipment(Nortel, Tellabs, Fibcom & Marconi), Modems (Beetel220bx, D-
LINK, Zyexl , Binaton , ZTE,NetAccess).
o Experience in testing and configuration with Maipu 801e,1700 router and 3400
switch.
o Proof of Concept and demonstration of Wi-Fi CPEs to various Service Providers
o Design and planning for V5 protocol for communication between DLC to ILT.
o Have worked on Network Management (NMS) for different vendors such as
RAD Communication, UTStarcom etc.
• Configuration of the Datacom Layer 2/3 features like Spanning Tree (STP / RSTP /
MSTP), Ethernet OAM, ITU Y.1731 Performance Monitoring, VLAN, ECFM (IEEE
802.1ag), ERPS (ITU G.8032), ELPS (ITU G.8031), SM, IGMP Snooping, QOS &
Routing Protocols as per customer requirements.
• Used different test tools such as IXIA traffic generator, Wireshark packet analyzer,
ethereal. Agilent’s N2X and Spirent’s Smart bits &E1 /T1 traffic generator
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2. • Quick study, with an ability to easily grasp and put into application new ideas, concepts,
methods and technologies.
• Proficient in formulating test processes and procedures.
• Dedicated and self-motivated team player/builder
EDUCATION
B-Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Meerut Institute of Engineering
Technology in 2008 with 69.98%.
Intermediate from S.N. Inter College 2004 with 79.8%.
Matriculation from S.N. Inter College 2002 with 71.66%.
Technical Skills
Network Elements : CPE, Switches, Routers,IP Phones, NMS, DLC,
TDMoIP
Operating System : Win XP/2000/98, Linux, Solaris 10.
Software tools : Wireshark, Ethereal,iperf, SmartBits, Agilent
N2X,Ixia,Xena
Protocols /Technology : OSPF, BGP,IPsec,MPLS,HSRP,ECFM,ELPS,QoS, STP,
V5, VLAN,SIP ,Contact Centre ,CUCM
PROJECTS
Project Title #1 : Vodafone Group
Company : Aricent Technologies (Holdings) Limited
Duration: : Feb 2015 –Sep2016
Role : Test Analyst
Period : Dec 2014 to till date
Tools : N2X, XENA, Remedy
Cisco Devices : ISR44xx, ISR43xx, ASR100x, Cisco 29xx, Cisco 39xx
Description:
Vodafone is a provider of telecommunications services in the United Kingdom, and a part of
the Vodafone Group, the world's second-largest mobile phone company. Vodafone are committed to
delivering a faster, smarter and more reliable network – a network that our customers can trust. The
Vodafone Network program is the network transformation project of the U.K. telecommunications
company. Vodafone Group provides various telecommunication services with lots of new services
being offered to the Customers and other Communication providers.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for executing the test scenario on Cisco routers as per the test plan provided by
customer.
• To configure the Data com Layer 3 features like
BGP,OSPF,EIGRP,IPVPN,HSRP,Multicasting and QOS as per customer requirements
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3. • Closely work with Customer and fulfill customer’s requirement.Responsible for writing the
test scenario for UAT, ORT ,and End to End in Video meet anywhere project.
• To define new requirements for the End to End test scenario after getting inputs from
customer and then help plan product roadmap.
• Responsible for executing the end to end scenario in Video meet anywhere and report the
bugs.
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4. Project Title # 2:
Duration :
Tellabs 7300 Metro Ethernet Switch
Jan 2012 - Feb2015
Role: Senior Engineer testing
Description:
This project involves design, development & testing of Tellabs 73XX Ethernet switches. The Tellabs
7345 Ethernet Aggregation Switch is a carrier-class Layer 2 switch supporting delivery of business
Ethernet, broadband data and Internet access services in a single platform. The Tellabs 7345 Ethernet
switch supports metro Ethernet networking with the Ethernet OAM capabilities and comprehensive
traffic management features. The Tellabs 7345 Switch handles ports up to 10Gbps and the Tellabs 7325
Switch handles ports up to 1 Gbps. Tellabs has multiple customers for 7300 Ethernet Switch equipment
across multiple countries (USA, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Philippines, etc.).
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Design and implement the network deployments of 7300 ECPE through coordination with
Tellabs and their multiple Customer System Engineering teams
• To perform the interoperability testing of 7300 Ethernet Switch with other Tellabs Products
• To configure the Data com Layer 2/3 features like Spanning Tree (STP / RSTP / MSTP),
Ethernet OAM, ITU Y.1731 Performance Monitoring, VLAN, ECFM (IEEE 802.1ag), ERPS
(ITU G.8032), ELPS (ITU G.8031), SM, IGMP Snooping, QOS & Routing Protocols as per
customer requirements.
• To define new requirements for the Tellabs 7300 product after getting inputs from customers
and then help plan product roadmap. Closely work with Customer support teams wherever
they are unable to handle the complex field scenarios involving 7300 Ethernet Switches as
well as other similar Data com Layer 2/3 devices in use at customer sites.
• To analyze the issues observed in the field and to provide the optimum resolution/workaround.
Project Title 3#: Cisco Contact Centre
Duration: Mar 2011 –Jan2012
Role Test Engineer
Description:
Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise delivers intelligent contact routing, call treatment, network-to-
desktop computer telephony integration (CTI), and multichannel contact management over an IP
infrastructure.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Functional Test Execution.
• Reviewed and validated understanding of customer design requirements as well as
recommended process changes.
• Managed day-to-day client and internal service requests and documented all services
performed.
• Worked on design and implementation of Dial-plan for Inbound and Outbound calls in CUCM
Clusters.
• Update and close tickets. Documentation on tickets and track issues to completion.
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5. • Design, implement and maintain network infrastructure.
Project Title # 4:
Duration :
Cisco 3400 as BN in MEN network
Jan2011 –Mar2011
Role: Senior Domain Engineer
Description:
A Metro Ethernet is a computer network that covers a metropolitan area and that is based on the
Ethernet standard. It is commonly used as a metropolitan access network to connect subscribers and
businesses to a larger service network or the Internet. Metro Ethernet is also used to connect branch
offices to their Intranet. Reliance Metro Ethernet is a 3 layered ring architecture i.e. MCN(Media
Convergence Node), BAN (Building Aggregation Node) and BN (Building Node). BN ring is the last
mile ring which connects the series of the BN to the BAN. BN is a point of customer demarcation and
the first point of entry for traffic into MEN. The ring topology provides redundancy to the customer
traffic.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Prepared Level1 Test case as per standard BN functionality and the inputs received from
internal departments e.g. Network planning, Marketing etc.
• Tested 3400 as a BN Node for Reliance Metro Ethernet network and executing the test cases
as per L1 test Case. Tested MAC Ping, MAC learning, VLAN tagging as per IEEE 802.1q &
system support for 4096 VLANs, VLAN stacking, Load balancing on the aggregated port
based on Source MAC, Destination MAC etc.
• Tested STP, RSTP protocols for loop avoidance, ARP for address resolution. Raising the
issues with Cisco if any and preparing test report at the end of the testing.
Project Title # 5:
Duration :
Cisco 7609/Huawei CX600D as BAN in MEN
Oct 2010 –Jan 2011
Role: Senior Network Engineer
Description:
A Metro Ethernet is a computer network that covers a metropolitan area and that is based on the
Ethernet standard. In reliance communications, MEN is deployed to provide diverse services such as
L2 VPN, L3VPN, Access Service, VoIP, Broadband Internet access in a simple scalable and flexible
manner. Building Aggregation Node (BAN) provides the traffic aggregation point for a number of
building access rings.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Prepared Level1 Test case as per standard BAN functionality and the inputs received from
internal departments e.g. Network planning, Marketing etc.
• Tested Cisco 7609 & Huawei CX 600D as a BAN Node for Reliance Metro Ethernet network
and executed the test cases as per L1 test Plan.
• Tested OSPF neighbor ship formation, DR &BDR election, exchange of Type1,Type2, Type3
LSAs, concept of areas i.e. Stubby Areas, Not so Stubby Areas and flooding of LSAs in these
areas.
• Raising the issues with respective vendors if any and preparing test report at the end of the
testing.
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6. Project Title # 6:
Duration :
EoSDH
Feb 2010 –Oct 2010
Role: Senior Network Engineer
Description:
A Metro Ethernet Network is ideal platform for providing Broadband Internet, VPN services &
backhaul services. But in those locations where MEN is not present TDM platform like SDH is used
for delivering these services and is terminated on Data Core Network. Aggregator and CPE are two
main devices to provide EoSDH services. In reliance lab, Lab evaluation of various vendor’s (Raises,
RAD, Telexcel etc.) aggregator and CPEs has been performed for Reliance’s EoSDH vendor
finalization.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Tested support for EoSDH specific protocols e.g. GFP (Generic Framing Protocol), LCAS and
VCAT, BER testing over E1 circuits. Tested VLAN tagging, VLAN stacking, jumbo frames,
maximum Vlans supported per port etc., tested centralized management of all nodes, fault
and performance management, security features and logging functionality of CPEs and
aggregators.
• Raised the issues found during testing to concerned vendors and tested the resolution of the
same. Prepared test report at the end of the testing.
Project Title # 7:
Duration :
ADSL CPEs
Sep 2009 –Feb 2010
Role: Senior Network Engineer
Description:
ADSL is a fully digital, dedicated connection to the telephone system that provides download speeds
up to 24 Mbps and upload speeds up to 2Mbps. ADSL is used for transmitting the high speed
asynchronous data over two wire copper line. ADSL CPE is deployed at customer premise and it can
be managed by provider or customer based on the services availed.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Tested support for multiple PVCs and time of Day Access policy option, NAT, DHCP Relay
Agent.
• Also tested the security features like URL blocking, Access Control lists etc. Also performed
the load testing on ADSLCPEs
• Executed the test cases as per the L1 test plan on ADSL CPEs of various vendors e.g. ZTE,
Zyxel, Binaton, Beetel, Aeon Electronics etc.
• Prepared test report at the end of testing and discussion of report with internal departments of
reliance.
Project Title # 8:
Duration :
DLC
Sep 2008- Sep 2009
Role: Senior Network Engineer
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7. Description:
Digital loop Carrier technology makes use of digital techniques to bring a wide range of services to
users via twisted pair copper phone lines. The local loop is the physical connection between the main
distribution frames in the user’s premises to the telecommunication network provider. Reliance has
deployed DLC to reduce copper cable requirement & to upgrade the voice quality.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Tested support for V5 protocol for communication between DLC to ILT.
• Tested centralized management, Log management, and auto discovery of network elements
and security features of DLC.
• Also verified support for various Fxs , IP ADSL and cards, Executed the test cases as per the
L1 test plan for UTstarcom and Huawei DLCs.
• Prepared test report at the end of testing and discussion of report with internal departments of
reliance.
• Date of Birth: 05/07/1989
• Father’s Name: Prem Singh Yadav
• Mother’s Name: Kusum Yadav
• Marital Status: Single
• Passport Number: H3104963
• Permanent Address: 2/315, New Colony
Near Gandhi Inter college Bidhuna, Auraiya
Uttar Pradesh, 206243
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PERSONAL INFORMATION