Akash Sachdeva

Background

About Akash Sachdeva

R&D Test Engineer, working on 5G RAN technology on Nokia products. Design and implementation of BTS features in TRS and TRS-OAM related areas spanning 5G, LTE, WCDMA, GSM for classical and cloud product variants of Nokia. Sound knowledge on 5G/4G/3G/2G technologies and experienced in domains of telecom, datacom and IP protocol stacks, as individual contributor in areas of networking, IPv4, IPv6, IPSEC. Experienced in testing and debugging of GTPu, IPSec TCP, UDP protocols. Participated in Feature testing, Regression testing, Sanity testing, Stability testing, Data-centre, Performance and Robustness testing within the sprint boundaries. Working knowledge of designing and implementing Test Strategy, Automation Strategy, Test environment, Use cases for assigned features. Network Engineer, with knowledge of Implementing Networks, coupled with extensive knowledge of Service Provider Network & Local Area Network. Good Hands on routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv1 & 2), Switching Protocols (VLAN’s, Trunking and Spanning Tree) and python automation for network protocol with PYATS framework. Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN, Trunks, VTP, Ether channel, STP, RSTP, MST. Excellent working knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite and OSI layers. Worked on several hardware’s such as Ericsson, Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Netgear, Extreme, IXIA, Spirent Sound knowledge and experienced in deployment of VMs on Cisco UCS blade servers using VMWare and deployment of OpenStack in HP/Dell servers. Implementation of HSRP for Default Gateway Redundancy. Efficient at use of Microsoft VISIO/Office as technical documentation and presentation tools. Excellent Communication and Customer Service skills, Worked on several tools such as Jira, OpenALM, GIT repository. Hands on experience with Agilent, IXIA, Spirent traffic generators and Wireshark packet capture.