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title: "Bikas Kar - Senior Director in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Bikas Kar, Wireless Networks Professional | Technical Presales | Telecom | 4G/5G | WiFi | Ex Nokia | Ex Sandvine | Ex Sasken based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes ChatGPT."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/bikas-kar/share-image"
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# Bikas Kar on Tal

## Headline

Wireless Networks Professional \| Technical Presales \| Telecom \| 4G/5G \| WiFi \| Ex Nokia \| Ex Sandvine \| Ex Sasken

## About

20\+ Years of experience in telecom products validation, along with solutioning & Presales\. Job Function: \- Extensive experience in Customer requirement analysis, Customer Demo & RFP analysis \- Leading Pilot/PoC at customer location/lab, Trial request & execution in WiFi & LTE domain \- Project Mgmt: Project planning, project tracking, Reporting \- Solution development: Requirement analysis & Customer deployment support \- Onsite exposure & Exp\. \- Looking for technical customer facing roles Professional Summary: \- Result oriented individual with 15 yrs of experience in wireless domain like GSM, GPRS, 3G Femto,LTE, 5G ,System testing on Sandvine Policy Switch & PCRF,Carrier WIFi & Small Cells & Trial & pilot\. \- Responsible for Testing Carrier WiFi features \(802\.11\), Customer Demos, Trials & Pilots \(T&P\), Requirement analysis & Solution Development \- Working with multiple customers & teams around the globe like Poland, Russia, Qatar, Thailand, Singapore, India, China on Small Cell LTE & WiFi T&P \- Extensive Experience in Telecom testing, Test strategy, Test plan creation & execution \- Expert in System testing for telecom products both Manual & Automated testing, developing automation infrastructures from scratch, automated scripts & TCs, designing automation environment, Problem solving, debugging issues \- Expert in cross\-functional interaction with various teams within organization to get the Job Done\. \- Expert at handling customers and issues & interacting with partners & 3rd party vendors, execution deployments at customer sites & product IOT testing \- Excellent team player & have the ability to work as individual contributor or lead a team\. Technical Expertise: Technologies/Domain : GSM, GPRS, 3G, Femto \(Small cells\), LTE, WiFi, 5G, Policy Management Scripting Language : Bash, TCL, Perl, Python, AWK, Expect Platform : UNIX, SOLARIS, Linux, Windows, FreeBSD Testing Tools : NetHawk, Tenor, TEMS, MGTS, IXIA, Agilent, Cruise Control, Hudson, Robot, Wireshark CM : SVN, ClearCase Test Result Update : Quality Center \(QC\) Bug Tracking : Jira, Pronto, Clarify, ClearQuest Reach me out at bikaskar@gmail\.com\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

ChatGPT

## Work experience

Senior Director at Rakuten Symphony, Jun 2021 \- Present · 5 y 3 mo, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Working on Wi\-Fi & 4G Product Management and Solutioning

Solution Architect \- Trial & Pilot at Nokia, Jul 2019 \- Jun 2021 · 2 yrs, Bangalore, As an Architect for Trial & Pilot, my Primary responsibility is to ensure successful product Demo, Solution development & Trial for our new Customers according to their requirements in WiFi Domain during Presales\. In order to achieve successful trial from Technical perspective following activities I need to perform: \* Handling direct customer interaction on\-site or offline \* Customer Demo, Trials & PoC \* Customer requirement \(RFP\) gathering & Analysis, \* Trial/Pilot Project Planning \* End\-to\-end Solution development & Proposal, BoQ/BoM review \* Solution Review & rework along with Customer & other internal Stakeholders \* Trial Project implementation & Signoff from Customer Apart from Presales, I render my support in PostSales activities as: \* Project/Network Handover to Customer \* Product support & issues analysis and tracking\. \* Managing Customer escalation & planning patch deliveries\. \*\*Business Development \*\* I am also involved in business development for WiFi product through engaging with CT teams and discussing various strategies & solutions\. \*\* Product Feedback \*\* Responsible for providing new feature & requirements/suggestions to various R&D team\. Play Key role in feature implementation sign\-off\. Help teams in feature prioritization & Release life cycle\. \*\* Soft Skills \*\* \* Leading teams without Authority \* Cross\-Functional teams communication \* Multi\-Cultural Customers interaction as part of multiple travel opportunities\.

Lead Trial & Pilot WiFi Engineer & Solution Development at Nokia, Apr 2016 \- Jul 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Responsible for Testing Carrier WiFi features \(802\.11\), Customer Demos, Customer Trials & Pilots, requirement analysis and solution development\.

Lead Trial & Pilot LTE Engineer at Nokia, Jan 2015 \- Mar 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Responsible for working on Small Cell LTE Trial & Pilot with customers in India and China\. Testing multiple LTE \(4G\) features needed during customer trial\. Investigating issues during trail related to features & throughput\.

Technical Lead \- Customer Solution Validation at Sandvine, Nov 2012 \- Jun 2013 · 8 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Manual testing & Automation of Traffic Management Product to improve customer QoE in 3G network , IOT testing, Trials , Customer deployments, System Validation of Traffic Management SW in Lab 3G network & Live Customer Network

Senior QA Engineer at Sandvine, Jun 2011 \- Oct 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Responsible for Manual testing and Automation of Traffic Management SW in 3G network\. Also involved in Scalability, IOT testing, Trials , Customer deployments,

Senior Engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks, Mar 2009 \- Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Unit Testing deals with functional testing of Femto Gateway\. All other network element in Femto network are simulators like Core Network, FAPs and OMS\. Functional testing includes testing of new features and regression on Call processing and OAM areas\. These tests are done using test scripts written in TTCN or/and other scripting languages\. We use FT tester to execute TTCN scripts\. We work in Agile mode and I am also part of scrum team\. We integrate test cases into continuous integration \(CI\) to test all regression and new features\. \* Responsible for Automation and testing telecom features, development of automation framework\. \* Responsible for Femto Gateway testing, system integration, functional testing, etc\.

Senior Software Engineer at Sasken, Jun 2005 \- Mar 2009 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Sub\-System testing deals with BSS testing \(Nortel\)\. BSS includes BSC, TCU, BTS, PCUSN, SGSN, Mobile Station and MSC \(both simulator and real MSC\)\. System Testing includes both new feature testing and regression testing of existing features\. There are various test areas like Traffic Management, Operation and Maintenance, DATA \(GPRS\), Supervision, in which I am involved\. I have also contributed in Automation which enhances the productivity of test case execution by automating the existing manual test cases\. This project also deals with the execution of the automated test cases\. Apart from this, automation helps in developing tools for analysis and reporting which helps manual test teams’ life easy\. Responsible for Automation testing\. Automating testcases and framework development using TCL/TK, Shell script for GSM end\-to\-end OAM/Call Processing testing\.

## Education

B\.Tech, Information Technology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

12th, Physics, Ispat Autonomous College, Rourkela

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