Hasan Niaz

• Huawei 5G NSA/SA Core Commissioning and Maintenance – UNC,UDG,UDM,UPCF
• 4G-LTE Network Maintenance and Monitoring
• Huawei CEM
• Huawei Cloud Edge USN, UGW,CG
• Huawei Cloud Core HSS, PCRF, MSC, SPS, DSP

Ultimate HR solutions – Huawei Project UAE

Feb 2023 - present

PS CORE Engineer – 5G SA – NSA/EPC

·       SMF,AMF,UPF – version upgrade/patch upgrade – Managing upgrade software end to end i.e, download, parse, plugins, upload using LCM and NFVO

·       Configure 2G/3G/HLR functionality on AMF – first call SGSN, GGSN on AMF

·       5G SA Slice configuration and testing including traces on UDM, AMF, SMF, UPF

·       New APN, PLMN configurations on AMF, SMF, UPF

·       DPI configurations – signature database, optimizing apps for protocol detection 

·       Cloud Core Hardware ATP and rectifications

·       ATP SMF, UPF – All test cases – Delivery to commercial

·       Roaming testing

·       Radius server configuration and testing

·       VM expansions – UPF/AMF using NFVO Orchestrator

·       Lawful interception configuration and testing

·       Cloud UDN for tapping – CHR, configurations and probing

·       ULCL feature configuration and testing

·       Troubleshooting attach, registration issues from traces to assist operation team

·       Lawful interception configuration and testing

·       Cloud UDN for tapping – CHR, configurations and probing

Rain Networks 2020 July – 2023 Jan

PS CORE Back office Engineer – NSA & SA core

·       Core operations on Huawei NEs - License expansion, IP pool expansion UGW/UDG, Signature database upgrade, TAC addition in MME/SMF, TAC audit, license audit

·       Set and analyse live traces on Huawei MME, AMF, SMF, UPCF and UPF for troubleshooting clients with issues

·       Core KPI reporting daily, weekly, monthly – Success rates, user count, Throughput

·       Traceroutes for alarms and link faults – S1c, S1u, S6a, HTTP, Soap links, N28, N40

·       Huawei 5G SA  and NSA core local configurations, integration and testing – MME/AMF/UGW/UNC/UDG

·       Dual Connectivity feature configure and testing

·       Configure new PLMN and testing

·       Core Acceptance Test Procedure ATP – Delivery to commercial

·       N40, N28 – Gx Gy Sy configuration and testing

·       Provisioning subscribers in UDM, UPCF, HSS and PCRF. Provision IMS subs in HSS/UDM/ATS/ENS

·       Configuring subscriber templates in UDM/HSS

·       Configuring new services and rules in PCRF

·       Core NEs fault analysis – ticket generation to Huawei support for faults and new requirements – Health check collection/analysis

·       Conducting training sessions with NOC – basic alarm handling and escalations, KPI checks, generating reports, user defined threshold alarms, SOP preparations and monitoring techniques

·       Standby core support for faults, incidents alarms and issues

·        Test Production service packages end to end for speed, streaming, VPN

·       Zero rate URLs as per government’s requirement – l7, filters, host

·       Assist delivery team with deployments and converged core integrations

·       CEM customer care analysis – PS core traces S1 MME, user plane, Throughput analysis

·       Core Network Topology preparation and disaster recovery document

·       New MSISDN/GPSI range configure and testing

·       Decommission NEs to reuse hardware

·       Configure MVNO on the Core

·       New MSISDN/GPSI range configure and testing

·       Power BI report creation

On Time Telecoms – Huawei Project

2017 May – 2020 June

EPC Back office Engineer 

·   5G-NSA commissioning. Assisted delivery team with integrations for UGW with Fixed and Mobile OCS. Integration of DSP(EIR) with SPS and HSS

·   Huawei MME, CGW/DGW, DSP local NE configurations

·   Huawei NFV architecture – exposure to creating LLDs to deploy new NEs – Fusion Sphere and Fusion Manager for basic Host and VM handling and to check NFVI resource usage.

·   Huawei Core NEs – Critical and Major Alarm handling - Abnormalities observed in the network escalated timely and troubleshooting done with team to ensure smooth recovery of the network

·   Huawei CEM – Customer complaints – PS session and record query traces. DNS analysis

·   SMSC and OTA service KPI extraction and monitoring

·   Provisioning subscribers in HSS and PCRF – Creating new templates and APNs in HSS

·   Whitelisting IMEIs in DSP

·   CHR/CDR collection and analysis - Omstar

·   Conducting quarterly health checks of all core nodes – Analyzing health check reports for risks and resolving issues to keep Core Nodes healthy

·   Taking live traces on clients sim cards to troubleshoot ongoing issues – Huawei USN/UGW/HSS/PCRF

·   Assisting 4G and 5G clients with Day to Day issues i.e, APN settings, 4G sim slot settings, signal strength, billing status, coverage, cell latching FDD TDD, pcrf policies, packet injection.

·   Patch upgrades and license load of all core nodes

·   On-site support during IP core operations and activities – Failover test, Migrations

·   Liaising with High level Support for new requirements and issues

·   Tracking Area Code TAC audit to ensure all TACs are consistent between core and RAN

·   IP core basic training and practice– Configuring routers, switches, L2 VPN, L3 VPN, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, static routing

·   EPC performance reporting for KPIs - User Count, Throughput, Bearer Success Ratio, Mobile and Fixed OCS KPIs, CPU status, license resource usage, Attach – Daily and Weekly

·   4G/5G network Monitoring and Maintenance – User defined Threshold for major KPIs, training NOC for understanding alarms and EPC topology.

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