About

Kedar Karmarkar is an Associate Director of Engineering at GS Lab, with over 16 years of experience in software quality assurance in the UC, Telecom, VoIP, and Network Security domains. He is proficient in developing test strategies, plans, and cases, estimating test efforts, executing tests, and tracking bugs. Kedar has hands-on experience in black box testing, functional, system, regression, performance, load, upgrade/rollback, high availability testing, manual and automation testing. His technical skills include proficiency in domains such as IMS, PSTN, Telecom OSS/BSS, and Networking. He is also well-versed in technologies such as VoIP and WebRTC, and protocols like SIP, SIPI, H.323, H.248, MGCP, SS7 (ISUP), ISDN, TCAP, and RTP. Kedar has worked with products such as Class4 Switch, SBC, Media Gateways, and Network IDS and IPS. He is proficient in using tools such as SIPp, Spectra2, INET, Wireshark, Ethereal, EAST, Seagull, NavTel, SIP Softphones, and Shunra. Additionally, he is experienced in using test management tools such as Clear Quest, Quality Centre, Microsoft TFS, Jira, and Confluence. Kedar is skilled in databases such as Oracle SQL and PostGreSQL, and operating systems such as Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, Linux RHEL2/RHEL3/RHEL5, Solaris, and AIX. He is also proficient in Python. Kedar's current role at GS Lab is as an Associate Director of Engineering. In his previous role as an Engineering Manager, he was responsible for driving technical teams with direct engineering involvement for telco projects. He was accountable for customer committed deliverables with quality as per customer committed acceptance criteria. He also developed engineering capability for a domain through timely succession planning and grooming, prepared team leaders for business commitments, managed team member performance, and drove career management for leads in the team. Kedar has also held the position of Associate Technical Manager at GS Lab. Kedar holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune. He has relevant experience of 16.37 years in the industry.