Pravin Netalkar has over 10 years of experience in LTE development and testing. He has expertise in radio access technologies including LTE, 3G, and 2G. Currently he works as a senior engineer at Broadcom where he performs integration testing, analyzes logs, debugs issues, and works on protocol stack stabilization. Previously he worked at Motorola where he performed inter-operability testing across various vendors and operators for projects involving LTE, 3G, CDMA, and other technologies. He has also worked for LG Soft and other companies performing testing of mobile devices.

1. PRAVIN S.NETALKAR
Mob: +919611708411
E-mail: pravin.netalkar@gmail.com
Technical Expertise:
 Total of 10+ years of experience in LTE development team and LTE/3G/2G Stack testing
 Domain knowledge in Radio Access Technologies mainly LTE,3G,2G
 Expertise in Log analysis for LTE –GCF ,Triage Team ,L1C layer debug and fix,Inter Operability Testing
(IOT) for User Equipments supporting LTE,UMTS, GSM, GPRS, EDGE with vendors Alcatel Lucent,
Nokia Siemens,Nokia,Huaweii,Nortel,Motorola for Service providers AT&T,Verizon,Vodafone
 Skilled in understanding software requirements specification and preparing effective test cases as per the
document specification.
 Having good exposure to Test Development Life Cycle.
 Analyzing of Protocol Stack Issues
Professional Experience:
 Currently Working as Senior Staff Engineer with Broadcom Communications Bangalore from 2011 in
Software development team /Triage Team for LTE
 Worked as Senior Software Engineer with Motorola Mobility India Bangalore From Jan 2007-Aug 2011 in
Signaling Protocol team handling IOT for LTE,UMTS,CDMA,2G
 Worked with LG Soft India From Jan 2005 to Dec 2006 as Field tester in Product Validation Team
 Worked with Prairie Comm. Technologies (Free Scale) from May 2004 to Dec 2004 in PCERT Team
 Worked with GE Medical Systems (now GE Healthcare) from Feb 2004 to Apr 2004 in Installed based
team
Educational Qualifications:
 Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication from Gogte Institute of Technology
Belgaum, India 2003
Telecom Skills Set:
 Domains: LTE,3G,CDMA,GPRS,GSM,EDGE
 Protocols Stacks: RR, MM, RLC, RRC,NAS,L1C
 Operating Systems: Win 98/2000/XP/NT, Unix and MS-DOS
 Scripting Languages: C, Perl script (Beginner course), Anite ,Anritsu,CMW ,Agilent E5515C GPIB
Automation scripting
 Tools: R&S CMU 500,Communications Test set (HP 8960), CMU-200,Anite SAT® Various
Oscilloscopes and Motorola Proprietary Tools , Wireless Protocol Analyser,VeePro
7.5,Wireshark,QPST,QXDM,Wireshark,Broadcom internal tools,Anritsu
 Standards: 3GPP, ETSI ,OMA
Projects in Broadcom
Project Name: 21890/21892
Description: LTE /3G/2G tri-mode modem.
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2. Job Description:
1. Integration and testing of the change under various scenarios.
2. GCF logs analyzing (LTE/3G/2G-Idle mode ,Connected mode)
3. Network Simulator (Rhode and Shwarz /Anite/Anritsu) log analysis.
4. Debug and root cause analysis
5. Worked in Triage team
6.L2/L3 layer Adapt ,carrier validation (ATT & Ericsson)
7.Stabilization of LTE protocol stack and fixing the bugs identified during system test, GCF test and
IOT/IODT.
Projects in Motorola Mobility
Project Name: Xoom
Description: Tablet Category 3 in LTE and supports CDMA
Operating System: Android
Vendors:
 Alcatel-Lucent, France,USA LTE lab
 Ericsson LTE lab in Dallas,USA
Project Name: Cedar Point
Description: Platform Chipset for UMTS with support of Rel 7 features
Products : Milestone ,Sholes Tablet, Cliq
OS:Android
Vendors:
 Nokia-Siemens Networks,USA
 Ericsson, Montreal,Canada
 Huawei ,Xian China
 Nortel Networks, Richardson USA
 Motorola NW Swindon,UK
 Siemens,Dallas USA
Project Name: Linux Java (LJ)
Description: User Equipments based on LJ platform
Products: Pico,Elba
Vendors:
1. IOT/ IODT/ OTA
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3. Vendors & Operators:
 Nokia, Finland & USA
 Ericsson, Montreal,Canada
 Siemens, USA
Project Name:Razor 2
Description:Mobile handsets based on P2K platforms
Vendor:
 Nokia, Finland & USA
 Ericsson, Montreal,Canada
 Siemens, USA
 Motorola NW Swindon,UK
Responsibilty:
 Validation of Test requirement in Vendor Labs
 Technical support to the team when offsite
 Preparing the Test case Requirements Specs from 3GPP,3GPP2
 Responsible for designing optimal test plans for the vendor IOT
 Identified and finalized test cases for the new features on the GSM stack engine
 Tested different platform Motorola mobile sets like Windows mobile, P2K, Linux Java, Symbian,.
 Performed phasing, Flashing and Flexing for the Motorola mobiles.
 Log Analysis forms the major part of the responsibility
 Mentoring new engineers
 Involved in team leading activities
Description:
Validation of stack features in LTE,UMTS,GSM, AMR, GPRS, EDGE, DTM,R6,R7 modules from the
AT&T,Verizon test plan, role is to test the interoperable functionalities of Motorola Muti mode phones
across different network setups. Ericsson, Alcatel, Siemens, Nokia, Nortel and Motorola are the major NW
vendors in the world, this project involves testing of the generic GSM/GPRS/EGPRS CS and PS telecom
interoperability between a Motorola User Equipment and the complete Vendor Mobile infrastructure in line
with the 3GPP Release 4 for Um interface. Activity involves the complete testing of MS software with the
live Network set up with a well-defined set of test cases.
Scenarios: Idle Mode, Connected Mode features, NACC, NCCR, CS, PS, CSD, CS+PS, PS+PS, R99test cases
in 3G, Cell selection, Cell reselection, Soft/Softer, Intra-frequency, Inter-Frequency, Inter-RAT
Handovers,Wb-AMR ,LTE only ,IRAT-LTE
Achievements:
Reduced the testing time for IOT, due to this significant amount (more than USD100K) was saved to
Motorola for the lab cost and living cost for the resource
Received Motorola “Bravo” award for the significant contribution to IOT and proving execution efficiency
in vendor’s lab.
Projects at LG Soft India
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4. 1. Field Testing/Lab testing (Jan 2005 – Dec 2006)
Vendors & Operators:
 LG Malaysia-Celcom,Digi,Maxis
 LG Singapore- Singtel,Starhub,M1
 LG South Korea
 LG Iran-TCI
Role: Field test Engineer/Lab testing
Team Size: 8
Responsibilty:
Performing Sanity, Regression, User Interaction(UI), Feature Interaction Testing, Stress Testing,
Performance Testing, Power Consumption Tests
Preparing of Test Cases and Module based Test plans
 Performed Flashing of LG handsets.
 Mentoring new engineers
 Involved in team leading activities
Description:
Performing extensive Inter-operability testing (IOT), Conformation testing and Performance testing to comply
with GSM/GPRS Standard
Achievements:
 Setup the LAB at LG soft India for WAP Gateway,SMSC server and Agilent 8960 interoperability
protocol testing with Wireless Protocol Analyzer Software
 Automated the Aglient 8960 using Vee Pro GPIB command interface software
 Most of the LG handsets tested are launched and running successful in
Singapore, Malaysia, Iran
Brief Description of
Projects at Prairie Comm. Technologies Pvt Ltd(now Free scale)
Trainee Project Engineer Duration: May 2004 – Dec 2004
Was working for Prairie Comm. Technologies Pvt Ltd now known as Free Scale for the protocol testing of
TDMA enabled mobile working on IS-136 standard.
Job function:
 Handset Tester PCERT Engineer and developer of Tmac-Scripts for the simulation of the Network
using the IFR Network box
 Test plan generation and test case execution
 Performing extensive Inter-operability testing (IOT), Conformation testing and Performance testing to
comply with IS-136 protocol.
 Performed Feature interaction, functionality and stress testing of mobile phones.
 Testing of Phone Support Tool, Multiplexing, Third Party Adapter and
 Analyzing of the Logs
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5. Projects at GE medical Systems (now GE Healthcare)
Trainee Engineer Duration: Feb 04- May 04
Testing of X-Ray generators used in 42 CT, 60 RAD, 80 RAD models and circuitry debugging and designing
of circuits for test equipments.
Involvement
Was a member of Installed Base Team wherein used to analyse and find the root cause for the failures in field
return generators.
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 18th Oct 1980
Nationality: Indian
Sex & Marital Status: Male and Married
Languages Known: English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi and Konkani
Passport No.: Z1731073
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