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Anoop Muraleedharan Nair

Bellevue,WA

Summary

Results-driven and highly experienced Quality Assurance Engineer with 15+ years of expertise in the full system development lifecycle. Seeking a challenging role to leverage my skills in designing, developing and implementing test plans, writing functional and automating test cases, and test processes. Dedicated to driving swift corrective actions, achieving significant cost savings, and ensuring fault-free audits to contribute to the success and growth of the organization.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Quality Assurance Engineer II – Alexa Video

Amazon
10.2019 - Current
  • The vision of Alexa Video is to make Alexa the best and most convenient way for customers to discover, control, and engage with any of their video content on any screened device. The Alexa Video Domain QA team plays a crucial role in delivering exceptional quality for Alexa Video platforms and features, catering to the needs of Alexa customers, faster. Team focuses on enabling video providers/partners like Netflix, Hulu and consumers to harness the capabilities of Alexa, thereby delivering top-notch entertainment experiences. Collaborating with both internal and external partners, we offer a comprehensive suite of cutting-edge test infrastructure, tools, and support to ensure the seamless delivery of the best Alexa Video experience
  • Responsibilities: -
  • Collaborated with multiple cross-functional partner teams to lead the testing efforts and develop test strategies and plans for various complex projects, ensuring alignment with business requirements and quality standards.
  • Successfully lead (QA) and delivered 2 D-Team goals at the same time, signing off 2 weeks before the targeted date
  • Developed and executed comprehensive test cases to identify software defects, verifying the functionality, performance, and usability of the Alexa Video platform for different projects.
  • Analyzed the test suites and partnered with SDET’s in the team to utilize test automation frameworks and tools to design and implement automated test scripts, reducing regression test cycle by 30% for the QA SME area
  • Oncall Activities (Regular and Automation)
  • Participated in regular on-call rotations, deploying the 7 service pipelines including the speechlets, providing timely support and troubleshooting for critical production issues and coordinating the release blocker triage/fix.
  • Led automation on-call duties on rotation, ensuring the stability and reliability of automated test suites and promptly addressing any failures or issues.
  • Got an opportunity to be the QE champion of the Autopilot program, which was a combined effort from Dev Team, SDET team and QAE team (initiated by SDET team) to move the manual pipelines to full CD
  • Conducted regular regression testing to ensure the stability and reliability of software releases, identifying and tracking defects through to resolution.
  • Coordinated with developers and product owners to prioritize and address critical defects, ensuring efficient communication and collaboration between teams.
  • Actively participated in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews, contributing to the continuous improvement of the development process.

Quality Assurance Engineer – AVS SDK

Amazon
02.2019 - 10.2019
  • The Alexa service serves Amazon Echo devices, while AVS (Alexa Voice Service) extends this capability to commercial device makers. Original engineering manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs), and system integrators (SIs) utilize AVS to integrate Alexa into various products like smart speakers, headphones, PCs, TVs, vehicles, and smart home devices. AVS, a cloud-based service, empowers device makers to seamlessly incorporate an expanding array of Alexa features and functions into their connected products. The AVS SDK Team assists 3P partners in building world-class products through the use of high-quality headless and smart-screen open-source SDKs.
  • Responsibilities: -
  • Collaborated with development team to perform the end-to-end (E2E) testing, encompassing test planning, test strategy design, test design, and test execution- both manual and automated approaches.
  • Responsible for feature testing, regression testing, and bug management activities
  • Was also responsible for functional certification testing and music certification testing for each release
  • Tested in all SDK supported platforms for each release- SDK supported multiple platforms, testing was performed in 1) Raspberry Pi 3 and 4 2) Linux Ubuntu 3) MacOS 4) Windows 5) Android
  • Was the sole member of the team for 2-3 months, and was able to handle the releases alone and mentor the new joinees when they eventually joined

Test Lead - ORACLE Retail Merchandising System

Infosys
06.2015 - 02.2019
  • The project involved migration of large set of data to the new version of the application which involved Extract, Transform and Loading of the data from older version to the newer one. The newer version of the application had changes in data model, user interface and configuration.
  • Responsibilities: -
  • Designed and implemented Test Plans and Test Cases based on functional requirements and design specifications for multiple projects.
  • Documented software defects using bug tracking system and reported defects involving program functionality, output, online screen and content to software developers.
  • Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness
  • Hands on experience in trouble shooting functional issues.
  • Experience in debugging SQL Server Stored Procedures, Triggers & SQL Scripts, Views, Temp tables, SQL Jobs.
  • Wide experience in analyzing and debugging the Shell scripts.
  • Collaborated with Developers, Product Managers and User Experience Researchers and contributed towards developing features to enable better user experience.
  • Identified and filed bugs in JIRA and conducted weekly bug triages with development leads and product managers to prioritize and fix the bugs.
  • Extensive experience in System Testing with stubs and drivers, System Integration Testing.
  • Grooming of new team members.
  • Experience in black box and white box testing.
  • Root cause analysis of the defects.
  • Demonstrated self-led and proactive approach to tackling problems and leveraging resources.

Test Lead - ECOMMERCE Testing

Infosys
01.2015 - 06.2015
  • Project included multiple sub projects like MoovWeb, Anniversary Sale and migrating the functionalities related to inventory availability and merch search to a new service platform. MoovWeb is a high performance, cloud based infrastructure optimized to deliver Web experiences for mobile environments. The project involved testing of all the desktop functionality in mobile version which is developed in MoovWeb platform. Anniversary Sale is an annual summer sale event offering special pricing. The testing of this included System testing, Regression Testing, E2E testing of different systems in Retail like Point of Sale(POS), Ecommerce, Customer Order Management(COM), Pick ticket Management System(PkMS), Retek Merchandising System(RMS), Active Enterprise Data Warehouse(AeDW).
  • Responsibilities: -
  • Estimation of Test Efforts
  • System/E2E test planning - Requirement Analysis, Test Scenario preparation, Test Case preparation, Test Artifacts Review.
  • Coordination with onsite-offshore teams and following-up the development activities.
  • Interactions with stakeholder coordinators for end to end testing including different systems.
  • Test Execution, Conducting Defect Triages, Status Reporting and raising and tracking defects in JIRA.

Test Analyst – Oracle Apps - HRMS

Infosys
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • The project involved implementing Human Resources, payroll and OTL module for CANADA and PUERTO RICO. It also included extensive functional testing for implementation and customizations done on Human Resources, Time and Labor, Payroll, Employee/Manager Self Service, Performance Manage and Oracle Advanced Benefits function modules for US.
  • Responsibilities: -
  • Analyzed and understood business requirements, requirement elicitation with various stakeholders.
  • Responsible for estimating, creating and reviewing test cases, test plan for System testing and UAT along with Test Execution.
  • Identified and filed bugs in JIRA and conducted daily bug triages with development leads and product managers to prioritize and fix the bugs.
  • Grooming of new team members.
  • Created an automated payroll calculation tool, which reduced the manual effort in calculating payroll elements and other modules which included complex calculations. The tool could also be used for regular salary calculation, Payrate EIT calculation and Pay in lieu. Automated tool helped in reducing manual calculation effort up to 75%. This tool was used by the dev and Business for Unit/UAT testing.

Test Engineer – Oracle Apps - HRMS (Different Projects)

Infosys
01.2010 - 12.2012

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) - Computer Science & Engineering

Mahatma Gandhi University
06.2009

Skills

  • Operating systems proficiency: Windows, Linux, macOS
  • Proficient in C, C, and Java
  • Oracle E-Business Suite expertise
  • Database Tools: SQL Developer, Toad
  • IDE: Eclipse, Code Blocks, IntelliJ, NetBeans
  • Version Control: GIT, Bitbucket
  • API testing tools: SOAPUI, Postman
  • Automation Tools: Selenium, QTP, TestNG
  • Performance Testing Tools: JMeter
  • Databases: Oracle 11g, 10g
  • Test Management Tools: JIRA, QTEST, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, TestRail

Certification

  • EXTERNAL:
  • 2013 Microsoft Certified Professional: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 - 2013
  • INTERNAL:
  • 2010 Testing Foundation Certification Infosys Technologies Limited.
  • 2010 RETL Store Management Infosys Technologies Limited.
  • 2012 RETL Basics of Transportation &Logistics Infosys Technologies Limited.
  • 2013 Behavioral- Harvard ManageMentor (HMM Certifications) Infosys & HMM.

Training

  • 2010 Initial Learning Program (OOP, RDBMS, UNIX, JAVA etc.) Infosys Technologies Limited.
  • 2010 MainFrame StreamTraining (JCL, COBOL, CICS, DB2) Infosys Technologies Limited.
  • 2011 QTP Workshop Infosys Technologies Limited
  • 2012 Introduction to Selenium Infosys Technologies Limited

Process / Methodology

Waterfall Model, Agile

Timeline

Quality Assurance Engineer II – Alexa Video

Amazon
10.2019 - Current

Quality Assurance Engineer – AVS SDK

Amazon
02.2019 - 10.2019

Test Lead - ORACLE Retail Merchandising System

Infosys
06.2015 - 02.2019

Test Lead - ECOMMERCE Testing

Infosys
01.2015 - 06.2015

Test Analyst – Oracle Apps - HRMS

Infosys
01.2013 - 01.2015

Test Engineer – Oracle Apps - HRMS (Different Projects)

Infosys
01.2010 - 12.2012

Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech) - Computer Science & Engineering

Mahatma Gandhi University

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