ARUN VISWAMBHARAN SAHAJAKUMARI

Automatics Framework is a set of tools, used for the quality control and certification of Comcast RDK Software before those are delivered to the customers. This framework allows validation of software components without manual intervention which provides end to end validation, load balancing, new-feature validation, parallel validation of Multi-Media Applications, customized report generation, automated issue reporting, formatted logging, image management, scheduling and video recording during validation of these RDK Software. This project adding new support in the framework for enabling new area for automation. This project also involves developing tools for automation supports.

As a Specialist Software Developer, I am involved in:

• Design and development of various framework components for Automatics Tools and Services using Java and Python
• Maintenance of Automatics core framework, do peer review and technical guidance to the team
• Managing different micro services of Automatics ( Auto Xconf, RFC, ALM updater , JAWS, etc)
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
• Deployment of services using docker, Kubernetes etc
• Support for Generative AI initiatives for RDK testing
• Collaborated with various teams for building new support to framework like Collectd, Memcapture, RDKE Contract testing (PACT) etc
• Maintaining services deployment infrastructure in AWS and Opestack
• Leading the team for building Mesh E2E test framework for RKB-Extender testing
• Leading PI30 IRIS process and activities for end user experience testing
• Leading RDKB automated execution for various platforms
• Onboarding the team on all type of RDK devices ( RDKB, RDKV, RKC, Extender etc) for Automation
• Review the business requirements and participate in feasibility study
• Develop the project's software development plan and road map
• Document the plan for the software project
• Derive estimates for the software project's effort and costs
• Sprint planning and tracking.

Automatics core Framework is a set of tools, used for the quality control and certification of Comcast RDK Software before those are delivered to the customers. This framework allows validation of software components without manual intervention which provides end to end validation, load balancing, new-feature validation, parallel validation of Multi-Media Applications, customized report generation, automated issue reporting, formatted logging, image management, scheduling and video recording during validation of these RDK Software

As a Specialist Software Developer, I am involved in:

• Design and development of various framework components for Automatics Tools and Services using Java and Python
• Maintenance of Automatics core framework, do peer review and technical guidance to the team
• Managing different micro services of Automatics ( Auto Xconf, RFC, ALM updater , JAWS, etc)
• Enhancement of framework by integrating Selenium, Appium framework, Zephyr, ALM and Jira
• Maintaining services deployment infrastructure in AWS and Opestack
• Migration of infrastructure from ULA to AWS/Openstack
• Developed Automated Jira update service for Automatics Core
• Developed ALM result updater for Automatics core
• Developed WiSST ( WiFi Scalability Test suite) for RDKB
• Integrated DRM test suite in Automatics.

Automatics core framework which enables the Parallel Execution on multiple STBs of different models. The framework supports tagging and filtering, customized loggers, customized report generation, image management, video capturing during automation script execution, email reporter, etc. This project involves the development of new features in the automation framework to make it suitable for validating new generation STBs to reduce the product life cycle. Also involved in the development of functional automation scripts for different STB features.

As a Senior Software Engineer, I was involved in:

• Requirements analysis
• Analyze the RDK features and identify the automation candidates and prototype it
• Test automation - Development of automation scripts for different features using Java-TestNG framework
• Design automation strategy documents and develop scripts to automate RDK functionalities
• Test script Migration - Migration of automated test scripts for different type of box models/Platforms
• Migrate the framework and scripts to work with Comcast's high security production environment
• Setup and configure boxes in CATS rack.

HAWT (Helping Automators Write Tests Framework) is a framework which helps automate DTA (Digital Television Adapter) devices. Project involves writing scripts to automate DTA devices. It runs scripts termed as JAVA/TestNG, a third-party testing framework that allows tests to be categorized into groups. In order for the scripts to interact with the set top boxes, a set of Java based TAP APIs are used, which runs in a centralized server which can talk to several Set top boxes.

As a Software Engineer, I was involved in:

• Requirement Analysis
• Analyze the DTA BFRs (Business Functional Requirements) and identify the automation candidates
• Prototype new features and develops strategy documents for each automation candidate
• Develop TAP APIs for automation using JAVA
• Design and develop Test Access Point APIs to support automation script development
• Develop functional automation scripts
• Design automation strategy documents and develop automation scripts using HAWT framework
• Analysis and creation of customized guide data for automation
• Continuous integration (CI) of automated scripts.

Develop an Android based Hybrid STB that can support DVB-T, ATSC Broadcast Stream. This box included the special features like Cloud based VOD, IPTV support, Program Guide RSS Feed etc., also supports the android featured applications.

As an Software Engineer I was involved in:

• Worked as a team member in the development team for ramping up, and Program Guide development and defect fixing.
• Worked as a team member to develop module to show RSS feeds in TV info bar

CATS is an automation framework which is used to access STB remotely and programmatically to validate different STB application/features. Initially CATS uses the DCLI (Dynamic class loading Interface) approach to loads the external classes to the STB context for retrieving application specific information, later it changed to Remote Reflection which is based on Java Reflection to invoke the methods remotely through network. This project involves the design, development of automation scripts for different buckeye features and also execution in CI environment.

As a Software Engineer I was involved in:

• Requirement Analysis of OCAP based Buckey boxes
• Development of automation scripts for Multi-favorites and Video Network Health (VNH)
• Design and developed TAP APIs for VOD automation
• Analysis and fixing of defects in Remote reflection framework
• Execution of automation scripts in CI environment.

CATS (Comcast Automated Test Solution) are an automated testing environment for test automation. It runs scripts termed as TestNG, a third-party testing framework that allows tests to be categorized into groups. In order for the scripts to interact with the set top boxes, a set of Javas based TAP APIs are used, which runs in a centralized server which can talk to several Set top boxes.

As a Software Engineer, I was involved in:

• Worked as a team member in the TAP API development team for ramping up and performed development and unit testing of the TAP APIs using JUnit
• Developed APIs to support different types of Comcast Legacy boxes
• Design and develop Web services and websevice client for Java applications and QTP based framework.