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  • Software Test Engineer with full software development lifecycle experience, including designing, developing and implementing test plans, test cases and test processes fueling swift corrective actions.
  • Strong understanding of QA Principles, QA Processes, SDLC – Agile and waterfall.
  • Adept at both Manual and Automated testing. Hands-on technology professional with ability to lead complex projects from initial conceptualization through implementation.
  • Adept at providing thorough feedback to developers. Reliable and hardworking with effective oral and written communication skills.
  • Expertise in implementation of Automation framework using Selenium
  • Experience of Ready API tool in Web services testing in multi-tiered application architecture.
  • Experience with modern DevOps toolsets like GitLab,Jenkins during test cycles.
  • Knowledge of AWS architecture and AWS Services like EC2,S3

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Test Engineer

Arista Networks, Inc.
02.2014 - 06.2020

Embedded Test Engineer – Manual & Automation Testing

  • Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases every 2-weeks and well-organized sprints.
  • Attended sprint planning at the beginning of each sprint and retro at the end of each sprint. As part of Sprint planning prioritizing User stories and estimating points.
  • Defined testing specifications and requirements by coordinating with technical staff.
  • Developed test cases and performed analysis of test results and maintained records of defects in defect tracking system.
  • Validate SOAP & REST request/ responses for web services using ReadyAPI.
  • Designing, developing & executing test scripts to test web services & web applications.
  • Created accurate and efficient test scripts in ReadyAPI to manage automated testing of certain products and features for smoke testing and regression testing.
  • Used Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to perform Unit, Integration & End to End testing.
  • Used Rally as a project tracking tool/Defect tracking/Test case Management tool.
  • Highly efficient in keeping up the agile process in place for automation development and maintenance.
  • Worked in development environment with frequently changing requirements and features set.
  • Verify builds for release both manually and via automation.
  • Worked & coordinated as embedded tester alongside a development team on daily basis.
  • Used Technologies like Jenkins, GitLab, ReadyAPI to integrate Testing as part of the development process.

Release Lead

  • As a Release lead, successfully delivered numerous high visibility and bug-free projects to customers in a timely and efficient manner to meet product/organization goals.
  • Was awarded the President & CEO award for successfully delivering the Klarna payment system project. This allowed customers to use Klarna as an option for payments.
  • Identified the scope of the testing required for a particular release based on the requirements and presented the project highlights to the QA team and other stakeholders.
  • During the testing cycle, monitored the test progress by constantly assessing the work assigned to each of the resources and re-balance or re-allocate them as required.
  • Identified any delays in achieving the schedule and held discussions with testers to figure out the issues that they may be facing and strive hard to resolve them.
  • Provided timely status to the stakeholders & management about the work being done.
  • Mentored and coached new testers with processes and applications at Dish.
  • Reviewed the defects reported by the team members to make sure that they are valid, not duplicates and complete in the description.
  • Represent the QA team in any status meetings.
  • Reviewed requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
  • Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
  • Collected and documented details about the overall project- its successes, areas of improvement, lessons learnt, best practices implemented, etc and presented them in the project retrospection meetings.
  • As an additional responsibility, handled timesheets & Software access approvals for both Onsite & Offshore resources

Software Test Engineer – System Testing

  • Analyzed Business Requirements, Functional Specs and designed the requirements in Quality Center.
  • Responsible for the development and execution of test plans, test scenarios, test scripts in HPQC ALM.
  • Created and documented Test Cases, Test Steps and Expected Results based on the Business use cases.
  • Performed Integration testing, System testing, End-to- End, Adhoc and Regression testing.
  • Used Selenium WebDriver to automate Dish Sales Web Application.
  • Identified and tracked defects with ALM and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
  • Wrote and executed SQL Statements to retrieve data from back-end.
  • Working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases.
  • Attended QA Sync up Meetings Every week to discuss the problems and provide the solutions between entire QA Teams in the project.

Quality Compliance Analyst

Diamond Resorts Corporation
01.2006 - 06.2009
  • Insurance Industry (Collection of policy premiums from brokers which were sold by broker to end customers).
  • As Credit Controller job required communicating with brokers, collecting policy premiums on monthly basis & resolving account related queries of brokers.
  • Managing Quality compliance for a team of 25 associates.
  • Monitoring and auditing the daily work transactions of associates including File & Call audits.
  • Giving one on one feedback to associates in order to help improvise process quality, an essential element for client satisfaction. Quality improvement sessions & test evaluations within teams.
  • Attended training for Quality Compliance Certification & Six Sigma Elementary

Center Manager

Citizens Business Bank
12.2002 - 11.2005
  • Training and software development organization providing computer training in various high end multimedia software.
  • Career counseling in regards with various Multimedia Software.
  • Managing a team of employees and taking care of the staff grievances if any and solving the day to day problems.
  • Conducted a Seminar on Multimedia at an Inter-College Events for Imparting Multimedia awareness and scope of multimedia in IT industry. Seminar participation of more than 500 students from different engineering colleges of Pune.
  • Achieved the best ever Monthly Collection to promote a good healthy growth for the company as a result received Excellence Award for the Best Collection from Regional Office.

Academic Head

Vision Graphics
04.2000 - 05.2002
  • Conducted Corporate training at Tata Management Training Centre (TMTC), Pune, on administrative software.Teaching various multimedia software & Conducting corporate trainings and workshops in colleges.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Pune University
Pune, Maharashtra

Skills

  • Software development lifecycles
  • Manual and automated testing
  • API & Web Services Testing
  • Agile methodologies
  • CI/CD
  • ReadyAPI/SoapUI
  • Selenium
  • Test Plans, Cases & Processes
  • Functional,Integration, Regression & Negative Testing
  • Python/Pycharm
  • AWS
  • HP ALM
  • Rumba
  • SQL
  • Rally
  • Rancher/Docker
  • SwaggerUI/Postman
  • Kibana
  • GitLab
  • Jenkins
  • MongoDB/SQL Server
  • Kafka
  • ServiceNow

Accomplishments

    CEO Teamwork Award at Dish Network granted by the Dish President & CEO.

    While working at Creative Solutions as a Center Manager, Achieved the best ever Monthly Collection to promote a good healthy growth for the company as a result received Excellence Award for the Best Collection from Regional Office.

    PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

    Certification course in Python- Programming Basics & Python Data Structures Offered by University Of Michigan

    Quality Compliance Certification & Six Sigma Elementary.

Timeline

Software Test Engineer

Arista Networks, Inc.
02.2014 - 06.2020

Quality Compliance Analyst

Diamond Resorts Corporation
01.2006 - 06.2009

Center Manager

Citizens Business Bank
12.2002 - 11.2005

Academic Head

Vision Graphics
04.2000 - 05.2002

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

Pune University