Hi, I’m
Chaitanya Niranjan Kademane
Fremont,CA
Summary
- Lead Software Quality Engineer with 8+ years of experience, highly skilled in manual testing, developing test automation frameworks for REST APIs, CI/CD integration and writing performance test scripts.
- Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
10
years of professional experience
Work History
PlayStation
Software Development Engineer in Test 2 (Lead)
10.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Conducted comprehensive testing on the PlayStation console and off-console applications, including functional, performance, compatibility, and usability testing, ensured a high-quality user experience.
- Successfully led four diverse QA teams, each focusing on distinct applications and platforms, within a short span of six months, showcasing strong leadership and adaptability skills.
- Identified opportunities for test script optimization, and reduced execution time by 50%, increased maintainability, and improved build stability.
- Developed and implemented effective test strategies, plans, and processes tailored to the unique requirements of each application and platform, ensuring high-quality deliverables.
- Quickly gained proficiency in various technologies, tools, and platforms to provide technical guidance and expertise to each team, demonstrating a strong aptitude for learning and problem-solving.
- Fostered a collaborative work environment, effectively managing cross-functional relationships, and ensuring seamless communication and alignment on project goals and objectives.
- Utilized strong problem-solving skills to address complex issues and challenges faced by each team, helping to drive projects forward and meet deadlines.
- Developed, executed, and maintained test cases, test scripts, and test plans for the PlayStation applications on Android, iOS and PlayStation Console platforms.
- Conducted regular code reviews and implemented best practices for automation test scripts, ensuring high-quality and maintainable code.
- Collaborated with the development and QA teams to identify areas for improvement in the existing automation framework and implemented changes to enhance efficiency and productivity.
- Analyzed test results and created detailed reports to help identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement in the automation testing process.
- Conducted regular team meetings, retrospectives, and planning sessions, actively engaging in discussions and providing constructive feedback for continuous improvement.
- Showcased excellent communication skills, effectively presenting project updates and progress reports to stakeholders and team members.
- Planned, organized, and led engaging team-building activities designed to foster collaboration, trust, and camaraderie among team members.
- Evaluated the effectiveness of team-building exercises through surveys, observations, and feedback, refining and adjusting future activities to maximize impact.
Shutterfly Inc
Lead Software Test Engineer
04.2021 - 09.2022
Job overview
- Worked with offshore and onsite teams, partnered with contractors to provide technical expertise in testing new features. Led QE plannings and addressed queries to achieve sprint targets.
- Collaborated with product owners and developers to establish certifications for production releases.
- Led maintenance and development of automation tools/frameworks for both UI automation and REST API automation test scenarios to facilitate functional, integration and regression testing.
- Contributed to/developed performance test framework for micro-services, using Gatling.
- Ran performance simulations with high throughput workload, provided a detailed analysis of the results to developers to fine tune the services.
- Owned the definition and execution of overall testing strategy, both manual and automation, for ongoing releases of multiple features.
- Mentored team members and provided functional and technical guidance in developing automation strategy for complex features.
- Developed libraries and utility functions for optimized maintainability of user accounts in automation framework.
- Partnered with automation and infrastructure teams to leverage jenkins utilities for creating reliable and scalable automation frameworks.
Shutterfly Inc
Software Test Engineer
01.2019 - 03.2021
Job overview
- Single-handedly planned, designed and implemented API and UI automation for CRM service endpoints across multiple projects.
- Implemented CI/CD integration for new services using Jenkins & Docker.
- Tested and sign-off critical UI components within short deadlines.
- Refactored and optimized automated tests for maximum test coverage.
- As a Scrum Master, ensured that the team followed agile principles, facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint grooming, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, collaborated with product owners to manage the backlog and provided feedback for optimized team's performance in terms of quality and velocity.
Shutterfly Inc
Software Test Intern
06.2018 - 12.2018
Job overview
- Analyzed functional specifications and created test cases for challenging scenarios for features such as Search Engine Optimization and Domain Migration.
- Designed test automation framework for e-commerce application involving image validation and URL redirects.
Altamont Development Center, SJSU
Java Developer Intern
10.2017 - 05.2018
Job overview
- Analyzed requirements for developing RESTful APIs for SJSU student portal.
- Designed a database schema and performed a seamless integration of OKTA to enable single sign-on using SJSU credentials.
Accenture
Software Test Engineer
01.2013 - 12.2016
Job overview
- Developed UI automation framework using Selenium.
- Optimized existing functions and libraries using data structures and reduced manual testing efforts by 40%.
- Managed and mentored junior team members. Helped mentees in troubleshooting automation framework issues.
- Performed code reviews and provided technical guidance for better code and test coverage.
- As a developer, improvised ‘Data Loader' module to track currency conversion changes in local schema and updated production database using cron jobs to bring down the manual efforts for database lookup by 80%.
Education
San Jose State UniversitySan Jose, CA
Master of Science from Computer Software Engineering
12.2018
Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityBangalore, India
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
09.2012
Skills
- Java, Python, Groovy, Scala
- SQL, XML, HTML
- Jira, Test Rail, HP ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) tool
- Selenium, Appium, JUnit, Pytest, TestNG, RESTAssured, Jersey, Gatling, JMeter, UNIX, Spring Boot, Maven, Jenkins
- Console Platforms: PlayStation
- Saucelabs, Bamboo, Splunk, Prevoty
- MySQL, MongoDB, AWS RDS
- Git, SVN, Perforce
- Adobe Analytics, Optimizely
- Test Planning, API testing, A/B Testing, Black-box and White-box testing
- Project Oversight, Performance Testing, Leadership
Timeline
Software Development Engineer in Test 2 (Lead)
PlayStation
10.2022 - Current
Lead Software Test Engineer
Shutterfly Inc
04.2021 - 09.2022
Software Test Engineer
Shutterfly Inc
01.2019 - 03.2021
Software Test Intern
Shutterfly Inc
06.2018 - 12.2018
Java Developer Intern
Altamont Development Center, SJSU
10.2017 - 05.2018
Software Test Engineer
Accenture
01.2013 - 12.2016
San Jose State University
Master of Science from Computer Software Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bachelor of Science from Computer Science
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