Daniel Sankeshwar
Austin,USA
Summary
Detail-oriented and results-driven Test Project Manager with over 5 years of experience in overseeing quality assurance and testing processes across various software projects. Proven expertise in managing testing teams, developing test strategies, and ensuring high-quality deliverables. Strong communicator with a focus on continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Project Manager
IBM (Contractor)
Austin , USA
03.2021 - Current
- Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
- Perform extensive and thorough End-to-End User Acceptance Testing (UAT) from Sales, Provisioning, procurement, billing across different platforms and interfaces
- Involved in implementation of API Test Automation Framework build using Apache JMeter under Java platform
- Wrote and executed SQL queries to verify the data updates to various tables and ensure data integrity
- Performed API Testing (Webservices, Rest and JSON) using JMeter, POSTMAN and SOAPUI Tools
- Worked Extensively on JMeter tool using data-driven method to check the API Performance
- Coordinate closely with a team (both onshore and offshore) to provide leadership and functional expertise throughout the entire quality lifecycle
- Coordinate for setting, reviewing, and executing an operational plan that compares well with best practices for testing phase
- Coordinate performance testing with the performance testing team within service delivery.
Sr.Technical Lead
Comcast (Contractor)
Morrestown , USA
08.2018 - 03.2021
- To develop manual and automated test cases based upon test strategy and test coverage
- Analyze software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time constraints
- Develop and upgrade the regression test suite for every new requirement or change request of the application
- Test the APIs using the automation regression suite before every deployment on the stage environment to regress the APIs and report defects in Rally tool
- Test the scripts on the different environments like Test, Stage and Production
- Execute the automation test scripts for deployment sanity validation on the production environment
- Perform API testing and performance testing using Jmeter
- Design and create a benchmark result of the applications APIs performance
- Create performance test bed to run the stress, load, and volume tests on the APIs
- Develop scripts in JMeter using JavaScript and RegEx Validation and perform Load, Stress and Soak test on the APIs
- Works with the Developers and designers to collaborate on deliveries to test environments and debugging of results
- Prepare High and low-level documents
- Prepare technical, non-technical documents for automation framework developed modules
- Contribute to Wiki documentation
- Add each Project related information on to OneDrive portal for entire teams’ access
- Load the configuration file on to the Voice supported devices (Adtran, Netvanta) for validation of the configuration file installed and perform the call testing and regression
- Performed IVR testing and monitored call flows on Avaya IP Phones
- Creating deployment pipelines using CI/CD and Jenkins and test automation code repository management using Git.
Sr.Test Engineer
IBM
Middletown , USA
01.2010 - 08.2018
- Deliver new and complex high-quality solutions to clients in response to varying business requirements
- Involved in implementation of Test Automation Framework build using Selenium WebDriver and Maven technologies under Java platform
- Developed automation script in Java language using Eclipse, IDE and Cucumber framework
- Wrote and executed SQL queries to verify the data updates to various tables and ensure data integrity
- Script integration with Github
- Integrated Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly batch run of the Script
- Created Project plan on Jenkins, configured scheduled using Cron job
- Worked Extensively on JMeter tool using data-driven method to check the API Performance
- Coordinate closely with a team (both onshore and offshore) to provide leadership and functional expertise throughout the entire quality lifecycle
- Coordinate for setting, reviewing, and executing an operational plan that compares well with best practices for testing phase
- Coordinate performance testing with the performance testing team within service delivery
- Developed and tested service Virtualization using CA DevTest Portal for the HTTP/s Protocol
- Developed UNIX scripts to create simulators to emulate interfaces for API verification
- Worked on SQL (Oracle9i) for database validation and verification
- Work with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation for projects and other activities pairwise testing
- Provide project estimates as part of Project Plan to the higher managements
- Worked on identifying the Risks and Mitigation as part of project delivery plan
- Validate the end to end flow of telecom services from contracting, ordering, provisioning, activation to telecom billing
- Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements, working with the project system engineers to verify all key requirements are tested
- Assess the progress and effectiveness of test tasks in rally and TDP ALM for each user story
- Provide application demos and presentations when required to peers, management and clients
- Conduct occasional demonstrations to rest of test groups on test automation tools, simulators, and processes
- Prepare test metrics produce and present testing status reports to project leadership.
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
Pune , India
04.2007 - 10.2009
- Requirement analysis, test strategy/test plan creation, end to end testing, integration testing, and system testing
- Identify test case data to execute the test cases
- Worked Extensively on Mercury Load runner and Performance Center tool for performance testing
- Validate the End to End flow of data from CRM ordering to service activation and billing
- Write and execute DB queries using Toad, for database testing and validations
- Ensure that all the test cases are updated in the HP ALM along with master test plan
- Report defects in HP ALM and follow up on the defects
- Co-ordinate with offshore and onshore teams to get status for assigned defects
- Generate and maintain defect records and communicate with the clients with defects details
- Co-ordinate with defect manager on status of assigned defects
- Maintain traceability matrix to ensure requirement coverage
- Participate in the defect prevention during planning phase
- Create Defect analysis report at the end of each release
- Create BAN Creation automated scripts using Mercury Quick Test Professional.
QA Team Member
NCMR Technologies Pvt.Ltd
Bangalore , Karnataka
06.2005 - 04.2007
- Discuss with test lead and system engineers (BA) to prioritize test case execution based on the project demands.
- Assist developers in identifying and researching defects during application design.
- Recommend system enhancements. Ensure, develop, and execute formal test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software application.
- Involved in test case design and execution.
- Verify the application and raise defects for the issues.
- Perform verification for traceability to requirements.
- Functional, integration testing, system testing, and regression testing.
- Record test results and prepare test summary reports.
- Verify the database by writing SQL queries.
Technical Intern
Delphi Automotive Systems
Bangalore
10.2004 - 05.2005
- Responsible for analyzing requirements, devising test strategies/plans, and performing comprehensive testing including end-to-end, integration, and system tests.
- Participated in debugging code through Desk Verification as a Testing Team member utilizing a checklist
- Executed test cases on the instrument using both Dearborn's Hercules software and Lauterbach's Trace32 Fire Emulator for Pegasus Micro
Education
MBA - Project Management
Manipal University
Bangalore06-2013
Master of Science - Computer Science
Karnatak University
Dharwad06-2004
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Karnatak University
Dharwad06-2002
Skills
- JAVA
- Oracle SQL
- HP ALM (Quality Center)
- Rally Dev
- TestRail , Jira
- JMeter
- CA DevTest
- Jenkins, Kubernetes
- Team Leadership and Management
- Strategic Planning
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation
- Agile project management
- Scrum Methodology
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
- Stakeholder Communication
- Automation Framework and Manual Testing
- Quality Assurance (QA) Methodologies
Certification
- Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) from IIST
- International Software Testing Quality Board Foundation (ISTQB)
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master
Awards
- Best Quality Practitioner Award, Comcast Labs
- Top Contributor Award Onsite, IBM
- Service Excellence Award, IBM
- Eminence and Excellence Award, IBM
- Cookies Award for Top Contribution, Tec Mahindra
Accomplishments
· Best Quality Practitioner Award, Comcast Labs
· Top Contributor Award Onsite, IBM
· Service Excellence Award, IBM
· Eminence and Excellence Award, IBM
· Cookies Award for Top Contribution, Tech Mahindra
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
IBM (Contractor)
03.2021 - Current
Sr.Technical Lead
Comcast (Contractor)
08.2018 - 03.2021
Sr.Test Engineer
IBM
01.2010 - 08.2018
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra Ltd.
04.2007 - 10.2009
QA Team Member
NCMR Technologies Pvt.Ltd
06.2005 - 04.2007
Technical Intern
Delphi Automotive Systems
10.2004 - 05.2005
- Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) from IIST
- International Software Testing Quality Board Foundation (ISTQB)
- Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master
MBA - Project Management
Manipal University
Master of Science - Computer Science
Karnatak University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Karnatak University
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