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Kumar Ranjan

Kumar Ranjan

Folsom,CA

Summary

Driven engineering professional with customer focus and customer first approach towards testing and resolution of issues. Consistently work to enhance automation utilizing various tools. Expertise in designing QA processes, reliable automation infrastructure, knowledge and understanding of leveraging existing automation framework or adopting open source framework for product need. Experienced working in a challenging and fast paced development environment and fully Agile environment using Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration (CI) and all underpinned by high quality test automation. Superior analytical troubleshooting, communication, and presentation skills, collaborating among cross-functional teams.

Detail-oriented, organized, and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

BlackLine
05.2021 - Current
  • Led the Quality Engineering effort to build the Integration Platform, which would integrate with any ERP system and pull data into the BlackLine system.
  • Developed robust, scalable, modular, and API-centric automation suite with data integrity.
  • Developed and implemented quality control processes and standards, conducting root cause analysis and leading corrective and preventive actions.
  • Collaborated with management, internal and development partners to resolve quality-related issues to minimize client incidents.

Sr Software QA Analyst / Test Architect

System Software Technologies
01.2021 - 04.2021
  • Lead QA Test Automation strategy for the eCommerce client and build BDD automation framework using Cucumber with Selenium and RestAssured
  • Working in an aggressive 2 weeks sprint cycle to deliver the feature to the customer to enhance customer experience and go to market strategy
  • Streamline automation to help deliver features and product quickly to market with confidence

Principal Engineer / Test Architect

TIBCO Software Inc
10.2014 - 11.2020
  • Company Overview: Mashery - San Francisco, CA
  • Lead QA Team for the product - Tibco Mashery a cloud native API Management product and API Exchange Gateway (APIX), which provides an event-driven web services platform for on-premises customers
  • Test Architect - Own the product test lifecycle and develop UI Automation for API Management developer portal using Selenium and Java and also create Automation and Performance infrastructure and integrate it to CI/CD pipeline to test the product on various platforms and for customer use cases
  • Well versed with Tibco Products like Tibco BusinessWorks, Spotfire, Business Events, Rendezvous, Enterprise Messaging Service, and others
  • Mashery - San Francisco, CA

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

GlobalSoft Solutions, Inc.
06.2013 - 09.2014
  • The Project deals with content management of Intuit's Global websites and purchase flow of QuickBooks (Intuit's accounting software)
  • Led the QA Team and mentor the junior members also create an environment for consistent growth in the skillset and efficiency of the team through knowledge sharing and coordination
  • Created a Selenium Automation framework using BDD and PageObject Model
  • Created QA process and Automation Framework with Selenium and TestNG
  • Understood the customer requirement and created Test Plans, Test Strategy for Automation and System testing also performed Integration testing, Functional testing, Analytics Testing, and validated the content management system workflow

Sr. Consultant

GlobalSoft Solutions, Inc.
06.2012 - 05.2013
  • Apigee makes API tools and provides API Platform to enterprises
  • Worked on API Tools viz
  • Apigee studio, Developer Tool, Gateway Control Center and Key Management Service
  • Validated the APIs, performances, and optimization and the Apigee best practices
  • Created scenarios to validate the functionality and performance of API services

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

BetaSoft Systems Inc.
08.2011 - 05.2012
  • Project dealt with validating the creating and managing the small business websites for the customer and validates the new enhancements on the functionality for the application
  • Sr
  • Software QE consultant for the Ecommerce team to develop complex system and automation test cases working with UX Team and Product owners
  • 2-week sprint cycle, work with an aggressive delivery timeline to market the product which is FaceBook Marketplace platform for Small Business customers
  • Created a new automation test suite with Selenium Webdriver, BrowserStack and SauceLabs

Technology / Program Analyst

Infosys Limited
08.2005 - 08.2011
  • Project dealt with validating the AT&T online self-help portal - myATT
  • Performed Integration, System, Performance, Mobile Testing and Regression testing
  • Created automation test scripts using Selenium IDE and RC and use JUnit test framework
  • Performed Requirement Analysis of Business and Functional/ Technical Requirement Docs, provided Estimation and Created Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Data, Release Management for the Project releases
  • Conducted peer review calls of Test Plan, Take Sign off and approval and baseline the documents
  • Created Use cases, Test Execution and Design Test Cases for the application

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology (B.I.E.T), Davangere, Karnataka

Skills

  • Cloud Platforms - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, PKS, K8s
  • Container Orchestration - Kubernetes, Docker Swarm
  • Virtualization and Tools - Docker, Vmware Lab Manager, vSphere, vCenter, VirtualBox
  • Languages - Java, Python, SQL, Shell, JavaScript
  • CICD - Jenkins, Emma, SonarQube,, GitHub Actions
  • Testing tools - Selenium, Appium, SOAPUI, Postman/ Newman, Curl
  • Performance Test - JMeter, SOAPUI, SilkTest, LoadRunner
  • Debugging tools - JProfiler, JVisualVM, WireShark, Eclipse MAT
  • Software Development - Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
  • Agile and Test Management tools - JIRA, Rally, Confluence, Testlink
  • Real-time streaming analytics technology - Spark, Kafka, Spotfire, Jaspersoft
  • Platforms - Linux, MacOS, Windows, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
  • Databases - AWS RDS, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Cassandra
  • Automation Framework - TestNG, PyREST, RestAssured, Jest, TDD, BDD, Cucumber
  • Logging Tools - Elastic Search, Kibana, Splunk
  • Version Control - Git, SVN, Stash, P4
  • SAAS - TIBCO Mashery, Salesforce, QuickBooks

Personal Information

Visa Status: H-1B

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer - BlackLine
05.2021 - Current
Sr Software QA Analyst / Test Architect - System Software Technologies
01.2021 - 04.2021
Principal Engineer / Test Architect - TIBCO Software Inc
10.2014 - 11.2020
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - GlobalSoft Solutions, Inc.
06.2013 - 09.2014
Sr. Consultant - GlobalSoft Solutions, Inc.
06.2012 - 05.2013
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) - BetaSoft Systems Inc.
08.2011 - 05.2012
Technology / Program Analyst - Infosys Limited
08.2005 - 08.2011
Bapuji Institute of Engineering and Technology (B.I.E.T) - Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering
Kumar Ranjan