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DEBOTRI SARKER

Santa Clara,CA

Summary

Software Test Leader enabling software development processes and optimal testing strategies. Helping teams produce exceptional products by offering in-depth quality assurance support for SDN Controller on Network Management Applications

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Test Manager

Nokia
08.2022 - Current

Managed a Team 10 professionals by providing direction and responsible for developing test automation strategy to expand product capability and scale while maintaining the highest quality standards.

  • Spearheaded successful delivery of the product and maintained ownership over multiple release cycles. Directed teams completing regression tests to support successful product development stages.
  • Successfully Implemented test strategies using leading industrial techniques such as CRUD, as well as test automation and cloud-based system deployments using Kubernetes and RedHat Openstack.
  • Implemented strategies to incorporate new SDLC processes such as SAFE in the organization.
  • Collaborated with multiple Software teams and Customer Experience Feedback teams to improve product quality and improve upon timeline for patch fixes and requested feature enhancements.
  • Reviewed and conducted performance evaluations for team members and worked with them closely as a mentor to reach their individual professional goals.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
  • Evaluated functional, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.

Senior Software Test Engineer

Nokia
06.2015 - 07.2022
  • Led a team specializing in Path optimization algorithm testing for Software Defined Networks; Multi-protocol networks supporting IS-IS, BGP, Segment-Routing, OSPF routing, and signalling Protocols - RSVP, LDP.
  • Integrated Virtual Services Router-Network Resources Controller with NSP (Network Management Software).
  • Worked closely with Developers and Product Management teams to delivery high quality NSP-OS deployments under a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Deployed containerized applications using Docker and for large scale systems using Kubernetes on RedHat's Openstack Platform by defining deployment YAML templates.
  • Tested Device accessibility on Multi Domain Software Adapters for communication with Network Elements via southbound mediation protocol components.
  • Tested Performance on Large Scale Networks with troubleshooting techniques and reporting, analyzing performance metrics using Splunk .
  • Worked with Database structures using a Kafka Notification system and Neo4J / Postgres Database structures.
  • Structured and maintained existing Automation framework based on JavaScript -based Test Suites/Test Cases for individual APIs on web elements ( Selenium WebDriver ) and Regression infrastructure ( Selenium Grid ) for Web browsers. Server Side testing using internal and Published RESTful APIs .

Software Test Associate

Blackberry
05.2014 - 12.2014
    • Project Name: BlackBerry Messenger Testing, SV&V.
    • Working closely with cross functional Agile team to understand the scope of features required to be tested.
    • Manually Testing, including functional, regression, and potentially performance tests of the BBM application on iOS, Windows, Android and BlackBerry10 platforms.
    • Writing up defects, verifying defects have been fixed and reporting test results.

Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
08.2011 - 05.2013
    • Project Name: iTunes Business Analytics, Apple Inc.
    • Requirement gathering and analysis with a view to help the iTunes business user in forecasting upcoming campaigns and promotions.
    • Data analysis on different data extracts enabling client to make better business decisions.
    • Development of reports using Teradata, UNIX & SAS.
    • Data extraction & retrieval using SAS as per business needs.
    • Conducting user acceptance testing and providing sign off of the proposed business logic.
    • User Acceptance Testing for several iTunes databases.

Education

Master of Computer Science - Computer Science

University Of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
06.2015

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology, West Bengal

Institute Of Engineering And Management
Kolkata
07.2011

Skills

  • JavaScript, NodeJS, REST, HTML, WebDriver
  • Containerization, Kubernetes, k9s, kafka
  • JIRA, HP Quality Centre, Selenium, Mocha, Cucumber, MKS Integrity, Splunk, Jenkins
  • SQL, PL/SQL, Teradata, Postgres, neo4j
  • Manual and automated testing
  • Quality Assurance
  • Capacity Planning, Defect Tracking, Performance and Scale Testing, Data analysis, Requirement Gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • Network Management and architecture
  • RedHat VM Deployment

Timeline

Software Test Manager

Nokia
08.2022 - Current

Senior Software Test Engineer

Nokia
06.2015 - 07.2022

Software Test Associate

Blackberry
05.2014 - 12.2014

Systems Engineer

Infosys Limited
08.2011 - 05.2013

Master of Computer Science - Computer Science

University Of Ottawa

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology, West Bengal

Institute Of Engineering And Management
DEBOTRI SARKER