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Sowjanya

Bangalore

Summary

  • Principal Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in resource planning, team sizing, and optimizing budgeting for efficient project execution.
  • Proven expertise in delivery management, Agile leadership (Scrum Master), and overseeing end-to-end software development.
  • Skilled in creating detailed instruction manuals, conducting PMO demos & Stakeholder Presentations and facilitating seamless communication to ensure project success.
  • Experienced Cloud Security Specialist with extensive expertise in Certificate Lifecycle Management across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, and Azure Key Vault. Proficient in managing digital certificates, ensuring secure authentication, encryption, and compliance in cloud environments.
  • Complete understanding of Development & Testing processes used in the product-based companies
  • Passionate about innovation and continuous improvement in cybersecurity.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Software Engineer

DigiCert
11.2017 - Current
  • Product Overview: DigiCert ONE is a unified suite of digital trust products that allow you to deploy and manage multiple PKI solutions in any environment. The DigiCert ONE platform is flexible and scalable to your specific PKI needs and connectivity
  • Projects Handled: DigiCert ONE, Trust Lifecycle Manager, CertCentral, CWS

Responsibilities:

  • Managing Agile sprints, coordinating with stakeholders, resolving blockers, enhancing team productivity, and ensuring timely project delivery using Scrum best practices and Release sign offs
  • Tracking Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to drive team alignment, measure progress, and ensure successful execution
  • Managing QA budgets by optimizing resources, controlling costs, and ensuring efficient test execution
  • Creating and maintaining product documentation to ensure clarity, consistency, and knowledge sharing
  • Partnered with the leadership team to develop an automation strategy and execution plan
  • Trained and guided team members in quality assurance standards, policies, and procedures
  • Perform code reviews of the automation code developed by team members
  • Lead multiple product releases right from providing test plan, test progress, release summary to higher
  • Cloud expertise in AWS (EC2, ALB, NLB), Azure Key Vault, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with a focus on SSL/TLS certificate management and security validation

Senior Software Engineer

Symantec
08.2011 - 11.2017
  • Product Overview: CD&A is a hybrid solution with a cloud-based management console and data repository that leverages an on-premise presence ('CD&A Sensor') residing in one or more parts of an enterprise network


  • Projects handled: Enterprise/Commercials, CD&A, CIC


Responsibilities:

  • Interacted with Product Manager and Developers in requirements analysis, design reviews, test plans and documentation for application
  • Actively Participated in Scrum meetings, reviews and developed test scenarios
  • Reviewed functional specification documents, design documents, requirements traceability matrix and involved in developing test plan, test estimations for each deliverable
  • Identified and Automated New Scenarios Using Selenium
  • Performed the Browser Compatibility Testing on different OS like Windows XP/IE/FF
  • Deploying the web services on tomcat server, hosting services on apache webserver
  • Executing functional, performance, scalability and reliability tests
  • Participating in sprint planning and design discussions


Senior Technology Specialist

Wells Fargo
03.2011 - 08.2011
  • Product Overview: The purpose of the Physical Access Management system (PAMS) is to provide the functions needed to manage access requirements across multiple PACS systems while loosely integrating with the smartcard management system (SCMS) such that significant changes in status of smartcards are reflected in the availability of physical access using the same cards.
  • Involved in Design, Review & Execution of Functional & Acceptance Test cases
  • Involved in Creation & Execution of Automation scripts
  • Involved in UAT and Production deployment validations
  • Interacted with client in bugs triaging and CR discussions during UAT

Senior Software Engineer

VERISIGN
01.2009 - 08.2010
  • Product Overview: Go Secure! for Microsoft Exchange integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server to distribute VeriSign Digital IDs certificates to Outlook users and to publish certificate information to the Global Address List (GAL)
  • Preparing Project status reports and software test report
  • Responsible for writing test plans, provide estimates, participate in Sprint planning
  • Leading all testing activities including strategy, process definition, continual improvement, and bug tracking
  • Working closely with Product Management in refining use cases, product features and overall application flow
  • Involved in Daily Stand-Up Meetings, Agile Meetings, & Scrum Call
  • Running automation sanity suite for product backend releases
  • Resolving the customer support issues from engineering team
  • Setting up test users and mailboxes
  • Testing the signed and encrypted mail exchanges between different users
  • Setting up Active directory, Installation of application.Token testing using eToken Client
  • Testing activity involved installation and deployment of application on different platforms and web servers
  • Executing winrunner test scripts, Performing performance tests and SQL Injection and cross-site scripting tests
  • Participating in Pilot/Production deployments


Senior Test Engineer

Magna Infotech
03.2008 - 06.2009
  • Company Overview:Managed PKI Service is a PKI digital certificate management and authentication service that runs on VeriSign’s proven, globally managed, highly reliable infrastructure
  • Setting up test environment on different operating systems
  • Writing System test cases for different releases
  • Execution of Winrunner automation scripts for regression & Functionality test
  • Preparing defect summary reports, test summary reports
  • Performed manual testing and Automation Testing
  • Involved in analyzing the bugs and generating the reports
  • Submitting weekly status reports to QA Manager

Test Engineer

Sasken Technologies Limited
08.2007 - 02.2008
  • Product Overview: NCD-CMS is an application built on a lightweight web container. CMS is deployed as a web site to help Nokia manage its operators and the operator’s associated content providers (CP). It also helps Nokia, operators, CP(s) manage and publish their contents to clients.
  • Prepared SQL queries and executed to validate the processed data in target database
  • Verified the column mapping between source and target DB
  • Performed Minimum Acceptance testing, Functionality testing of the products and automated
  • Regression Testing of different business scenarios in Builds and releases

Education

MBA With Dual Specialization (Systems & HR)

Sikkim Manipal University

Bachelor of Computer Application

Vagdevi Degree College
Sri Venkateswara University

Skills

  • Team Leadership, Resource & Time Management, Process Improvement, QA Charter Development, One-Pager Documentation
  • Test Planning, Requirement design, Grooming meetings, Resource and Task allocation, Test metrics
  • Release management, Stakeholder management, Cross-team collaboration
  • Test management - Functional testing, Performance, Regression test planning and execution
  • Security Testing - BurpSuite
  • SSL/TLS Certificate Lifecycle Management
  • Certificate Deployment & Validation (Load Balancers, Web Servers)
  • Cloud Certificate Management (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Cloud Security/Certbot, cert-manager, ACME clients, Kubernetes
  • Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Build Tools - Maven, Gradle
  • Bug Tracking - JIRA, Etrack, BugZilla
  • Performance and Scalability Testing - Jmeter, LoadRunner
  • Web Automation - Java, Selenium, Cypress
  • Database & Migration Testing -Oracle, SQL and Stored Procedures

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer

DigiCert
11.2017 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Symantec
08.2011 - 11.2017

Senior Technology Specialist

Wells Fargo
03.2011 - 08.2011

Senior Software Engineer

VERISIGN
01.2009 - 08.2010

Senior Test Engineer

Magna Infotech
03.2008 - 06.2009

Test Engineer

Sasken Technologies Limited
08.2007 - 02.2008

MBA With Dual Specialization (Systems & HR)

Sikkim Manipal University

Bachelor of Computer Application

Vagdevi Degree College
Sowjanya