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Vidya Aravind

Pleasanton,CA

Summary

Software Engineer Professional more than 15 years of experience in software planning, development, analysis, test execution, test automation, deployment, validation and supporting applications. This includes web, mobile applications, web services and database technologies. Proactive leader with strengths in communication and collaboration. Adept at managing concurrent objectives to promote efficiency and influence positive outcomes.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

Adobe
San Francisco, CA
09.2018 - Current
  • Main responsibilities involves leading the engineering team to requirement meeting Definition of Ready(DOR), design, impact assessment, plan sprint tasks, and making sure it meets Definition of Done(DOD).
  • Ensuring development and test strategy, approach, design, test planning & execution are completed to meet the product goals and compliance standards.
  • Setting up guidelines for automation test cases and review to maximize on the test coverage.
  • Working with partner teams for requirement analysis, project planning to identify any gaps earlier in the development cycle to meet the project timeline
  • Proposed new initiatives to test assets on creative cloud website on IOS and Android platforms, automation for node based app testing with current test frameworks.
  • Ran a weekly on-call meetings with engineers and ops team members to triage any customer issues/improvements
  • Established a biweekly performance meeting that resulted in numerous initiatives improving performance.
  • Hiring engineers and interns and mentoring on projects and provide guidance on their career growth
  • Documented complex workflows and worked with the team to create scripts for Jenkins test execution with CI/CD pipeline.
  • Represented engineering among cross functional working groups, translating non technical problems into actionable engineering efforts.
  • Improved developer tooling, helped refine and improve development team processes. Environment: NodeJS, ReactJS, MobX, Web driver io, Selenium,Playwright, Jira

MTS1 Software Engineer

PayPal
San Jose, CA
07.2012 - 09.2018
  • Working with cross functional teams to identify impacts and analysis for PPH onboarding flow, PPH activation on IOS and Android platform
  • Test Automation for Java applications using Selenium 2.0
  • Test Automation for node based apps using selenium js , test automation with nemo
  • Setting up Stage and build deployment
  • Working on creating the automation workflows for New User v2 flow
  • Live support for the releases and support using Altus process
  • Working in merchant experience and have provided lot of improvements to improve experience
  • Environment: Selenium, nodejs, reactjs, nemo, SQL

Lead QE Engineer

PSI Services LLC
Burbank, CA
01.2009 - 06.2012
  • Led the testing for porting application JBoss to Tomcat severs in the test center
  • Involved in testing of feedback widget launched on public websites
  • Environment: Jira, Greenhopper, Tomcat server, Selenium, iMacros, SQL, Java, HTML

Education

Master of Business Administration -

California State University

Bachelor of Engineering -

Madras University
India

Skills

  • Operating System: Unix, Linux, Windows
  • Languages: Java, Javascript, TypeScript, NodeJS, ReactJS, Python, Objective-C
  • Testing Tools Selenium, QTP, Imacros, JUnit, TestNG, nemo, Selendriod, iOS driver, Nightwatch, Playwright
  • Database: MS Access, Oracle, MySQL,Mongo
  • Source Control: CVS, SVN, GIT
  • Defect Tracking Jira, Rally

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Adobe
09.2018 - Current

MTS1 Software Engineer

PayPal
07.2012 - 09.2018

Lead QE Engineer

PSI Services LLC
01.2009 - 06.2012

Master of Business Administration -

California State University

Bachelor of Engineering -

Madras University

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