OBJECTIVE

• Pursue a challenging career in Software Testing\Project Management and Quality Assurance Engineering which provides ample opportunities for growth and learning.

SUMMARY

• Over 11years of Experience in Manual & Automation Software Testing.
• Well acquainted with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and in Quality Control - Testing (STBs) .
• Having good knowledge in testing techniques of black box and automation testing.
• Good experience in preparing Test Plan, Strategy and Acceptance Test Procedures.
• Lead & managed a team of 7 people for the cisco engagement.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills from STB and working knowledge in the Headend side.
• Involved & experience in requirements analysis, effort & resource estimation.
• Highly proactive and initiative in all the QC & integration activities inside and across the teams.
• Worked on.net technologies, using ASP.Net and C# and RDBMS like MS SQL.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Microsoft Windows, Linux & Solaris, ubuntu: Microsoft Office.
• Mantis, Jira, Rational Clear quest, Telelogic change, CDETS.: RedRat, IR trans, ST Microconnect
• Dektec stream express, Other proprietary tools from NDS & Cisco, proprietary tools from LGI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sanjose USA

Responsibilities:

• End-to end testing of a very critical module called software update(SU).
• Design and review and execution of test cases for SU module on Confidential 's IPTV box (Mallard2 & 3)
• Testing SU on different connectivity interfaces likes Wifi, Ethernet and MoCA.
• Triaging the logs from Application & platform for all the issues observed during SU.
• Technical Point of contact for SU module and for triaging all issues observed in field by alpha and beta customers.
• Automation of repeated tasks using shell scripts and python.
• Analyzing services calls using Kibana & Splunk. Sending postman queries to API's.
• Assigning test cases to peers and monitoring & helping them with issues related to SU module.

Confidential, Mountain view, CA

Manager testing.

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of testing and signing off Street View VR app.
• Flash the new version of android OS on Pixel and other android phones and test the VR apps for launch readiness.
• Testing of various VR app's on complete android lineup (kitkat, lollypop, Android N)
• Collecting logs using ADB and reporting issues.
• Creating shell scripts to run thermal tests and flashing apps in android phones.
• Testing app compatibility for Google's VR head set & Google cardboard.
• IOS apps testing for google cardboard.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Responsibilities:

• Complete system testing of pace dawn boxes with Nucleus middleware, NAF and UI layers.
• Automation of tests using Redrat & IR trans, Jmeter, Video grabbers, web power switches using shell and python scripts.
• Developing Test Plan, Test & Build Wise Strategy and executing the same.
• Configure the Headend components to suite various test requirements.
• Analyze issues reported in the field, reproduce, triage and tracking bugs.
• Integrate and test 3party apps like you tube, daily motion, facebook etc... and test the stability.
• Writing test cases for overnight stability testing using Scripter automation tool.

Confidential, Lowell, MA

Responsibilities:

• Writing test cases for function tests in End to End team.
• Software upgrade tests on Confidential system components which include App servers, Load balancers, DB servers, Recording cluster managers, Recorders, Cloud Scheduler, JITP playback server etc...
• E2E system testing for all new releases (creating subscriber base, EPG ingesting, subscriber management related cases like package allocation etc.., scheduling different types of recordings, multicast stream, Playback of Dash content true JITP using a Dash client etc.). writing and executing python scripts for VTF-Video test framework (inhouse automation tool)

Confidential, Lowell, MA

Senior Software Tester/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Handled the Axiom 3.0 project in a capacity of Test Lead and successfully lead & delivered around 13 releases to clients.
• Involved in ramping up & forming a new test team consisting of 6 people and involving from Recruitment, Knowledge Transfer (Technical), Grooming/Mentoring and Identifying Leaders.
• Developing Test Plan, Test & Build Wise Strategy and executing the same.
• Writing\reviewing of the test cases for functional & non - functional testing (Soak, Stress and Overnight).
• Assigning QC activity tasks to team members, tracking the same and responsible for task closure.
• Co-ordinate testing activities across client sites.
• Educating the team on new features and functionalities and continuous support to them.

Confidential, Lowell, MA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in various roles in this organization from software developer, test engineer to Acting Lead involved in planning the testing activities.
• Writing the Test cases, Reviewing the Test scripts written by peers
• System Testing and updating the test results
• Raising issues in Mantis, Assigning priorities to defects.
• Organizing defect meeting with developers and other stake holders.
• Responsible for system level testing of Reliance BigTV for NagraVision. The task was to perform complete system level testing on the live environment and production environment using Sanity tests, Stress and stability tests.
• Automate the test cases using RedRat and unearth stability related bugs using long duration tests.
• Automate test cases using Jmeter and SoapUI.
• Flash Binaries on Zapper and DVR boxes using ST Microconnect.
• For some of the above projects, involved in preparation of the Test Environment (Installation of Servers & Clients), Installation and Configuring of Jboss on Redhat Linux and windowsXp.