May 2021 – Dec 2021 · 7 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · On-site

Mar 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• > Involved in architecting several QA solutions/processes for Ariba Platform team.
• > Collaborated with other QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans for several complex projects.
• > Reviewed and analysed system specifications/requirements in Agile setup.
• > Consistently designed, created and executed test cases (both manual and automated) and analyses results in a timely manner.
• > Reviewed product and automation code according to specifications and report any findings.
• > Experience in technologies/tools such as Java, JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, Jenkins, HANA/Oracle, Shell scripting, Linux, ReST APIs, Restito, Docker, HashiCorp Nomad, Microservices, Maven, Postman, Jira, Confluence, QTest etc.,.
• > Well versed in creating/enhancing test frameworks, when the conventional framework does not help in solving the problem.
• > Involved in interviews for identifying prospects with right attitude and technical aptitude. Also, lead the mentoring to get them onboard quickly.
• > Generated logs to document testing phases and defects.
• > Effectively reported bugs and errors to all stakeholders.
• > Help the team to troubleshoot and triage customer issues.
• > Demonstrated "getting things done" attitude at work, when working with cross-functional teams.
• > Worked with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• > Worked with all stake holders to ensure that the issues are reviewed, fixed, verified and closed upon.
• > Designed several effective solutions to solve problems spanning Development and QA departments.
• > Reviewed test strategies and plans to see that all the various kinds of testing like unit, functional, performance, stress, acceptance etc. are getting covered.
• > Was the focal point of contact for the entire platform team for all the Maven related build issues.
• > Worked in the Ariba Platform Fun Committee to drive several team bonding fun and cultural activities for the team.

Oct 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• > Acted as a technical lead QA engineer taking extra responsibilities like creation of Proof of Concepts(PoCs), evaluating peers' performances to assist managers etc.,.
• > Good understanding of Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform and architecture.
• > Influenced architectural decisions for new features and enhancements.
• > Well versed in testing ZENworks Mobile management for Apple iOS and Android operating systems.
• > Member of PAQT team and involved in completing POCs.
• > Involved in Selenium, TestNG, Junit automation and framework development.
• > Involved in creation of Unit and Components tests for Java code using TestNG.
• > Lead the TDD efforts for multiple teams as TDD co-ordinator and helped the team to achieve the best productivity.
• > Reviewed the dev code for all check-ins and involved in Dev War room for any design related debates.
• > Involved in end-to-end testing through Selenium Webdriver.
• > Generating very comprehensive automation run reports requested by the stakeholders.
• > Good at Peer review of test artefacts and provides constructive feedback to improve quality.
• > Good experience in creating/handling VM workstations through VMWare and through VMWare ESXi server.
• > Helped stakeholders by debugging the logs and triaging the issue to find the root cause for it.

Jul 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• > Extensively involved in test Automation framework development and enhancements.
• Involved in end-to-end testing (all Windows clients and Epo server) for McAfee’s Drive Encryption.
• > Experience in automation of the tests for MDE using several tools and langauges. Experience in QTP, Test Complete.
• > Good at performing security testing for the web applications using various opensource tools.
• > Very good at debugging the failures to identify and mitigate the one time failures occur during Automation batch execution.
• > Generating very comprehensive automation run reports requested by the stakeholders.
• > First point of contact for the basic BVT (build verification tests) from developers on Pre-emptive builds.
• > Good at Peer review of test artifacts and provides constructive feedback to improve quality
• > Involved in weekly Bug scrub or Bug bash meetings with Managers and project leads
• > Good experience in creating/handling VM workstations through VMWare and through VMWare ESXi server
• > Helped stakeholders by debugging the logs and triaging the issue to find the root cause for it
• > Good at maintaining test/engineering domains up and running. Experienced in configuring DNS/DHCP/DC
• > Reviewed and segregated the test cases in QC and provided comments on the same.
• > Extensively involved in testing the AOAC power model by Microsoft with MDE for hardening the client against Cold boot attacks (RAM based attacks testing).
• > Good at identifying and isolating the defects that can be found only through automation methodology.

Dec 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• > Created testing tools like Verifone Loyalty Parser to ease the testing activities.
• > Extensively involved in black & white testing of entire Petro POS system applications.
• > Involved in Unit, Functional, Integration, System, and Regression, Database, Certification (PA DSS) Testing.
• > Involved in design of Test automation framework and implementation of the same.
• > Creating, maintaining and executing the test cases for the enhancements and identifying and executing the test cases that are to be regression tested.
• > Involved in extensive credit card testing (Visa, MC, Discover, AMEX, Diners club, Proprietary, etc.,)
• > End to End testing of Electronic Payment Server EPS of VeriFone for Data packets (ISO 8583) to host.
• > Interacted with the developers in analyzing the defects and helped them in identifying and fixing the defects by providing/parsing the appropriate logs.
• > Involved in extensive ISO 8583 Protocol validations for data packets from VeriFone systems to Host.
• > Created SQL Queries for backend validation as per the requirements.
• > Involved in Peer reviews for all kind of Technical Documents and presented several Walkthrough sessions.
• > Isolated VeriFone system defects from the other Third party applications’, by thoroughly analyzing them.

Dec 2009 – Dec 2010 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• > Analyzing Feasibility of new Enhancements from customers.
• > Designed and implemented customer requests and performing UT. Worked as part-time test engineer.
• > Fixing the Defects found during testing and providing new builds for Certification
• > Performed Static code analysis of code by using WCC 3.0 and DeepCheck 2.0 tools (Wipro Proprietary)
• > Interacted with other partner development teams in analyzing and modifying the use cases and developed unit test cases against them.
• > Acted as Offshore Coordinator for DSS Dev Team, in supervisor’s absence.
• > Participated in daily sync up call with the client/Onsite Coordinator.
• > Weekly sync-ups with client on the progress of all P0-P1 enhancements and defects.

Dec 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• >Worked as teaching staff in the role of Assistant Professor for Annamacharya Insititute of Technology and Sciences, Hyderabad.
• >Taught MicroProcessors and Controllers for VI Sem undergraduate Bachelors in Technology students.
• >Helped attain one of the highest pass percentages (84%) in Microprocessors and Controllers subject for students in the whole history of AITS Hyderabad.
• >Worked as Invigilator, Evaluator and Flying Squad for several internal, external examinations, and Laboratory tests.