NIKHIL MEHETRE

Email: ac869i@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 619-***-****

Profile Summary

Analytical, innovative and proficient Engineer with over 10 years of experience in software quality assurance with domains such as Set Top Box (Cable and Satellite), Telecom (specializing in mobile technologies, semiconductor solutions for embedded and wireless communications) and Health Care.

Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) E.g. Waterfall, Agile, Scrum model and different test methodologies.

Scrum Alliance CSM- Certified ScrumMaster

ISTQB and HL7 Certified Professional with experience in manual and automation project.

Extensive experience in Product testing, Website testing, Stress, Functional, Regression, System and Performance testing for embedded software solutions and web based application.

Adept at designing test plans, test cases, test scripts and debugging issues.

Highly motivated, detail oriented, quick learner and a self-starter with ability to work autonomously with executives, managers and individual contributors at all levels.

Team player, always willing to take up new responsibilities with ability to work well with a variety of people and be flexible to take on different roles/responsibilities as needs change

Education:

Qualification Awarded

Name of University

GPA/Percentage

Master of Science (Computer Science)

San Diego State University, USA

3.41/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science)

Amravati University, India

65%

Technical Skills:

Certifications

: Health Level 7, ISTQB, CSM

Programming Language

: Python, Visual Basic

Databases

: MySQL, MS Access, AS400

Web Technologies

: HTML,XML

Tools

:Visual Studio, Selenium, QTP, Perforce, SOAP UI, JIRA, Bugzilla, Microsoft

Test Manager, RTC,RQM,RM.

Platforms

: UNIX, Linux, Windows XP, Win7, iOS

Professional Experience:

Espial De. Inc (Kirkland, WA–USA)

Designation: Sr. QA Engineer /Scrum master From Aug 2016 to Present

Project: - Espial Elevate develops software solutions for a variety of products related to the Pay TV industry. Elevate is a cloud IPTV platform allowing operators to manage, deliver and monetize compelling video experiences across any network (QAM, IP, OTT) and any device.

Responsibilities Managed:

Scrum master role-

Organizes and facilitates daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burn down tracking and other Scrum-related meetings.

Assists the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.

Remove the impediments for the scrum team and help development team to improve efficiency

Ensures the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Ensures cross-functional coordination (analysts, developers and testers) is occurring early and often.

Sr. SQA role

Analyze product requirements to determine what types of testing will be required to ensure delivery of a quality product.

Develop detailed test plans create test cases and execute test plans per release schedule.

Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution.

Run and monitor automated test suites and report failures.

Perform API testing on OTT devices for IPTV services using automated tool Postman and Appium.

Analyze the results of the testing and create test reports.

Utilize experience to participate in development of continuous quality improvement programs

Verify fixes for defects and check for regression failures when defects are resolved

Write automated tests where appropriate to reduce the release cycle overhead.

Solution Environment: Windows, Linux, iOS, Android

Software and tools: Postman, Appium, Secure CRT, Test central, JIRA

Arris Group Inc.- Kirkland, WA, USA

Designation: Senior SQA engineer From Nov 2014 till Aug 2016

Project: Working as senior software QA engineer in ARRIS Whole Home Solution, which includes a family of Media Gateway and Player products with the Moxi User Interface.

Responsibilities Managed:

QA Lead activities- Test Pass creation, Test assignments and daily test report. Analyze bugs for every release. Mentor new QA team member.

API testing for the new features under development.

Design, develop, plan and execute manual and automated tests for standard and special devices.

Execute automated scripts via StormTest client, analyzed logs and debug automation failures, and entered results into database.

Test execution tasks encompassed validation of Media Gateway hardware, software and integrated features such as digital video recording, network functionality.

Performed functional validation on all features of Media Gateway, usability testing on the user interface, installation testing for new software builds, stress/load testing when introducing a high amount of activity and devices into a test configuration, smoke testing with build verification tests, and regression testing for bug fixes.

Analyze test results, review logs, identify, submit defect and verify fixes.

Solution Environment: Windows XP, Win 7, iOS, Android, Linux

Software and tools: Test Central, iPad2, Microsoft SharePoint, Bugzilla, DevTest, RTC, QM and RM

CitiusTech (New Mumbai, India) - A leading healthcare technology services and solutions provider.

Designation: Senior Software Engineer-QA From May 2012 to April 2013

Project:-Worked in testing Web based software application with a team that develops information technology solutions for community hospitals and specialty healthcare facilities.

Responsibilities Managed:

Requirement understanding from technical specifications (High Level Design) as well as with Business use cases documents.

Preparation of test rules, test cases, identification of regression areas and automation scenarios.

Conducted Peer reviews, external reviews, and walkthroughs.

Test execution for web based application. Identified, reported, tracked and verified defects.

Add, modify test data through AS400 and run SQL queries through iSeries navigator to verify functionality of application.

Retesting, Regression Testing, Sanity testing, Ad Hoc testing, Functional Testing, GUI testing.

Solution Environment: Windows 7, iPad2

Software and tools: Microsoft Management Tool, TFS, IBM iSeries navigator, AS400

Brower used: Chrome, IE8 with chrome frame and Safari. SDLC methodology: Scrum

Infobahn Softworld Inc- San Diego, CA, USA

Designation: System Test engineer From Nov 2010 till Oct 2014

Project: Worked in a division mainly involved in integration of High Definition Television (HDTV) and Digital Video Recorder (DVR) in one device: Set-Top box.

Responsibilities Managed:

Setup multiple test racks for various defined stress testing.

Load test code on a bank of set-tops.

Develop and execute stress test scripts (Ocelot scripts, DCCG) as per the baseline test requirement.

Update the existing Stability Master Controller tool for new scenarios using VB and PERL using Visual Studio.

Report defects to the development engineers utilizing the debug tracking system (JIRA-defect management tool) utilized in this department.

Automate the test procedures using Visual Basic and Perl to reduce release cycle overhead.

Solution Environment: Windows XP

Software and tools: Visual Studio 6, Stability Master Controller, Diagnostic Monitor, JIRA

Mobiview Inc.-San Diego, CA-USA

Designation: Software Test Engineer From Sep 2009 to Oct 2010

Project:-Worked on Qualcomm’s MediaFLO TV technology, a complete end-to-end platform invented specifically to bring broadcast quality video to mobile efficiently and cost effectively.

Responsibilities Managed:

End-to-end testing of the system from provisioning to final content on devices.

Successfully completed projects of D2C devices(direct to consumer) like PTV, AUTO, PDVD and wireless devices like Samsung Mythic, LGE VU plus.

Provisioning services, modifying scripts using SOAPUI tool on Linux server machines

Solution Environment: Windows XP, Red Hat Linux 5.4

Software and tools: QXDM, QPST, Test Depot, Perforce, SOAP UI, Extraview (Defect management tool)

Broadcom Inc.-San Diego, CA-USA

Designation: Test Engineer From Jan 2007 to Aug 2008

Project:-Part of Broadcom’s Bluetooth System Verification And Integration group mainly involved in testing of Bluetooth embedded and wireless software solutions.

Responsibilities Managed:

Write and execute tests for various Bluetooth profiles on number of chipsets and document results into test reports.

Conformance testing for certification of various profiles likes HFP, A2DP, FTP and protocols.

Perform testing for Bluetooth embedded and wireless software solutions, debug issue and write bugs.

Complete verification of UI/Localization issues in Bluetooth software using Visual Studio.

Solution Environment: Windows XP, Vista, Win7

Software and tools: Bluetool, BTW, BTE Insight, PTS, ClearCase and ClearQuest

References: Please find references on: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/nikhil-mehetre/11/640/9a8

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