SUMATHI CHIKKATHARAHALLI VYKUNTE GOWDA
*********@*****.***
St Joseph, MI - 49085
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Five plus years of experience as a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst for Mobile Applications, IoT Cloud space, Web Applications, SAAS applications and Android Smart TV projects for Whirlpool, Time Inc and Bang & Olufsen in Travel, Media, Industrial and Manufacturing domains. Competent and diligent experience in SDLC processes including Functional and Business Requirement Analysis/Gathering, designing, developing and implementing Test Cases, Test Plans and Test execution estimations and Defect management activities following Agile Scrum & Waterfall testing Methodologies.
Developed Mobile apps test automation utilizing See Test Manual and Automation Tool, UI Automator for Android and iOS native apps. And having very strong knowledge on Selenium WebDriver and Framework development for Web apps. Expertise in Generating and maintaining the monthly project metrics, dashboard documents and Weekly Status Report for internal audits at the organizational level.
CORE COMPETENCIES
●Types of testing: System Integration, System, Functional, Smoke, Regression, Cross Browser/Platform, End to End, Installation, Offline, Interrupt, Network, Offline, Low memory Testing, A/B Testing.
●Test Management tools: Test Rail, Hyperion, Collabnet and RTC (IBM Rational tool)
●Defect Management tools: JIRA, Fogbugz, Bugzilla, Radar, RQM (IBM Rational tool)
●Could – Kibana and IBM Cloud Data Management System
●Database – Cloudant and Redis
●Software and Hardware tools: Device Anywhere, Android SDK, Eclipse, Android Studio, Fiddler, iTunes, Charles Proxy, Dektec, Tera term, Stream Express, Logcat, Wide box and WiFi Commander.
●Content Management tools: TIPS, Drupal and Vignette V6 and WordPress
●Programming languages: Java, MYSQL Database, C, C++ and Phython
●Communication Protocols: RS 485, MQTT and WIN bus
CERTIFICATIONS - ISTQB & Agile Scrum Foundation level
SCHOLASTIC CREDENTIALS
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering 2007-2011, Visvesvaraya Technological University (Belgaum, India)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Currently working as a Test Engineering Senior Analyst for Whirlpool Corporation (From NTT Data inc) in IOT Space Commercial Laundry – Nov 2018 to till date
Worked as a Quality Assurance Analyst Freelancer for various projects at SRVR LLc, innRoad from Upwork - Oct 2016 to Sept 2018
Worked as Test Engineer for Mindtree India in IT, Travel, Ecommerce and Hardware of Smart TV - Nov 2011 to April 2016
PROJECT DETAILS
Test Engineering Senior Analyst - Whirlpool IoT Space Commercial Laundry
(Contractor to Whirlpool & Full time to NTT Data Inc Nov 2018 to till Date)
●Software design document analysis and business requirements gathering from different stakeholders and product owners
●System Integration and Regression testing of IoT laundry system (Angular JS based, front end and back end) by analyzing the machine logs published in hex, and IBM cloud based on API 144 attributes along with the appliances (Washers & Dryers) HMI and API validation using Postman.
●Analyzing cloud/Kibana logs to provide root cause for the issues. Generating faults on the machine firmware by altering control unit board and disconnecting communication protocols, speed sensors.
●Test Data and Environment Set up - Connecting appliances to network routers, M2M and Circuit board with necessary communication protocols like RS-485 and Wi-Fi communication (WIN Bus Protocol & MQTT) and changing the test environment (STG and PROD) of wife modules using whirlpool’s internal tools like WIDE box and Wi-Fi Commander.
●Developing test plan, scripts and estimation for sprints.
●Participate in Sprint Planning, Show & Tell, Review, Retrospective meetings.
●End to end defect management until closure and production launch.
●Coordinate with developers and machine firmware team to get the RCA of blockers/impediments.
●Provide System integration sign Off and support for Production launch.
●OTA testing of HMI, Wi-Fi and bootloader bundles on end user appliances.
Freelance Software Quality Assurance – Upwork SRVR LLC, innRoad
(Oct 2016 to Sept 2018)
●Involved in end to end testing of Quick Call mobile app on iOS, Android platform.
●As an individual contributor, participated in Requirement conflict analysis with business, developed Test scripts, Test Scenarios.
●Participated in sprint meetings and collected the requirements for the release.
●Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression testing, Integration testing.
●Testing the apps over different networks 3G, 4G and LTE.
●Test data creation on Cloud based systems.
●Involved in Defect triage process and Defect management activities.
●Extracting crash files from Android and iOS devices.
●API testing on POSTMAN web service testing tool.
Senior Test Engineer – Bang and Olufsen Android Smart TV
(Nov 2015 to April 2016 Mindtree Ltd, Bangalore, India)
●HARDWARE testing of Android smart TV with Basic and high-end features such as Picture Settings for 2D & 3D, Sound Settings, Wired & Wireless Network, Channel installation (Broadcasting and PVR testing), Software Update (Through USB & Portal).
●Involved in Channel installation – broadcasting and PVR-Recording of channels.
●Involved in testing of different stands such as Motorized stand, which will turn 360-degree, Wall Bracket, traditional floor and table stand by setting standby, startup and user defined positions.
●Involved in testing of HDMI configuration, PUC controlling.
●Involved in testing of standby and start up sequences.
●Involved in testing of different types of Audio and Video codes (for ex: AAC, Mp1, Mp2, Mp3, Mp4 etc.) and DLAN.
●Coordinated with the developers for fixing the bugs.
●Involved in Test case execution and Defect reporting and retesting with system crash logs and ANRs.
Software Test Engineer – Time Inc NY., Web based and Mobile Applications
(Nov 2011 to Feb 2015 Mindtree Ltd, Bangalore, India)
●Worked as an individual contributor from offshore for about 12 months and tested RealSimple.com web pages from requirement phase to prod launch.
●Tested several Mobile Applications on both iOS and Android platform. For Ex., RS NTTC, IN Style Hair Style, SI Swimsuit. Time, People, People Celeb Food, Entertainment Weekly and many more.
●Tested Web based applications like Health, Time for Kids (TFK), My Recipes (MR), Time.com and My Home Ideas, SEG titles: Entertainment Weekly, People, In Style.
●Digital Magazine readers apps testing on tablets.
●Requirement Analysis/Gathering and Query Clarification for new apps and CRs.
●Developed scripts and scenarios according to client requirement, reviewing, executing and reporting on time.
●Test cases update as per enhancements and change requests.
●Bug reporting & tracking and preparation of daily test report.
●HTML and CSS component verification for web applications.
●Assigning the task to the team on daily basis in the absence of Team Lead.
●Test Case Optimization for Automation and Mobile apps automation.
●Network switch testing of mobile apps using Charles proxy.
●Test data creation from content management tools like TIPS (In house from Time Inc), WordPress, Drupal, Vignette. Training the new members in the team as per project need and Monitoring the tasks completed by them to ensure the quality.