Jayakumar Purushothaman Cell: 858-***-****

Email: acs7jk@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY AND KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

Summary:

Experienced Engineering Manager /QA- A highly talented professional with 10+ years of experience - Planning, Process improvement, Automation, Framework Architect, Building QA teams, Regulatory affairs and conformance testing.

Project Strategist – planed and managed million-dollar project aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, carefully maneuvering each project through different gate process, competitive advantage, KPI’s and ROI’s.

Excellent communicator – leveraged technical, financial and project status effectively with stakeholders, clients, executives and various team members.

Expert in SCRUM, Agile, BDD, TDD and waterfall methodologies – Able to manage large project teams and implement the appropriate SDLC process within the budget and timeline.

Key Achievements:

Increased the efficiency (60%) by automation (Selenium, Scripting and Frameworks)

Reduced customer issues considerably (over 50%) while increasing productivity

(over 60%) and new feature enhancements (by 30 %) on various products.

Managerial Experience:

Define lead, and evangelize the software and quality vision and roadmap, considering business strategy and industry trends.

Directed and lead the existing engineering team involved in product development testing, identified new talent, managed and mentored members of the QA team.

Directed the evolution of the systems architecture, converted business requirements to user stories and solutions and made appropriate technology choices.

Participated as a leader to define the product roadmaps /NPI project discussions.

Worked with various teams to deliver the product as per the defined roadmap with superior quality.

Set and managed expectations, goals and reviewed the performance of team members.

Ability to multi-task and capable of handling development of multiple applications/projects simultaneously.

Proven ability to attract all levels of software engineering talent from the college through principal architect level.

Employment History

Volunteer Jan 2015 – Present

●Acting as a consultant to startups to define strategies in SW testing.

●Wrote test cases, scripts in Python unittest and Selenium Webdriver for movies, which are played (movies in Theaters – Coming soon to Theaters) by using the web service API query in JSON format.

Technical Consultant Jan 2014 – De 2014

(Assured Wireless -> Maxim Integrated)

●Represent Quality Assurance in Product Release Process meetings, participating in project decisions including triage and prioritization of software bugs and enhancements.

●Improve current practices and strategies for software integration and system test for LTE based Home receivers. Automated test Environment (ATE) is commissioned.

●Review functional specs and contribute to product design from a quality and testability perspective. Document, design and execute test plans.

Quake Global, San Diego, CA Jun 2012 – Oct 2013

Test Engineering Manager

●A project of $1.5 M for both HW and SW and tools and resources.

●Provide leadership and supervision of design, development and implementation of test strategies, tools, Level of Effort, Test Environment requirements, and test schedule.

●Responsible for developing QA work plans, establishing technical objectives, resource ramp-up/ramp-down decisions, resource allocation, assigning tasks and management groups/teams.

●Maintains schedules and coordinates test activities.

●Interface with senior management to report on project and program milestones and to present project needs and technical knowledge.

●DVT testing (Lab View) of Modems (M2M) for 2G/3G and Satellite communication. (STM,

U-blox, ARM and Telit chipsets) with GPS, Sandvik CAN Simulator.

●Test cases drafted for each functionality like OTA, Messaging, Memory, Performance, System Integration (SIT), Acceptance Test (UAT), load Performance Test,EMI and Temperatures.

●Tested and monitored the web services using JSON/REST for the message query which is ported on AWS.

●Continuous integration, testing and deployment using Jenkins.

●Successful in launching Quake’s First Product QPRO to a national carrier, Verizon.

●Tested the product for PTCRB, CE and FCC compliance certifications.

●Built a team of 6 people for SW Test and Quality (DVT/SW/UAT) process.

Wind River/Intel, San Diego, CA Sep 2010 – Aug 2011

Test Architect (Product)

●Delivered a commercial Enterprise Automated Test Framework (Project of $3M) for Android Mobile Devices (FAST by Wind River) – Java, JUnit, MySQL and python based.

●The scalable framework (Java with MySQL on a LAMP) allows nearly 2000 automated test cases in the test database, which were continuously tested with automatic report generation.

●Proactively added feature enhancements to the product like Score of the device, Media format tests (ADCS), OpenGL and 3D Graphic Testing, Board configuration Wizard, Device Heartbeat monitor, UI/UX experience with respect to customer feedback.

●Android API’s, CTS tests, Monkey Tests, Instrumentations tests etc. were integrated and executed automatically from the platform.

●The product is tested at the JTAG level with all the build in Android drivers and Intel Development kit.

●Significantly reduced (6 => 3 month) the customer release period by implementing agile and with the daily scrum meetings.

●Managed a team of 20 People distributed worldwide (China, Romania, Portland and San Diego)

Pacific DataVision, Inc. San Diego, CA May 2006 – Mar 2009

SW QA Manager

A 2-way radio communication project for delivery services (PDV Connect) for Sprint-Nextel. This project was tested with various IOT requirements from Motorola, Sprint and was delivered successfully .The application is a SIP based IVR application which is both app based Android) and web based with location (GPS) services.

Scalable architecture, which can support from 45000 to 1M transactions per second.

The web application is based on .NET is cloud based and functional /performance testing is done using scripts in Selenium. JMeter is used for performance test.

Various tools like wireshark, IPerf, tcpdump etc. were also used.

Built a Team of 3 People (a project of 500K)

Nokia Inc. – San Diego, CA May 1999 – May 2006

Senior SW Engineer (Test Lead)/Sr.Systems Engineer

●Radio testing for compliance concerns for Nokia Series 40 phones.

●Well conversed in cellular Technology like 2G/3G/CDMA 2000, EV-DO, WCDMA, GSM, UMTS and Satellite Modems.

●Tested the Radio Network layers L1/L2/L3 layers with PDSN and the handshake of high level protocols and the CHAP Authentication.

●Worked with various phone models and development boards (JTAG) which included chipsets from TI and Qualcomm.

●Familiar in Embedded SW debug of Nokia OS with inherent tool sets.

●Familiar with RADIUS, AAA servers, Checkpoint Firewalls and DHCP, SSH, IPv6, NAT, VLAN.

●Various routers configurations like Redback, Cisco, Juniper etc.

●Tested the IPv6 stack on mobile phones and made 6 phones to Verizon Carrier lab level Testing.

●Drafted Test cases for Mobile IP, IPv6, HTTP, RTSP/RTP, SIP, and Wi-Fi stack for Nokia Mobile Phones. Apache server, Tomcat server and Helix streaming server.

●Developed SNMP scripts using Tcl/Tk.

●Developed and integrated the HP NMM to the Nokia J2EE based OSS solution and performance and load test using Mercury Load Runner.

Skill Sets

Project

Software C, C++, Python, Perl, Java, J2EE, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS.

OS /Protocol Linux, Windows, Mac, Embedded OS (RTOS), Android, IOS, SOAP, TCP/IP, HTTP, RTP/RTSP, SIP, VoIP, CAN, J1939, JSON/REST, various 3GPP standards (CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, IoT, IP).

Frameworks Selenium, Jenkins, JIRA, JUnit, HP-QTP, Bugzilla, Test Link, AWS, JMeter, Git, SVN, LAMP, AWS, Apache, Cloud SAAS,

E-Commerce, Google Analytics.

Education

M.Tech (Electronics Engineering), Cochin University of Science & Technology, Cochin, India.

M.Sc. (Physics), University of Kerala, India.

Contact this candidate