QA Lead

Shayni Sood

Operating Systems Windows XP/*/*/**, Mac OS

Programming Languages C#.Net, Java, PL/SQL

Automation Technologies Selenium, Coded UI

Tools HP QC, Jira, HP Synchronizer, TFS 2015, Solr Search, Red-mine, Eclipse Neon, Selenium IDE Jenkins, Visual Studio 2015, SQL Server Management Studio, Confluence, Postman, Fiddler, SSRS, BitBucket, SVN, Aspera, ScreenFly Emulator, FFprobe & FFmpeg Messaging RabbitMQ, XML, JSON, SOAP & RESTful Services Domain Media & Entertainment

QA Test Lead

6 years of hands-on experience as a Functional & Automation Test Engineer in Web, Mobile & Windows applications

Proficient in automation testing using TestNG, Selenium & Coded UI along with Functional, White box, Black box, Integration, User Acceptance, Regression, Performance, Responsiveness, Device, Cross browser & System testing in Agile and Waterfall delivery model

Adept in testing backend using SQL Server 2008R2/2014 and SOAP and REST services using Postman and Fiddler.

Interface with software developers in areas of creating software test work products including Test Strategies, test cases, test plans, test procedures, and test reports and coordination with offshore team, Conduct formal and informal product design reviews throughout the SDLC to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.

Develop high-level test plans by incorporating user profiles, configurations, environments, risks, test scenarios, schedules and analysis and presentation of results.

Articulate and confident communicator with excellent client interaction skills, extremely capable of working in high pressure situations ensuring timely & quality delivery.

Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills leveraged to train users, troubleshoot system issues, and ensure total client satisfaction. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shayni-sood/ Phone - 551-***-****

Email - **********@*****.***

Education

B.E in Electronics & Communications, Punjab Technical University, India ISTQB Certified Tester

Certified ISO 9001-2008 Internal Quality Auditor

ITIL V3-2011 Certified Professional

Microsoft Certification- 70-515 TS: Web Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Microsoft certification- 70-519 PRO: Designing and Developing Web Applications Using Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Skills

QA Test Lead (New York City, U.S) Team Size-6 2015 - Present The client is an American Media Conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television. It operates approximately 170 networks, reaching approximately 700 million subscribers in approximately 160 countries. VMS Web

VMS Web is a new web platform based on a well-published REST API with a responsive, intuitive user interface. This product was developed to unify existing, end of life MAM applications into a single product that is both easier to access and use. It is a browser-agnostic application that works seamlessly for both Mac and PC users that is externally available leveraging Enterprise Single Sign-on.

Analyze requirements, detail design and formulate test plan for the functional testing of the application. Develop master test scripts and regression testing for each release of the application in Agile Workflow

Develop an effective automated test script design with objectives of maximizing the reusability and their maintainability using Selenium and TestNG framework.

Interface with software developers in areas of creating software test work products including Test Strategies,test cases, test plans, test procedures, and test reports and coordination with offshore team

Conduct formal and informal product design reviews throughout the SDLC to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues.

Develop high-level test plans by incorporating user profiles, configurations, environments, risks, test scenarios, schedules and analysis and presentation of results.

Mentor and provide guidance for offshore team on Rabbit MQ and Rest Based Services testing.

Test Ingest workflows and work orders resulting in transcodes to various formats, stitching multiple segments and clips, including adding captions files and subtitles for localization using BCP-47 code

Test the technical attribute and metadata extraction on assets resulting in variation in bitrates, frame rates, audio and video durations, sampling frequency and different formats for encoding

Awarded Performer of the Year at Organizational level 2016 Noise

NOISE is a new platform for the submission and ingestion of music videos and other music content. It addresses a number of issues, including incomplete metadata, inconsistent video quality, and confusion over rights. As a part of the global supply chain, it handles different delivery methods for content, manages approval workflows for programmers, standards, legal & operations and provides good metadata and assets to downstream systems, making it easier to enforce rights and track usage

Test generic asset manipulation workflow using FFprobe for metadata extraction for transcodes

Test delivery of high res music videos to Amazon S3 including media processing and quality checks as per organizational standards

Generate test plans, work instructions and procedures based on client requirements as per agile standards.

Train 6 engineers and technicians in QA Methodology and Validations

Review test cases, plans strategies and scripts for both positive and negative results created by offshore team.

Work with test management in generating reports, compiling metrics; analyze reports on estimated dependencies, confidence levels, and time intervals.

VIVA

VIVA Content Storage Management offers a reliable and efficient solution for archiving and restoring digital content in day-to-day workflows. Several features leverage robust solutions in order to manage stored assets, as well as maintain the integrity of the content. Its features include content separation using storage plans, preemptive scheduling, automated health checks, Object Recovery & automated email alerts.

Test Archive and restores on assets based on tape/disk or encrypted storage plans

Test Automatic health checks of the files by verifying the MD5

Manage customer centric operations & ensure client satisfaction while adhering to quality standards

Conduct the Causal Analysis and Post Release Analysis for Defects, Schedule and Effort Variance

Device testing using ScreenFly emulator for PC, Mac, IOS & Android systems Experience – L&T Infotech

Work Authorization

Currently working on a H1-B Visa valid till March 2019 Relay

Relay is a portal for creating and tracking deliveries of final episodes for broadcast and distribution. Users may upload final master files to the company or schedule hard drive and tape deliveries, track deliveries from submission to Ready for Air and automate notifications to network and organization operations contacts.

Test creation of new submission, once approved, view content by uploading a submission master, proxy, or caption file from local computer via Aspera Connect plugin

Test submission details, uploading additional files to existing submissions, segments, and tracking deliveries to the DAM

Requirements gathering and analysis, assess user experience and design decisions outlined by the client

Prepare the overall test plan and assist other analysts in their functional areas.

Set up the Test Management tool Jira for managing the test cases and execution.

Organize test suites for both unit testing and integration testing and report bugs to development team in an Agile work flow Screeners

Screeners is a Standalone Web App (iOS compatible) that fetches content information from the DAM and provides an executive catalog for the sales team to present to partners & distributors.

Test the proxy files generated through Video logging, clipping and segmentation based on the technical attributes of the file including comparison with master file

Create and execute automation test suits and test cases to identify, and document bugs using Selenium

Develop and maintain QA testing standards and best practices while developing strong relationships with key partners / stakeholders within the business and technology groups

Develop a deep understanding of content authoring, content management technologies along with multi-lingual content strategies and localization

Create test cases to cover UAT functionality from Application Mockups, Business Requirements and Function Specifications documents

Analyze and Develop Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Scripts, Expected Test Results and Test Procedures from functional requirements for each module QA Tester (Mumbai, India) Team Size-9 2011 - 2014

Global Content Catalog (GCC)

The purpose of the Global Content Catalog (GCC) is to curate all organization-produced and acquired content into a committed goods repository, agnostic of bundling or grouping needed for downstream delivery. Content metadata is currently entered redundantly into multiple systems, often with no governance, making it challenging, if not impossible to tie together, from greenlight, to production, to package and delivery, to performance tracking. The system provides a unique global identifier, Content registration & ID assignment, a service to catalog that lists content hierarchically

Test creation of unique identifiers on creation of new franchise, movies, series, specials, seasons and episodes

Test the downstream integration with systems for scheduling the shows and maintaining the rights in rights management system

Perform system, functional, black box, UAT, and regression testing including backend testing of application using SQL, writing queries to confirm correctness of data entered via UI, and data manipulation

Ensure version control of all test objects developed and QA test environments used – Update QA test execution status as part of routine test status updates.

ALIAS

ALIAS is a Library Management System serving both digital and physical content. It is mainly used for ingesting new digital assets or physical assets information into ALIAS. It also has features like user group management, previewing digital files, creating clips or segments and grouping assets into collection for further usage or sharing with partners for airing and distribution.

Test Splitting digital files into small virtual clips using Video Logger tool and Viewing content in low resolution rendition

Test Ingest of New digital assets into archive storage and store metadata information about digital assets.

Develop and execute test cases for different Library releases and Unit testing and integration testing of use cases

Identify, log & track bugs using HP QC and work with developers to ensure delivery of defect free components

Manage bug tracking and generate weekly data release reports of tested components to meet milestone schedules

Maintain design documents & release notes

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