Sandeep Raj Sudarshan Pothula

ada1kf@r.postjobfree.com Cell:469-***-**** 709 Scenic Dr, Ewing, NJ -08628.

EDUCATION:

University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, Texas- GPA: 3.7 Aug 2016-May 2018

Master of Science in Computer Science.

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU) Hyderabad, India Apr 2008-June 2012

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

TECHNOLOGY PROFICIENCY:

Languages : Java, SQL, C#, Python, JavaScript, Linux Scripting.

Distributed Computing : Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, Spark, Kafka, HBase.

Cloud Computing : Amazon Web Services - EC2, EMR, Mobile hub, S3, DynamoDB

Databases : Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB

Tools/framework : Git, XCode, Jupyter Notebook, Selenium, HP QC, UFT 12.0, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG,

Selenium IDE, JUnit, Cucumber, SoapUI.

Mobile Platform : IOS(Swift)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Bank of America -Merrill Lynch, NJ, USA – Quality Test Lead. July 2018 - Present

Working on Trading application - managing the process among various trading flows, routing to execution engines.

Experienced in FIX messaging and Routing logics.

Functional testing application for routing orders; using Agile methodologies.

Expertise in gathering business requirement to test script.

Expertise in writing test plan and creating traceability matrix.

Good at UFT 12.0 tool for automating various business flows

Good at Audit related validations such as OATS/UNITY/HOTS/DMA flows.

Good at Trade booking and Trade confirmation validations

Expertise in validating Fix messages to routing engines

Used HP QC for defect tracking and rally for task tracking

Coordinating between Onsite and Offshore.

Good at web based, Data based and backend application validations.

Expertise in Banking domain – Trading application working on various product groups.

Developed Test Scripts to implement Test Cases, Test Scenarios, and features for BDD (Behavior Driven Development), TDD (Test Driven Development) using Cucumber

Created Test Scripts in SOAP UI for Testing Web Services.

Performed cross browser testing on different Operating Systems like Windows, Linux and Mac and on different browsers like Internet explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera.

Regression testing was performed after each build release of the application and updated the Scripts by executing the Regression suites built using Selenium and approve for regression suite

Performed back end testing by writing and executing SQL queries to validate that data is being populated in appropriate tables and manually verify the correctness of the data with front-end values.

Performed agile testing, review the stories and participated in Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning and Release Planning meeting and used Rally Tool.

Participated in peer review with team and developers to review test cases/test scripts.

Performed System, Integration, Smoke, Sanity, Functional, End to End, Positive and Negative and monitored the Behavior of the applications during different phases of testing using testing methodologies

Effectively involved in Defects logging, tracking and managing Defect Life Cycles using HP Quality Center and Rally

Involved in CI/CD using Horizon and Litmus tools, by loading scripts from Bit Bucket.

Tata Consultancy Services, System Engineer, Hyderabad, India Dec 2012 - July 2016

Evaluated software quality and performance for trading application of client- Bank of America.

Performed code enhancements for existing application; technology used C#, Git

Performed various testing activities from requirement gathering to project delivery.

Developed and Executed Test Scripts using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, analysed Test Results.

Involved in preparing test cases using Selenium Web driver to validate all UI components, Popups, Browser navigations, Mouse Movements.

Used Appium for mobile testing.

Performed Functional testing as per user stories and also performed Integration Testing &System Testing using Selenium WebDriver automation scripts.

Used AutoIt, Robot API tools in automation for Mouse movements, Keystrokes, Window control manipulations and print pop-ups which is not possible using selenium WebDriver.

Ability to perform Compatibility testing with different browsers like Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari and with different operating systems like Windows, Android, Mac OS.

Ability to connect with the Database to execute SQL statements for validating data in the data table (Database testing). Experienced in using Apache POI to read the data from external sources in order to feed locators into the test script.

Performed Data driven testing to validate the components displayed on the website using Selenium

Performed Parallel and Cross Browser testing on different browsers like Internet Explorer, Chrome, Safari and Firefox where multiple tests were run at the same time.

Took the Application Screenshots and copied the images whenever exceptions occurred and also at important checkpoints of application execution.

Designed and Developed test automation Artifacts (scripts, functions, scenarios, processes) for simple to complex automated testing situations using various tools like Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG and XPath.

Used Hybrid, Keyword/Data Driven Framework and extracted data from external Excel files using Apache POI and loaded into the variables in the scripted code.

Configured the Test Cases to receive input Test Data Sets for the corresponding test cases using TestNG Data Provider Annotation.

Managed individual sprints user stories and tasks using Rally as tracking tool

Used FireBug, FirePath to debug, edit and locate the objects based on ID, Name, XPath, CssSelector, Link, Partial Link, Attributes and Tags

Managed the framework dependency jars using Maven.

Customized Selenium API to suit in testing environment.

Involved in developing feature files using Cucumber in JUnit.

Maintained the Selenium & Java Automation Code and resources in source controls like SVN, Jenkins for improvements and new features.

Performed black box testing, database testing, and web-based testing on several test phases. Developed components for each transaction used in the test script or scenario by using Selenium.

•Involved in Web services testing using SOAPUI Tool. Validated request and response XML. Added assertions to validate the XML in Web services SOAP and RESTFUL service.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Mobile App to Control LED Lights via Bluetooth-(CMVision):

Developed IoT based Mobile application, for Bluetooth module integrated into Led lights (CSR1011 module)

Developed using Swift language with frameworks- Core Bluetooth, AWS Core, UIKit etc.

Integrated AWS cloud services (Mobile Hub) to store device information and various activities of the device.

Documented Requirements analysis, Design analysis and implementation details.

Implemented real time project development, design phases and performed end- to- end testing to attain robustness.

Movie Recommendation- Using MovieLens Datasets

Developed a recommendation algorithm using collaborative and content filtering techniques to recommend movies to users based on customer movie ratings and movie genre preferences using the Hadoop services

Performed feature detection by Data cleaning, Data pre-processing and Data representation

Learned and applied Supervised Machine Learning algorithms to predict and analyse accuracy of the model.

Designed graphs using plotly to depict the obtained results for the recommendation system.

Developed the system using Python (NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn), MLlib, Spark and Hadoop.

Task Management APP – iOS application

Developed an iOS application which includes various screens such as Task management, Wallet and Financial records.

Developed using Objective-C and SQLite.

Implemented MVC architecture to obtain reusability of the code.

Designed the layouts such that apps work across all the IOS devices (iPhone and Tablets).

About Me:

Good collaboration and communication skills.

Quick learner and a team player.

Open to accept challenges related to delivery.

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