HARSHAL PADHYAR – Quality Assurance Engineer

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Diligent QA Engineer with 4 years of professional IT experience developing and testing web-based, desktop-based applications, APIs and hardware features. Excellent in troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities including software and hardware-based issues, Operating System.

Experience in developing test automation frameworks, creating test reports and test project management.

Skills:

Excellent ability to troubleshooting, problem solving and providing innovative ideas for Automation and Business.

Experience in networking and software, hardware configuration management skills, Server, VMs and lab maintenance and configuration. (Azure Stirage Infrastructure) Experienced in creating Test case, plan, automation and report. Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC and work methodologies – Agile and Waterfall. Experience in working on all the testing types and levels including Functional, Non- functional, Performance, UI, Security, Accessibility, Compatibility, Stress, Load, Smoke & Sanity, Network Testing, API, integration testing, system, acceptance, white box and black box testing.

Programming and scripting languages: Java, C#, .NET, OOPS, SQL, Html, CSS, Java Script, PowerShell.

Testing tools and Frameworks– Selenium, SOAP, HP ALM, QTP, Appium, Microsoft Internal Tools - wtt, xtestportal, MTM, Visual Studio, CUCUMBER, TestNG, JMeter, META, and Microsoft Internal Frameworks.

Project Management Tools - JIRA, Dev Rally, Microsoft Test Management, Microsoft VSO, Team Foundation Server.

Reporting and other tools – PowerBI, MsSQL, KUSTO, Adobe AEM, FcShell, DCM Explorer, CRM, FcClient,

Experience in customer handling and directly interacting with stake holders. Work History:

Test Engineer, Microsoft, Redmond, WA September 2018 – Current Azure Storage (xStore, xScenarios)

Responsibilities:

Develop Test scenarios, Test cases, Test procedures, Test reports and document Manual and Automation test results.

Execution of Test Cases in different environments (test, pre-prod, and production).

Develop automation test scripts using PowerShell.

Automate the Azure Infrastructure, Services & API testing using C#

Update and maintain the existing PowerShell scripts according to new features/ requirement to automate the operation on clusters, tenants and nodes (servers).

Perform load testing while adding new features to the Azure portal and Azure storage.

Performance testing on Azure Servers after introducing new hardware features, components, version.

Analyse the issue if the node(server) is down and recover using FcShell, FcClient and DCM explorer tools.

Create and execute PowerShell scripts to deploy traffic & test Staging and Canary builds to ensure 100% readiness before moving into production environment.

Work with developers to update, resolve and track bug/defect status.

Diagnosis & Debug of complex Azure services.

Create reports using PowerBI and Kusto to analyse the status of overall azure storage cluster health.

Analyse logs, compute the issue and address it to concern team. Environment: Azure Storage, PowerShell, FcShell, SQL, KUSTO, C#, FcClient, Azure Services, PowerBi

SDET, Microsoft, Redmond, WA October 2016 – September 2018 MSMIT (Client Imaging, Client Testing)

Responsibilities:

Build and test Operating System update packages for Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows Servers using C#, ASP .NET.

Install and configure computer hardware operating systems and applications

Monitor and maintain lab, network system in lab, virtual machines and test infrastructure management

Troubleshoot Operating System, servers and networks issues, diagnosis and solve hardware issues and software issues

Take ownership of technical issues, and work with development teams to resolve more advanced issues when necessary

Write azure web APIs and scripts to upload driver data to Azure storage accounts Create and maintain Microsoft azure resources, subscription management, ensuring availability of the data so that there is no downtime for the build

Testing and automating the Operating System security packages

Execute full test lifecycle applying processes and metrics to deliver reliable and secure applications.

Prepare new Power BI dashboards using Microsoft Power BI tool, which requires expertise in Power BI concepts and SQL query language

Data analysis using the Power BI dashboards which in turn helps in planning new features and usage of the existing builds usage

Develop tools that help to reduce the time and increase efficiency using C#, and PowerShell scripting

Environment: C#, ASP .NET, PowerShell, WTT, SQL Server Management, Java Script, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Team Management (MTM), Azure, Perf Mon, KVM, Visual Studio, Agile.

Software Test Engineer, T-Mobile, Bothell, WA Aug2015 –Oct2016

One Time Payment

Device Lifecycle Management

On Device fulfilment.

Mezzo - BOOMI Replacement

Responsibilities:

Understanding the requirements and preparing the test plan accordingly.

Creating test data (Dummy user accounts)

Preparing the test cases according User stories to and Executing test cases as per requirement.

Responsible for Smoke testing, sanity testing, functionality testing, UI Testing, Performance testing manually.

Performing Load testing and stress testing.

Performed Authoring in AEM CQ Content management tool.

Writing automation scripts in java using selenium for UI and functionality of web page.

Using HP QC to raise request for any requirements and to raise issues.

Using Cucumber for acceptance testing.

Performing cross browser testing, mobile chrome emulators for mobile web testing.

Assisting the developers to closure the defects.

Using Rally Dev defect management tool for writing test cases and to post defects.

Use of SOAP UI to find request and response of the pages.

Attending daily scrum meetings.

Working in Agile.

Environment: Automation Testing, Adobe CQ, CSS, HTML, Java Script, Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber, TestNG, CI-CD, Jenkins, Rally Dev, HP Quality Centre, BOOMI, Agile. QA Engineer.

Neiman Marcus, Irvine, Texas March2015-Aug 2015

Responsibilities:

Reviewing Project Requirements, IT Designed Documents, and prepared Test Plans.

Review and modify test cases for test scenarios.

Writing automation scripts in java using selenium.

Using TestNG as an automation test framework.

Performing manual testing to test the functionalities based on the test cases and coordinating with development team in fixing the issues.

Analysing test specifications and written Manual Test Cases.

Performing Automation Testing on the website.

Writing SQL Queries to retrieve data from database and performing Database Testing.

Involvement in the process of automation test using QTP with senior tester/lead and developing the scripts.

Understanding and working with the teams working on mobile app testing. (Appium)

Involvement in Defect Reporting Meetings on daily basis.

Worked in waterfall

Environment: Manual Testing, Selenium, QTP, JAVA, Windows XP, JIRA, GIT, IE, Mobile App Testing, waterfall.

Software Test Engineer, Jan2012 - March 13

Sofsyst Software and Solutions, Nashik India.

Responsibilities:

Understanding the client Requirements and projects Functionalities.

Preparing and Execution of test cases as per requirement.

Responsible for smoke testing, Functionality testing and UI testing

Responsible for running test cases and posting defects.

Writing SQL queries to retrieve the data and to performing database testing.

Writing and executing the Test Cases.

Working closely with senior developers in the team.

Submission of daily reports to lead.

Involvement in the learning process of various tool like version control tool, automation testing tool, bug tracking tool and SDLC etc.

Environment: Eclipse, OOPS, JAVA, Java Script, HTML, CSS, Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, Oracle9i, manual testing, Selenium, SDLC, Agile. Education:

Master of Science: Computer Science, 2014 GPA – 3.6 Texas A&M University, Kingsville, Texas,

Projects

Degraded Image Improvement Using Image Binarization. Aug 2014- Dec 2014 Description: The project was based on Image Processing Neural Network concept. It was about improving the image quality of a degraded image (old/ancient texts). Environment: Eclipse, Java, HTML, CSS, Java script, SQL, Oracle 10g, Manual Testing, Microsoft Office, Windows, Linux(Ubuntu), Team Viewer. Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering, 2011 Percentage: 64% Pune University, India

Projects

Personal Authentication Using Finger Knuckle Surface. Aug 2010– May 2011 Description: This project was based on Image Processing Neural Network concept. The project was about security feature providing security and authentication using human finger knuckle surface which defers from a person to person same as fingerprints. Environment: C#, VB .net, Visual Studio-2010, Manual Testing, Windows, UML Diagrams, waterfall methodology.

Achievements:

Awarded by first prize for bachelor’s project, Mumbai University. - 2010-2011

Honoured as Research Level Project in MET COE, Pune University- 2010-2011

Rewarded by Mindtree Project Manager as employee of the quarter- 2018

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