Tazimbanu Kolhar
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Email: ***********@*****.***
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https://github.com/tkolhar
Education:
M.Sc. Computer Science(Thesis) September 2016 –Feb 2019
Thunder Bay Ontario Canada
Lakehead University
M.Sc. Computer Science April 2008 - April 2010
Savitribai Phule Pune University
B.Sc. Computer Science April 2005 -April 2008
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Technical Summary:
Programming Languages: Python, Perl, Java, C#, JavaScript(jQuery), C, C++, Shell
Scripting, PowerShell Scripting, Prolog,
Operating System: Linux (Rhel6 and higher, Ubuntu 14.04 and higher, CentOS 7,
Fedora 19 and higher), Win2k3 64bit/32bit, Android (Oreo)
Virtualization: VMware Workstation, VMware Server, VMware vSphere ESXi, KVM-QEMU Cloud.
IDE: Visual Studio 2015, Eclipse, NetBeans, Emacs, Xcode.
Version Control: Git, SVN (Subversion)
Web framework: Django.
Defect Tracking Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA
Testing Frameworks: TestNG, Junit, Pytest, unittest, Selenium Webdriver, UI Automator, Espresso, Appium, BDD with Cucumber using Gherkin, UAT, Regression testing
Open Source Technologies: OpenStack, Apache Solr.
Configuration Management Tools: Puppet.
Continuous Integration and Build Tools: Jenkins and Gradle, Bamboo, Active Directory/LDAP setup, maven, ant
Packet Analyzers: Wireshark, Firebug, Fiddler
Markup Languages: XML, HTML.
Web Technologies: ApacheTomcat, JSON, IIS, REST-API, AJAX, CSS, HTTP, JSP, Servlets, Nodejs, Microservices
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite.
Strong at debuggingand troubleshooting (ex perfmon) the defects and fixing it.
Strong at monitoring performance of cpu and network using top, netstat, iostat, tcpdump, vmstat, ps, lsof, /proc to name a few.
Work Experience:
Systems Test Engineer in Digital14.com November 2019 – June 2020
Abu Dhabi
Development of tools, utilities, simulators in python for android devices on Ubuntu
Develop RESTful API’s for both the devices based on REST API Design rulebook. Use of Postman to test the api’s.
Software Development Engineer in Test April 2019 – September 2019
Ridecell Inc
San Francisco/Pune
Working on Android and iOS Apps for car sharing and ridesharing
Test Automation Framework development in Java and Python Appium for iOS and Android.
Using Postman to test REST API and automate further
App development in Android Studio and Xcode
Django used for web apps.
Test Automation Development Engineer September 2018 – December 2018
Blackberry Limited
Waterloo
Working test automation development on DTEK, Passwordkeeper apps which are
Security based applications supported on Blackberry Key One device.
Responsible for automation of DTEK application on Android. Experience in
Android, Espresso and UI Automator.
Java was used for development of test framework.
QA Test Automation Developer May 2017 – July 2017
edjuster Inc
Ottawa
Conducting scrums meetings and participating in scrum pokers for QA team.
Responsible for automation of E-xclaim’s Payment and Pricing Workflow Management enables automatic item classification for consistent and accurate calculations
https://github.com/tkolhar/SeleniumQA
Rest Assured plugin was used for api testing along with Java
Graduate Teaching Assistant September 2016–May 2017
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay
Grading and Marking Assignments of undergraduate students for below subjects.
oProgramming in C.
oComputer Architecture.
oWeb healthInformatics
Conducting and Assisting Professors with Lab.
Research project was coded in Python
Software Quality Assurance Engineer June 2016 - August 2016
Qualys, Inc
Pune
Worked on testing and automation of software like Splunk – a software that searches, monitors, and analyzes machine-generated big data via a web-style interface.
Install and setup test automation infrastructure for python unittest, resolve dependencies required for execution of tests.
Python and Perl was used to automate the infrastructure and installation.
Using Postman to test REST API and automate further
Software Quality Assurance Engineer March 2012 - May 2016
Red Hat, Inc
Pune
Worked on testing and automation of a SaaS based product Satellite6 - system management application developed by Red Hat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_(software)
UI Automation done using Selenium 2 WebDriver libraries – a library for Robot Framework.
RestFul API and CLI automation done using python unittest. TestNG/Junit Java.
The automation framework was written in Java and Python.
Configuring and deploying application and web servers such as Tomcat Apache.
Rest Assured plugin was used for api testing in Java.
Software Quality Assurance Engineer January 2012 - March 2012
Calsoft, Inc
Pune
Worked on testing and automation of Network Virtualization platform for client.
The automation was done using Perl scripting
Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer August 2010 –September 2011
Symantec
Pune
VxFS (VERITAS file system).
ohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas_File_System
oSymantec IM Manager.
Design, analyse and automate functional and non-functional test scenarios and prepare test strategies and test plans.
Configuring and deploying application and web servers such as IIS.
Worked with tools like Wireshark to gain practical knowledge about TCP/IP layers and packet tracing.
PowerShell scripting to setup the infrastructure and installation setup.
Automation framework developed using C#.NET.
Develop automation code for load/performance testing
Intern Developer March 2010 – August 2010
Symantec
Pune
Generating web interface for any Cli in a generic way.
Markup language used XML for writing configuration files.
Web application developed using Django – which uses web services platform XML + HTTP.
Web interface developed using CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax/JSON, and SOAP.
Additional Qualifications:
RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator) – Certificate No: 120-169-032
Relevant Soft Skills:
Team Player and Collaborator.
Excellent time and task management skills and multitasking skills.
Excellent communication skills and proficient in English, Hindi, and basic French knowledge.
Research Work in Fall Semester:
Research objective was to reduce de-duplication and enable search operations
on swift storage similar to Cepha Object Store.
Setup OpenStack as a single node on CentOS.
Developed the software in Python:https://github.com/tkolhar/OpenStack_Search_Solr