Engineer Quality

VINOTH KUMAR RAVICHANDRAN

Seattle, Washington, USA Ph: 980-***-**** ***************@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/vkr2020 Passionate quality lead defining product test strategy, designing scalable test solutions for complex scenarios with emphasis on extensible test automation. Autonomous contributor on diverse aspects of automation including set top box, mobile surfaces, web services, GUI. A great influencer to implant quality mindset for team members thereby avail collaborative testing effort to drive engineering to ensure code, components, and features tested at the appropriate level. Amazon Inc Seattle WA, USA

Quality Assurance Engineer Feb 2019 – Present

Quality owner for synchronization of annotations and reading positions across reading surfaces of Kindle. Worked on technologies including Java, Appium to establish end-to-end automation coverage implemented on various surfaces including iOS, Android and FireOS. Influenced code health and hygiene through automation of code quality metrics using AWS Quicksight. Reused automated code review checklist to package underlying quality processes as part of base component updates.

Reduced operational overhead to release new features by 72 person days annually, a savings of 17% o Migrated core services pipelines to full Continuous Deployment (CD) that supported 80+ deployments annually o Owned the project plan, defined the success criteria, and identified gaps to enable full CD support o Improved unit test coverage by 35%, integration test coverage by 47%, and reduced time to detect an issue by 15% o Instituted automated processes to improve operational excellence – e.g., auto-cut tickets to catch deployment failures, monitors/alarms on test coverage etc.

Improved time to set up and run end-to-end tests for cross-platform use-cases by 63% (from 4 to 1.5 days)

Enhanced code review quality by 7% YOY through automated data driven code review checklist

Mentored junior engineers, defined QA related goals/roadmap, and owned inputs into defining multi-year strategic vision for the organization

Dish Technologies / Echostar Technologies LLC Superior CO, USA Senior Engineer – Software Test May 2014 – Feb 2019 During my 5 years, I owned the integration test coverage automation using Parasoft SOATest for web services created and maintained by widely used consumer application on web and mobile. Responsible for quality for downlinked data files utilized by set top box through Jenkins CD pipeline workflow validations implementing file validations using Python and set top box test automation prior to satellite uplink. Mentored and enabled functional testers contribution to automated execution and test design workflow preparation through modular test framework using Ruby, Python. Performed comprehensive performance testing for API’s and volume test for elastic search queries from voice remote of set top box.

Reutilized special labor cost by 23% (saving of 92 days) for other quality initiatives

Reduced manual testing time by 90% (from 2.5 days to 2 hours per iteration) through improved integration test coverage

Slashed cloud infrastructure costs by 34% (overall savings of 92K) with no impact performance of underlying web services Infosys Ltd Global - Charlotte NC, USA and Chennai, India Technical Test Lead Jul 2004 – May 2014

During my 10 years tenure, my responsibilities includes defining requirements traceability, test planning, design, identify and automate suitable GUI tests and manage parallel test execution through distributed batch runner on various web browsers. Designed test to cater all payment GUI scenarios (350 test cases). Captured intricate test metrics from HP ALM and supported test management decisions on estimation. Test execution reporting simple enough to enable automated report analysis performed by non-technical team member

EDUCATION

Masters of Computer Applications - The ICFAI University, India 2008 Bachelor of Science (Mathematics) – Loyola College, Chennai 2004 SPONSORSHIP

Yes, currently on H1B (valid until Jan 2022) with Approved I-140 TECHNICAL SKILLS

Methodologies: Scaled Agile, Agile & Waterfall

Tools: STB-Tester, Parasoft SOATest, Jenkins, AWS, Celery, GitHub, IntelliJ, RubyMine, Selenium, HP ALM & UFT, MSOffice

Databases: MySQL, Oracle

Languages: Python, Java, Ruby

Operating System: OSX, Linux and Windows

Client Side: HTML, CSS, JSON & XML

Certifications: Certified Software Tester by QAI

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