ABDUL SAIF BABU
A result oriented professional with 7.5+ years of expertise in RPA development, automation testing and DevOps. Built automation frameworks, tools, innovative solutions in all spaces from infrastructure to delivery. Hands-on exp. on automation of platform, UI, API, BPA, RPA and ECM on various platforms. Worked in all phases of SDLC Agile scrum and waterfall methodologies PHONE: +1-571-***-**** EMAIL: ********.**@*****.*** LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdul-saif-babu-132629b4 WORK EXPERIENCE
Rocket Software, Ashburn VA 09/05/2022–till date
Project: HyperAutomation platform development – Mobius, Zenith, Automation next Quality Engineer III
Lead QA for infrastructure validation team in hyper-automation products, containerized deployments in onprem
(Win, Linux) and cloud for various kubernetes flavours (k3d, rosa, crc, okd, eks)
Responsible for ensuring quality of infrastructure, testing, promoting service images, providing quality signoff and handing the platform over to product teams
Developed deployment validation tool packaged into product to track microservice k8s deployment pods
Pipeline scripts development/maintenance using groovy, cron job for automated deployments using Argo CD, Jenkins.
Creation of AWS infrastructure & validation using terraform/terratest
Hands-on with multiple AWS services such as EKS, Lambda, ECR, RDS, S3, EFS, VPC etc
Verifying and debugging k8s pods and services, helm deployments
Backlog refinement, planning, estimation of development stories/tasks
Reporting issues in JIRA
Development of new features/bugfixes in infrastructure code using bash/python and committing to Bit Bucket repositories
Developed Infrastructure regression automation framework from scratch using python/open source RPA technologies
Saved 70% of man hours by building automated deployment pipelines on various DB/OS platforms using Jenkins
Maintaining product platform documentation for all Kubernetes providers and sharing with stakeholders SKILLS:
Automation: Web (BDD, TDD), REST & CMIS REST API, Postman-Newman, IAC -Terraform, Terratest RPA: Automation Anywhere, opensource RPA App platforms: Guidewire, Appian Containers: Docker, Kubernetes Cloud: AWS, OpenText Cloud Languages: Java, Python, Go, vbscript DevOps: Jenkins, Maven, ArgoCD, vmware, BitBucket
Project management: Jira, Jama, VersionOne, OTTR, HP ALM CERTIFICATIONS: RPA: AA- Advanced, AINS 21 P&C, ISTQB, GitOps for Argo REFERENCE LINKS: https://botstore.automationanywhere.com/vendor/ssbots/, https://github.com/saifsahil3/ RPA DEVELOPER &
AUTOMATION QA
Providing demos on new development items to stakeholders, PMs
Working experience in Kanban, Agile methodologies OpenText 26/11/2020–29/4/2022
Projects: ECM Connectors (SharePoint, Archive Center), BIRT Server Sr. Automation QA Engineer
Leading a team of 3 quality engineers. Preparing test plan, test strategy to meet the timelines of each sprint, release cycles
Handled ownership of end to end product testing and providing QA signoff for product
Analyzing the incidents reported on product functionality, debugging and assigning to right development team
Worked on multiple products in Analytics domain – MBIR, MTM Studio
Saved 40 hrs(each sprint) by developing CMIS API automation suite with Java to test SharePoint connectors integration for cloud and onprem
Integration testing of Azure AD with OTDS and verifying user authorization and authentication to ECM connectors
Development of OTIC ECM automation scripts to validate document/folders hierarchy, content, metadata
Crawling data from major ECM repositories and validating the persistence of data into Databases
Development, execution of load and endurance performance test scripts to ensure stability of product is maintained
Client and server-side monitoring using nmon, Setting up graylog from scratch to collect logs from Jenkins automation nodes
Deployment and validation of products in onprem(win, linux) and cloud(AWS, OTK) using docker images on Kubernetes cluster
Improved automation selenium and cypress web/ API scripts test coverage from 62% to 88% and integrated with Jenkins CI CD pipeline for scheduled smoke, regression tests
Deployment and integration validation for SharePoint with OAuth2, SSO authentication (OTDS)
Maintaining product documentation and providing demo to PMs GAC Dubai Nov 2020–Feb 2021
Project: Migration to Appian platform
Sr. QA Engineer
Authoring tests for user-stories, loading data with APIs, validating tests on Appian platform
In-sprint web automation test suite development and execution using Cucumber based BDD.
Providing demo to PMOs on newly developed functional flows, automation scripts development for each sprint
Involved in brainstorming sessions with PMOs, other stake holders, backlog refinement
Active involvement in all agile activities from sprint grooming to retrospection Deloitte US offices of India 3/12/2018–10/30/2020
Projects: US state project in Health care domain
Lead RPA Developer
Worked as lead RPA Developer and created, deployed automation bots that saved 80% of manual efforts and cleared 83% backlog cases for US federal Healthcare.
Gathering requirements from JIRA, analyzing business process flows in visio, development of RPA bots, performing RCA and fixing bugs and committing changes to AA SVN
Performing peer reviews and providing production support
Integration of RPA bot scripts with vbscripts/Javascripts wherever required
Desktop automation to run and track document processing batch job /OCR integration to validate the output documents
Hands on experience with deployment of tasks to production control room, version control and scheduling bots.
Saved 35 hrs/month by building multiple automation solutions such as monthly bot processing reports, data analytics reports (for PMO), backlog slips reports and publishing ppt by integrating macro vba, vbscript technologies
Developed inhouse automation tools such as logger framework for Automation anywhere, JAMA auto test execution suite using nodejs library newman.
Developed various automation proof of concepts that include business process automation including RPA AA, python, OCR technologies
Worked as Automation developer with Selenium Java Keyword driven framework to automate web applications test suites
Improved web automation test coverage from 60% to 85% Capgemini 26/11/2015-23/11/2018
Projects: CNA - Claim Financials, Policy center integration, Claim center version upgrade Guidewire Automation & Functional QA
Worked as SME - Guidewire Claimcenter 8 for a major US Insurance provider in Property and Casualty
Deep expertise in FNOL, exposures and financials, plan of action, policy integration, litigation, negotiation, workplan, services, contacts and history etc
Hands-on with validating reinsurance, administration, running batches, business rules, loading activity patterns, coverages and limits, users and groups, queues, regions, assignment rules, monitoring workflows and message queues
Modifying script parameters, import export data and verifying tests
Documents integration with third-party software in Claim - documents section
Verifying policies upstream integration from Policy center, TAP systems into ClaimCenter
Worked on Guidewire financials to enable payments upgrade through Financials section of Claimcenter, involving various third-party integrations
Validation of ETL data flow from upstream sources, verification in Guidewire and passing the data to downstreams
Development, stabilization & execution of selenium test scripts for in-sprint automation
Creating custom methods for reusability/ optimization for Guidewire claim center web application
Involved in all phases of project which includes Requirement analysis, designing test cases, execution of user stories, participating in scrum calls, closure of sprint and retrospection.
Tracking of User stories and logging Defects through VersionOne/ Team Track project management tool
Worked on API testing using SOAP UI, ETL testing along with functional Guidewire configuration testing EDUCATION
UG - Bachelor of Technology June 2011 – May 2015
B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering Gudlavalleru Engineering College, affliated to JNTU Kakinada ACHIEVEMENTS
Won Nayisoch, Rising star, Applause, Spot, Extra mile and other awards for contributions to delivery and for providing innovative solutions
Published RPA bots on Automation Anywhere Bot Store
Developed and published freeware automation flows for Auto Job applier, truecaller search, Switch car mode, Auto Whatsapp messages on ‘Automate’ mobile app community with more than 500 downloads
Finalist of Ideathon competition for creating Virtual Assistant device based on Google Virtual assistant
Won 1st prize for a visual presentation on Blockchain
Created various IOT/ML projects using Python and Arduino/Raspberry pi
Created and built automation on various requirements and platforms TECHNICAL SKILLS
QA Skills RPA Development, Automation (Selenium, REST API, CMIS), ECM, Platform testing(Docker, Kubernetes, Terratest), ETL testing, Performance testing, Guidewire & Appian functional testing Business Unit Analytics, US Insurance P&C, US Govt. Public Services, Shipping Test Data Management tool QC/ALM, Version One, TeamTrack, JIRA, Jama, OTTR Tools
Guidewire Claim Center 8.0, Policy Center 8.0, SQL Developer, OT Integration Services, MTM Studio, Appian
Programming/ DB Markup Languages Java, Python, Golang /MySQL, Oracle SQL, PostgreSQL Automation Tools
RPA – pywinauto, Robot Framework, Automation Anywhere(AA v11.3, A2019)
Platform/IAC – Terraform, Terratest, ArgoCD, Jenkins Web/Mobile - Selenium webdriver(testng, BDD, TDD), Cypress, pytest, Appium
Others - Postman, Rest Assured, Kubernetes, UFT, Jmeter, OT Integration Center v16.6
STRENGTHS
Confident
Good Communication Skills
Ability to grasp swiftly
ABDUL SAIF BABU