Validation Engineer Senior Product

SWATHI KEDARAI KARTHIKEYAN

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Broomfield, CO 80023 linkedin.com/in/swathi-karthikeyan-8b7840105 ***********@*****.*** https://github.com/swaprabhu Senior Product Validation Engineer

SUMMARY

A highly skilled and motivated Validation/Test automation professional with over 5 years of experience in the industry. Proven ability to design, plan, develop scripts and execute validation projects with a focus on quality and compliance. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, coupled with strong technical knowledge of writing scripts and developing automation testing of Windows/Linux-based software applications. Effective communicator with strong attention to accuracy and excellent teamwork abilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

RDBMS Oracle 11g, Teradata 12/13.10/14, MS SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Protocol SSD SATA, NVMe Protocol

ETL IBM Datastage 7.5/8.1/8.5/8.7, Informatica Powercenter 9.6.1, Ab Initio Other Software

Tools

Jenkins, ansible-playbooks, Confluence, JIRA, Artifactory, Git, Bitbucket, Splunk, Jupyter Notebook, Virtual Machine, Microsoft Office Suite and Teams, Toad, Winscp, Putty, HP ALM, Tidal, Control M, Package Managers like YUM, PIP, DNF

Language Python, Shell scripting, SQL, HTML, Javascript, CSS OS/Environment Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora), Unix, Windows Technologies AWS (EC2, S3, Redshift), Tableau, Power BI, Data Analysis Libraries

(Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, SciKit, Plotly) EXPERIENCE

Micron Technology, Inc - Senior Product Validation Engineer 12/2021 – 02/2023

● Design and develop automated tests for NVMe SSD products to ensure their performance, reliability, and compatibility with various systems by using Python and shell scripts.

● Evaluate and recommend test tools and methodologies to increase test coverage, efficiency, and quality.

● Setting up and configuring Jenkins servers and pipelines for the custom scripts and integrating Jenkins with other tools such as Bitbucket, Artifactory, and internally developed tools for executing test scripts.

● Evaluate and recommend test tools and methodologies to increase test coverage, efficiency, and quality.

● Analyze test results, and report bugs and failures. Work with development teams to resolve issues and ensure timely product releases.

● Integrate the manual test results in the internal tool using Python API.

● Developed ansible playbooks for installing packages, creating directories, copying files, and running commands on targeted systems where the test scripts run for testing NVMe drives.

● Continuously report the validation results to upper management to provide insight into the product's performance and reliability for each Firmware release.

● Continuously monitor industry trends and advancements in NVMe SSD technology to identify new testing requirements and opportunities for improvement.

● Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with other validation teams to share knowledge and best practices.

Cognizant Technology Solution India Ltd - Programmer Analyst 04/2013 – 01/2016

Project: O2 Telefonica

● Developed end-to-end test automation and reporting using Python and Tableau.

● Developed and maintained Regression test Automation using Python to validate data integration in SQL databases running on CentOS.

● Developed several shell scripts to automate build process and automated jobs.

● Validating data includes writing good test plan, automating the automatable tests in Python mostly command line interface.

● Identified, prepared the test data and loaded it into Informatica (ETL tool).

● Used Python scripts and Linux servers to run automated jobs to collect logs.

● Used Agile methodology and handled high volume enterprise data effectively with Teradata.

● Hands on experience in handling data from various source systems such as Flat Files, XML, JSON, Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2, Teradata and Excel Files

● Performed operational manual documentation for future reference.

● Integration Testing, System Testing, Regression, Functional Testing, ETL Testing, and UAT. Anna University – Chennai – BS in Information Technology 08/2008 – 05/2012

Graduate Coursework:

● Data Mining and Data Warehousing; Computer architecture; Data Structures and Algorithms; System Software; Operating Systems; Database Management Systems; Software Engineering; Computer Networks; Information Security; Object-Oriented Programming; Software Testing.

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