SDET Lead

V RAMA PRASADA REDDY

Phone: +1-980-***-**** / E-Mail: ****.********@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramavreddy/

Test Lead/Tech Lead/SDET/Test Manager/Associate Project Manager Professional:

Offering over 17+ years of rich experience in Test Technical (Automation & Manual Testing), Test Project Management, Quality Assurance and Pre-Sales Operations across web/ Mobile Applications domains.

Industry Preference: Telecom Billing (EAI, Revenue Assurance, Rating all BSS modules) /Telecom OSS/Telecom CRM, Web, Mobile applications across domains.

Professional Overview

Rich professional exposure in Testing (Automation & Manual) using various tools / technologies; gained significant experience of working across varied domains.

Strong acumen in end-to-end management of Testing Projects (SDLC / STLC) thereby ensuring smooth delivery of all projects well within the given time, cost and quality parameters.

Resourceful in administering Testing projects with onsite / offshore model and agile & process-oriented methodologies of managing end-to-end implementation with hands-on experience in Telecom Billing / CRM / BSS & OSS products.

Insightful overseas exposure of working for prestigious clients like Airtel, Etisalat, Bravo, Clearwire, Nextel Partners, STC & Mobistar across USA, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Belgium & China.

Proficient in test plan formulation & execution involving requirement gathering, creation of test scenarios and test cases, tracking of execution against the plan during the testing phase and managing defects from inception to resolution.

Hands-on developing various Automation Test Frameworks using Protractor, Node.js, Mocha, Jasmine, Selenium & TestNG & Cucumber &maven like Modular Framework, Data Driven Framework, Page Object Model Framework, BDD and TDD using Karma and Hybrid Framework.

Well conversant with Test Factory model to implement working Core and Flex team model in order to provide Testing as a service (TAAS).

An enterprising leader & effective communicator with excellent presentation, relationship management, analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.

Professional Certifications

SAFe4 SA (Agilest) (Member of Scaled Agile) - Expired

CSM Certified I.e. Certified Scrum Master (Agile Alliance Member) - Expired

PMP Certified (PMI Member) - Expired

CMST (Certified Manager of Software Testing) from Software Certifications administered by QAI - Expired

ITIL V3 Foundation Certified - Expired

Advanced Certificate in Software Engineering (ACSE) from IBM - Active

IT Skills

Testing Purview:

OOPS, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, Python 3.6 and 2.7 and Eclipse

ETL testing, SIT Testing, Interface Testing, Backend SQL Testing, Mobile App testing using WDIO using Appium on labs, Browser stack. Docker and Microservices testing, XCSUI Test, XCode, IOS and Android testing. IOS based on SWIFT

Rest Assured, Protractor, WDIO, Jasmine, Mocha, Cucumber, Cypress, Angular JS, Node.js for Single Page technology testing, Postman, Locator, Xpath, git, gitlab

JavaScript, Core Java, Cucumber, Sauce Labs, JMeter

Data Base Testing

Telecom BSS testing

Rally Tool, ALM, qtest, Tosca, Jira Tool

Robot framework using python and CI/CD pipelines using docker on gitlab and aws cloud.

Quality Purview:

Test Estimation

PMP

ITIL Foundation Certification

CMST, CSTE, CAST

ISTQB

Agile Foundation & Scrum Concepts

Employment Scan

Dec’2021- to Till Date T Mobile,Charlotte, NC, USA as Domain Test Lead

May’2021-to Sep’2021 Comcast, Charlotte NC,Tech Lead

Oct’2016 –Feb’2021 QMinds, Bangalore as Test Manager

May’13 – Sep’16 Ericsson, Bangalore as Test Manager

Dec’09 – Jul’12 Huawei Technologies India Pvt.Ltd., Bangalore as Associate Project Manager

Jan’07 – Nov’09 Nest TechNet, Pune as Senior Test Lead

Feb’04 – Dec’06 Soho India, Pune as Test Lead

Jan’03 – Dec’04 Infosys, Bangalore as Software Engineer

Key Result Areas:

Led Testing Service Projects of TAAS OSS Programs to ensure that the testing was appropriate.

Maintained Test Dashboard to assess the health of testing project; estimated test through Test Point, PERT, CPM, Activity and Test Case based Estimation along with Wideband Delphi Method.

As Test Manager, tracked business requirements of the client and managed these business requirements testing in the form of Traceability Matrix.

Developed & maintained standards & processes for all phases of telecom testing that align to the overall strategies and ensuring that the most cost effective & appropriate IT risk-based testing solutions are developed

Collaborated with Developers, Programmers, Project Managers and Clients to understand the scope of each feature, impact areas and technical complications that need to be considered while writing test cases.

Monitored testing activities to ensure the quality & functionality of assigned systems; ensured timely & accurate test communication with Development Leads, Project Manager, Vendors and Senior Management throughout the project.

Maintained Process, Product, Project & Organizational metrics along with DQI to measure KPI and apply techniques like Pareto Analysis, 80/20 Rule, Fish Bone Diagrams and Static Process Control on these metrics to improve productivity.

As part of Test Factory Model, encouraged people to become core team through mentoring, training, recognition, problem resolution, fair appraisals and finding ways & means to increase their efficacy and effectiveness, etc.

Ensured communication management through different means of DSR, WSR and MSR through Rally tool by way of daily standup calls, story boards, etc.

Notable Highlights

Successfully managed RFPs & Pricing of test project services in the range of half to 10 Million dollars by preparing responses based on Agile Methodologies using offshore & onsite models for testing solutions.

Pivotal in designing & implementing test strategies for different aspects of testing involving BI Test, End-to-End Test, System Test, FAT, SIT, V&P, UAT and OAT.

Efficiently created the Quality Gate Development process & procedures; deployed short and long-term Quality Improvement Programs such as IWP, DQI and ECOE initiatives for estimation methodologies.

Instrumental in developing the Test Automation & Metrics Approach based on Test Director Implementation which enabled test effectiveness growth and cost reduction of 12%, Agile CIIT processes through careful testing in order to maximize the benefit of business investments in IT initiatives.

Essayed a key role in building, developing & maintaining a new automated regression testing environment leading to the highest ROI across TAAS team.

Conducted corporate trainings for test solutions and provided corporate trainings on selenium to Capgemini, Mumbai.

Acted as a part of Testing COE and successfully managed test proposals & pre-sales activities; also did document management through Share point.

Contributed significantly in ensuring adherence to quality norms throughout the implementation process by way of proper Measurement and Metrics Dashboard to report to Senior Management.

Implemented CMST methodologies involving test preparation, test data preparation, Offshore/Onsite environments links & connectivity, applying different test case development methodologies as per standards (Test case development techniques for White Box, Black Box and Grey Box Testing like positive flows, alternate flows and error flows).

Trainings

MS Project Trained

Lean Six Sigma Green and Black Belt Trained

Agile & Scrum Foundation Trained

Academic Highlight

Qualified GATE-98 during Electrical Engineering conducted by HR of Indian Government with a percentile score of 97.73 - All India Rank: 86

Projects Handled

Project# 1 CaMO & Tetra (Client – T-Mobile and System Integrator)

Description CaMO standards for Conversion Application Migration Office, and its scope is to Migrate Accounts from Sprint PostPaid to Samson or from Sprint Assurance WireLess prepaid to metro, it involves four domains, RIS, SCE, DLM and DIFR.

Tetra is part of DLM, and it stands for T-Mobile Event Tracking Repository for All, And it has following functionality, REFERENCE EVENT DATA PROCESS, ASSET MIGRATION PROCESS, ASSET LOCKING PROCESS and ASSET BLOCKING PROCESS

Designation Domain Test Lead – Automation Domain

Period Dec’2021 to till date

Team Size 30

Operating/DB Systems Windows, Linux, Python, Core Java, JavaScript, Type Script, selenium, Appium, Cassandra, Tosca, GitLab, CI/CD, qtest Integration, Jira Integration, SAP flows, Rest Assured, httpOk, Request

Role:

oDid Automated Cassandra Validations

oDid Automated Splunk Validations

oDid Automated Kafka Validations

oDid Automated PCF Validations

oDid Automated Deep.io Validations

oDid Automated SAP Validations

oDid Automated Web App Validations

oDid Automated Mobile App validations

oDid Automated Oracle Maximo Validations

oExtensively used Java, Rest Assured for Rest API testing

oUsed Java with selenium for web GUI based testing

oPerformed POC using python, selenium, Robot framework and Cassandra backend with pandas and defined CI/CD pipe lines using docker images and aws cloud.

oDefined Automation Strategies, Tool Selection Processes, Automation Framework development

oDid System Integration Testing (SIT), System testing as part of E2E Testing.

oDid crafted SIT/ST plans, mapped requirements with respect to RTM and SIT features.

oAll the validations happened through Interface testing also ( GUI, System Interfaces etc )

oUsed WDIO with node and npm for POC of mobile app testing.

oUsed Postman for REST interfaces testing

oUsed SQL developer tool to run different sql queries to verify against the input conditions

oMobile App testing using WDIO, npm, java script and Appium on company labs using XCUITest and XCode and UIAutomator, its for IOS testing and Android mobile app testing, IOS based on SWIFT

oUsed SQL and PLSQL queries to test backend through JDBC and its drivers.

oDefined Tosca for Sap validation, CT-BDD framework for digital validations using Java and Java Script using selenium and Appium and headless Chrome drivers. Gitlab for CI/CD using Yaml scripting.

oPerformed the Push, Pull, commit, merge. Etc.. on gitlab repositories.

oExtensively used Xpath for front end testing for selenium, java.

Project# 2 CoNet (Client – Comcast and System Integrator – Tech Mahindra)

Description CoNet is a middle ware that integrate BSS systems to OSS Systems of Comcast, it performs various activities related to 5G service on network elements. This project happening at lab stage and Tech Mahindra as Solution or system integrator is acting like middle person to coordinate various activities across Comcast and other stakeholders as per as CoNet solution is considered TechM coordinating both Comcast and BSS, Ericsson, Nokia stakeholders this is to integrate North bound and south bound systems through Conet. There are also on south Bound system we are having core systems, as system integrators we need to evaluate the Ericsson and Nokia Solutions and need to produce results to the client Comcast.

Designation Tech Lead – Automation Domain

Period May’2021 to Sep’2021

Team Size 6

Operating/DB Systems Windows, Landslide, Swagger, BDD, Core Java, Rest Assured and cucumber

Role:

Provided as TechLead, the Swagger documentation related to CoNet integration of BSS with respect to Northbound systems as part of initial requirements

Participated in requirement analysis of APIs related to various 5G operations on Core through CoNet by BSS systems

Presently designing automation scripts and framework related to manual test cases of core network.

Participated in various discussions that happened to understand core network functionality.

Used Rest Assured, java and BDD, Cucumber to test the Interfaces.

Did Mobile App POC using wdio, npm, java script on Browser stack and Android studio, XCUITest and XCode and UIAutomator, IOS based on SWIFT

Project#3 GE Inspection Works

Description Evaluating the properties of materials, components, and systems is critical to ensuring the quality and longevity of engineering and manufacturing processes. Operating at the intersection of materials science, sensors, electronics, robotics, and analytics, our inspection technologies comprise nondestructive testing (NDT) and nondestructive evaluation (NDE).

Designation Test Manager – Automation Domain

Period Oct’2016 to Feb’2021

Team Size 12

Operating/DB Systems Windows, MySQL, Ubuntu, Cypress, Rest Assured, Core Java, BDD and Cucumber, WDIO

Role:

Sound Knowledge in QA Testing Methodologies like Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall, V - Model etc.

Extensive experience in Requirements Gathering, Functional and Technical Specifications, Business Analysis, QA, Documentation, Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Cases, Integration, Regression and Performance testing.

Experience of working extensively in Agile Testing Environment (Agile /scrum model) and good expertise in attending Scrum calls, Sprint Planning, Reviews and Retrospective meetings.

Performed Mobile App testing using WDIO using simulator to kick start framework development and POC and implement framework in step by step process, so that we will complete end to end testing of mobile app functionality

We worked on PCF cloud to manage different components of the solution.

Used Docker image for CI/CD pipelines running through gitlab using .gitlab.it.yml file.

Good Understanding on calculating capacity, analyzing User Stories and Acceptance criteria in agile methodology.

Performed DDL, DML, TCL, DRL Sql queries to verify the affect of front end operations on backend db.

Here we performed ETL to perform data migration, in which we used extensively the sql queries.

Proven ability in designing and creating automation frameworks using Java, Selenium WebDriver, RC, Junit, TestNG, Maven, ANT, Jenkins tools.

Implemented Keyword, Data Driven framework, Hybrid framework, and advanced Framework Behavioral Driven Development (BDD)

Used Cypress for POC purpose to do Integration and functional testing of the Inspection works app..

Experience in working with Test Driven development (TDD/BDD) by writing gherkins language in cucumber tool, creating Feature files, step definitions, Runner files.

Automating Angular JS applications by using Protractor, Jasmine and Karma using Java script, used Locators, xpath extensively for frameworks developed through protractor based on java script and type script.

Developing. spec and .config files for various scenarios in Protractor/Jasmine using “describe it and expect”

Using Maven Build Tool performed compiling of class, setting up Selenium2.0, download Java Client Libraries, create project, creating pom.xml with artifacts and dependencies.

Using Jenkins achieved Continues Integration and Continues Delivery, performed Background jobs and analyzed the pass or failed criteria in QA Environment

Used Rest Assured, java and BDD, Cucumber to test the Interfaces.

Used Git and Git lab tools for maintaining the version controlling. Also integrated with Jenkins to run the latest version of code in the background.

Used Cypress tool for POC to prove the concept of automation of the functionality of the application and also API integration testing of the app

Used default architecture of tool cypress with Java Script and type script.

Local repository and central repository maintained using Push, Pull, and Clone commands to maintain the code files.

Well versed with Functional Testing (Unit Testing, Smoke testing, Integration Testing (Top Down, Bottom-Up Testing), Integration Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing, Black box testing, Performance and System Testing.

Experience in creation and execution of Test Plans, Test Script and Test Cases for both Manual and Automated Testing.

Used external jars Jxl and Apache poi APIs to get the test data from Excel sheets.

Strong Experience in executing SQL queries to validate the data in the backend as part of Database Testing.

Project#4 Ericsson Granite (MobiStar NIM and BI Telecom OSS Fulfillment)

Description: The project involves testing of Modelling, parsers testing in MSDP platform before deploying in Production. It involves BI, Functional, Integration, Performance & UAT Testing of modeling and parser functionality of MSDP of Granite NIM solution.

Designation: Test Manager

Period: Nov’14 – Sep’2016

Team Size: 40

Operating/DB Systems: HP-UX, Oracle

Role:

Worked as part of Project Initiation meeting to deliver the Test project plan to contribute to overall delivery of the project to end client.

Managed TAAS organization activities in creating reusable assets & IWPs, so that the productivity across projects would be improved & delivered fast.

Maintained & enhanced the overall test plans and strategies for the component parts of testing, namely BI testing, System Test, FAT, SIT, V&P, UAT, OAT and Pilots.

Provided JMeter testing solution to test REST interfaces of OSSRC solution & their performance testing

Drove modernization through initiatives such as Test Automation, increased use of Testing Tools, and so on

Developed Data Driven frameworks to retrieve test data from Excel Files & SQL Databases

Configured Maven for JAVA automation projects and developed Maven Project Object Model (POM)

Used Maven & Selenium Grid to execute Selenium automation suites on different platforms

Angular JS, Selenium, BDD, Protractor, Node.js, Jasmine, Mocha, Karma for End-to-End implementation of Agile methodologies on AWS cloud Ubuntu instance, on which the CI/CD implementation has been done.

Writing extensive unit tests using automated TDD tasks i.e. Angular 5 with Karma and Jasmine.

Solid knowledge to strategize testing on running/analyzing Batch Files, Interfaces, Upstream/Downstream feeds

Experience in testing of ETL test scripts based on technical specifications/Technical Design Documents and Source to Target mappings

Ability to query database to validate data / ability to view and compare data files to identify difference

Project#5 Ericsson Granite (Saudi Telecom, CSI-ADM & Telecom OSS Fulfilment)

Description It has two components one for transmission and one for access; we worked on both the components. We developed different interfaces to interact to Granite Inventory core system.

Designation Test Manager

Period May’13 – Nov’14

Team Size 20

Operating/DB Systems HP-UX, Oracle

Role:

Tested custom applications of the Granite Core components; performed testing of:

oWSDL of Inventory Interface using SOAP interface and REST API through Rest Assured, Protractor with Cucumber.

oIMST mapping tool and recommended various of the improvement areas of the IMST mapping tool

Wrote documentation over automation feasibility of Granite core and custom applications.

Created set-up of SVN & Bugzilla tools for configuration and bug management respectively.

Delivered total 4 SMRs independently with almost zero defects in PAT by the client.

Collaborated with Client Business Team during PAT; worked on RMS testing and various assignments like New 8.1 Environment Testing along with SMR’s of 7.1

Performed ETL Testing from legacy testing to new environment.

Legacy systems involved are some excel sheets, third party products for different types of networks and mapping these data with specification called mapping specific and cross verifying these mapping sheets

Defining criteria for validation of data in the mid way data base

Checking the primary and secondary data bases for disaster recovery

Finally checking the data base as per mapping specification.

Interacted with New Jersey Team for new version 8.1 environment.

Project#6 Huawei CBS (Telecom BSS, OCS)

Description Huawei CBS is the convergent billing solution based on the next-generation independent rating and billing engine. The solution can support various infrastructure networks and services and serve all end users no matter prepaid or postpaid. Huawei CBS can provide the end-to-end CBS, including service control and collection, rating and billing, customer care, and more.

Designation Associate Project Manager

Period Nov’09 – Jul’12

Team Size 60

Operating/DB Systems HP-UX, Oracle

Role:

Collected test requirements from clients especially from Bravo, (Saudi Arabia) client; mapped those requirements through RTM and tracked them to execution & closure

Performed:

oTesting of Huawei OCS telecom billing product for Etisalat, Airtel and Bravo (Saudi) clients

oAutomation Regression Testing and Issue-Based Testing.

oInternal Process Audit, Quality Audit & Assessment and Best Practices.

Reviewed functional specifications, requirements, and designs

Managed supporting projects with test issues and agreed the remedial action plans

Drove modernization through initiatives such as Test Automation, increased use of Testing tools, and so on

Wrote automated test scripts using Selenium (Java), Jmeter, Java Script and TestNG using agreed standards and tools

Documented scripts to the agreed standards and executed & scheduled automated test runs as per the required

Examined test logs and investigated any faults found during test runs

Project#7 Kenan FX (Telecom BSS)

Description FX stands for Framework Extension. Kenan FX is an end-to-end Billing & Order Management Product Suite. Kenan BP is the Billing Engine for the Product Suite.

Designation Senior Test Lead

Period Jan’2007 to Nov’2009

Team Size 20

Operating/DB Systems HP-UX, Oracle

Role:

Worked on Rally (Agile Project Management tool) to create user stories, test cases and tracking defects

Created functional automation scripts using open source tools such as Selenium

Interacted with Deployment Team to create nightly automation regression execution builds

Acted as a Test Consultant to ensure that daily automated Regression Testing was successfully performed & completed

Collaborated with the developers within the Scrum Team

Project#8 CRESTEL (Billing Product from Elitecore, Telecom BSS)

Description CRESTEL is a real time carrier grade OSS BSS platform that enables next generation data, voice and video services over wire line and wireless networks.

Designation Test Lead

Period Feb’04 – Dec’06

Team Size 12

Operating/DB Systems HP-UX, Oracle

Role:

Performed SOA Testing (Service Performance Testing, Service Integration Testing, Service Governance Testing & Service Security testing) using SOAP UI tool

Used automated test tool for Functional and Regression Testing.

Worked on extensively SELENIUM and TestNG test framework

Project#9 CRM (Amdocs, Telecom BSS)

Description CRM handles following 4 processes:

Receive Communication: To receive request for service from end customer

Handle & Assign Communication: To handle and assign the request to concerned person based on request from end customer

Resolve & Close Communication: Now solve the problem of the customer and close it

Outbound Communication: To inform the status of the problem to end customer

Designation Software Engineer

Period Jan’03 – Jan’04

Team Size 16

Operating/DB Systems HP-UX, Oracle

Role:

Performed:

oUser Acceptance Testing and Functional Testing of the Amdocs CRM product

oFunctional and System Testing

oend-to-end User Acceptance Testing which covers scenarios those that were related and direct impact on finances of the client i.e. Revenue Testing

Acted as Tester to apply defect preventive mechanism for UAT testing of Amdocs CRM Product to reach out solutions to have user defect free testing

Mapped test cases to test scenarios and test scenarios to requirements in Test Director

~ Test Management

~ Automation Test Frameworks

~ Quality Assurance

~ Project Implementation

~ Defect Management

~ Process Audit

~Pre-Sales Management

~ Release Management

~ Risk Mitigation

~ Customer Management

~ Liaison & Coordination

~ Team Management

-Scrum Project Management Knowledge

Academic Credentials

B.Tech. (Electrical) from J.N.T.U. College of Engineering, Anantapur with 81.7% in 1998

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