BIRAJ KUMAR SAHU
Principal Engineer R&D (SDET)
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Experienced leader/SDET with over 15 years of successful experience in delivering quality product. Extensive hands-on and leadership experience in test automation, CI/CD, performance testing, end to end test management in different SDLC and STLC models. Cross-Geo team coordination facilitated by agile methodology. Profound understanding of business, customer focused with good technical aptitude and analytical ability. Having first class negotiating, communicating skills with capability to provide authoritative guidance to both in house and third-party test teams. Backed by ISTQB and PSM -I certifications.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Principal Engineer R&D
Telaverge Communications
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2020 - Current
- Responsible for end to end test management including automation and performance.
- Responsible for doing POC on different testing tools and create comparative reports based on which we decided on migration and onboarding onto Robot Framework. Responsible for creating coding standards, putting in place best practices and saw to it that they are adhered to.
- Implemented and maintained Robot test automation framework(python).
- As part of one of the projects created own automation tool by exposing selenium as API for python testers to work on.
- Hands on expertise in SMPP, SS7 and HTTP Protocols
- Handled multiple projects on varied domain like telecom, radiology etc.
- Created interactive automation dashboard using Kibana.
- Created Grafana Dashboard for real time load test monitoring using Grafana and Influx DB.
- Trained and mentored current QA team of 15 members to take up test automation as part of regular sprints. Make sure stories are automated by at least Sprint+1 cycle. Trained developers and QA separately so as to implement idea of everybody automates. The same was done for 3 different projects.
- Created and managed end to end CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GIT, MAVEN, AWS, Docker.
- Participate in performance test requirements reviews for large scale critical efforts
- Managed overall performance test activity using JMeter by creating perf test plans, and defining approaches for end-to-end performance.
- Chalk roadmap for automation team in adherence with product so as to increase ROI.
- Make sure team adheres to Agile and in-release automation in day-to-day automation activities.
- Sync with Product owners to get requirements and prioritize product backlog items into sprint.
- Test Framework design, implementation and maintenance as well as help team in understanding and using same.
- Carry out tool feasibility study for different automation tool requirements and on-boarding right tool as per organizational needs.
- Prioritize stories based on product needs and deliverables and assign resource accordingly.
- Help team clear technical roadblocks as and when required.
Specialist QA
NICE Interactive Solutions
Pune, Maharashtra
07.2016 - 06.2020
- Migrated all existing automation setup into VMs and subsequently into ec2 instances after acquisition.
- Implemented and maintained Robot test automation framework(python).
- Setup Rest Assured using Cucumber with Junit for API test automation.
- Integrated automation setups into CI tool Bamboo and to daily builds for build/deployment sanity check, later same was migrated to Jenkins pipeline.
- Automation suite execution time was decreased by almost 20% which in turn helped us roll out faster releases.
- Overall automation coverage increased by 20% to 78% after “everybody automates" philosophy was propagated and implemented.
- Created and managed end to end CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, GIT, MAVEN, Junit, TestNg, AWS, Docker for multiple projects. Have a deep understanding of the pipeline wherein each commit by dev goes through a standard process of software lifecycle and tested well for Static analysis and automation execution before it makes a cut to QA envs and finally into production. Have hands on with bamboo as well.
- Managed end-to-end Jenkins setup.
- Trained and mentored current QA team to take up test automation as part of regular sprints.
- Propagated idea of including automation as part of story DONE-DONE criteria.
- Managed overall QA process for each release including preparing QA artifacts like Test Plan, Test Strategy, Incident report, Test Summary Report.
Senior Software QA Engineer-Automation
M*Modal
Bangalore, Karnataka
10.2013 - 07.2016
Senior QA Engineer
Ness Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
02.2011 - 10.2013
QA Engineer
EFORCE Global Inc.
Kolkata, West Bengal
11.2008 - 02.2011
QA Engineer
Orsis Technnology
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
09.2006 - 10.2008
Education
Executive Development Programme - Strategic Management
Indian Institute of Management
Kashipur 2023 - 2023
B.Tech - IT
Biju Patnaik University Of Technology(BPUT)
Rourkela Aug 2002 - Aug 2006
Skills
Web UI, Backend, API Automation Tools-WebDriver Selenium(java), Rest Assured, Robot Framework(python), Karate, TestComplete, QTP, Postman
Strong core java fundamentals, Python, Data Structures
Different tools POC based on team's needs and subsequent onbaording, training
Frameworks- Page Object Model, Page Factory, Robot, Data driven, keyword driven, hybrid
Unit Testing frameworks- Junit, TestNg
Performance- JMeter
Containerization- Docker
Data visualisation: Kibana for runtime test execution status on Dashboards
Cloud- AWS
CI/CD- Jenkins, Bamboo
BDD Framework- Cucumber
Database : Postgresql, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server 2005
Build Tools- Maven
QA management, Functional, Integration, usability, security, SDLC, STLC, estimation Creating Test, deployment and release documents Metrics
Agile , Scrum, Kanban, Scrum Master
Collaborative Leadership
Certification
ISTQB
Timeline
Executive Development Programme - Strategic Management
Indian Institute of Management
2023 - 2023
Principal Engineer R&D
Telaverge Communications
08.2020 - Current
Specialist QA
NICE Interactive Solutions
07.2016 - 06.2020
Senior Software QA Engineer-Automation
M*Modal
10.2013 - 07.2016
Senior QA Engineer
Ness Technologies (I) Pvt. Ltd
02.2011 - 10.2013
QA Engineer
EFORCE Global Inc.
11.2008 - 02.2011
QA Engineer
Orsis Technnology
09.2006 - 10.2008
B.Tech - IT
Biju Patnaik University Of Technology(BPUT)
Aug 2002 - Aug 2006