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GOPAL WADODE

GOPAL WADODE

Pune

Summary

Proficient Software QA Engineer with 10+ years of experience in test automation using Selenium with C# and Java for web applications. Adept at utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines to streamline development and deployment processes. Experienced Site Reliability Engineer and Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for providing production support in hosted environments. Known for maintaining system stability and handling critical situations effectively.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

SOFTWARE QUALITY ENG 2

Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited
Pune
08.2023 - Current

Product: Neural TTS

Description: Neural TTS serves as a proxy to Microsoft's Text-to-Speech technology, whether it be to Azure Cognitive Services or on-premise Microsoft containers.

Responsibilities:

  • Skills Used: C#, Selenium, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Azure DevOps, SRE, IcM.
  • Performed cloud-native feature testing in Kubernetes environments using Helm charts and Docker containers.
  • Performed end-to-end UI automation testing on a web application using C#, Selenium, and MSTest framework.
  • Performed backend API test automation using pytest.
  • Worked as SRE L1 on-call and Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for providing production support in hosted environments.

Senior QA Engineer

Nuance Communications
Pune
04.2017 - 07.2023

Product: Text to Speech NVC (Nuance Vocalizer for Cloud)

Description: Nuance's text-to-speech synthesizer. The NVC environment consists of Nuance Vocalizer for Enterprise (NVE), one or more Nuance voices, Nuance Vocalizer for Cloud (NVC), and a license server

Responsibilities:

  • Skills Used: C#, Selenium, Perl, Kubernetes, docker, Linux, Harness, GitLab, SRE, PagerDuty
  • Performed cloud-native feature testing in Kubernetes environments using Helm charts, Prometheus, and Alert Manager monitoring tool.
  • Developed automation test cases for NVC functional tests and API tests using Perl script.
  • Worked as SRE L1 on-call and Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for providing production support in hosted environments
  • Execute the manual test cases to verify text-to-speech conversion using Nuance Vocalizer for Enterprise core engine and various voice packs.

Software Engineer

Aloha Technology
Pune
11.2014 - 04.2017

Product: MSP Manager

Responsibilities:

  • Developed automation test cases using Cucumber framework with Java Selenium.
  • Execute REST API testing using Postman and automate it using the Rest Assured library.
  • Attending daily scrum meetings with the onshore team to discuss the milestones and progress.
  • Performed security testing using OWASP top 10 testing tools.

Jr. Software Engineer

Zeteo Consulting
Pune
03.2014 - 10.2014
  • Requirement gathering from client.
  • Creation and execution of test cases by means of manual as well as automation.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (ENTC) -

SGBAU Amravati University

Skills

  • Azure, Kubernetes, Docker
  • Selenium
  • C#
  • Java
  • Postman
  • OWASP Security Testing
  • CI/CD, Jenkins
  • Windows, Linux CentOS
  • Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana
  • Azure Log Analytics, Jaeger
  • SRE, PagerDuty, IcM (Incident Management)

Timeline

SOFTWARE QUALITY ENG 2

Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited
08.2023 - Current

Senior QA Engineer

Nuance Communications
04.2017 - 07.2023

Software Engineer

Aloha Technology
11.2014 - 04.2017

Jr. Software Engineer

Zeteo Consulting
03.2014 - 10.2014

Bachelor of Engineering (ENTC) -

SGBAU Amravati University
GOPAL WADODE