KISHORE BRAMHAMDAM
AVP
Hyderabad
Summary
Results-driven professional with a strong focus on product excellence and reliability. Skilled in driving teams technically to identify and resolve quality issues, fostering collaboration and building cohesive work environments. Committed to maintaining high standards and providing necessary training to enhance team performance. Known for adaptability and reliability, with a proven track record of achieving results through effective communication and teamwork.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Technical QA Manager
- Project description: As an QA/Automation Lead I was responsible for managing few projects at FINRA on query tools side, Query tools at FINRACAT helps render data onto UI and perform API functions to pull all the data from big data tables
- Responsibilities:
- Implemented process changes and responsible for hiring and leading team
- Performed team analysis and suggested best practices to follow across QA within the organization
- Planned and deployed QA pipelines for various API, UI frameworks and involved in managing them daily, adjusting scheduling jobs based on the releases and when requirement changes
- Identify missing KPIs and Implemented them in the team and across cross
- Implemented API framework for all the projects that I lead, added to Jenkins pipeline, trained staff and responsible for managing them
- Coordinated between teams across other query tools to ensure all Quality, Data integrity, integration etc…
- Integrated API framework in development environment to make sure tests run for every build which validates build quality
- Created UI framework using CypressIO with NodeJS and ES6, automated all the UI functionality
- Environment: Java, AWS, TypeScript 2.x, 3.x, Angular 8, 12, Node JS, Jenkins, express, DBeaver, EMR, Presto, Redshift, Hive, SNS, s3 bucket, EC2, Axios etc…
Associate QA Manager
- Description: Speedship is a B2B platform for trucking companies and small to medium scale companies where enterprises doesn’t need to shop for their shipment needs
- Small to medium scale companies can register with speedship and can initiate shipment where they will be presented with multiple offers from trucking companies online so that they can help and choose what they like
- Responsibilities:
- Performed team analysis and suggested best practices to follow across QA within the organization
- Implemented process changes and responsible for hiring and leading team
- Planned and deployed QA pipelines into Dev pipelines to ensure QA teams are accepting good builds
- Driven automation team and contributed to existing java frameworks using Selenium, java, TestNG
- Coordinated between UAT and Development teams setup process so to ensure customer defects are triaged accordingly based on priority
- As an automation lead, created frameworks for UI, API and kafka message queues
- Integrated API framework in development environment to make sure tests run for every build which validates build quality
- Created API framework with TypeScript, Axios, Node and migrated some functionalities from java framework to Axios
- Created UI framework using CypressIO with NodeJS and ES6, automated all the UI functionality
- Participated in working on development stories in Angular 4/6
- Experiencing in writing API’s using express framework including returning xml/JSON for downstream services to consume
- Environment: Java, AWS, TypeScript 2.x, 3.x, Angular 4/6/7, Node 8.x-11.x, Docker, express, DBeaver, Amazon work space etc…
Project delivery Manager
Edvenswa Tech
03.2023 - Current
- At Edvenswa I joined as a Sr
- QA Architect, role was to join, hire a team, introduce to client and start building team, propose automation to the client suggest best practices, start building domain expertise
- This is a financial payments domain client which is new to the company
- Responsibilities:
- Hired offshore QA team
- Started building frameworks in the organization and proposed to the client using cypress and JS
- Involved on coordinating with client, assisting team on technical and management
- Identify missing KPIs and Implemented them in the team and across clients projects
- Implemented API framework for all the projects that I lead, added to Jenkins pipeline, trained staff and responsible for managing them
- Involved in hiring freshers, trained them and then turn them into billable role with in 3 months on automation, it was a huge success
- Responsible for team management, performance reviews, recruitment, getting more billable roles from clients etc
- Started project by me and today we got 10 member team for one project, streamlined, got majorly positive responses from client straight 4 quarters
- Acquired 2 more clients and then straightened out couple of projects which are in red to green, overall leading 19 member team offshore both from testing and development
- Very well at planning, execution and good at client interactions
- Setup process, assist team at technical/programming level when there is a need and responsible to get hands wet when needed to achieve goals and dead line
Consultant
HireITPeople – FINRA
09.2021 - 02.2023
Consultant
HireITPeople
10.2020 - 09.2021
Lead SDET
Open Systems Technologies, Cigna
04.2018 - 09.2020
- Project description: Insomnia is an internal support application for cigna where all the information of patients about their admissions, discharges, medical conditions, prescription etc will be pulled either online or with time delay
- Application has been created using angular/express/oracle
- Responsibilities:
- Implemented automation framework solutions for front end using JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, Protractor, CypressIO, Mocha, and Jasmine, integrated into 2 core development projects
- Developed Kafka Producer tests for functional and performance testing from CSV files stores in AWS S3, which could post around 7 - 9 million messages per hour
- Engineered front end, backend, and Kafka automation tests, configured to run pipeline as part of CI/CD, which reduced regression testing time to more than 99%
- Implemented Kafka producer tool to perform functional test and performance test, helping project save more than $100K overall without needing new tool or expertise
- Migrated UI automation testing from Protractor to CypressIO, saving 40% of time automating new test cases
- Hired, trained, and assisted 3 new teammates on automation frameworks and best practices in JavaScript, Kafka, CypressIO, helping to build more automated test cases into existing suite
- Performed team analysis and suggested best practices to follow across QA within the organization
- Implemented API and UI frameworks which helps QA teams execution faster and efficient
- Planned and deployed QA pipelines into Dev pipelines to ensure QA teams are accepting good builds
- Planned short term and long-term goals for the team in terms of execution, automation and support
- Coordinated between UAT and Development teams setup process so to ensure customer defects are triaged accordingly based on priority
- As an automation lead, created frameworks for UI, API and kafka message queues
- Integrated API framework in development environment to make sure tests run for every build which validates build quality
- Created API framework with TypeScript, Axios, Node
- Created Protractor framework for UI, deployed and configured to run as part of CI/CD later migrated to Cypress as part of enterprise consolidation
- Created UI framework using CypressIO with NodeJS and ES6, automated all the UI functionality
- For messaging services automated Kafka testing using TS/JS with node-rdkafka and node-kafka libraries which helped for performance and development teams to produce millions of messages
- Participated in working on development stories in Angular 4/6
- Involved in defect fixing for some of the defects related to kafka using Node/Typescript
- UI automation and Kafka tool are added to pipeline Openshift and containerized using docker
- Tested application after deploying AWS using lambdas, S3 bucket,SQS etc
- Validated data in S3 bucket, involved in managing s3 buckets both from UI and from command line
- Integrated test pass fail functionality to automatically updated to test rail whenever a test case run
- Experiencing in writing API’s using express framework including returning xml/JSON for downstream services to consume
- Environment: TypeScript 2.x, 3.x, Angular 4/6/7, Kafka 1.x, Node 8.x-11.x, Docker, express etc…
Lead SDET
HireITPeople - Deloitte
08.2017 - 04.2018
- Description: Argus a software tool proprietary to Deloitte helps auditors to perform audit operations such as, reviewing documents, auto suggestions, read OCR forms select content, compare documents etc
- Entire application is implement in Azure cloud platform
- Responsibilities:
- Responsible for inherit existing enterprise framework, implemented core libraries w.r.t Argus
- Extended framework and implemented selenium native libraries, methods etc
- Responsible for managing two QA teams with team of 7 SDETs
- Scripting API testing using postman and configured CICD
- Involved in validating unit test code coverage
- Helping junior engineers on automating test cases
- Implemented BDD style of writing test cases from traditional way
- Responsible for QA Signoff for two teams
- Tested application in azure cloud, extended api automation to get azure token on demand
- Environment: MS VSTS, C#, Selenium, Agile/SAFe.
Lead SDET
HireITPeople - FannieMae
04.2016 - 07.2017
- Project description: FIMS is a fraud investigation management system which is deployed on sales force cloud, helps FannieMae to start/check status, manage and maintain investigation w.r.t housing loans
- Responsibilities:
- Assisting FannieMae on automation solution using BDD principles like Cucumber, Java, Jenkins etc
- Involved in analyzing existing clients tools used for QA Automation and proposed new tools which not only save time but also improves performance and ROIs
- Involving in creating roadmaps/reviews on existing QA practices
- Suggested BDD approach for QA Automation and helping with training of existing QA to follow BDD process
- Technically assisting client with KPIs for near future and further
- Involved in managing people, helping them on automation/agile and conducting performance reviews periodically
- Collecting metrics, review with project teams to better address the issues/defects found in current release/hot fixes etc
- Improved locator techniques to identify Web Elements in Sales force application where xpaths differ from Test environments to staging/prod environments
- Suggested best practices on Cucumber/Selenium for current framework, extended framework with few utilities which helped in increase of script efficiency and reduce lines of code
- Involved in writing Gherkin, steps and backend selenium/java code for fims and variance projects
- Supporting QA teams for automating all completed functionalities using Selenium Web Driver
- Helping on other teams on validating XMLs from database and files, developed utilities for parsing XMLS using Dom parser and JAXB
- Involved in extensive testing of Database tables, schemas, writing SQL Scripts to extract XML data columns including XML Namespaces and extracting data from various tables, reports from DB
- Closely working with manual QA Engineers, business on achieving on in sprint automation using agile principles
- Follow and suggest best practices of Agile/Scrum and its process methodologies
- Environment: Oracle 11g, Java 7.x, Web services, Putty, Linux, Selenium 2.x, , Maven, Cucumber, Groovy, HP ALM, Jenkins, SVN, Agile/SAFe.
QA Test Engineer III
HireITPeople, Welfare
07.2014 - 04.2016
- Product description: Idaho State Benefits eligibility System is an automation tool which helps and performs most of the case workers daily activities which they do manually, for example calculate and decide eligibility of Medicaid, Food Stamps, CHIP and TAFI etc
- It also calculates MAGI, APTC and most of the federal programs
- This system integrates and talks to many federal interfaces and gets the information of Idaho citizens to decide eligibility
- Responsibilities:
- Involved in creating POC for automation testing using Selenium, Java, TestNG, Cucumber, MVN tools
- Expertise in Agile, Scrum, Backlogs, Sprint processes, and experience in working as a scrum master on need basis
- Extended Hybrid framework and converted existing manual test cases into automated regression suite
- Integrated Automation scripts (Selenium WebDriver API) in Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins) for nightly batch run of the Script
- Created common utilities for IBES Automation which helps in re using the code across IBES pages
- For example to identify, XPaths, CSS Selectors and other types, Browser types, DB Utilities, Test NG Parameters like, parallel execution, grouping test cases like Sanity, regression, Build Acceptance testing etc
- Conducted cross browser testing using selenium Grid
- Involved in automation framework meetings, providing suggestions and best practices for improving test automation framework for the product
- Implemented BDD using cucumber from scratch, automated all functional test cases using cucumber, Junit, Java
- Try to automate all the spring backlogs of the current sprint using BDD framework
- Supporting QA teams for automating all completed functionalities using Selenium Web Driver
- Implemented Extent Reports 2.xx for current BDD framework apart from cucumber native test reporting structure, review the Test Reports for nightly runs
- Tested request and response XML's based web services interfaces using SoapUI
- Automated SoapUI test cases using Groovy scripting
- Participating in release meetings, hot fixes etc
- Involved in extensive testing of Database tables, schemas, writing SQL Scripts to extract XML data columns including XML Namespaces and extracting data from various tables, reports from DB
- Well understanding and testing on various interfaces that IBES uses daily and validate data accuracy between the systems (working with IBES interfaces like SVES, IRS, iCARE etc.)
- Automated parsing files using native Java, for parsing file size greater than 100MB, extracted corresponding data which helps QA reduce time more than 70%
- Performed testing on IBES functionalities and IBES interfaces like Idalink and YHI etc
- Validating the data between IBES system and mainframe system for daily jobs that needs data validation and data conversion
- Closely working with developers, business to fill the gaps in the product and work towards improving the quality
- Follow and suggest best practices of Agile/Scrum and its process methodologies
- Expertise in Agile Methodologies and SAFe
- Environment: Oracle 11g,, SQL Server 2008, Java 7.x, SoapUI, Web services, Putty, Linux, e-Verifi, Selenium 2.x, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, Groovy, JIRA 6.2, Jenkins, SVN, Agile/SAFe.
Sr. Lead QA Engineer
HireITPeople - Dell Inc
03.2013 - 07.2014
- Description: This project involves in development of Dell internal Tracking system called vMirror which helps project managers and high level management to track their projects, progress, expenditure, overall company status and help them to audit
- Responsibilities:
- Implementing as part of sprints
- Extending BDD and integrated with selenium WebDriver 2.0
- Tracking issues across teams and coordinating with project teams and triage meetings
- Installed configured Equallogic iSCSI arrays PS65xx Series, installed them
- Worked on HIT VMWare team and configured iSCSI on vmware
- Conducted functional, regression testing on Equallogic iSCSI features including MPIO both from physical servers and vmware to PS series iSCSI arrays
- Configured VMware VSphere 5.x and 4.x and verified end-end testing in VMware
- Configured portgroups, switches and dVSwitches on VSphere 4.x and 5.x implemented in linked mode as well
- Verified and carried out functional testing with ntework security like promiscus mode, MAC address forwarding etc and load balancing on networks like switch port virtualization, IP Hash etc
- Configured End to End Data Center using Dell MX1000 Series and tested Dell Equallogic Array PS6510, 6K series and FS75xx Series
- Working with customers and coordinating with R&D teams for issues and fixes
- Involved in Configuring test beds and coordinating with India teams for executing test cases
- Configuring HP Blades, implementing end-end scenarios and replicating customer issues in house
- Creation of LUNS of RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5, 10, SAS etc..
- Types
- Initialization and configuration of Fabric switches like Brocade, Cisco
- Installing and configuring Qlogic, Emulex HBA cards and HBA firmware upgrades
- Documented procedures, setups and configurations and published white papers across teams with best practices tips
- Environment: Oracle 11g,, SQL Server 2008, Java 7.x, SoapUI, Web services, Putty, .net, Selenium 2.x, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, Groovy, HP QC/ALM, Jenkins, SVN, Agile/SAFe.
Senior QA Consultant
Hewlett Packard
04.2011 - 03.2013
- This project involves testing of Drivers, Firmware for Emulex and QLogic CNA cards
- Installed on HP Blade C70000, C3000, Rack mount Servers like Rx 2600, 3660 etc with various
- Configurations supported by HP Servers on various releases for HP-UX
- Responsibilities:
- Extensively involved in planning for new releases, plan for hardware/software tools budget plans for releases
- Tracking issues across teams and coordinating with developers and triage meetings
- Played a key role right from planning, managing all the equipment move for inter projects groups and maintaining systems and bringing up the systems at target site with low or no downtime during company move (Cupertino to PA)
- Configured HP_IGNITE server centrally for cross teams to access and install OS
- Created test plan, test scope documents and test cases for UEFI, EFI, Fclp, FCD,testing
- Involved in configuring HP Servers Viz
- 3600, 8420, 2660 etc
- Worked on Hp proliants ,ALL BL8XXX series, configuring setting up environments, managing blades on VC and Non-VC mode etc..
- Configured HP Proliant Servers BL860c, BL 580c etc
- Configured HP Blades, worked on HP Blades Virtual Center 3.xx to configure C7K and C3K enclosures and managed BL8XXC and HP Proliant blades in C7K and C3K enclosures
- Tested Emulex BEII and BEIII, Qlogic, Hp HBA's, Firmware, Driver Updates and installations against various HPUX os types supported
- Performed LAN Boot, SAN Boot over Targeted luns, performed load and performance testing using HP Hazard
- Configured various types of Zoning of on various Fabric providers like Brocade 3k, 4K Cisco MDS 9K and HP Pro Curve series
- Configured HP Datacenters and tested all supported new CNA, Switches and HP Arrays
- Worked on Storage tests - FCFailover, Hazard, IOmeter, RAID1, Bonnie, nfs, autoinstall
- Worked on HPVM installations, SAN configurations, Zoning, firmware and drivers testing on HPVM virtual machines
- Performed black box testing like functional, regression, Acceptance testings
- Creation of LUNS of RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5, 10, SAS etc..
- Types
- Initialization and configuration of Fabric switches like Brocade
- Installing and configuring Qlogic, Emulex HBA cards and HBA firmware upgrades
- Environment: HP Virtual Center 3.xx, QuIX, Virtual Machines, RedHat Linux, HP Blades BL 860/i2, BL870/I2, BL 890/i2, BL 860/870 I4 IGNITE-UX, HP-UX,EFI 2.3, UEFI., CNA, UCNA adapters, PcIe cards, lep1205 1201 1105l
MTS
BMC BladeLogic
07.2008 - 03.2011
- QA
- Product description: BMC BladeLogic Operations/Provisioning Manager/Configuration is a leading platform for the management, control and enforcement of configuration changes in the data center
- Using Operations Manager, you can inventory servers and applications, manage patches, administer all configuration changes to servers and applications, provision servers with applications and operating systems, and perform many other data center automation tasks
- Responsibilities:
- Involved in Integration of BladeLogic Server Automation to BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency mapping
- Performed functional, interoperability, compatibility, I18 and Regression Testing on each build, to ensure that defects have not been introduced as a result of the changes made
- Extensively involved in tracking and managing Test plans, Test cases, Release Deliverables in Confluence pages
- Involved as a Core QA for planning, designing validating ongoing releases and risk analysis
- Setup, configure and created SQL Databases for SQL 2005/2008 for Bladelogic OM/PM
- Executed SQL Queries for validating data when exported and imported to/from external interfaces viz
- Tideway servers, Content etc
- Installing Operations manager and testing different features like Deploy, Security, UI, I18N, Snapshots, Audit, Compliance, Provisioning, and Configuration Objects etc
- Implemented QA process for Acceptance testing, System Testing, Application Servers Configurations and QA Infrastructure configurations which replicate Customer setups to validate in a realistic customer environments within QA
- Involved in coordinating with overseas teams in ISR and IND, for distributing tasks for acceptance tests and system testing
- Executing tests like functional, Regression, load acceptance test, Usability, Interoperability testing
- Automated Deploy, Snapshot, Audit modules using python scripting
- Extended automation testing coverage and fully automated all build acceptance testing using python
- Involved in creating application on CITRIX Xen app application launcher and provided access to peer groups to access particular application
- Tested applications on various operating system environments like UNIX, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Windows and various flavors on these operating systems
- Involved in administering Linux, HPUX and Windows OS viz
- Configuring NFS, SAMBA, Daemons, INIT Processes, Creating Groups, Users
- Involved in setting up of SOCKS Proxy and routed application w.r.t inter domain networks
- Involved in executing accessibility testing on BMC OM and make sure to validate, keyboard, trackpad, images, high contrast according to norms for syntax, patterns on pages
- Created Worked in fast paced Scrum / Agile environment Process
- Using Rally tool as Agile Project Management tool for Agile Software Development
- Involved in performing System testing, (UAT) User Acceptance & Regression testing
- Also Worked in sustaining verifying various hotfixes delivered to customers
- Worked on the SOAP Web services from ground up to integrate BMC products with BladeLogic Server Automation Suite
- Worked on RESTful web services for BMC Product
- Java Performance and management jvm memory, JConsole
- Used different Network traffic generators, and simulators
- Worked on different Operating systems (targets) like Windows server 2003, Solaris, Red Hat, AIX, HP-UX, and ESX Server
- Worked on importing customer Databases and testing Database Migrations using oracle and SQL server
- Quality center 9.2 is used for developing test cases and exported all the test cases
- Environment: Java, Solaris 9, 10, 11, VMware ESX Server 4.x, VSphere 4.x, Linux, AIX 5,6, 7, Windows Server 2003, 2008 X64, python 2.x, RESTFul Web Services, WSDL, Oracle 10G, SQL Server 2005, Mercury Quality Center 9.x, BMC Bladelogic Operations Manager 7.x, 8.0, Atlassian Confluence, BMC Remedy, SQL Navigator, Axis
QA Lead
InMage Systems, InMage DR
11.2005 - 07.2008
- Scout
- The project was implemented to develop the InMage DR-Scout which talks about data protection appliance based upon the patent-pending replication technology called TransBand
- The main advantages of the product is using Storage devices, WAN Drives, Compression, Robustness and less installation time as well as no formatting disks
- This product has main modules like File replication, Volume replication
- Responsibilities:
- Interacted with Business Analyst and users for requirements gathering
- Good communication with the Business Analyst developed Test Plans, Test Cases document
- Involved in Different Phases of project life cycle like SDLC
- Developed and executed various Manual testing scenarios and documented the process to perform Functional and Integration testing of the primary application in use
- Automated DR solutions using Unix Shell scripting and python scripting which helps in identifying RTO’s and RPO’s.
Education
Master’s Degree - Computer Information Systems
Boston University
Boston, MABachelors - Computer Science
Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Vishwa Maha Vidyalaya (SCSVMV)
Kancheepuram, TamilnaduSkills
Windows XP Professional
Linux
Unix
HP-UX
ESX Server
CentOS
Oralinux
JAVA
SQL
MS SQL Server
TOAD
Python
Shell Scripting
web Services
RESTFul
Selenium RC
Certification
Certificate in Digital Signal Processing from IISc (Indian Institute of Science) Bangalore
Professional Expertise
17, Finance, Healthcare, Data Center Automation, Systems, front end, backend, kafka, Agile project management, Selenium WebDriver, Python, Java, JUnit, Maven, Cucumber, Groovy scripting, BDD, TestNG, SOAP UI, Jira, BugZilla, QUiX, HP ALM/QC, Zypher, Confluence, Rally, Scrum, Agile, SQL Server, Oracle
Timeline
Project delivery Manager
Edvenswa Tech
03.2023 - Current
Consultant
HireITPeople – FINRA
09.2021 - 02.2023
Consultant
HireITPeople
10.2020 - 09.2021
Lead SDET
Open Systems Technologies, Cigna
04.2018 - 09.2020
Lead SDET
HireITPeople - Deloitte
08.2017 - 04.2018
Lead SDET
HireITPeople - FannieMae
04.2016 - 07.2017
QA Test Engineer III
HireITPeople, Welfare
07.2014 - 04.2016
Sr. Lead QA Engineer
HireITPeople - Dell Inc
03.2013 - 07.2014
Senior QA Consultant
Hewlett Packard
04.2011 - 03.2013
MTS
BMC BladeLogic
07.2008 - 03.2011
QA Lead
InMage Systems, InMage DR
11.2005 - 07.2008
Technical QA Manager
Associate QA Manager
Bachelors - Computer Science
Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Vishwa Maha Vidyalaya (SCSVMV)
Master’s Degree - Computer Information Systems
Boston University