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Mallikarjun S

Mallikarjun S

Bangalore, KA

Summary

13+ years experienced QA Profession, now playing Software Quality Architect role in Pega Systems, Inc.

Proven ability to design effective test strategies, optimize test automation frameworks and ensure software quality and compliance

Skilled in test automation frameworks, test architecture, DevOps, and Agile methodologies.

Passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies and methodologies to achieve exceptional results

Bring extensive experience in team leadership, technical guidance, and stakeholder communication to every project

Expertise in non-functional testing areas Security, Performance, Resilience, Robustness and Localization

Experience in creating k8s cluster in aws and gcp cloud with end to end automation and deploy, test and debug applications

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Quality Architect

Pega Systems
03.2020 - Current
  • Lead and mentor 3 QA team members and coordinated with 20+ QA member during release testing cycle and epic adoption to achieve high-quality software products
  • Increased automation coverage of smoke and regression suite by 80%
  • Created test plans, test scenarios, test cases, review and test coverage that align with epic goals and objectives.
  • Develop and maintain test automation frameworks for API and functional testing
  • Implement and monitor quality checks across software development life cycle, including PR, build, milestone, and release
  • Communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure project success
  • Manage CI/CD pipeline to create infrastructure resources, deploy applications, run automated tests and publish results in on-premises and AWS and GCP
  • Performed non-functional testing to measure performance, seamless upgrade, robustness, resilience, and security
  • Identify and resolve obstacles to unblock teams during release testing cycle

Principal Software Quality Engineer

PegaSystems
05.2016 - 03.2020
  • Created test plans, test cases and test scripts for release and epic
  • Lead and mentor team in all aspects of software testing, functional, performance, security, integration testing and adopt best practices
  • Collaboration across teams to identify and prioritize testing requirements and create test artifacts and validate
  • Ensure traceability of test cases to requirements and manage defect tracking and resolution process.
  • Drive adoption of CI/CD practices and automated testing tools to improve efficiency and reduce manual testing efforts.
  • Define and track quality metrics to measure software quality, performance, identifying areas for improvement and implement corrective actions.
  • Participate in technical design and code reviews, PR review, providing input on software quality and testing concerns.
  • Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in software quality engineering and contribute to development of new test strategies, tools, and processes.
  • Serve as SME in software quality engineering, and provide guidance and support to other teams and stakeholders
  • Communicate on software quality metrics and issues to leadership and stakeholders

Module Lead

Mindtree Ltd
02.2015 - 05.2016
  • Following and enforcing Agile processes in project for optimizing project outcomes
  • Define and execute test strategy for functional module in collaboration with development team and project managers
  • Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, and test scripts and execute
  • Identify, prioritize and escalate defects and issues to ensure timely resolution
  • Develop and execute manual and automated test cases to ensure high quality product
  • Develop and maintain test automation frameworks for API and functional testing using tools like Rest Assured, Karate, Selenium, TestNG, and Cucumber.
  • Collaborate to identify opportunities for process improvement and quality enhancement
  • Communicate testing progress, quality metrics, obstacles to project stakeholders
  • Execute sanity, Regression and Localization automation scripts individually as well as batch run across sites and Browser with different environment
  • Automating Web services using Automation Enabler framework

Software QA Engineer

NDS / Cisco
04.2011 - 01.2015
  • Following and enforcing Agile processes in project to optimize project outcomes
  • Write Test plan, use cases, test cases and review and execute them
  • Prepare test environment, deploy required build and perform smoke, sanity, functional and system testing
  • Reporting defects in Rational Clear quest and track and monitor

Associate Software Engineer

Adea / Valtech
02.2010 - 03.2011
  • Understand the requirements.
  • Writing the Test Cases for Sanity, Functionality, and compatibility.
  • Deploy the build and run test Cases in Android Emulator and real device.
  • Reporting and tracking the bugs in Bugzilla.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - EEE

S.J.M Institute of Technology
Chitradurga, KA
09.2009

Skills

  • Test planning, Test design, Test execution, Automate everything possible, Deliver, Customer Support
  • Team Lead, Hiring, Mentoring, Team co-ordination and Release management
  • Java
  • Selenium, Rest Assured, Postman, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNg, BDD and Karate
  • PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle and MySQL
  • Gradle, Maven
  • Docker, Docker swarm, Kubernetes, Bitbucket, Jenkins
  • Agile studio, Bugzilla, Jira, and Quality Centre
  • Linux, Windows, Vagrant, AWS, GCP
  • New relic, Grafana Kibana
  • BPM, CRM, E-Commerce, Telecom

Accomplishments

    1. Multiple times received Spot award for my exceptional contribution

    2. Received Stocks and Share options as token of appreciation

    3. Received Customer and PO appreciations multiple times

    4. Always exceeds expectation performer consistently

Certification

  • Certified ISTQB and Pega CSA Developer
  • Certified in Java and Selenium
  • Trained on Linux, Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Jenkins, AWS and GCP

Timeline

Software Quality Architect

Pega Systems
03.2020 - Current

Principal Software Quality Engineer

PegaSystems
05.2016 - 03.2020

Module Lead

Mindtree Ltd
02.2015 - 05.2016

Software QA Engineer

NDS / Cisco
04.2011 - 01.2015

Associate Software Engineer

Adea / Valtech
02.2010 - 03.2011

Bachelor of Engineering - EEE

S.J.M Institute of Technology

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