PAVAN J N
Bangalore
Summary
- Experienced QA professional with 10+ years of expertise in test planning, software testing life cycle, API testing, and system integration. Skilled in designing comprehensive test strategies, developing test cases, and executing tests across diverse environments. Proven track record of identifying and mitigating defects early in the development lifecycle. Proficient in application deployment with Docker and Kubernetes.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Lead
Tecnotree
Bangalore
01.2022 - 01.2023
- Lead and mentor a team of testers, ensuring effective resource allocation and skill development.
- Conduct regular team meetings to track progress and address any issues.
- Creating and maintaining test plans and test cases for API testing using POSTMAN.
- Conducting functional and integration testing of APIs.
- Collaborating with development teams to understand API requirements and design test scenarios.
- Implementing and maintaining test environments for API testing
- Maintaining the test data and preparing the test data for the UAT team.
- Identifying and reporting defects, and tracking their resolution.
- Deployed and managed containerized applications on Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability and scalability.
- Configured Kubernetes resources such as Pods, Deployments, Services, and ConfigMaps to streamline application deploymen
Senior Software Engineer
Etisalat
Dubai
09.2020 - 12.2021
- Understanding the project requirement and the technical feasibility from QA perspective and Developed detailed effort estimation models using techniques such as expert judgment, historical data analysis, and story points
- Worked on Agile model and be a part of sprint planning to analyze the user stories and to provide the plan and co-ordinate with the IT and Business team to prioritize the user stories
- Control, plan and prioritize the work based on the Business demands
- Co-ordination with IT and PM team to analyze and re-plan the projects based on the business needs
- Monitoring and tracking of the project and actively reporting/raising the flags if foresee any issue.
- Analysizng the requirements, designing the test cases , assigning the test cases to QA Execution team and engaging in meetings with the QA and UAT team.
- Involve in the UAT QA planning session to discuss and align on the test design, test scope and test methodologies.
Senior Software Test Engineer
Etisalat
03.2019 - 04.2020
- Developed UAT test plans and strategies specific to Etisalat's telecommunications services, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define UAT scope, objectives, and success criteria for various projects, including new service launches and system upgrade
- Created and executed comprehensive UAT test cases and scenarios based on functional requirements and user stories for Etisalat's applications and services.
- Identified, documented, and prioritized defects and issues encountered during UAT, utilizing defect tracking tools for effective resolution.
- Generated detailed UAT reports summarizing testing outcomes, defect status, and overall user feedback for project stakeholders.
- Maintained comprehensive documentation of UAT processes, test cases, and results to support future testing efforts.
- Evaluated the performance and usability of Etisalat's systems and applications from an end-user perspective, providing actionable insights for improvement.
Senior Test Engineer
Cisco
12.2017 - 03.2019
- Collaborative working with client, development team, deployment team and testing team for all releases
- Test plan preparation for system upgrade/Rollback, Regression and Feature testing via RSP & SSP Portals
- Execution of Regression and Feature testing in Integration environments for different releases
- Troubleshooting, status reporting, Test report preparation defect registration/retest etc
Consultant
Mobily infotech
Bangalore
07.2014 - 08.2017
- Involved in creation of the GSM and Non GSM packages with the Inhouse tools
- Maintaining the test data in the inventory and creation of the test data required for the system integration test
- Verifying the functionality of the system with the APIs using POSTMAN tool
- Performing end-to-end testing for new packages/services (GSM and non-GSM) launched by client, also performing tests of change requests for existing products.
- Involved in Testing of the Oracle BRM for the configuration of the rates , involved in the Pipeline configurations and in the deployment of the releases related to the oracle BRM.
- Shoulder responsibility of preparing and developing test cases, test scenarios, use cases and owning the project till its closure.
- Preparing Estimation document which contains the effort of QA.
- Reviewing Test cases and updating the review comments.
Understanding the High level Architecture design from the Solution Blue Print or High level design (HLD) document. Involving in Design meetings and being part of UAT calls.
Education
B.E - Computer Science
PES
Bangalore07.2013
12th -
National College Basavanagudi
06.2009
Skills
- Project Evaluation and analysis
- Programming : Python
- Tools Worked on : SQL Developer, Toad, Putty, RQM, SOAP UI, Selenium
- Bug Tracking Tools : Jira, RTC, HPQC
- DBMS : SQL ,MongoDB, Cassandra
- API Testing
- Project Planning
- Workforce Coordination
- Requirements Gathering Expertise
- Docker and Kubernetes Deployment
- Tableau Data Visualization
- Flowchart Creation Using Visio
Accomplishments
- ISTQB certified Test Engineer with 10+ years of Experience
Certification
- ISTQB foundation level
Timeline
Test Lead
Tecnotree
01.2022 - 01.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Etisalat
09.2020 - 12.2021
Senior Software Test Engineer
Etisalat
03.2019 - 04.2020
Senior Test Engineer
Cisco
12.2017 - 03.2019
Consultant
Mobily infotech
07.2014 - 08.2017
- ISTQB foundation level
B.E - Computer Science
PES
12th -
National College Basavanagudi
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