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Praveen Baliga
QA Manager
Bangalore
Summary
- Over 17 years of experience in Banking, Threat Intelligence System, Travel and Telecom – Billing & Mobile Office areas, encompassing profiles in the IT - QA Automation areas including roles as Lead QA Engineering/ QA Engineer in the analysis, design, development, implementation, management and testing of full life-cycle commercial applications / products.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certificates
1
1
Language
Work History
QA Manager
Credit Repair Cloud
Bengaluru
03.2023 - Current
- Managing a team of 15 QA Engineers
- Created RestAssured automation framework
- Created QA metrics for displaying the information on the Power Bi dashboards
- Performed Jira automation to fetch the QA metrics from Jira and Zephyr
- Created email notification template for the Jenkins pipeline job notification
- Worked on the existing Spring boot with Selenium framework and introduced WebDriver Manager, Selenium 4 + Extent report 5.6
- Performed test case reviews
- Worked on PR reviews on bitbucket
- Created test plan, resource planning on a quarterly basis
- Evaluated each team member and submitted the reviews in the 15five performance tool.
Lead QA Engineer
Wells Fargo
Bengaluru
04.2020 - 03.2023
- Worked on a suite of products which deal with loan processing application, document processing and provisioning roles and privileges to the internal and external users
- Automated test cases using Selenium Webdriver & TestNG
- Circulation of reports on Automation utilization, automation metrics across all the products
- Performing regression testing activity
- Circulation of smoke test results on a daily basis
- Involved in discussions and reviews on the stories with the Product teams
- Provide sprint demo to entire team
Sr Professional Product Test - Scale 5
DXC Technologies
Bengaluru
06.2018 - 04.2021
- Working on a multi factor authentication cyber-security web based application
- This system helps in learning about the threats and entities which are malicious and cause a cyber-attack on the data and bring the systems to a halt
- The large set of entities and mapping available from multiple sources helps to narrow down the search and provide an enormous amount of information around the threat
- Framework architecture design and development for Selenium Webdriver 2 (Java) framework
- Creating tests using BDD cucumber
- Setting up Jenkins jobs for Selenium & APIs
- Setting up Jenkins VM slaves for Ubuntu with all the needed software, for headless execution
- Static code analysis on the automation code
- Rest API testing using RestAssured
- Test execution report using Extent reports
- QA metrics collection and display using Google Data Studio
QA Lead Engineer
Sabre Inc
Bengaluru
04.2010 - 05.2018
- Involved in discussion with product owners and related folks in Dallas
- Framework architecture design and development for Selenium Webdriver (Java) framework
- Involved in creating a behaviour driven framework for Fitnesse using Java
- Jenkins, Ant and TestNG integration for nightly builds
- Collecting metrics emailing the test execution summary
- End to end testing, covering the Sabre web services using SoapUI
- Simulator code development using PHP and MySQL
- Test plan creation
- Data driven framework creation for SoapUI
- Mentoring the resources
- Performance Testing using Jmeter
- Test script automation using bash shell.
Software Engineer
Infinite Computer Solutions
Bengauru
03.2009 - 04.2010
- Test case development and execution
- Defect Reporting and defect retesting
- Sanity Testing, Functional testing
- Reviewing the functional requirement documents
- Performed functional GUI testing, regression testing using Fitnesse and Selenium RC (Java).
Test Engineer
iPass India Pvt. Ltd, GoRemote India Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
12.2005 - 03.2009
- Handled server-side components and the database
- Tested the dialer on various devices such as Desktop, Wireless enabled Laptop & Dell Axiom (Pocket PC)
- Created Selenium RC (Java) regression tests using JUnit
- Programmed bash shell for tracking the DB sessions, killing the processes and maintaining the time stamps for the activities on the Solaris M/c
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming
Manipal University
Manipal 08.2002 - 08.2005
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mysore University
Mysore 07.1999 - 07.2002
Skills
Selenium Web Driver
Rest Assured
Bash scripting
PostgresSQL, Oracle
Virtualization
Cloud & CI/CD
Java 8
Accomplishments
- Received spot awards 2 times with Wells Fargo
- Received spot awards, Employee of the quarter multiple times with DXC Technology
- Received many verbal & written appreciation emails from Client PwC.
- Received Hi5 award at Sabre.
- Received zTPF best bug detector prize at Sabre.
- Participated in Sabre “Give time together event”, as a photographer.
- Awarded with “Certificate of Awesomeness” at Sabre Inc
- Won AOL quiz competition at Infinite Computer Solutions.
- Received “Did something good” badge several times at iPass India Pvt Ltd
Certification
ISTQB Foundation
Work Availability
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Timeline
QA Manager
Credit Repair Cloud
03.2023 - Current
Azure Fundamentals
08-2022
ISTQB Foundation
10-2020
Lead QA Engineer
Wells Fargo
04.2020 - 03.2023
Google Cloud Fundamentals
09-2019
CSPO
07-2018
CSM
07-2018
Sr Professional Product Test - Scale 5
DXC Technologies
06.2018 - 04.2021
QA Lead Engineer
Sabre Inc
04.2010 - 05.2018
Software Engineer
Infinite Computer Solutions
03.2009 - 04.2010
Test Engineer
iPass India Pvt. Ltd, GoRemote India Pvt. Ltd
12.2005 - 03.2009
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Science And Programming
Manipal University
08.2002 - 08.2005
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Mysore University
07.1999 - 07.2002