Rahul Shirgave

Key Contributions and Responsibilities

• Test Strategy Development: Actively contributed to defining the test strategy from the design phase, ensuring comprehensive coverage and alignment with project goals.
• Regression Cycle Management: Developed and implemented a structured regression testing cycle, enabling consistent validation of functionality across releases.
• Release Sign-off Authority: Played a pivotal role in fast-paced release cycles, providing informed sign-off on releases after thorough regression testing to ensure quality and stability.
• Team Leadership: Managed a team of four members, facilitating their understanding of project requirements and unblocking team members on environmental and automation strategy challenges.
• Customer Interaction: Engaged directly with customers to troubleshoot issues, address knowledge gaps, and provide solutions, enhancing customer satisfaction and trust.
• Test Planning and Execution: Led test planning efforts for weekly releases, effectively managing tight deadlines while ensuring quality standards were met.
• In-Sprint Automation: Drove in-sprint automation efforts for newly developed features, increasing efficiency and accelerating the testing process.
• Automation Metrics: Maintained an impressive 95% automation coverage rate, coupled with a 95% pass rate on automated tests, demonstrating the team's commitment to high-quality deliverables.

• Certified open source hadoop distribution(ODP) by writing automation tests for different components like spark,hive,hdfs
• Worked on data generation for Snowflake and Databricks to setup test data for data observability platform on cloud
• Carried out regression testing both manual and automation for data observability platform on cloud
• Worked on planning teams sprint task,review cycle and helping team members pro-actively
• Worked on debugging and resolving customer issues related to cloud product(On call)

• Worked on setting up CDH,HDP clusters to test our prem hadoop observability
• Worked on performing regression cycles both manual and automation
• Worked on setting up datagen for different hadoop components like Hbase,Spark,Hdfs
• Worked on setting up java selenium UI Automation framework from scratch
• Worked on certifying Beta Data reliability product
• Prioritizing the Automation stories for the quarter and split it insprint, assigning and tracking till completion
• Bug Triaging, Strategy and Escalations for the assigned scrum Team

• Actively Involved in Manual testing for newly integrated modules and regression testing based on impact analysis
• Designed framework for API automation using Python request module
• Written API automation test scripts
• Actively involved in Data Migration, User Migration and
  Server Migration Testing
• Identifying Functional and Automation test scenarios,test cases
• Defect reporting and Analyzing Result
• Analyzing Test Scheduler execution report
• Logging defects using Defect tracking tools
• Active participation in Defect Report Meeting periodically
• Mentoring Newly Joined Team Members to understand
  the product
• Prioritizing bugs for release with the help of Team Lead
• Responsible tester for Product Launch (Microsoft Store
  Approval)
• Actively involved in customer calls for debugging and resolving issues