SK Nayak
Summary
10.5 years of Exp in Software Testing, Mobile/Mobile App Testing, IOT, Bluetooth/BLE/WIFI, Device Testing, Web base Testing, Automotive, Embedded Testing, Infotainment, Automotive Healthcare (LV8)/Medical Devices, HMI, VOIP, HVAC, OTT Testing, Train Control Management System, Python, GitHub, Bluetooth Mesh, GPS Testing, Automation, Manual Testing. Currently working as a Test Lead in Jio Platforms handling OTT and STB Testing along with Wireless Testing. Iam open to working as an Individual Contributor and looking for opportunities inside and outside India as well (Ready to Relocate and require visa sponsorship).
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Engineer
JIO Platforms
12.2024 - Current
- Testing of different Bluetooth products in Jio product line
- Writing and executing Test Cases
- Logging Defects and Retesting
- Preparing Bluetooth Status report to Management
- Create Test Plan as per Project Requirements
- Different Accessories Testing
- Bluetooth Game controller Testing
- Accountable for setting the Test Strategy considering all testing phase, not limited to (Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Performance Testing, PEN Testing, Accessibility Testing), Planning and Estimating phases of responsible projects or products
- Co-ordinate delivery of the testing solution, manage the testing tasks of a team of testers and senior testers across the end-to-end testing lifecycle whilst providing direction, leadership and guidance
- Accountable for overall Quality of Software for the project/product/program (More than 12 people)
- Manage the production, quality and accuracy of all test artifacts and ensure that these adhere to the Jio Test Policy
- Produce test deliverables, Test Plans and Test Outcome Reports
- Manage the quality aspects of testing work and provide peer review of the testing artefacts produced by others in the testing team
- Provide accurate and concise process updates ensuring visibility of the test process to the project / product teams and the Jio Software Quality Assurance team
- Assess and mitigate any risks or issues that threaten the achievement of the testing deliverables
- Prepares and reports on assessment findings and associated risks
- Ensures that appropriate owners for corrective actions are identified
- Actively seek process improvements and efficiencies
- Act as a role model, mentor and coach to the testing community
- Own and drive the Testing with Business Unit independently
- People Management of assigned Testers
- Identifies the communications and relationship needs of stakeholder groups
- Translates communications/stakeholder engagement strategies into specific activities and deliverables
- Facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders
- Acts as a single point of contact by developing, maintaining and working to stakeholder engagement strategies and plans
- Provides informed feedback to assess and promote understanding
- Ensure team members' product knowledge remains up-to date as products evolve
Test Lead (Medical Testing)
Canon
11.2021 - 09.2024
- Involved in Functional, System Testing, Bug Verification, Writing Test Cases, E2E Testing, Documentation, Scrum Meeting, Creating Stories, Report Testing (Inventory, Finance, Pending Query)
- Work Flow Testing, Intramodality Testing, PSP Testing, MobileApp Testing, Develop OQ and PQ Scripts, Evidence Gathering, Plans, develops and leads QA program improvements
- Leads projects to develop new and improve existing Quality Assurance systems and procedures
- Manage several functional teams to drive consistency and enhancements across QA Testing Units with respect to reporting, testing methodology, analysis of results and database management
- Requirement gathering and finalizing
- Handling and interacting with onshore Team on Test support and Bug reproduction
- Client Interaction and Reporting Test Status, Progress to Client
- Create Test Plan as per Project Requirements
- Regulatory compliance, Risk Management and SW Hazard analysis activities for Class I, II and Class III medical devices against FDA QSR 820, ISO 13485
- FDA Validation guidance and IEC 62304
- Developed the SOPs for Design Verification, Validation, Design Output activities in line with FDA medical device regulations and IEC 62304
- Expertise in Test Management, Design verification Strategy and Planning, test execution, Regression test strategy, Design verification summary report, defect report documentations and onsite-offshore coordination
Test Lead
Neogenomics
05.2021 - 11.2023
- Involved in Functional Testing, UI Testing, Device Testing
- System Testing, Bug Verification, Develop OQ, PQ Scripts
- Responsible for generating, Maintaining Paperwork associated with Product development such that the Product adheres to IEC 62304
- Lead and Participate in Risk Assessment and Evidence Gathering
- Handling of Post Market surveillance
- Working with QA Team to ensure testing meets Quality and regulatory standards
- Requirement gathering and finalizing
- Handling and interacting with onshore Team on Test support and Bug reproduction
- Guide team to work closely on testing support activities and help them breakdown their work and contribute towards faster delivery of solutions
- Plans, develops and leads QA program improvements
- Leads projects to develop new and improve existing Quality Assurance systems and procedures
- Manage several functional teams to drive consistency and enhancements across QA Testing Units with respect to reporting, testing methodology, analysis of results and database management
Verification & Validation Engineer
Quest Global
03.2020 - 04.2021
- Company Overview: Domain: Automotive Infotainment
- Involved in Testing infotainment features such as Bluetooth, Navigation, Car Play, Android Auto, AM/FM
- Perform testing on AM/FM features such as Tune, seek, scan, favorites
- Work experience with communication protocols like CAN
- Exp in testing Bluetooth profiles like HFP, PBAP, A2DP, AVRCP, MAP
- Exp in stress Testing, regression Testing
- Executing Test cases for Bluetooth, Navigation and Media
- Ability to understand Business requirements and meet deadlines
- Testing Navigation features such as Point of interest, Gas station, On-route traffic, Day view, Night view
- Domain: Automotive Infotainment
Lead Engineer
Kodiak Networks
03.2019 - 12.2019
- Involved in System Testing of PTT over VOIP
- Reading VOIP Messages
- Testing of VOIP call flows
- Analyzing VOIP call flows and checking Logs
- Writing and Executing VOIP Test Cases
Lead Engineer
Qualcomm
06.2018 - 12.2018
- Testing of VOIP Call Flows
- Executing and writing SIP Test Cases
- Analysis of Logs and VOIP Call Flows
- Determine testing strategy & execute test plans for regression and load performance testing of VoIP applications
Verification & Validation Engineer
Honeywell
02.2017 - 05.2018
- Company Overview: Domain: Building Automation Solutions (HVAC, IOT)
- Functional, NonFunctional, Performance, Migration, Hardware Testing, Usability, Reliability, compatibility, Support during Production Testing, Verification of defects, Attending Scrum Meetings, Testing New features developed during each sprint, Co-coordinating with different Product/Development Teams for information on new stories, Creating stories for any new feature developed during sprint, Involved in Supporting Product/Development Team for Urgent/Important Defect verification and Fixing
- Involved in end-to-end testing in this project right starting from design phase
- At initial stage the build was made using gradlew command where the modules were pulled from the mercurial server & N4, made the several and strategy was made for N4 new features including various communication scenarios between the AX & N4
- Testing Compatibility of Honeywell JACE HW controllers with drivers like Bacnet MSTP/IP Network, LON, Modbus TCP/IP, RS-485, RS-232, MQTT and High Intensive Graphics Pages
- Made the various NFR setup at initial stage to validate & optimize the Niagara 4.0 & 4.1, 4.2, 4.6 performance with different drivers, loading the setup with different features
- Scope of project includes testing of the basic features of Niagara AX such as Alarm, Histories, Schedules, Series Transform, configuration of temperature set points & graphics pages
- Real Time monitoring and controlling of HVAC Systems in a building via Niagara Tool
- Work with Electronic HW like Jace
- Perform Verification and Validation testing
- Reporting to the Engineering Manager on progress and working with them to resolve any issues
- Identification of software defects as early as possible in the software development process, and problem resolution to management
- Work pro-actively in problem solving, debugging and focus on solutions
- Support technical reviews and cross-functional documentation reviews
- Domain: Building Automation Solutions (HVAC, IOT)
Verification & Validation Engineer
Honeywell Aerospace
07.2016 - 12.2016
- Worked on Requirement based Testing in HSIT (Hardware Software integration Testing)
Software Test Engineer
Qualcomm
03.2016 - 12.2016
- Involved in Testing of Integrated chipsets includes Bluetooth and WIFI
- Involve in Bluetooth Firmware Testing
- Testing Bluetooth low energy profiles like HOGP, FMP, HRP, GLP(Glucose monitor)
- Testing of different Bluetooth low energy devices
- Functionality Testing of different profiles like HFP, HSP, A2DP, AVRCP, OPP, HID, OBEX, OPP, HID
- Bluetooth Certification of different Bluetooth products specifically mobile handsets
- Capturing Bluetooth snoop logs
- Capturing OTA logs from client as well as server and sending to developer for analysis
- Running FM related test cases
- IOT Testing with different carkits, headsets
- Dual HFP Test cases, OOR, ANT test cases (Stand alone and Co-existence)
- Automation of Sanity and Stress Related Test Cases
- Involved in different types of testing as Phone interop, Dual HFP, State Machine, MRD
- Responsible for both Manual and Automation Testing
- Responsible for writing, executing, bug reporting
- Responsible for AP Testing
Test Engineer
Chrysler
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Conducting vehicle and dynamometer, Speedometer tests as per engineering specifications
- Writing reports of product development lifecycle
- Preparing test plans to meet specific requirements of the product
- Provided technical support for test coordination, test failures, and test reports
- Assisted vehicle test engineer in interpreting and analyzing test results
- Vehicle diagnostic Testing
- Verification and validation experience for component level, sub-system, bench level as well as vehicle level testing
- Requirement analysis, Test plan creation, script writing, updating and writing Test cases, logging defects and re-verification
- Effective Root cause analysis expertise with analytical ability to solve complex problems
- Black Box testing for infotainment modules
- Test Case Analysis and Diagnostic for in vehicle infotainment system
- Testing Navigation, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Speech Recognition using different testing techniques
- In Vehicle Testing of Emergency Buttons, Vehicle tracking Application, Vehicle security and Location Assistance
- Worked on testing Automotive Driver Assistance System (ADAS) like adaptive cruise control (ACC), Emergency Breaking Assistance (EBA), Lane Keep assist, lane Departure, and centering
- Experienced in Testing Embedded Systems, Software and APIs
- Diagnostic of HMI’s and Head Unit
- Diagnostic of vehicle communication systems using protocols CAN
- Identify software bugs during software execution and reporting to software development team by using bug life cycle tools like JIRA
- Requirements management tool such as IBM DOORS
Automotive Infotainment Test Engineer
Panasonic Automotive
02.2015 - 06.2016
- Involved in Testing of Automotive and vehicle Infotainment
- Involved in System Testing of automotive infotainment features such as CD, Aux, Bluetooth, Navigation, AM/FM applications, Voice Recognition, WI-FI, Climate control
- Reading CAN Messages using Vehicle spy
- Testing different Bluetooth profiles like HFP, A2DP, AVRCP, MAP, PBAP
- Analyse Requirements, Created Test Plans, Writing and Executing Test Cases for Bluetooth, Navigation, Media
- Involved in Testing Different Features of navigation such as Point of interest, one route traffic, day view, night view, Satellite View, Audio
- Performed Regression Testing for Navigation and Bluetooth Profiles
- Report Bugs using Jira and Maintaining Test plans on confluence
- Perform phone projection testing with infotainment system using Car play
- Testing on Board Media and Entertainment
- Performing smoke, system level, sub-system, functional, regression, In-vehicle testing
- Timely update of software in Head Units in both Vehicle and Bench using USB sticks and SD cards when needed
Senior Software Engineer
Motorola Mobility
06.2015 - 01.2016
- Testing of Different Bluetooth profiles like HSP, HFP, HID, A2DP, AVRCP, OPP
- IOT Testing with different Bluetooth Headsets
- Motorola Push to Talk Features (Walky Talky)
- Language testing like Espanol, Hindi, French
- Testing includes sanity, regression, functional, Stress, Adversial
- Writing and Execution of Test Cases
- Participation in the preparation of test plan
- Involved in kick off meeting
- Preparing Post Mortem Reports after the completion of projects
- Testing of different Java Midlets with respect to handsets
- Logging and Raising defects in clear quest
- 3rd party Application Testing including Browser Testing, Java Midlets
- Localization testing for different languages like Hindi, Bengali, Espanol, native Indian languages
- BREW Testing
- Different audio and Video file Testing
- Mobile Apps Testing
- Testing of different browsers in a Handset and Different browser versions (Ovi Browser) and UI Testing
- Different API Testing
Senior Software Engineer
Comcast
05.2013 - 12.2015
- Involved in System Testing and testing of different features
- Raising defects in CDETs and Jira
- Verifying issues
- Logging issues and writing test cases
- Feature Testing, Regression Testing etc
- Running SOAK, Channel change, Sanity scripts, recording reliability overnight Tests and Providing results
- Build characterization on every build
- Feature testing includes VOD, PPV, DVR, MRDVR, AUDIO, VIDEO, Settings
- Performing manual Testing for all DVR Set Top Boxes
- Finding issues and root cause analysis of the problems
- Supporting developers via re-creating the problems and de-bugging the issues
- Verifying issues when fixes are available and updating the defects
- Attending Test plan reviews and design reviews
- Supporting the developer with their patching on high severity issues
- Supporting on site testing for international customers
- Performing sanity testing, functional testing, performance testing and capacity testing
- Performing installation testing including boot loader testing
Software Engineer
US BANK
10.2011 - 10.2012
- Writing and executing different test cases
- Involves testing of this application on Web and Mobile App on Android and IOS devices
- Log analysis and supporting developers on engineering build with fixes
- Testing Banking application module on different Networks
- Performing Functional, sanity, stress, GUI testing test cases
- Running overnight automation scripts
- Designed and wrote anomaly testing procedures for new web based developments and services; resulted in more accurate, streamlined and accurate testing of products
- Performed anomaly resolution and cataloging of errors concerning new services; resulted in a better performing product for the end user and helped make error correcting process more efficient
- Performed Quality Assurance testing on a web based applications and mainframe
- Executed all test phrases during System, Integration and Functional testing including Component, Regression, User Acceptance, Performance, Ad-Hoc and Stress testing etc
- Used Photoshop and Image Ready to create Web graphics
- Testing on different browsers Chrome, IE11, Safari and on Mobile operating systems like Android, iOS
- Functional and user acceptance testing of multiple websites; new and maintenance releases
- Created test plans and detailed test cases for web tests to be performed
- Recorded, assigned, verified and resolved bugs found during all stages of testing
- Collaborated with clients to prioritize and resolve outstanding issue
Software Engineer
Siemens LTD
04.2010 - 09.2011
- Testing of Different modules like Domestic Travel Requisition, International Travel Requisition, Cross Country Approval form etc
- Creation of Test data in Mainframe server
- Raising defects and raising in Lotus Notes
- Writing and Executing Test cases
- Assigning Severity of errors
- Creating checklist of all requirements to be Tested
- Creating COC (Certificate of Conformance) after every module is tested
Education
Bachelors in Engineering -
Biju Pattnaik Technical University
IndiaSkills
- C
- Python
- Jira
- Confluence
- HP-ALM
- Test Director
- Lotus Notes
- Niagara AX
- Niagara 40
- VOIP (SIP)
- RTP
- RTCP
- SDP
- CAN
- UDS
- Bluetooth/BLE/WI-FI
- BACnet
- Lon Works
- Modbus
- MQTT
- Win80
- Win10
- UNIX
- Android
- IOS
- IDEN
- GSM
- CDMA Handsets
- Ellisys
- Oscilloscope
- Wireshark
- NRF
- Sniffer Tool
- SQL
Certification
- ISTQB Software Testing Certification
- Six Sigma core Green Belt certification
- Niagara AX TCP Certification
Personal Information
- Willing To Relocate: True
- Nationality: Indian
Timeline
Lead Engineer
JIO Platforms
12.2024 - Current
Test Lead (Medical Testing)
Canon
11.2021 - 09.2024
Test Lead
Neogenomics
05.2021 - 11.2023
Verification & Validation Engineer
Quest Global
03.2020 - 04.2021
Lead Engineer
Kodiak Networks
03.2019 - 12.2019
Lead Engineer
Qualcomm
06.2018 - 12.2018
Verification & Validation Engineer
Honeywell
02.2017 - 05.2018
Verification & Validation Engineer
Honeywell Aerospace
07.2016 - 12.2016
Software Test Engineer
Qualcomm
03.2016 - 12.2016
Test Engineer
Chrysler
02.2016 - 12.2016
Senior Software Engineer
Motorola Mobility
06.2015 - 01.2016
Automotive Infotainment Test Engineer
Panasonic Automotive
02.2015 - 06.2016
Senior Software Engineer
Comcast
05.2013 - 12.2015
Software Engineer
US BANK
10.2011 - 10.2012
Software Engineer
Siemens LTD
04.2010 - 09.2011
Bachelors in Engineering -
Biju Pattnaik Technical University
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