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Smruti Bikash Sahoo

Bengaluru

Summary

Experienced engineer with 7 years in software testing across diverse platforms including Web, mobile, desktop, and API(REST API) backend systems. Skilled in domain understanding, test planning, test strategies, tech implementation, and improving team productivity through test automation. Committed to delivering a high-quality product within the Agile methodology framework.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

SDET II

Plivo
06.2021 - Current

    Project: Contacto is an omni-channel B2B customer contact center application for businesses, enabling communication across multiple channels including calls, SMS, in-app/web chat, WhatsApp & email.

    • Worked on the testing, automation planning and execution and requirement analysis of the complex project with end-to-end ownership of the product.
    • Managed and mentored junior QA engineers, and handled code reviews and release processes.
    • Automation first approach for quick delivery of in-sprint stories.
    • Involved in continuous debugging and root cause analysis (RCA) for customer & in-sprint feature issues and providing detailed analysis to the stakeholders.
    • Lead the quality and test automation efforts for complex and adhoc requirements.
    • Designed & maintained a POM -based unified Hybrid Automation UI Regression framework for web app & desktop app using Python with selenium & PyTest , which increased individual QA productivity.
    • Implemented parallel execution of 250+ end-to-end UI automation test cases, resulting in a 30% reduction in overall execution time.
    • Designed a chaos testing suite for both manual and automation to validate the system under chaos test inputs.
    • Created an automation regression suite for REST APIs, prioritizing critical modules, using the Python Requests library for quick health checks of API's.
    • Implemented and maintained an automated Bot suite which is scheduled for a timely run of every 15 minutes for continuous monitoring and quick feedback of the application.

Senior QA Engineer

PayTM
04.2020 - 06.2021

Project: This allows Paytm users to apply for SBI Base/Premium or CITI credit cards with good rewards and cashback.

  • Accountable and responsible for development and enhancements of API and Mobile App Test case.
  • Responsible for the end to end responsibility of the application, starting from requirement understanding to production movement.
  • Automated Mobile app test cases using Java with Appium .
  • Automated REST APIs using Java with REST Assured .

Quality assurance engineer

OpenText
09.2016 - 04.2020

Project: The IoT project facilitates automated communication between devices and applications, eliminating the need for human intervention. It includes a user- friendly UI for device and application creation, as well as supports message communication using various protocols such as MQTT, AMQP, FTP, and S3 messaging.

  • Owned Devices, Authentication methods, Rule engine, message governance and orchestration of the platform.
  • Involved in creation Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on requirements understanding or grooming meetings.
  • Involved in both API (using HTTP Client framework) and UI ( Hybrid Framework ) based automation testing.
  • Coordinating with the team (onsite & offshore) for requirement understanding and resolving requirement gaps.

Education

B.Tech -

Institute of Technical Education And Research
Odisha, India
05.2015

Skills

  • Language:- Java, Python
  • Frontend:- Selenium WebDriver, Appium, BDD(Cucumber)
  • Backend:- Rest Assured, Requests library, Postman
  • Unit Testing:- PyTest,TestNg
  • Database:- Mysql, Postgres, Redis
  • DevOps:- AWS, Jenkins, GitHub Actions
  • Debugging Tools:- Kibana, Opensearch, Sentry, Log Rocket
  • OS:- MacOS, Linux, Windows
  • Others:- Jira, Charles, Kafka

Accomplishments

  • Achieved Kudos award for exceptional Leadership and Successful Major Release Rollouts. Link
  • Achieved Applause award for Proactive Ownership and Automation-Driven Initiatives. Link

Timeline

SDET II

Plivo
06.2021 - Current

Senior QA Engineer

PayTM
04.2020 - 06.2021

Quality assurance engineer

OpenText
09.2016 - 04.2020

B.Tech -

Institute of Technical Education And Research
Smruti Bikash Sahoo