Sumanth Gowda
Bengaluru
Summary
Highly motivated employee with a desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior QA Engineer
Moonfrog labs
Bengaluru
05.2022 - Current
- Excel in the end-to-end process, from concept ideation to delivering the top-notch quality features with better user experience and test approaches.
- Proficient in analysing the requirements in close collaboration with the product team keeping end users in mind, implementing test strategies, developing test plans, writing & reviewing test cases/scenarios of peers.
- Good at identifying potential risks, suggests changes at initial stages of designing phase for meeting the deadlines & following best test practices.
- Analysed test results and resulted in 45% reduction in defects. Suggest & collaborate solutions to the UX, design, developers & product teams.
- Identifying root cause for any issues, used debugging tools viz Hawkeye elastic search, logs etc. report them in defect tracking tools & work with developers with established processes for an efficient issue resolution.
- Skilled in performing functional & non-functional like performance testing & raise concerns w.r.t game’s performance & ensure we fix those issues.
- Contributed to business with consistent increase >4 million MoM revenue & DoD retention by analysing the market trends & suggested events, mini-events to the product team and brought differentiators in game.
- Achieved high app ratings >4.6 by decoding customer reviews, analysing SQL data(with help of DS team) & fixed issues in collaboration with the CS team.
- Hands-on experience on running test automation scripts.
- I excel in coordinating between cross-functional teams, stakeholders to release features without even missing a small requirement asked.
QA Engineer
Zenith Software Solutions
Bengaluru
10.2020 - 05.2022
- Meticulous attention to detail in maintaining the high quality bars of the product.
- Organised play tests, tournaments, game teardowns, retrospectives, bug triage meets, brainstorm sessions for a smoother execution process.
- Adept at streamlining testing processes to enhance efficiency, stability of a product helped in building LiveOps tools to reduce manual efforts.
- Extensive experience in written & communication skills, report issues, document features, create test cases & test plans, cost analysis, update stakeholders & delivering features on time by being flexible.
- Proven experience in testing platforms like Mobile applications (Android/iOS/Facebook IG/Snapchat), PC(Windows) and Web (HTML5 games, company's distributor sites etc).
- Excel in non-functional performance testing using game bench, wetest perfdog, browser stack and traditional methods like android studio and localisation testing.
- Well versed in device compatibility testing using browser stack, cross-platform, component, A/B testing, network throttling using tools.
- Proficient in client-server architecture and understands the dependencies of mongo db, couch base, different servers etc.
- Quick learner who understands the product & tools very quickly created an opportunity for me to work in multiple projects and platforms.
- Created detailed bug reports with steps to reproduce identified issues.
Associate Test Engineer
Test Yantra Software Solutions
05.2018 - 10.2020
- Responsibility includes interacting with development and test teams to ensure critical blocking bugs are resolved
- Gathering the customer requirement and application flow process
- Preparation of test plan, test case writing and review
- Reporting defects in Bugzilla/GitHub
- Capturing ADB Logs and Analyzing
- Attending meetings with client
- Preparing Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly report
- Verifying the functionality of the build
- Verifying the functionality of the system applications and their behavior
- Understanding the client Requirements and functionality of the system
- Execution of Test cases as per system requirements
- Involved in Functional, System and Regression Testing
- Involved in Bug tracking & Prepare Bug Report Document
- Involved FOTA verification
- Involved in Sanity testing
- Defining Test Cases & Test Methodologies
- Executing the issue raised in the previous versions
- Involved in end-to-end testing of the Mobile Applications
- Preparing the report
Test Engineer
VAPS Technosoft
01.2018 - 04.2018
- Responsibilities include collecting the requirements form the client
- Interacting with the development and testing team, reporting the failure/bugs in the software
- Collecting the requirements from the Client
- Writing test cases, executing test cases
- Report the issues found in the application
- Executing the issue raised once the fixes made
- Involved in end-to-end testing of the Web & Mobile Application
- Preparing the report
- Project Name: School Management Applications
- Client : VAPS
- Company :
- Team Size : 4
- Environment : Mobile Application Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Performance Testing
Quality Engineer
LG Soft India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 12.2017
- Project scope include debugging of failures and reporting the failure
- Responsibility includes interacting with development and test teams to ensure critical blocking bugs are resolved avoiding delay in issues resolution by routing to proper sub- components of UE
- Derivation of Field Test routes (2G, 3G, 4G) based on Log Analysis
- Defining Test Cases & Test Methodologies
- Executing the issue raised in the previous versions
- Involved in end-to-end testing of the Mobile Applications
- Preparing the report
- Product verification is the process of verify the functionality of the build/binary
- Here we verify the system applications and their behavior
- If the behavior and the functionality is working fine then the binary will be promoted for the factory
- Understanding the client Requirements and functionality of the system
- Execution of Test cases as per system requirements
- Involved in Functional, System and Regression Testing
- Involved in Bug tracking & Prepare Bug Report Document
- Involved FOTA verification
- Involved in Sanity testing
- Involved in testing Third party applications compatibility with the DUT
- Project Name : LG-C70, LG-P1s, Nexus 5X, LG-M1, LG-M2, K10, G6, V20, V30
- Client : Operator Specific
- Company : LG Soft India
- Team Size : 4
- Environment: Functional testing, LTE-RF Testing, Data Throughput, Field Testing, Test Plan, Third Party Applications
- Project Name: LG G5, Nexus, G6, V20, V30, Stylus 2 plus, Google Pixel 2XL (Android Mobile Phone)
- Client : LGSI R&D
- Testing Type: Manual Testing
- Role : Test Engineer
Education
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Bangalore University
01.2015
PUC -
Karnataka PU board
01.2012
SSLC -
Karnataka state secondary education board
01.2010
Skills
TESTING Skills :
Requirement, Test plans, Suit & Execution Bug tracking & reporting Tools Mobile Applications, Web & PC apps Automation: Web & Mobile applications Version control: GitHub Performance, Regression/Halo Testing Meticulous attention to Quality Agile, Scrum, UAT Testing SQL, MongoBD, Usability & Data Flow Testing Analytical & Problem Solving Compliance Testing Running Automation Scripts QA Documentation User Acceptance Testing Test Approach - TDD, HLD, BDD
LEADERSHIP & BUSINESS:
Resource & Capacity planning Prioritising Tasks & Tracking Bugs Product Backlog Refinement Start-up Environment Experience Strategic Roadmap Planning Sprint Planning & Sprint Review Retrospective Meetings Training & Managing a Team Customer feedback analysis Retention consistency App Ratings Streamline Process Written & Communication Skills
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Experienced in Android Mobile application & Device testing.
- Experience in FOTA verification.
- Freelancing experience on Web & Mobile application testing.
- Good knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, Software Testing Life Cycle & Bug Life Cycle.
- Very good exposure to the requirements discussions, Pre-Release meeting, Client meetings.
- Hands on Experience in Providing Weekly, Monthly and Quarterly report to Manager.
- Experience in Manual Testing (Test case design, Test execution and Collecting Test data). Proficient in Testcase Preparation.
- Device Battery Testing using Agilent tool
- Good Experience in tools like QXDM, QPST, QCAT and Flashing Tool.
- Hands on experience on Bug Tracking tools like Bugzilla, GitHub, HP QC, Jira
- Good knowledge of setting up Android ADB environment using Android SDK, ADB commands.
- Performed Extensive Functional Testing, Battery testing, Integration, System and Regression Testing
- Ability to work under deadlines, worked as an active team member and willingness to accept responsibilities.
- Sound knowledge on Test Case Design, Review, Execution, Test results Analysis, bug reporting and Bug Tracking till closure.
- Proficient in writing, reviewing & executing test scenarios & test cases using test & bug management tools like JIRA, TestRail & many too
- Effective communication, loves problem-solving, meticulous attention todetails, interpersonal & analytical thinking skills.
Accomplishments
STAR Player Award twice -
For finding the root cause for many critical issues.
For removing the dependency of PM in preparing the configs
STAR Performer Award - For releasing critical features within a deadline with zero issues.
Languages
Kannada
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Hindi
Elementary (A2)
A2
Timeline
Senior QA Engineer
Moonfrog labs
05.2022 - Current
QA Engineer
Zenith Software Solutions
10.2020 - 05.2022
Associate Test Engineer
Test Yantra Software Solutions
05.2018 - 10.2020
Test Engineer
VAPS Technosoft
01.2018 - 04.2018
Quality Engineer
LG Soft India Pvt Ltd
04.2016 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Computer Applications -
Bangalore University
PUC -
Karnataka PU board
SSLC -
Karnataka state secondary education board
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