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Vikram Singh Raghav

Noida

Summary

16+ years of experience working in a software development teams in various roles as QA.
Technically sound, Leadership, Effective Communication, Key Sense of Urgency, Problem Solving, Accountability, Collaboration, and Data-driven.
Experience in building and leading the teams (over 40+ members) to manage the deliverables on testing and maintaining Cloud Applications
Hands-on to play a crucial part in automating the test scenarios covering all the modules/functionalities of the product
Experience with API testing, Load/Performance testing, and Cross-browser testing.
Experience building defects analysis reports and analytics for the team members, stakeholders, and leadership team to make informed decisions.
Experience working on Agile development models, with key participation in Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Review, Planning, etc.
Working experience with Java or Python, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Maven, BDD, Cucumber, RDBMS, AWS Services
Improve quality, decrease the leakages, and can present the data graphically and track KPIs for success.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Mentor

Scaler
04.2022 - Current

Mentoring budding engineers towards right career path.

Senior QA Manager

Paytm
Noida
09.2020 - 06.2022


  • A technical leader, mentor, and one who exhibits thought leadership with a team consisting of 40+ QA Engineers (both Manual & Automation)
  • Manage multiple projects, coordinate dependencies, and interact with other internal teams and customers.
  • Hands-on involvement in day-to-day/ Sprint-by-Sprint /Release-by-Release product deliverables and planning
  • Collaborate with all the stakeholders with efficient coordination and clear communications
  • Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and transparent fashion.
  • Apply agile philosophy to improve team and organization performance continually.
  • Ensure QA practices are followed across the team for Automation QA, Manual QA and Performance QA
  • Able to collaborate in requirement analysis, estimates, team allocation and delivery
  • Ability to Troubleshoot the applications, cloud, environments etc.

Staff Engineer

VMware
Pune
06.2016 - 09.2020
  • Analyze product requirements and functional specifications of disaster recovery product suite
  • Identify best test strategies and define test cases, automation and code coverage activities of the next generation of product suite, the datacenter and cloud to cloud disaster recovery product
  • Design and implement core automation APIs which best serve automation needs
  • Design, implement, execute and maintain tests using Python or Java
  • Build maintainable, high quality and effective automated tests on top of various automation tools and frameworks
  • Interact with other development teams, QA, Documentation, Release Engineering to execute on product goals Provide strong testing, debugging and documentation skills
  • Be self-motivated and proactively manage time and tasks

Senior Engineer

Qualcomm
Noida
08.2014 - 06.2016
  • Responsible for creation of test strategies and methodologies for new features, test case development, and hand-off to regression team for execution
  • Work with developers, product managers, and QA team members to achieve a high-quality bar for your feature and team
  • Identify the scope of the testing required for a particular release based on the requirements of the document
  • Identify the testing effort required by calculating the sizing needed for the given release and plan the required effort for the same
  • Identify the tools for test reporting, test management, test automation, etc. and educate the team on how to use those tools. Again, plan knowledge transfer sessions if required to the team members for the tools that they would use.

Member of Technical Staff

Saholic.com
Noida
04.2012 - 08.2014
  • Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code Develop quality software and web applications
  • Analyze and maintain existing software applications
  • Design highly scalable, testable code
  • Discover and fix bugs

Test Engineer

Qualcomm
Noida
01.2011 - 04.2012
  • Record and enhance the load test scripts for web applications
  • Design scenarios for load/stress/volume etc.
  • Setup the test environment (load generators etc.) and Run load tests. Capturing and Analysis of the logs/results.
  • Sending daily/Weekly/Monthly status updates.

Software Engineer

Dell
Noida
08.2006 - 12.2010
  • Design tests plans for testing banking applications
  • Create test plans & scripts to meet verification needs
  • Interact with business and technical partners to deliver high-quality products and services that meets/exceeds business, customer, and technical requirements
  • Perform various forms of testing to deliver quality

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Army Institute of Technology
Pune
06.2006

Skills

Focus areas

Architecture/Design/Algorithms/Data structures/Cloud computing/DevOps/Caching/Virtualization/Networking/ UI/Backend/Api test automation/UI test automation/Performance/Scale Testing/Jenkins/CICD Pipelines

Technologies

Java8, Spring, Hibernate, SQL, Kafka, Python/Shell scripting,JMeter,Gatling, Selenium, Jenkins, VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director, Docker containers, Git, SVN, RestAssured, TestNG, JUnit, Python boto sdk, AWS (EC2 IAM ELB RDS S3 SQS), HA proxy,JMeter,Gatling, Selenium,Jenkins, VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director,,Docker containers,Kubernetes, Git, SVN, RestAssured, TestNG, JUnit

Timeline

Mentor

Scaler
04.2022 - Current

Senior QA Manager

Paytm
09.2020 - 06.2022

Staff Engineer

VMware
06.2016 - 09.2020

Senior Engineer

Qualcomm
08.2014 - 06.2016

Member of Technical Staff

Saholic.com
04.2012 - 08.2014

Test Engineer

Qualcomm
01.2011 - 04.2012

Software Engineer

Dell
08.2006 - 12.2010

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Army Institute of Technology
Vikram Singh Raghav