Experienced QA professional with years of industry expertise. Passionate about staying ahead of the curve in technology trends and leveraging them to enhance organizational success.
Robust knowledge in Python.
Familiar with the procedures involved in all stages of software testing, as well as with all the relevant industry standards
Proficiency in Performance Testing
Expertise in Stability testing
Experience in designing and building modules in Continuous Testing (CT) framework
Mentoring team members
Technical ownership of various releases
Sound understanding of End to End Software testing life cycle in Agile (Scrum) as well as Waterfall model.
Good knowledge of product life cycle and testing life cycle.
Expertise in protocol understanding and system integration.
Proven record of acquiring knowledge in a short time on different technologies and delivering the result.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Tarana Wireless
09.2024 - Current
Worked on System Performance, tested and validated TCP throughput of the system.
Worked on building test infrastructure for RFC-6349 test and validation.
Worked on the Calibration Module, gathered requisite knowledge and built the test framework from scratch, which was helpful in finding many crucial issues in the implemented algorithm.
Senior SDET
Microsoft
01.2022 - 08.2024
Proposed, designed and implemented the idea to automate performance validation, thus by reducing the manual validation effort in each RVT cycle.
Proposed the initial design for the "Pulse" (observability) module as part of the Continuous Test (CT) framework "Endorse" and worked on the implementation as well. Integrated Azure Data Lake Storage into the framework.
Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful test strategies for entire team.
Built automated test scripts to handle repetitive software testing work, like script to collect CPU/Memory statistics from Azure Log Analytics etc.
Technical Lead, QA
Parallel Wireless
04.2017 - 01.2022
Prepared, planned & reviewed Test Specifications for the features across releases.
Conducted reviews on the test specifications.
Executed & automated the test cases with constant check on the quality of features.
Assisted team members in all technical roadblocks.
Senior Technical Lead, QA
Cisco Systems
03.2010 - 03.2017
Worked on various telecom Interfaces/Protocols.
Worked on many customers reported issues and recreated them in thew QA Lab for faster resolution.
Won accolades for faster recreation in many critical issues reported which caused outage like situations sometimes.
Technical Lead, QA
Alcatel-Lucent
03.2006 - 02.2010
Executed test cases for many releases of AGCF (Access Gateway Control Function), a node that helps PSTN Users to connect to IMS Users.
Developed a Performance Automation Portal using LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack.
Software Engineer
Reliance Infocomm
03.2004 - 03.2006
Developed a portal using LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack which was being used across the BU to track employee work status.
Involved in complete testing activities for MMSC products.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering
Utkal University
2002
Skills
Languages: Python
Framework: Microsoft Internal CT framework Development (Python)
Quality Star award in Microsoft for successfully delivering private 5G solution.
Proposed a solution for performance and system test validation which was implemented and is being used currently to validate test results in automatic manner in Microsoft.
Hacker-Rank Python (Basic) and SQL (Basic) Certified
Cisco CAP award for overall excellence in handling complex subjects like Gn-Gp Handover (EPC-3G/2G) during my tenure
Worked on multiple complex customer escalations and recreated/verified them successfully in Cisco Systems.
Developed various portals in Reliance Communications (general purpose employee management) and Alcatel-Lucent (load automation suite) using LAMP stack.
Certification
CKAD Certified (Dec 2023)
Azure AZ-900 Certified (Jan 2022)
Extracurricular Activities
Out of self-interest, explored the Data Science Domain. Worked/Analyzed a sample data set, which can be found at https://github.com/asimanandamohanty/lendingclub
Timeline
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Tarana Wireless
09.2024 - Current
Senior SDET
Microsoft
01.2022 - 08.2024
Technical Lead, QA
Parallel Wireless
04.2017 - 01.2022
Senior Technical Lead, QA
Cisco Systems
03.2010 - 03.2017
Technical Lead, QA
Alcatel-Lucent
03.2006 - 02.2010
Software Engineer
Reliance Infocomm
03.2004 - 03.2006
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering