DAYANANDA MARKULI GOWDAPPA

• Worked on delivering customisation in CRM tools like Salesforce and Netsuite and was responsible for handling billing and support lifecycle for Rapid7 customers
• Implemented shift left strategy from QA perspective by increasing automation footprint in testing and implement CI/CD as part of the testing process.
• Developed new automation framework for E2E testing using Cypress/javascript
• Setup CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
• Ran POC’s to identify alternative tools for improving /automating the release process
• Tooling/ POC's to replace traditional tools with AI enabled QA tools
• Created dashboards to regularly update all stakeholders with QA/Automation progress
• Hiring and skilling up new team members across the QA organization

• Worked on a project to migrate a legacy monolith application into a next-gen a micro-service based app whilst revamping the classic functionality and adding new features
• Responsibilities included implementing test strategy and identify right automation tools
• Managing release cycles and co-ordination with all related feature teams.
• Drive the BDD process across the feature team by conducting regular example mapping sessions
• Implemented Automation framework in Cypress (Typescript was used as the scripting language)
• Increased automation footprint across all levels. Implemented unit testing through Jest-Cucumber
• Create automation to test API gateways mainly using POSTMAN collections
• Participate in the release process. Complete regression and UAT testing on different environments throughout the release process
• Participate in PR reviews for the changes in test script across the team
• Mentor junior QA team members and guide them through the QA process and maintaining code quality

• The BT-Vision project aims to deliver a range of interactive television-based services such as high-quality live TV, Video on Demand and Time-shifted TV over BTs broadband network
• Roles and Responsibilities: Team Lead/Scrum Master role which includes onshore/offshore co-ordination, planning and delivery of sprint objectives and participate in defect triage
• Automating Functional/Regression/Sanity and Performance test suites for BT IPTV STB’s using STORM tool (based on PYTHON Scripting)
• Automated Functional and Regression pack for BT player web app using PROTRACTOR/SELENIUM (JAVASCRIPT based) framework
• Team Lead/Scrum Master role which includes onshore/offshore co-ordination, planning and delivery of sprint objectives and participate in defect triage
• Support In-life debug team by devising reproduction steps for critical issues seen in field and helping in validating their fixes
• Automated PERFORMANCE Testing of key metrics of BT IPTV STB (Boot Times, Channel Zap timings, EPG load times ...etc.) and used VBA scripting for excel based test reports
• Creation and maintenance of SPLUNK dashboards for report generation across functional and performance tests

Project: BT TV STB Testing and Automation
Microsoft based IPTV STBs designed to offer interactive TV service to users in UK.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Defining Test strategy/Test plan creation based on product/feature requirement documents
• Mainly responsible for Automation testing of BT-Vision STB on Mirifice tool using TCL/TK.
• Created web reporting framework around the Mirifice tool using SOAP API’s and SQL database
• Automated Stress Testing of the STB’s to correctly estimate worst case system up time
• Work on root cause analysis and mitigation for In-Life issues from the Trial’s feedback and issues arising from production deployment

Project:Thermal Testing Automation Using TCL/TK
Sub-project designed and implemented automate the Thermal Testing of the Optical Network Terminals. The objective was to test receiver sensitivity of the optical parts (which were housed inside a programmable thermal chamber)
Roles and Responsibilities:

• Automate all the test equipment’s involved in the set-up like Thermal Chambers, smart bits, Variable optical attenuators and the OLT/ONT system
• Develop a GUI test suite comprising of all the test cases to be automated. This was done using Tk.
• Extract the results and port it into a result sheet which could be used for analysis and reporting purpose.

Project: FTTP (FIBER TO THE PREMISIS)
FTTP is a form of fiber optic communication delivery in which the optical signal reaches the end user's living or office space.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and translated business requirements to functional requirements.
• Created and maintained tests for different testing cycles alongside execution.
• Involved in testing of daily loads and QA loads. Regression testing, Performance testing, test plan design and reviews. Preparing unit test cases and execute them.
• Bug reporting and Bug fix verification testing.
• Key player in deciding test plan and strategy. Responsible for Test designing, planning and execution of functional testing in both agile & waterfall models of product.
• Prepare test plan for GPON and BPON standard based ONT’s.
  Schematic Reading and Hardware Verification Testing of all the ONT motherboards
• Automating the Various Set-ups using TCL/Tk.