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Hanok Vijaya Vardhan Neethipudi

Cambridge,Cambridgeshire

Summary

With a proven track record at Roku, I excel in leading QA and firmware development projects, showcasing expertise in Python and effective team coordination. My background includes enhancing voice quality applications and driving significant improvements in product certification processes, demonstrating both technical proficiency and leadership capabilities.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr QA Engineer

Roku
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
03.2022 - Current
  • Managed end-to-end tasks for HbbTV certification within the UK market.
  • Led factory operations for Skyworth EU and AU projects.
  • Coordinated and released firmware to manufacturing partners for new TV development.
  • Reported QA status updates to relevant directors and managers.
  • Served as primary liaison between manufacturing partner QA team and Roku.
  • Represent Roku QA team during product meetings with external TV manufacturers.

Automation Test Engineer

CyanConnode
Cambridge
02.2018 - Current
  • Define test strategy and architect test procedures for various product line
  • IPA3 and NIC7 Short range RF node
  • IPA3B Long range RF node
  • CNIC7 Meter integrated Cellular node
  • GW200 Ethernet+ cellular uplink Gateway
  • MBUS Meter serial Bus node
  • SMIP-Chub Communication Hub supporting Radio, Zigbee, and cellular connectivity
  • NMS and SMA web applications
  • Determine software testing requirements for a given User Story
  • Test architecture for automation of various features
  • PyTest based test automation suite for API testing for meter integration and RF layers
  • Setup the test environment for performance, scaling and long run scenarios
  • Defect tracking, Bug scrub, orchestrating monkey testing for bug dense areas of product
  • Define and maintain test repositories, maintaining CI for continuous regression runs
  • QA gating for all releases
  • Mentoring and managing Offshore team

Technical Lead QA

INCEDO
Gurgaon / Bangalore
03.2013 - 11.2016
  • Accomplished testing procedures on Product lines such as Nuance Communications Ethernet Voice Processor (EVP) - Real Time Voice Quality Assurance and Radisys MRF (Media Resource Function)
  • Active participation in requirement gathering and reviews of business requirements, functional specifications, system design
  • Accountable for devising Test data, Test Strategies, Test plans, Test cases and validating Test plans, Test cases and strategies to ensure that business requirements are covered
  • Resource and Effort estimation, identifying risks and risk mitigation for all the activities involved in various iterations in STLC cycle
  • Thoroughly drive test case execution and testing activities – Sanity, Functional, Regression, Failover, System Integration and User Acceptance and documenting/publishing test results to higher management
  • Defect Logging/Tracking/Management with team coordination, resolution tracking with development team to get all the defects to closure and reporting all the activities to higher management
  • Working closely with developers for any new feature/enhancement for new release
  • Supporting field trials, troubleshooting issues in trials, Round the clock support for field activities, Simulating Field issues in Lab environment, extracting logs / captures from core crash scenarios

Sr Software Engineer (L3 Support)

LiveVox
Bangalore
04.2012 - 10.2012
  • Responsible for Tier 3 support for SIP / Call flow / Call routing related issues for failed calls
  • Perform Interoperability test between SIP Trunk providers and LiveVox platform to access the performance and quality
  • Postmortem of failed calls and update Call routing logic accordingly
  • Continuous monitoring of call history to identify failed calls and take necessary actions

Sr Software Engineer

TechMahindra
Bangalore
08.2010 - 03.2012
  • VoIP / Video and Data testing For Motorola ONT / OLT
  • Involve in Effort estimation for every sprint
  • Assigning the activities to the team members, mentoring, monitoring, and making sure the rate of test execution is according to the plan
  • Maintaining the test lab setup and updating based on various needs of the test cycle
  • Capturing various matrices for every test cycle to evaluate and implement best practices
  • Maintaining the necessary Metrics and publishing the same for the required stakeholders
  • Validate the build for Compliance with RFC / Industry standards
  • Providing the test reports to various stake holders
  • Involved in preparing detailed test specifications
  • Involved in conducting the smoke and as well as connectivity tests prior to start of the UAT
  • Involved in understanding the Risk Systems and measuring the risks involved in the project
  • Logs issues found in software under test
  • Attending weekly team meeting to discuss the current weeks team output and to get objective of next week

Sr Consultant

Ciber Inc
Bangalore
03.2007 - 08.2010
  • SIP based communication applications on Android / Win Mobile platforms for client Ecrio
  • Create Test Plan, Test strategy and Test cases for every test cycle
  • Pick and execute Smoke / Sanity test cases for every build provided based on the release components and accept / reject the build accordingly
  • Provide effort estimation and plan for test cycle accordingly
  • Perform Unit testing, Module testing an integration testing and provide the required support for development team
  • Check for Compliance with RFC / Industry standards
  • Interoperability testing with various vendor services
  • Performing functional testing, Acceptance testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, system testing, Load testing and smoke testing
  • Providing the test reports to various stake holders

Trainee Software Engineer

Emtel
Bangalore
02.2005 - 02.2007
  • SIP Stack Development / Testing
  • Develop various modules for RFC compliance in C/ C++ / Windows platform
  • Integration of various modules and perform integration testing
  • Performing Code review / Peer reviews
  • Reproducing a reported issue in dev setup to identify the source

Education

MCA -

Andhra University
Andhra Pradesh
01.2005

BCA -

Andhra University
Andhra Pradesh
01.2002

Skills

  • C / C
  • Python
  • Shell
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
  • SVN
  • Win CVS
  • GIT
  • Jira
  • Bigzilla
  • TestRail
  • RF based IOT applications
  • Voice Quality Enhancement and Voice to Text Applications
  • Transcoding servers
  • SAAS based ACD
  • Call Center applications

Certification

  • Certified Scrum master (CSM), 06/01/18
  • AWS certified Cloud Architect Associate, 06/01/18
  • PMI Certified Project Management Professional (PMP), 06/01/17
  • ISTQB Foundation certified, 06/01/11

Accomplishments

  • PMP
  • AWS Associate
  • Certified Scrum master
  • SAFE certified Agilist
  • ISTQB Foundation

Timeline

Sr QA Engineer

Roku
03.2022 - Current

Automation Test Engineer

CyanConnode
02.2018 - Current

Technical Lead QA

INCEDO
03.2013 - 11.2016

Sr Software Engineer (L3 Support)

LiveVox
04.2012 - 10.2012

Sr Software Engineer

TechMahindra
08.2010 - 03.2012

Sr Consultant

Ciber Inc
03.2007 - 08.2010

Trainee Software Engineer

Emtel
02.2005 - 02.2007

MCA -

Andhra University

BCA -

Andhra University
Hanok Vijaya Vardhan Neethipudi