Santhosh Nayak
Test Engineer
Barnet, London
Summary
- 13 Years of comprehensive experience in the Software Testing of which 8 years in Healthcare, Fleet management and Media and 5 years in OTT App testing.
- Experience in coordinating test planning and day-to-day testing activities within a global test team on various applications.
- Managing and providing Technical Guidance to the team.
- Review User Stories and capture acceptance criteria.
- Proficient in designing, reviewing, maintaining and executing test cases.
- Creating project deliverables like Test Execution Reports, Sprint Summary Report and triaging defects using JIRA
- Experience is testing OTT app over devices like Android Phone, iPhone, iPad, Samsung TV, Sony TV, LG TV, JVC Fire TV, Android TV, Roku, Chrome cast, Airplay and YouView STB’s
- Experience in API testing using Postman.
- Excellent communication skills when liaising with Developers regarding defects and reported issues.
- Experience in Automating OTT Mobile Applications using Appium with BDD framework.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA Engineer
Sky UK - Contract
03.2021 - 01.2024
- Preparing client specific test cases by referring User stories and designs for Now TV app.
- Testing migration of streams from HLS/HSS to DASH across different clients in different territories.
- Early testing of VOD and Linear repackaging in Germany and Italy using CVSDK Reference app on XTV, Android TV and Mobile devices, followed by Client testing.
- Testing Server-side Ads integration on Mobile, XTV and Android TV using Client apps.
- Worked with CVSDK team to support testing of UHD streams using Reference apps.
- Logging and tracking bugs on Jira
- Onboarding new devices like YouView F1 Mini, Amazon Fire Tab etc.
- Contributed to root cause analysis to determine core reason for failures and errors
- Leading projects in absence of Test Leads.
Test Lead
Discovery Inc - Full Time (Consultant Engineer From Robosoft)
02.2019 - 12.2020
- Responsible for QA of Discovery Plus iOS, iPad & Android app, Fire TV app and Airplay feature for iOS
- In-charge for iOS app, iPad app and Fire TV app releases along with playing major roles for Web, Mobile Web (PWA) and Android platforms releases.
- Working on BDD Automation Framework with Cucumber tool, Writing Feature files for all cases.
- Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of Video player, On boarding, Sign up & other core functionalities of the Android and iOS app.
- BDD framework was designed by highly professional team in UK (Part of Discovery Euro Sports) using JUnit, Spring boot and which will run in Browser stack for each build which is generated by CircleCI. (Script can be run on local devices using locally hosted Appium server)
Test Lead
Dainik Bhaskar - Full Time (Consultant Engineer From Robosoft)
11.2017 - 01.2019
- Understanding application thoroughly with help of Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document and Wireframe
- Communicate with client and team members, as required
- Managing testing team and assigning tasks.
- Worked with supervisors to improve testing capabilities
- Prepared Test Cases from Requirement documents and Designs.
- Executed Test Cases and reported defects in Jira
- Performed Smoke Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing, Compatibility Testing, Performance Testing and Recovery Testing.
- Performed CMS testing
- Worked on API testing and Load Testing
Test Lead
Indiabulls Mutual Fund - Full Time (Consultant Engineer From Robosoft)
08.2016 - 10.2017
- Analyzing Product Requirements
- Understanding application thoroughly with help of Software Requirement Specification (SRS) document
- Created release note for every release to customer
- Performed API testing with Postman tool and Load testing with JMeter.
- Prepared Test Cases using requirement documents and designs.
- Executed Test Cases and reported defects in Jira
- Performed Smoke Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing, Compatibility Testing, Performance Testing and Recovery Testing.
- Interacting with client regarding requirements and project status.
Senior Test Engineer
Robosoft Technologies - Full Time
12.2010 - 07.2016
- Worked on company products like Robolife (Healthcare Management System), Airavath (Fleet Management System) and OriginIVF (Product for IVF centers that allows tracking patient records and treatment summary).
- Analyzing Requirements and providing suggestions for improvement to reduce defects from design stage it self.
- Establishing & maintaining process e.g. Defect management, effort tracking.
- Prepared Test Cases using requirement documents and designs.
- Defined and tracked test results, defect counts and performance discrepancies
- Performed Smoke Testing, UI Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing, Compatibility Testing, Performance Testing and Recovery Testing.
- Interacting with 50+ clients regarding requirements and the project status.
- Involved in Project status meeting with Management.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
CMRIT (Visveswaraya Technology University)
Bangalore, India 08.2004 - 07.2008
Skills
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Test Rail, Charles Proxy, Wireshark, Postman, Appium, Selenium (BDD, Selenium Web Driver), IntelliJ IDE
Testing Experience: Functional Testing, System Testing, Integration Testing, Smoke Testing, Regression Testing, Usability Testing, User Acceptance Testing
Operating Systems: iOS, Android, Linux, Mac & Windows, Tizen, Web OS
Programming languages: Java
Source Control & CI Tools: Git, Jenkins
Cloud Testing Platform: BrowserStack
Certification
Certified Software Tester from International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Timeline
QA Engineer
Sky UK - Contract
03.2021 - 01.2024
Certified Software Tester from International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
12-2020
Test Lead
Discovery Inc - Full Time (Consultant Engineer From Robosoft)
02.2019 - 12.2020
Test Lead
Dainik Bhaskar - Full Time (Consultant Engineer From Robosoft)
11.2017 - 01.2019
Test Lead
Indiabulls Mutual Fund - Full Time (Consultant Engineer From Robosoft)
08.2016 - 10.2017
Senior Test Engineer
Robosoft Technologies - Full Time
12.2010 - 07.2016
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication
CMRIT (Visveswaraya Technology University)
08.2004 - 07.2008