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NIK SODAVARAM

NIK SODAVARAM

Mernda,VIC

Summary

Software-savvy Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer committed to confirming proper functionality and usability of software products before release. Plans test schedules and strategies according to project scope and delivery dates and monitors and tracks bug resolutions. Reviews software documentation to verify technical accuracy and completeness and to mitigate risks. Skilled in developing and maintaining automation test frameworks using Selenium WebDriver with Maven as build tools. Hands-on experience running regression, sanity, smoke and end-to-end on selenium WebDriver with TestNG as test runner. Hands-on experience setting up cross-platform browser testing in Selenium Grid using docker-compose. Hands-on experience in setting up CI/CD pipeline (blue ocean) using Jenkins integrated with GitHub Version control Hands-on experience collaborating using GitHub, cloning, branching, pulling, and merging code. Experience setting up automated selenium tests in AWS-EC2 instances. Exposure to working in Azure Repos and developing DevOps pipelines. Hands-on experience on stress and load testing using JMeter.



Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Consultant (Quality Engineer)

Infosys Australia
Melbourne, Victoria
09.2022 - Current

Domain: Energy Australia Consumer Data Rights Project

Testing Activities: End-to-End API Testing using Typescript

Responsibilities

  • Developing End-to-End API automation test script using typescript
  • Contributing to monitoring and fixing automation framework.
  • Test management using Jira/Zephyr
  • Version controlling using Azure repos
  • Developing Azure devops pipelines

Trainee Patent Attorney

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick
Melbourne, VIC
11.2021 - 05.2022
  • Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
  • Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions.
  • Developed team communications and information for meetings.
  • Actively listened to customers, handled concerns quickly and escalated major issues to the supervisor.
  • Carried out day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.

Honorary Senior Researcher (QA)

Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW
08.2020 - 09.2021

Project: Greenfield Project

Domain: Sensors & IoTs

Responsibilities

  • Analysed Business and Technical requirements documents
  • Prepared testing documents – test strategy and plan using Jira integrated with Zephyr in liaison with the test team
  • Prepared test execution reports with the help of report plugins in Jira
  • Managed Bugs and Defect tracking using Jira
  • Supported test lead in identifying risks and developing mitigation strategies in collaboration with the test team
  • Developed, updated and maintained test automation frameworks – using various design patterns such as single responsibility design (SRP), strategy design, and factory design patterns, executed around patterns, page object model
  • Developed and ran test automation scripts using Selenium Webdriver with maven as the build tool and TestNG as the test runner
  • Configured Data Provider for reading external data from Excel and JSON
  • Automated API testing with Postman and scripts using RestAssured
  • In a few instances, automated API test suites and scripts using typescript
  • Prepared Automated test reports using Extent and Allure reports
  • Version control using GitHub
  • Set up Cross-platform browser testing using Selenium Grid and docker-compose
  • Set up Cross-browser testing using sauce labs
  • Set up cloud-based testing using AWS EC2 instances
  • Set up CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins
  • Performance testing using JMeter.

Postdoctoral Researcher Associate (QA)

Victoria University Of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand , New Zealand
03.2019 - 04.2020

Project: Greenfield Project

Domain: Sensors and IoT

Test Enviornment: UI functional and API test automation

Responsibilities

  • Developing test frameworks
  • Writing test scripts in Java
  • Cross-browser testing using Selenium grid and docker
  • CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins

Research Assistant/Engineer (QA)

Massey University - Callaghan Innovation & Millar
Albany, New Zealand , New Zealand
01.2015 - 09.2018
  • Sensor and IoT development
  • aWS IoT cloud testing.
  • Application/manual testing.
  • Performed Data Driven Testing using Selenium WebDriver, and TestNG functions, which read data from Scripts using Json and Excel
  • Reviewed code of others and checked in Git Repository
  • UAT using both Selenium WebDriver and IDE
  • Bug tracking using Jira.

Education

Certified ID 001377910 Badge https://bcert. - Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance
USA
06.2022

PhD - Electronics and Computer Science

Massey University
New Zealaand
03.2019

Master of Engineering - VLSI Design, Electronics Engineering

Karunya University
India
07.2008

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Madras University
India
04.2004

Skills

PC literacy

  • Advanced literacy in
  • MS Office, Word, PowerPoint and Excel

Application/Manual testing

  • Functional, regression, sanity testing
  • Test management using Jira-Zephyr
  • SDLC/STLC
  • Test strategy, plan preparation
  • Test Management Tools
  • Atlassian Jira with Zephyr Squad
  • Team Collaboration Tools
  • Atlassian Jira with confluence

Automation Test Tools

  • Selenium Webdriver, Maven, TestNG
  • Rest Assured, Postman, and Typescript

GUI Development & Programming Languages

  • Java
  • Javascript/Typescript
  • IntelliJ
  • Visual Studio Code

Performance Testing tools

  • JMeter

Bug Tracking Tools

  • Atlassian Jira

Source /Version Control Tools

  • GitHub/Azure Repository

Cloud-compute Testing

  • AWS-EC2
  • Azure

Artifactory Management

  • JFrog

Continuous Integration

  • Jenkins/Azure devOps

Behavioral Driven Testing

  • Cucumber

Project Management

  • Strategic planning
  • Teamwork mindset
  • Flexibility
  • Consulting
  • Project Documentation
  • Quality assurance
  • Test implementation
  • Documentation skills
  • Microsoft Project
  • ISO9001 standards
  • Effective communication
  • Agile Delivery
  • Automated software testing
  • Customer Relations

Work Availability

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Quote

Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
Antonio Machado

Timeline

Senior Consultant (Quality Engineer)

Infosys Australia
09.2022 - Current

Trainee Patent Attorney

Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick
11.2021 - 05.2022

Honorary Senior Researcher (QA)

Macquarie University
08.2020 - 09.2021

Postdoctoral Researcher Associate (QA)

Victoria University Of Wellington
03.2019 - 04.2020

Research Assistant/Engineer (QA)

Massey University - Callaghan Innovation & Millar
01.2015 - 09.2018

Certified ID 001377910 Badge https://bcert. - Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

PhD - Electronics and Computer Science

Massey University

Master of Engineering - VLSI Design, Electronics Engineering

Karunya University

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical and Electronics, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Madras University
NIK SODAVARAM