Karthik T N

KARTHIK.T. N https://in.linkedin.com/pub/karthik-t-n/62/681/849 Mobile: -- Professional Summary:               4 Years of experience in software testing & Quality assurance. Enormous amount of knowledge gained in Cloud, web, Networking/NMS, MAM, MDM domain. Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Test Methodologies from project definition to post deployment documentation. Excellent hands on experience in handling the defects through the complete bug life cycle from detection until resolved using Bugzilla, redmine, testlink and JIRA. Have hands on experience on Switches and IAPs. Detailed understanding of QA methodology (Agile, Waterfall) to ensure quality control. Proficient in different phases of Testing like Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Functionality Testing, Unit Testing, Integration Testing, data integrity testing, Backend Testing, Load Testing, Regression Testing and User Acceptance testing. Have strong skills in writing and executing test plans and test cases in highly structured and loosely structured development environments and performing all types of testing. Currently working on Cloud technology for more than a year. Acted as Trainer to new comers. Took testing training session and taught about various checklists of the company in the training session to the newly recruited colleagues. Proficient in preparing the test plans, scripts and test cases by analyzing Business Requirements and various other ARTIFACTS with a strong ability to work closely with Development team and Business Analysts to analyses the test scenarios. Work directly with QA director, product owners and developers to improve team work efficiency in user stories and acceptance criteria. Good experience with writing and utilizing SQL queries for data verification in PostgreSQL and other RDBMS. Involved in coordinating with customer/clients on verifying and reproducing the issues faced by them. Responsibility:                 Understand and analyze Functional, Technical and UI (User Interface) requirements of the project/release. Identify test scenarios, prepare test cases, and execute the test cases. Prepare / Update the Test case document for testing of the application from all aspects. Deploying environment setup for testing and development and achieved expertise on environmental setup. Performed SSL-SDK integration testing, security testing, SSL certificate handshake check, etc. New ideas were provided to minimize the time spent on setup and which were also implemented. Created Test Strategy and Test Approach document for releases, gets it reviewed and keeps updating these documents as and when the changes are required. Responsible to support and co-ordinate during UAT and work with Application, Developer, Producer to estimate, plan and execute APT Review test deliverables, defects, test results created by team members. Create reports (daily status reports and weekly reports) and create testing metrics as requested by senior management. Manage Testers work (during test plan and test execution), ensure testing is completed on time, resolve conflicts arising between team members or with external team members, keep team members motivated. Identify risks and provide mitigation plan. Escalate issues on timely manner to management. Ensure testing team is following testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology as documented in Test Approach. Ensures deliverables are created as per Quality Management practices followed by the company or as outlined for the project/release. Participate in QA (Quality Assurance) reviews and provides required support and clarifications as need for the reviewers. Provide Test Estimates for the APT (Application Product Test) and Performance Test carried out Provide hardware and software requirements based on the testing being carried out Technical Skills Operating System Windows NT/’95/’98/XP/00/03, Linux, Android, iOS Bug Tracking Tools Redmine, JIRA,TestLink, Testrail, bugzilla Test management Tools Confluence Databases SQL, PostgreSQL Tools and Utilities Robot Framework, selenium, Appium, Android SDK, iTunes. Cloud management Tools Jenkins, VMware vSphere, Programming Languages Python(Novice) Test Methodologies Scrum, Waterfall model, V model. Types of software Testing Functional Testing, Non Functional Testing, Unit Testing, Sanity Testing, System Testing, Data integrity testing, Negative testing, Black Box testing, Grey box testing, Integration testing/System Integration testing, Performance testing, Security testing, Regression testing, Compatibility testing, Installation testing, Monkey testing, Beta testing, Usability Testing. Career Summary: Organization Designation Duration Actiance India Private Limited Senior Software Engineer QA 8 months [Jan 2016 to till date] Aruba Networks India (P) Ltd. Member of Technical Staff 2 Years 9 months [April 2013 to December 2015] Network City QA engineer 11 Months [June 2012 to April 2013] Academic Credentials Degree Year College/University B.E. (Telecommunication Engineering) 2012 Jawaharlal Nehru National college of engineering, shimoga, Karnataka PU 2008 National Pre-University college, Shimoga, Karnataka S.S.L.C 2006 Sir Aurobindovidyamandir, Bangalore, Karnataka Project Experience: Socialite Socialite – Enable provides granular control of not only websites and applications but also the content posted to blogs, wikis, webmail, and social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Content posted to these social networks can be moderated, monitored and logged reducing outbound data leakage and enabling compliance with industry regulations, legal discovery requirements, and corporate policy standards. Project Description Socialite – Engage is a security, management and compliance solution for social networks. Socialite Engage is a platform that aggregates Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts and allows users to view them all on a single dashboard. Users can then share pre-approved content with customers via their accounts, analyze and measure the impact of that content, and change content distribution strategies based on those results. All content goes through the system's compliance workflow to ensure that the institution remains in compliance with government regulatory guidelines. Role Senior Software Engineer - QA    Responsibilities     Responsible for defining test requirement for maintenance/ Sustaining releases and managing weekly testing schedules, priorities, and tracking. Overall responsible for reviews and approval of all bugs included in respective functional area. Ensure adherence to Socialite process & procedure for maintenance releases. Ensure Root Cause Analysis of bugs escapes in maintenance releases. Act as liaison between maintenance release team, Socialite dev/QA. Write and get approval of test plan for maintenance release team. Mentoring junior members. Platforms Compliant Social Media Access Team Size 25 Duration 3 months Aruba Central Project Description The Aruba Central network management solution, a software-as-a-service subscription in the cloud, gives you streamlined management for multiple Aruba Instant wireless LANs. Aruba Central is a key component of Aruba cloud Wi-Fi, which includes Aruba Instant access points managed by a lead AP with embedded controller functionality and the Aruba Mobility Access Switch line. With the Aruba cloud Wi-Fi solution, all data and control traffic stay local in the Instant WLAN, while management data goes to Aruba Central in the cloud. This design means you have no management appliances to install and maintain, which keeps costs low. Plus, your network stays available, since you have all the functionality you need locally, with no dependence on WAN links. Role Member of Technical Staff(QA)        Responsibilities           Environment Setup for this project was a major task, which involved learning of new technologies like NSM on Cloud. Involved in Environment setup & maintaining them for entire QA tem. Writing effective test cases and effective test reports. Involved in setting up devices (switches & IAPs) in Lab for testing. Involved in providing new ideas to minimize the time spent on setup and which were also implemented. Involved in complete end to end testing of the product. Defects were tracked, reviewed, analyzed and reported using redmine. Validated Backend data. Used GUI testing to check for appearance of the website. Involved in coordinating with customer/clients on verifying and reproducing the issues faced by them. Involved in complete configuration and device Management testing. Closely worked with Development team and Automation team on testing process. Involved in log file verification for errors. Involved in Reviewing the test deliverables, defects, test results created by team members. Performed Sanity, API, Functionality, Adhoc, Exploratory, data integrity, Negative Testing. Involved in preparing metrics and sending reports to manager Mentoring junior members. Platforms NSM on Cloud Team Size 25 Duration 1+ year Aruba Cloud MDM Project Description Aruba Cloud MDM is an enterprise solution giving businesses the ability to manage scaled deployments of iPhone and iPad across their organizations. It is built on existing iOS technologies of configuration profiles, OTA enrollment and APNS service, and was integrated with in-house or third party server solutions which was built by Aruba. This gives IT departments the ability to securely enroll iPhone and iPad in an enterprise environment, wirelessly configure and update settings, monitor compliance with corporate policies and even remotely wipe or lock managed devices. Cloud Part plays role where no management appliances to install and maintain which keeps cost low and problem faced will be taken care by Aruba support. Role Member of Technical Staff(QA)      Responsibilities     Platforms Involved in creating Test plan and Test Strategies. Involved in complete end to end testing of the product. Closely worked with Development team. Tested with all different types of devices both on iOS & Android. Trained End user on new functionality and shared knowledge. Using Test Cases performed Manual Testing like Positive Testing and Negative Testing. Created manual test cases from Use cases, Functional specs and other requirement documents. Performed Sanity, API, Functionality, Adhoc, Exploratory, Negative Testing. Involved in preparing metrics and sending reports to manager. iOS & Android Team Size 6 Duration 8 Months Aruba @Work (MAM & MDM) Project Description Aruba @Work app is a MAM based application which provide access to enterprise applications. The enterprise apps are wrapped up with the Aruba middleware and uploaded the specific packages files on the CPPM server. Application level VPN provides tunnels to specific applications rather than making the device part of the virtual network. So, users on Application VPN connections can only access the applications that they are configured to access rather than the whole network. The access policies can be defined per application, per user and is more granular. Role Member of Technical Staff(QA)    Responsibilities    Platforms Involved in complete end to end testing of the product. Created Test plan and Test Strategies. Tested with all different types of devices both on iOS & Android. Writing effective test cases and effective test reports. Performed Sanity, API, Functionality, Adhoc, Exploratory, data integrity, Negative Testing. Involved in preparing metrics and sending reports to manager. iOS & Android Team Size 6 Duration 5 Months NC Sales App Project Description NC sales APP is a Web and mobile application used by Network city for maintaining sales and services of router, switches, firewall and other wireless solutions. Role QA engineer Responsibilities Platforms     Involved in complete end to end testing of the product. Created Test plan and Test Strategies. Writing effective test cases and effective test reports. Performed Sanity, API, Functionality, Adhoc, Exploratory, data integrity, Negative Testing. Web & Android Team Size 3 Duration 11 Months Personal Information: Name Karthik.T.N Date of Birth 03/04/1990 Father’s Name Dr NARENDRA NAIK T H Mother’s Name SUNITHA N Languages Known Passport number English, Hindi, and Kannada Address K- No ‘421’ BEML layout ,17th cross, Basaveshwarnagar, Bangalore-79 DECLARATION: I declare that the above-mentioned information is true and correct to the best of my knowledge Karthik T N