Front End Automation Testing

Shikhar Daftari(****************@*****.***)

San Jose, CA, 95134 +1-669-***-**** LinkedIn github Professional Summary:

● Possess extensive experience in Software Testing as Sr. QA and IC in both functional and automation testing

● Experienced in testing wide range of Management software for telecom, network product, Endpoint security, and Investment banking (Equity and Fixed income)

● Hands on experience as SDET - developingPythonandSeleniumautomation framework for Web GUI,SOAPUIand Postman (JSON)automation suite forRESTfulWeb Services(SOA and microservices)APIand CLI based interfaces, CI/CD jenkins, svn and git

● Experience in testing Web and mobile application onAndroid and iOS

● Experience in qualifying microservices basedSaaSapplication in public and private Cloud deployment, maintaining QA lab infrastructure in public (AWS) and privatecloud (VMware, Kubernetes)

● Well versed with SDLC - Functional testing, Integration, Regression, loadperformance testingusingJMeter,grafana, and end-to-end, Back-end testing and UAT,securitytesting(Burp, Nessus, Qualys WAS)

● Hands on experience withSQL DB with MySQL

● Experience in requirement analysis and creating quality test plan, test cases and execution of test cases, conducting bug scrubs, identifying risk, creating traceability matrix

● Handling and triaging customer issues, RCA document, supporting deployment at customer site, replicating issue in local lab onlinux and virtual platform

● Managing and mentoring geographically distributed QA team, work closely with cross functional team(PLM,PM, TAC/CSE, Dev Manager etc), Process improvement, involvedin Agile scrum sprint planning

● Good understanding of Network mgmt. protocols SNMP, NETCONF, TR-069, openconfig yang model, REST API, SOAP, firmware testing

● Used multiple tools likegit,JIRA, Zendesk,confluence,servicenow,testrailfor test management and bugsor incident management

● Experienced Full stack tester (Front end and back end) for java, javascript, react based front end GUI Technical Skills

OS and Database Windows, RHEL, CentOS, MySQL, mariaDB, Postgress Network and

Protocol

TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP,NETCONF yang model, SOAP DNS, DHCP, VLAN, HTTP/S, AAA, IPSec (StrongSwan), HA (High Availability), RAN network for 4G and 5G, TR-069 Automation Web Services API (SOAP and RESTfull - JSON) using Python Pytest HTTP Request, SOAPUI (Ready API), GUI automation using selenium webdriver, JMETER, Postman, CLI automation using various libraries Cloud and

Virtualization

AWS, VMWare, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, KVM, Linux bridge, Openstack, NFV (VPC), Docker, grafana

Test Management TestRail, JIRA, HPQC, CDET, TIMS, Bugzilla, git, svn Special Software MIB Browser, Putty, WinSCP, Wireshark, MetaSploit 2.0 and 3.0 and, tcpdump, traffic generator hping,iperf, Burp, Nessus

Professional Experience:

Corning INC – old SpiderCloud wireless) : San Jose CA Oct 2016 - Aug 2024 Role: Sr. Software QA (Functional and Automation)for Spidercloud Management and Provisioning Server: Responsibilities:

● Responsible for functional and automation testing of Web based Corning/Spidercloud Network Management and Provisioning server

● Creation and maintaining Automation script inSOAPUI, python-selenium, Request, Jmeter, SQL

● Security test report (Burp, Nessus, Qualys WAS)

● Performance testing -JMETER, grafana, python,APIand GUI

● Validating microservices based software inKubernetescluster and AWSenvironment

● Validating mobile app onAndroid and iOS

● Managing and mentoring team member in Milpitas and India office (Outsourced Vendor)

● Working closely with cross functional teams (Dev, PM, PLM) and weekly status reporting to mgmt

● Building and maintaining QA steups SW and HW (Wireless access points and access controller, switch, linux servers) in IPv4 and v6 environment, configuring and installing VMs in VMware, DNS, DHCP

● Triaging and troubleshooting customer issues, using multiple networking tools like wireshark, nmap, traffic generator (hping), Supporting FoA testing

● Worked on technologies include linux,python, MySQL, automation of GUI using selenium webdriver,Qualifying product in public cloud deployment (AWS). Testing of full FCAPS functionality - SNMP, netconf yang

● Holding QA bug scrubs, prioritizing issues and functionalities after discussing with stakeholders, JIRA dashboard

● Helping documentation team to create Release Notes, Admin guide, Installation guide

● Providing quarterly project status and demos to different teams and visiting clients

● Responsible for Release management

Cisco Systems, (via TCS) India Pune Oct 2013 - June 2016 Role: Cisco MITG QA and Escalation Engineer:

Responsibilities:

● As an Escalation engineer worked on to support Cisco Packet Core solutions and Telecom Gateways - ASR5000, ASR5500, VPC-DI, VPC-SI & handled issues within 3G/LTE functioning.

● Triaging business impacting critical issues, finding RCA, analyzing debug logs, providing workaround

● Testing virtual Network Function - Virtual Packet Core: An orchestration solution for VPC - DI (virtual Packet Core – Distributed Instance)

● Worked as Network Test Engineer The project involves Quality analysis and testing of Web Element Management systems. The Web Element Manager (WEM) provides complete Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security (FCAPS) capability for Cisco's EPC ASR5000 and ASR5500

● Created and executed manual cases during functional, regression and performance testing

● Building and maintaining QA setups

● Building and running complex SQL queries

● Automating manual cases in QTP

● Technology involves:Linux, python, java, SQA

Morgan Stanley, (via TCS) India Pune May-2012 to Oct-2013 Role: Client onboarding: - Web Service (SOAP, REST)- Automation Engineer Project:

There was need of migration of Legacy suite of applications to centralized API services for Equity, Fixed Income services Responsibility:

● Automation of Web Services - SOAP, REST, XML, JSON using, SQL

● python and request

● Web Services Testing Automation (GET, PUT, POST, DELETE) using

● Perl and Saturn, SOAPUI

● QA strategy was of Agile

Education:

● Degree: Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, 2005 from RGPV Bhopal - INDIA

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