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Viveka Nanda Saraf

Viveka Nanda Saraf

Senior QA Lead

Summary

Veteran Quality Assurance Lead provides critical support. Over 10 years of experience performing necessary QA audits and pulling key data to assemble detailed analytical reports. Maintained high quality threshold levels, overseeing comprehensive technical framework drafts and reviews. Issued detailed calls-to-action, noting criteria and obstacles to quality management system effectiveness. Proven skills in completing black, white and grey box tests. Background writing and implementing test cases, developing testing plans and identifying use cases. Fully versed in complete SDLC. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior QA Lead

Nisum Latam
Bogota
05.2021 - Current
  • Project: Albertsons as e-commerce business
  • Albertsons is an E-commerce application with 15 different banners and started competing with Walmart in the North America region, planning to spread everywhere and providing high technology with high quality delivery
  • Where responsibility is to Create and Plan automation of API and UI with manual for the team
  • Main responsibility is automation test cases and reporting bugs and reporting to management
  • Part of all the Agile meetings and understanding and brainstorm requirements
  • Creating Regression, End to end, integration API test automation
  • Creating Selenium automation test cases and reporting bugs
  • Full stack QA and leading the scrum team with all the process end to end
  • All the new features support from development to release and after that also if any issues came
  • Using POSTMAN for all kinds of back-end validations and rest assured to automate this
  • Helping other team members to improve in manual and automation both
  • Give demo to business whenever required for the features I test
  • Working on the Jenkins as well to set the Continuous integration
  • Dockers and Kubernetes to execute the load and Performance testing suite
  • Using AWS concepts to analyze and execute Scripts.

QA Team Lead

Capgemini
02.2020 - 05.2021
  • Project: GIG
  • GIG is a payment model of Vodafone, where all the components involve where charge is involved
  • Vodafone basically get the money from all sources with these APIs only
  • Which are very critical and revenue generating
  • Worked As a DevOps QA
  • Where responsibility is to Create API automation test cases and reporting bugs
  • Creating Regression, End to end, integration API test automation
  • Working on the Jenkins as well to set the Continuous integration
  • Dockers and Kubernetes to execute the load and Performance testing suite
  • Using AWS concepts to analyze and execute Scripts.

QA Lead

John Deere
Pune
08.2015 - 12.2019
  • Order Management
  • My Roles:
  • Played an important role in delivering the Automation lead and Scrum Master
  • Involved in
  • Creation of POM framework for the Order management project at John Deere by using Java and Selenium
  • Developed the automation scripts for regression suite, smoke test scenarios and was also involved in the Demo of the automation suite to all stakeholders
  • Performed User Acceptance Testing with 100% contribution
  • Working with Robot Framework with Python for UI of some components automation
  • As a Scrum Master (Certified) Interacting with management, teams, and associates to facilitate smooth communication to understand and analyze the requirements and also to identify appropriate solutions for the problems technically and logically
  • Monitor the Prod Application and always upfront with the issues of the prod and by
  • AppDynamics identify the root cause analysis and solving the root cause ASAP
  • Utilizing the blue and green deployments we made our application availability close to for dealers so that not a single customer was frustrated
  • The same way I was part of Chaos monkey implementation where we have to keep a backup of each and every component and tested with all the faults conditions and that helps a lot to us to find out the issue analysis and also to know the issue
  • Involved end to end
  • Viewed test plans and procedures to ensure adequate coverage of system requirements
  • Created API automation scripts using Jmeter and ARC and POSTMAN
  • Knowledge of DevOps Engineer process
  • Managed 11-person team and got good feedback as a lead
  • Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving GIT, Jenkins for Selenium for complete automation from commit to deployment
  • Mentored junior engineers and new hires to better improve competency and efficiency of all staff
  • Setting up virtual environments for rapid development and testing using Dockers.

QA Analyst

John Deere
Pune
03.2013 - 08.2015
  • DealerPath
  • My Roles:
  • Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives
  • Also involved in the preparation of Test Data for Framework
  • WCM tool knowledge and expertise with the same
  • Automated the Application and also measured the performance and logged issues
  • Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance
  • Developed and monitored Auto build deploy process
  • Monitor the Prod and inform if any issues.

QA Engineer

John Deere
Pune
03.2011 - 03.2013
  • Stellar
  • My Roles:
  • Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts, and use cases to support testing objectives
  • Payment domain so learn a lot of things on the payment side
  • Manual testing, Smoke testing, Regression testing, UAT
  • Spec flow with DOT net, white box automation
  • Automated the Application and also measured the performance and logged issues
  • Analyzed test results and prepared system-level evaluation reports to verify and validate system performance
  • ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Awarded multiple times for proving in house training on Automation
  • Awarded the various BU Awards for self & team 3 times in a row
  • Awarded the Round of Applause for Achievement Orientation, High Learning Ability & Extraordinary
  • Commitment
  • Supervised team of 5-10 staff members for driving Feature related requests & Goals
  • Developed detailed and well-received automation tools POC
  • Cultivated long-term relationships with peers, colleagues, juniors & customers through dynamic listening and communication skills
  • Assessed potential issues and recommended solutions that were within budget constraints
  • Led weekly meetings among training staff to brainstorm and ask questions, enabling peers a venue to resolve issues quickly and effectively.

Education

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY – B. TECH -

Biju Patnaik university of Technology

Skills

    Relational Database Management

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Timeline

Senior QA Lead

Nisum Latam
05.2021 - Current

QA Team Lead

Capgemini
02.2020 - 05.2021

QA Lead

John Deere
08.2015 - 12.2019

QA Analyst

John Deere
03.2013 - 08.2015

QA Engineer

John Deere
03.2011 - 03.2013

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY – B. TECH -

Biju Patnaik university of Technology
Viveka Nanda SarafSenior QA Lead