Vaishnavi A.

Vaishnavi A.

Quality Assurance Engineer

United Arab Emirates
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About Me

Vaishnavi is a senior QA engineer with over six years of experience working with startup and corporate organizations in all levels of testing and automation. This includes performance, functional, integration, system, and user acceptance testing while following Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies in the software development process.

Work history

Mahi Services (UK) Ltd
QA Consultant
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Remote
  • Defined QA processes and introduced developers to additional QA practices that they can look to for confidence in the product, as the only QA on the team.

  • Tested three different products singlehandedly that the company created. Created the tests, documented the workflows from scratch, and communicate results and problems with the development team.

  • Tracked and tested features using Jira. Jira tickets were additionally created for any problems seen. Met every single deadline for the product.

  • Worked with teams located in New Zealand, Italy and London. Comfortably handled all the different timezones and had no delays resulting from the time difference.

  • Managed the QA team when new folks joined and guided them through the products and releases.

JavaGroovyQA AutomationREST API AutomationGithubAmazon Web Services (AWS) QA TestingQuality Assurance (QA) Software DevelopmentAutomated TestingQA Test Plan ManagementManual QACI/CD Pipelines Manual Software Testing Git
Akamai Technologies
Senior QA Engineer
2013 - 2019 (6 years)
Remote
  • Automated back-end server communication of streaming networks (HLS/DASH) using Python.

  • Led the QA team in testing major streaming events like the Winter Olympics, Super Bowl, and IPL.

  • Reduced COGS by $1 million in testing mammoth project converting servers from Windows to Linux.

  • Solved the team’s problem of inaccurate testing due to limited resources by spawning multiple virtual test environments.

  • Acquired extensive knowledge of streaming protocols like RTMP, HLS, and HDS and networking protocols like TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS.

Jumpcut
Software Test Engineer IV
Present (2024 years)
Remote
  • Implemented UI automation from scratch with frameworks like Cypress, Protractor, and Cucumber in JavaScript, reducing manual testing by 90%.

  • Discovered API slowness by implementing k6, Grafana, and InfluxDB performance test and Gatling framework.

  • Automated GraphQL API Testing framework using Mocha and created hooks to cleanup test data from PostgreSQL.

  • Reduced revenue leakage in incorrect ad spends by rigorous testing of Google Tags and Analytics.

  • Mastered interactions with third-party tools like Maropost, Braintree, ClickFunnels, and Zabbix.

  • Acquired know-how of A/B testing, marketing and sales tactics, and ad campaigns.

Portfolio

Media Origin Streaming Services/Linux/Python

Automation of server communication flows for India IPL 2018 which had a viewership of 5.5 million concurrent users, considered to be the largest for any sporting event in the world. Utilized 100% test automation using Python, thereby reducing release timeline to just 3 days, Jenkins to allow CI/CD, Wireshark, Shell scripting for vigilant environment checks and management, and TCP/IP, HTTPS protocols for inter-system communication.

UI Automation with Protractor, Cucumber, XRay, Jira Test Framework

Extensive UI automation framework that uses the integration of Protractor and Cucumber. The automation is configured to run on Chrome and Firefox. Used XRay for test case management and automated updates post-execution of tests. Integrated XRay with Jira to allow easy viewing of test suite execution results. Created the repo on Git with best practices like Page-Object-Model followed in creating this framework.

Test 3 Financial Product Solutions for Trading Platform

As sole QA of the team, I was responsible for setting up and managing all QA-related processes and documentation. Products required communication with developers located across different geographies. Set up test plans, workflows and mentored new QA members on the product and timelines.

Education

Education
Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science
M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology
2009 - 2013 (4 years)