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Punitha Stan - Qa Software Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer

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Location: San Jose, California, USA

Relocation: yes with Bay Area, CA

Visa: USC

PUNITHA STANISLAUS San Jose, CA 95129 Cell +1 669-842-3616 | [email protected]| LinkedIn: punitha-stanislaus Qualifications for Senior Quality Tech Lead/Architect/Manager/SDET With over 16 years of experience, I have played a key role in successfully delivering IT solutions, including mobile products, for renowned organizations such as eBay, PayPal, Intel Security, and FedEx. I possess strong leadership skills, collaborating effectively with cross-functional partners and coordinating test efforts across multiple teams. As a Senior Quality Tech Lead Specialist, I have a proven track record of automating business and test processes by utilizing tools like Selenium, Web Driver, and Load Runner. This has enabled me to enhance productivity and accuracy while minimizing project costs and timeframes. I have expertly orchestrated the development, implementation, and maintenance of test plans, cases, and scripts. My advanced experience administering Smoke, Functionality, Integration, Regression, System, Load, and User-Acceptance Testing among others has equipped me well for this role. I also have great experience managing a quality engineering team as both a manager and an agile leader. In addition, I possess expertise in various aspects of testing, including test estimation, planning, review, execution, reporting, A/B testing, defect tracking, metrics collection, and analysis. I have hands-on experience working in the eCommerce and payments domain. I possess expertise in designing automation frameworks, developing mock services for continuous integration testing, and writing automation scripts. I am proficient in configuring Jenkins pipelines for the build-to-deployment phase. Additionally, I have hands-on experience in the continuous integration of UX and service tests, utilizing the Jenkins platform. Core Competencies Quality Assurance Management Automation Engineering Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Test Cases / Plans / Scripts Development Coding Debugging Patches User Acceptance Reporting Black Box, White-Box, and Full Life Cycle Testing Software Verification and Validation CMM Levels Configuration Management Web and Client Server Applications Manual / Automated Testing ISO 9000:2000 Standards Technical Writing / Documentation Technical Skills Testing Tools: See Test, Selenium, QTP, Ruby Mine, Xcode, QC, Load Runner, Win Runner, Bug Tracker, Clear Quest, Clear Case, eCase, eZTracker, Data Trek, Genesis, Night Owl, Button Mill, SOAP UI (WSDL, WADL, REST API), RESTClient, Apache http client, TestNG, JUnit, WinSCP, iOS-Simulator, Cucumber. Languages/IDE: JAVA 8, Python, SQL, C, C++, Perl, GraphQL, Eclipse/RIDE, IntelliJ Operating Systems: Windows XP/2000/NT/98, UNIX, LINUX 5.4, MS-DOS, MAC OS (iOS) Databases: SQL Server 2000/2005, Oracle10g/9i/8i, MS Access, Mongo(NoSql) MS Office Suite: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS Visio Scripting Languages: Groovy, Shell script, Ruby, VB Script, Vuser Script, JSON, Python, Bash, TSL, JS Other Tools: Altus, Jenkins, DCP, CICD, VMWare Fusion, AJAX, Altova XML Spy, CSS, HttpWatch EDUCATION Master of Computer Applications, Kamarajar University, Madurai, India Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA), Madurai, India Logic and Problem Solving for Programmers, Southwest Community College, Memphis, TN C/C++ and Java Programming Language, Southwest Community College, Memphis, TN Python Programming, Stanford University, Stanford, CA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE eBay Inc, San Jose, CA July 2017 March 2024 Member of Technical Staff 2, Software Engineer eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation, facilitating online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. Select Contributions: Provided leadership and mentorship within the QA team, guiding team members to excel in their roles and fostering a collaborative and efficient work environment. Demonstrated a strong combination of technical prowess and leadership skills, crucial for leading and directing the QA team in achieving high-quality software releases. Testing messaging flow through JMS and Kafka, AWS SQS in a cloud environment, as well as utilizing AWS Lambda and AWS SDK. Contributed to the backend automation stack in Java for the Checkout and Shopping Cart team at eBay Payments, playing a key role in backend API testing and delivering successful products with the highest quality. Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing version control systems such as Gitlab, Git, and Github, coupled with hands-on experience in integrating continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins. Exhibited familiarity with API testing by executing test cases using Postman, thereby ensuring the robustness and reliability of the application's backend functionality. Developed comprehensive test cases, meticulously outlining scenarios to validate the functionality, performance, and security of web applications. Led complex and time-sensitive projects from requirement analysis to full production deployment for highly scalable, object-oriented, performance-sensitive systems that serve tens of millions of requests each day. Developed sophisticated, scalable, and reusable test automation frameworks, ensuring the timely development, implementation, and maintenance of automated test cases and test planning. Leveraged deep Java coding skills to contribute to the development and maintenance of automated test suites, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of web applications. Utilized Cucumber and Gherkin frameworks to design and implement comprehensive test scenarios, fostering effective collaboration between development and QA teams. Performed as an end-to-end lead on multiple larger projects, collaborating with upstream and downstream teams, starting with requirements gathering, understanding system architectures, project scoping, resource management, and successfully delivering complex products within set deadlines. Juggled multiple projects simultaneously in a high-pressure environment, actively involved in debugging and troubleshooting production issues, reporting defects, and verifying fixes. Enhanced existing automation frameworks with dynamic test data creation, such as creating dynamic test users, product listings, gift cards, increasing test reliability of over 4000 tests to 100%, and improving both human and computing resource efficiency. Mentored and shared domain knowledge within and across teams, resolved blocking issues, and boosted productivity and accuracy while reducing project costs and timeframes. Designed and implemented mock services for running integration tests, substantially reducing integration test runtime and service dependencies. Additionally, created a library for reuse in other projects. Stabilized and increased the coverage of the regression test suite by adding more automated tests, reporting test code coverage through SONAR, and motivating teams to increase test coverage each quarter. Created and maintained Jenkins CI jobs, established CI/CD pipelines, and deployed properly tested builds to production at each code merge with minimal human interaction. Additionally, assisted other teams in adopting this process. Improved the testing process by adding support for accessing 3rd party APIs, implementing support for rerunning failures in Jenkins CI jobs, creating a Slack plugin for automatic notification, creating a tool to access internal testing environment statuses, and reducing a significant amount of testing time while improving team performance. Actively performed A/B testing, monitored experiment results, assisted with product ramping decisions, and monitored post-ramp activities. Led Shift Left Integration testing to detect bugs early, before merging the Dev code. Successfully transitioned from a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) role to a Java Developer position, bringing a unique blend of testing acumen and development expertise to enhance overall software quality. Successfully completed training in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, utilizing the Python programming language. Awards/Recognitions 2021 Q2 Checkout/Order Value Award and Spot award for Ownership Without Silos. 14 Checkout Order Value Nominations: Rank 1 among 76 nominees of XO-Order teams in 2021. 33 YJMMD (You Just Made My Day) appreciations since the beginning of last year. Received Spot Award for playing a critical role in the successful launch of the Passive CBT. Received Gift card for first highest number of bugs in the Managed Payments Bug Bash. Achieved first place by securing the highest number of votes for my idea in the eBay Hackathon, leveraging AI/ML technologies and Python AI Foundry. Environments: Java/J2EE, OOPS, Spring Boot, Microservices, eBay Cloud, Altus, Jenkins, Grafana, Kibana, Selenium, BrowserStack, DCP, Apache Tomcat, AWS cloud, CICD, Breeze, Tomcat Eclipse/RIDE, IntelliJ, REST, Postman, Maven, GraphQL, JSON, Node.js, React, TestNG, TestRail, Tableau, CSS, HTML, Jira, JavaScript, Appium, GitHub, Zephyr, Copilot, Unix, Terminal, SQL Server, MongoDB, SmartGit, EP (Experimentation platform), Firefox, Chrome, IE, Safari, MS Word, Angular, MS Excel, ChatGPT, Pycharm/Python, Anaconda-Navigator, Bootstrap, Skitch, Slack, Studio 3T, Sublime text, Oracle, SQL, NoSQL, AI Foundry, Machine Learning (ML), PyTorch, MacOS. Ensenta Corporation, Redwood City, CA March 2017 July 2017 Senior SDET/Automation framework Lead Ensenta is an award-winning Silicon Valley pioneer of innovative enterprise-wide solutions for mobile and online deposits, collections and payments. Its cloud based Agile Risk Management is the smartest and safest approach to mitigate risk and minimize compliance exposure with straight through processing advanced real time decisioning and accelerated funds availability. Select Contributions: Designing and Architecting Automation Framework for alert services, partner API and EZAdmin applications. Developing automation frameworks using Ready API, Rest Assured and Cucumber/Gherkins in Java and Groovy. Automating EZAdmin web applications using Java and Selenium web driver. Selenium Page Object Model was leveraged for designing the UI Framework. Using Maven and Jenkins for build purpose; GitHub for version control. Creating an automation framework for iOS and Android mobile Apps. Supporting Security Compliance team for the security related testing on Desktop and mobile; participating daily scrum meeting. Leading the quality of scrum deliverables, component level performance, neighboring integration, release readiness and ramp readiness through a set of quality artifacts from responsible teams. Mentoring and guiding other junior engineers to setup automation environment on their machines. Environments: Java, Selenium, Eclipse, REST, Groovy, ReadyAPI, Postman, Maven, TestNG, GitHub, Unix, Terminal, Red Hat Linux 5.9, SQL Server, Cucumber, Gherkins, Appium, Team City, You Track, Firefox, Chrome, IE, MS Word, MS Excel, RDPMan, KeyPass, SnagIt. PayPal, San Jose, CA October 2015 February 2017 Senior Software Quality Engineer Millennium project is the new platform initiative, to scale future payments. PayPal Quality Horizontal is responsible for overall E2E quality across Millennium program. Select Contributions: Review of CQ processes, Test strategy, Test plan and Framework support. Executing, maintaining, and adding automation test cases to the existing suite for core payments quality engineering team. Testing the Auth and onboarding REST API using Postman collections Develop and be ramp-ready for all Authorization/ Capture transactions on CA (Continuous Availability). Implement capability to tokenize PayPal Wallet and support issuance of Tokens, EMV, and NFC card products. Testing the robust Switch capability and verify the conversion on all card traffic. Environments: Java, Selenium, Eclipse, REST, Postman, Maven, TestNG, GIThub, Unix, Terminal, Red Hat Linux 5.9, Oracle, SQL Server, Data Trek, Jaws, Fusion, Altus, Night Owl, Button Mill, Firefox, Chrome, IE, MS Word, MS Excel, JIRA, Snagit. INTEL SECURITY, Santa Clara, CA May 2013 - October 2015 Senior Software QA Engineer / Lead Top-ranking member of software QA engineering team within global leader McAfee, supporting delivery of excellent security technology designed to protect consumers and businesses from malware and online threats. Select Contributions: Member of Scrum Team, contributing to product backlog grooming, story sizing, and design / review meetings. Innovated manual test cases, automation test suites (Test Automation Framework), Black Box testing, security testing (OWASP / Fiddler), and regression testing. Installed and validated the applications on all the next generation Apple Family (iPhone, iPad,) Android Family (Samsung, LG) Automated mobile test cases using See Test tool (Java/Junit). Expedited testing operations by slashing manual efforts through automation of highly critical regression cases. Collaborated in Security Testing Training by McAfee Internal Security Team as well as internal application training delivered by internal McAfee Team. Positively affected the performance of junior and mid-level engineers through mentoring and support. Led efforts of onsite / offshore teams as well as generated daily status reports to offshore team as handoff. Key Projects: MMS (McAfee Mobile Security) - implementation of commands to communicate security scan details from client to server. Tealium Master Tracking Cookie for centralizing purchase-tracking logic through establishment of single marketing cookie in Home website. Tealium leverages an asynchronous client-side JavaScript file (theUniversal Tag) that is referenced by code on the page and loads other tags from Content Delivery Network (CDN). SiteCatalyst Report for data collection / reporting, designed to transfer information to both the McAfee Consumer and Global Report suites. BizTalk Chase paymentech settlement process for daily server file downloads. eBiz BulkPreloadProcessor set-up for Batch Create, adding new subscription / Update Profile Processes in BizTalk server. eBizModularization/NScreen a new web framework for mobile cart purchases. Environments: watchOS, See Test, Accurev, MS Visual Studio 2012, Test Automation Framework (TAF), WCF Test Client, REST, POSTMAN, OWASP, QC, BugZilla, BizTalk, VMware Workstation, XML Notepad, .NET Framework, C#, JavaScript, JAVA, Junit, Selenium, mCloud, Windows 8, Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. PAYPAL INC., San Jose, CA October 2010 - May 2013 Senior Software Quality Engineer / Lead Delivered expert testing and overall quality engineering services to this global leader in online, mobile, and in-store payment processing. Orchestrated mobile, integration, and unit testing functions as well as automation of all regression testing, effectively managing multiple and diverse projects concurrently without disruptions. Established automation framework (Apache http client / Java), utilized Perl script to develop offers in Unix system, and provided continuous integration (Hudson / Jenkins). Ensured smooth implementation of new tools / technologies such as VM and Ice Tool for build deployment on staging server. Select Contributions: Modified and maintained Ruby, cucumber test cases to effectively run against live. Generated Continuous Integration (CI) job in Jenkins for periodic testing in live. Eliminated bugs uncovered in production through implementation of new test cases to existing suite. Developed detailed CI cucumber report (Shell Script). Created and enhanced build scripts (Ruby) verified UI results (TestNG, Webdriver, Cucumber, and Ruby), and produced end-to-end flows for mobile- / web-based pay system. Delivered full test lifecycle, QA virtual machines (Nimbus), black box testing, backend data validation testing, related metrics / reports, web services tests, and Java code coverage. Key Projects: iOS-PayPal mobile payment solution encompassing free app and thumb-sized card reader for smartphone, enabling merchants to accept multiple forms of payment. PPH Monitoring designed for immediate notification of critical errors in production. Authored user guide, developed / automated test cases, and validated test data / results. Ads in System Emails encompassing targeted promotions / ads focused on PayPal and merchant-based offers. SiteCatalyst implementation of conversion variables for tracking of key customer interactions in PayPal. Retool Mediaplex for trafficking and ad-serving optimization by Marketing Team. MPI Placements on PayPal pages to serve marketing campaign ads. PayPal Segmentation Platform for retrieval of PSP segment data for offers prioritization. Incentives - Partner Service (The Offerapi) for external management of offers and campaigns. XO-Replatforming for verification and monitoring of Checkout offers. PSP Feed Processor to support processing of near real-time events. DemGen-RPS profiling data system for repository of all targeting data. Environments: Java, Selenium, Eclipse, Safari, iOS 5.1, Ruby, Cucumber, iOS-Simulator, Oracle, SQL Server, Xcode, Objective-C, Gitbox, FireFox, Mac OS, Mac Scheduler, SQL Developer, RazorSQL, Oracle SQL Developer, Ruby Mine, Chrome, IE, JIRA, Snagit, Windows XP, Unix Rational Clear Quest 7.0.1.1, Clear Case, eCase, eZTracker, PuTTY 0.60, Red Hat Linux 5.4, Secure CRT 5.0, WinSCP, Nimbus, Data Trek, SQL, Oracle 10g/9i, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows XP, IE, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox 3.5.16, Genesis, DCT, Night Owl, Button Mill, Ghao, AJAX, Silk Test 8.5.2, Selenium, Clarity, HttpWatch, Web driver, REST Client, Apache http client, SOAPUI, Java/jdk1.4/1.6, Eclipse, Maven, TestNG, GIThub, SVN. FEDEX SERVICES, Collierville, TN September 2008 - August 2010 Senior QA Engineer Assigned to company s TRIP / VCOM system to ensure quality performance and overall operations. Performed requirements analysis through review of system documentation. Generated and implemented test plans / cases (BPT) as well as executed business components within Quality Center. Supported efforts of junior team members. Established Functional Decomposition (FD), Test Scenario Specs (TSS), Test Plan Specs, and Test Data Document. Created Automated Test Scripts with QTP for Functionality, Integration, System, and Regression tests Expedited testing through development of Functional Libraries and Reusable Actions - automated scripts Successfully identified and addressed issues, modifications, and defects. Environments: QTP, QC, Java 2 Runtime Environment (jdk1.6), SQL, Oracle9i, Python, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, Windows XP/NT, Internet Explorer. VERIFIED PERSON, Memphis, TN April 2007 - August 2008 QA Manager / Engineer Played a key role in SRS walkthroughs as well as in the implementation of SCRUM Agile development methodology. Formulated test cases for VPAssure / VPAdmin web applications, including user acceptance. Automated the VP Admin web application (Selenium) Orchestrated analysis, design, development, and implementation of QTP automated regression test scripts. Enhanced test scripts through application of VB Script programming operations. Spearheaded efforts of QA team, ensuring the proper scheduling and allocation of resources Environments: QTP, Selenium, QC, Bug Tracker, VB Script, Windows XP, IE, Mozilla, .Net, C#, HTML, SQL Server 2005, SQL, Web application, Web Services, XML. Keywords: cprogramm cplusplus csharp continuous integration continuous deployment quality analyst artificial intelligence machine learning user interface user experience javascript access management active directory information technology trade national microsoft California Tennessee