Senior Software Engineer resume examples

• Led cross-functional teams on integration, system and regression testing of SaaS, web, and mobile applications.  
• Migrated software testers from waterfall to agile methodology, including manual to automated testing mindset.  
• Automated manual test efforts and increased deployment speed 15% by developing a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) strategy.  
• Oversaw SQA leads, analysts, and vendors from four countries.  
• Increased release acceptance 40% by executing strategic test plans with business partners and scrum teams.  
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to prioritize, sequence, and estimate duration of QA phases and activities.  

• Introduced agile testing techniques to SQA team, which resulted in the team being recognized for accelerated test times, from 20 to five days.  
• Formalized SQA strategy establishing divisional standards, KPI's and procedures, for manual and automated testing.  
• Built onshore, and offshore, QA team from ground up including recruiting of talent, implementation of new hiring guidelines, and software product utilization.  
• Partnered with developers to create a continuous state of process improvement for test data methods.
• Evaluated tools for ITPMO, and set up processes, such as Business Process Management/SBM by Serena, application suites from HP.   

• Key member of kernel networking team in JunOS core group.
• Developed various enhancements for JunOS kernel networking in the area of MPLS, VPN, VPLS , VXLAN.
• Debugged and solved various kernel crash dumps related to state synchronization, memory corruption, nexthop management in kernel.
• Worked on several high priority customer escalation and won Customer Excellence Award.

• Developed python scripts to run regression tests and collect code coverage report for protocols.
• Developed an API to collect performance characterization of protocol daemons based on scaling numbers.

• Rogers upgraded their software to enhance user experience on the existing Set Top Box line up.
• The new user experience is developed by Cisco Systems.
• New user experience upgrades existing guide / Video On Demand / Program recording and application interface to enhance user experience and improve quality of service with improved overall performance.
• The new user interface implemented Poster Art feature on all UI screens, providing user with enhanced experience.
• Role & Contribution.
• Co-ordinated between various teams during Application integration at different locations in USA and India to develop apps for new user interface.
• Poster art integration, server maintenance and connectivity.
• To prepare knowledge base documents for new team member.
• New test case/suite creation for enhanced UI.
• Provide analysis on System performance with implementation of new UI and maintainability of existing features.
• Technologies Test automation framework, Application integration and testing, new product deployment.
• Tools Cisco EC/ECS, VEVEO emulator, VEVEO/ Scorpion emulator Python, SVTPhobos, TIMS, CDETS and rally.
• Raghavendra Chimmalgi Project 3

• December -2013 Description Cisco RTN STB is deployed on Rogers cable network, project involved real time troubleshooting, testing and co-ordination with teams in different location to get issues resolved real time at Rogers.
• Also to ensure that RTN STB client quality and performance at customer environment.
• IP Direct deployment on Rogers's network was designed to improve the speed and bandwidth of existing DAVIC system (QPSK) to use the IP network backend infrastructure.
• This was achieved just by making simple changes to Set Top Box software.
• I played a vital role in network planning, assessment and testing the feature at Rogers Communication.
• Rogers designed different java script based application which would work on top of middleware, was required to ensure integration of these application without affecting the basic functionality of the STB.
• Testing the applications at API level which involved usage of different emulators and backend servers.
• Worked on Applications such as Search, RDVR, Caller ID, Weather, upsell, GSL remote service.
• Role & Contribution.
• IP Direct (DOCSIS) pre-deployment network assessment and testing.
• Writing test cases and test suits for IP Direct deployment.
• Co-ordinated between various teams during Application integration at different locations in US and India.
• Provisioning of and maintaining environment for STB on EC.
• Develop generalized test suites for testing features like DVR, PPV, EPG/Guide, Zapper, VOD, DHCT provisioning, Conditional Access etc.
• Technologies Test automation framework, Application integration and testing Tools Cisco EC/ECS, VEVEO emulator, Scorpion emulator Python, SVTPhobos, TIMS, CDETS, CMD2000.
• Project Name Set top Box testing at Cisco (RTN) at Cisco Systems Atlanta USA.
• Development of E- SITAT.
• Team Size 12 Start Date.

• The RTN (Reference TV Navigator) on Cable project (CRTN) is intended to merge the capabilities of Cisco's Reference TV Navigator (RTN), currently available for IP platforms and latest-generation cable set top.
• Many RTN features will rely on the same system infrastructure (e.g.
• BFS and AppServer) which is used for SARA (legacy).
• This RTN middleware is designed on galio browse on a Linux based system which supports features like guide, DVR, Video On Demand and many others features.
• Team has to ensure various aspects of quality such as stability, performance, reliability and end user experience.
• Role & Contribution.
• Tested digital cable systems and their applications such as VoD and DVR.
• Tested set-top boxes which were configured on multiple system platforms and proprietary client code.
• Contributed to projects such as Daylight Saving Time (DST) by developing and performing test cases.
• Performed DNCS software upgrades and installations.
• Tested STB's DVR stability and provided daily status reports.
• Performed test procedures on various features such as third party Emergency Alert System (EAS), On Screen Diagnostics (OSD).
• Acquired an understanding of the DNCS.
• Log the defect to the bug tracking tools.
• To prepare knowledge base documents for new team member.
• Technologies Cisco RTN Set top Box Tools DNCS, SVTPhobos, TIMS, CDETS, VoD seachange.
• Raghavendra Chimmalgi Project 5

• Developed data architecture design to enable analysts to perform targeted customer analysis.
• Utilized a pipe and filter model to find bottlenecks and enable measurement of system resource usage and process behavior at boundary limits of all operations.
• Designed and implemented new server standards for core business services.

• This project involved testing of different kind of App stores being developed for Brew MP platform.
• App stores customer friendly UI helps users to purchase various kind of App through different kind of payment methods famous in the market.
• Role & Contribution.
• Involved in Test case creation/ UE document review/ Test planning/ Test execution and CR reporting and tracking.
• Coordinating with the OEM for integration of AppCenter shopping client on h/w.
• Sanity Testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing and Acceptance testing.

Securing $250,000 from a robust prototype and the popularity of Bitcoin, we quickly moved to the top of the Canadian Bitcoin Market and were able to raise another $500,000. Customizing the block-chain software to run under server level conditions as well as securing the software to operate were required off the start. Planning ahead with these requirements allowed us to easily apply and pass the application and certification for becoming Canada's first Bitcoin Exchange operating under a Canadian Money Services Business License. After integrating with Equifax we were able to secure a deal to operate under a Schedule A Bank License allowing us to issue Debit Cards and Credit cards branded as our own. At the peak of operations we were responsible for safe guarding over 5 Million Dollars CDN, and over 7 Million Dollars in Bitcoin Holdings.

The highlight of my career at Syncapse was saving a multi-million dollar marketing campaign by Anheuser-Busch on a weekend, hours before the Advertisements were to go live for Superbowl XLV. Shortly after I was tasked with ensuring our platform would passing quarterly PCI/DSS and routine security tests that were requested by Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch (our two biggest clients). Constantly experimented with several Cloud Solution Providers including Amazon AWS, Rackspace Cloud, Linode and several others. Having some of the largest companies in the world caused so many unexpected performance problems as well as many other computing challenges, I often worked hands on with the engineering team to ensure my experience was utilized as well as to teach our engineers some new skills.