Kishan V G

Mobile: +91-9900928612
E-Mail: kishanvg@gmail.com

CAREER SNAPSHOT

Currently working at Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., as Senior Associate– Projects, my
tenure in the software industry has enabled me to achieve the following skills.
 7+ years of professional experience in automation testing and manual testing.
 Good knowledge on SDLC and STLC.
 Experience in testing SOAP & REST based services.
 Experience in test automation using Selenium Web Driver and JUnit.
 Experience in test automation using Parasoft.
 Experience on writing test scenarios, GUI test cases for automation scripts.
 Experience in evaluating and determining suitability with various environments.
 Experience in identification, tracking and prioritizing the defects.
 Effective defect tracking and reporting to improve communications and reduce delay.
 Good exposure in interaction with clients, developers for Bug fixes and problem resolutions.
 Ability to work in a team environment and also contribute as an individual.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
 M.Tech in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (RAJ.), India in
2014-2016 with CGPA of 7.71.
 B.E Information Science and Engineering from JSS Academy of Technical Education, VTU University,
Bangalore in 2008-12 with passing percentage - 79.8%.
 P.U.C in SMIORE PU College, Vyasanakere, Hospet in 2006-08 with passing percentage – 90.8%.
 S.S.L.C in Narbada Devi Memorial School, Hospet in 2005-06 with passing percentage – 87.2%.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
 Languages : Java, SQL.
 Testing Tools : Selenium Web Driver, Parasoft, JUnit, Maven, JIRA, Rally, POSTMAN and SOAP UI
 Operating Systems : XP, Windows 2003, Vista, 7, Windows 8 & 8.1
 IDE and Utilities : Eclipse, MS office, MS Visual Code

WORK EXPERIENCE

Duration Organization Designation

Cognizant Technology Solu-
April 2013 – Till Date Senior Associate-Projects
tions Pvt Ltd.
EMPLOYMENT RECITAL

Project #1- COMCAST, Bangalore

Project Title Commercial Services Platform
Client Comcast
Domain Telecom
Duration July 2018-Till Date
Role Team Lead
HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM),SOAP UI, POSTMAN, Pivotal
Testing Tools
Cloud Foundry, Putty, Kibana, WinSCP
Database Tools Oracle SQL Developer
Support Tools Rally

Project Objective: Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, one of the biggest media
conglomerates, home Internet service provider, and third largest home telephone service provider in the
United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, telephone service and in some areas home
security(Including burglar alarms, surveillance cameras, fire alarm systems and home automation) to both
residential and commercial customers in 40 states and the District of Columbia.

Commercial Services Platform is a web service platform which acts a bridge between different down -stream
and upstream systems in Comcast. It is an evolving integration layer for key systems of Comcast Business.

Role and Responsibilities

 Involved in lead activities of the sprint and is responsible for the deliverables from offshore.
 Mentoring the QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers.
 Deploying and testing SOAP and REST based services Weblogic server and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
 Review and design of test scenarios.
 Execution of Test cases (both progression and regression).
 Defect Reporting and Defect Verification.
 Participate in the Release Deployments and Production Activities.

Project #2- COMCAST, Bangalore

Project Title Einstein/Einstein360
Client Comcast
Domain Telecom
Duration July 2015- Jun 2018
Role Offshore QA team
Testing Tools HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Soap UI, JIRA, Postman
Database Tools SQL server 2014,2008
Support Tools Rally, Fiddler

Project Objective: Comcast is a Cable provider Company offering the three types of Lines of Business namely
Video, Voice and Internet in United States. Einstein/Einstein360 is a simplified SSO (single sign on)
application for a Comcast CAE (customer account executive). It is used by a CAE to resolve customer issues,
to schedule tickets, roll out technicians for issues that require assistance and manage the same.

Role and Responsibilities

 Designing of the automation test cases for the application under test.
 Planning of automation test flow as per the Test Scenarios.
 Execution and review of test scripts with the Selenium Web driver.
 Maintaining the scripts and execution of UI automated scripts.
 To mentor the team, handle project deliverables, handle collaboration between Onsite, near-shore and
offshore teams.
 The SME for important functionalities like Payment Gateway, MOD [Migration offer standardization and
Data Manipulation], CSG and Amdocs Billers and is the POC for it.
 Worked with different teams like Payment service, cyber source, Billing teams, End to End team for Sys-
tem Integration testing.
 Best Manual practices following Agile approach.
 Sending out the Closure report for release
 RCA reporting for the SOAK/Prod detected defects
 Involved in requirement analysis phase, Deriving test scenarios and getting it reviewed from client, BU
and leads, designing test cases in ALM, Test data setup and follow up, test Execution phases.
 Defect Reporting and management.
 Preparing KT documents for various modules and shared with team and onsite coordinator.
 Preparing and review of test report and production checklist of the project.

Project #3- COMCAST, Bangalore

Project Title Grandslam
Client Comcast
Domain Telecom
Duration Nov 2014-June 2015
Role Offshore QA team
Testing Tools HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Soap UI, JIRA, Postman
Database Tools SQL server 2014,2008
Support Tools Rally, Fiddler

Project Objective: Comcast is a Cable provider Company offering the three types of Lines of Business namely
Video, Voice and Internet in United States. Grandslam is a simplified SSO (single sign on) application for a
Comcast CAE (customer account executive). It is used by a CAE to resolve customer issues, to schedule
tickets, roll out technicians for issues that require assistance and manage the same.

Role and Responsibilities

 Review and design of test scenarios.

 Execution of Test cases (both progression and regression).
 Defect Reporting and Defect Verification.
 Sending out the Closure report for release
 Best Manual practices following Agile approach
 RCA reporting for the SOAK/Prod detected defects
 Preparing KT documents for various modules and shared with team and onsite coordinator.

Project #4- COMCAST, Bangalore

Project Title Customer Moves
 Client Comcast
Domain Telecom
Duration August 2013-Oct 2013
Role Team Member
Testing Tools HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM),SOAP UI
Database Tools SQL server 2008
Support Tools Rally

Project Objective: Customer Moves is a simplified SSO (single sign on) application for a Comcast CAE
(customer account executive) to help COMCAST customer who wishes to take his/her Comcast equipment to
the new location during a transfer.

Role and Responsibilities

 Review and design of test scenarios.

 Execution of Test cases (both progression and regression).
 Defect Reporting and Defect Verification
 Worked for Data team to setup data for the entire Project and was an imp POC for it.

ACHIEVEMENTS
 Best Debutant Award for the indomitable spirit and ardent commitment towards project delivery.
 Pillar of the Month Award for consistent high performance and contribution towards communication do-
main.
 Actively been part and delivered presentations and demo to the team and client.
 Actively involved in Knowledge Transfer to teammates.
 Direct communication with the client from the beginning of my project.

PERSONAL PROFILE
Date of Birth : 10/06/1990
Nationality : Indian
Linguistic Abilities : English, Kannada, Hindi.
Passport : Yes.

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that all particulars are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

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