Biju Janardhanan

Biju Janardhanan

$25/hr
Quality Engineering with varied forms of Testing
Reply rate:
-
Availability:
Full-time (40 hrs/wk)
Age:
43 years old
Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Experience:
12 years
​-b Mob:- BIJU JANARDHANAN https://linkedin.com/in/bijupj111 OVERVIEW ❏ A 12+years versatile Quality Engineering leader engineered TaaS(Testing as a Service). ❏ Designed and implemented Frontend, middleware and backend automation. ❏ Performed performance, scalability & security testing of complex distributed systems; including tuning, capacity planning, monitoring and benchmarking of APIs and critical backend services. ❏ Enabled CI/CD pipelines and deployments. Automated execution in fast paced Agile environments. ❏ Built teams from ground up including hiring, training and mentoring team members. ❏ Pioneered automation frameworks across Platforms/Domains - Desktop, API(SOAP, REST and GraphQL), web, mobile and hybrid apps. ❏ Co-authored Best Practices/Standards and Test strategies for Products/Services. ❏ Tested niche products/services hosted across AWS, Azure, HP Helion, Rackspace, Oracle Cloud and OpenShift. EXPERIENCE Software Engineer in Test Streamlabs, Vancouver ​Manual testing of a game streaming product​. ​Apr 2019 - till Date Quality Engineering Specialist Noodle.ai, Bangalore ​Nov 2018 - Mar 2019 - Established QE(Quality Engg) vertical - including processes and automation frameworks. - Developed REST API test framework reducing manual efforts by >60%. And used by 8 AI app teams. - Testing and delivery of 4 Enterprise AI Apps/products <6months. Recognition “moved the Needle@Noodle”. Eg: Enterprise AI apps for Predictive Analytics, Fleet Health Intelligence, Energy efficiency prediction to reduce CO2 & waste. - Kick-started initiatives in Data Quality, Security testing using BurpSuite & Nessus Scan. - Built new UI automation frameworks for BEAST Platform/product using protractor cucumber, python-selenium and testCafe. - Owner of SOC 2 audit process from Quality Engineering team. - Dockerized jenkins job with alerting and notifications on Slack. Sandman API job dockerized. - Mentored team to ramp up on javascript, python, testCafe for faster automation. - Initiated Zendesk integration onto 2 AI apps. - Performance testing using JMeter, Gatling and also evaluated K6 and Artillery. ​Initiatives​: BAT - BEAST Application Trainer, acting as Product Evangelist for BATATHON. As a Design Thinker part of Feature ReEngineering. Hackathon Evaluation team member. Staff Software Engineer​ ​BlippAR, Bangalore ​ Mar 2016 - Sep 2018 Projects: Reusable framework to test​ APIs of Blippar CV​(Computer Vision), ​dol-guldur​/​CORE​, ​Edge-Gateway, visualSearch​ APIs using Mocha & chai, with test content as json, image, video, 3D objects. Media Transcoder​(Encoding & Decoding)services API automation and benchmarking. BlippsHub ​GraphQL automation - developed a new GraphQL based framework using Apollo client. ​-b Mob: - Stripe Payments​ REST APIs and WebUI testing using test cards. Accounts System - ​Creation of varied test data like Free signup, pro, groups, blipparEdu users. FaceProfile​ App UI and WebServices testing . Blippar SDK​ automation on Android, using OpenCV, tesseract for Barcode and WordCloud blipps. Additional Responsibilities handles: - Optimised Testing times to 11mins from 36mins with​ reusable critical APIs invocation. - ​Performance, memory leaks testing using SnapDragon, android, trepn profiler - Implemented End-to-End automation of AR content creation tools - Legacy, Intermediate and BlippJS. - Test and Certify GoGo(GoodtoGo) Mobile Beta, Release Candidate apps, Google PlayStore/Apple AppStore. ​- Devised Infrastructure monitoring Bots for Slack and integrated Crashalytics alerts for Services, periodic Sanity, Regression jobs. - Web/API/Mobile Tests 2000+ tests run < 20mins, 1800tests < 16mins, 600Tests<12mins. - Client interaction - for reproducing issues, support and AR content rendering. - Testing of Blippar SDK on Android/iOS. Curiosity driven side-projects: Design Thinker, drove improvements in Product/Services features. Used Blippar SDK to build a Kotlin app. R&D Engineer ​ ​DREAMWORKS ANIMATION, Bangalore​ Jan 2015 - Mar 2016 - Testing PAM(Production Asset Management) Cloud services and features. - Spaces REST webServices automation using ​RestWorks​(in-house developed tool) with groovy assertions. - AppDynamics monitoring of all PAM WebServices. Support debugging Production & Staging pipeline issues. - Performance Testing using JMeter for PAM critical services. - Testing PAM Services data in Elastic Search and AMQ services. - ​ ​Technical Credits for the movie “​Kung Fu Panda 3​”. Dreamworks + Nike = Nova - UI automation GURU portal. Nova REST WebServices automation. Developed framework using jasmine and javascript, scheduling test jobs in BuildFarm. SDET 2​ Test Lead ​MICROSOFT R&D, Hyderabad​ Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 - Microsoft Licensing services automation on Azure. Delivered 5 critical projects in <1year. 1. SLK(Secure License Keys) ​HBI​(High Business Impact) project with Performance Testing & Benchmarking of Key Requests by OEMs & Retail distribution in millions/billions till Thresholds of 10,20...80Million, 6Billion. 2. MSKeys Retails distribution System - portal on Azure, UI automation ~85% of test scenarios. 3. POEDS - Proof Of Eligibility Distribution System. MS SQL/SQL Azure based Key generation, distribution & validation during activations, across globally 5 Regions. 4. SAP Integration Performance Testing with varying loads in millions to billions. 5. Azure Test Environment setup for Performance Testing configuring Mid-tier and DB SQL Servers. Senior Member of Technical Staff ORACLE, Bangalore​ Dec 2010 – Dec 2013 - Oracle Public Cloud & Oracle Beehive Collaboration and Communication Product Suite services automation. - Testing of Enhancements/bugs in Beehive(UDS, BhMail, BCentral, Bctl CLI, etc.,) - Cross browser Testing on IE, Firefox ESR, Chrome & Safari(Mac) – Beehive Conferencing, BCentral. - Performance Testing of Beehive Server using BST - Beehive Stress Tool various loads. - Beehive Java compatibility Testing(till Java7) across OS’es RHEL, Windows7 and 8, Ubuntu12.1, Mac10.9. - Beehive LDAP Co-existence Testing using OID, MS AD, SunOne, IBM DS. - DogFood, catFood Environments setup for use by Server Tech teams. ​Out of Curiosity side-projects​: Oracle Cloud Services setup using TAS Commands eliminating all WebUI workflows. ​QA Analyst​ ​THOMSON REUTERS, Bangalore​ May 2009 - Nov 2010 - Testing mid-tier SOAP & JAL WebServices of Prism. Automation using Junit ,java, queryBuilder. - Integration Testing of dependent Systems. Eg: Novus, EASEL using Selenium 2. - Performance Testing using JMeter & KPI benchmarking of R&D Search Algorithms and APIs - comparison testing with Google and Baidu Search Engines. ​-b Mob: - - TCPMon for HeartBeat status monitoring of endpoints for all critical services. Delivered 11 services across 3 projects, used by 20+ Applications in TR Professional products. Revenue >USD $4Billions. ​WesLaw, WestLaw Next​ being few. ​ ut of Curiosity side-project​: OpenCalais exploration. O ECS​(Electrical Controls Software) ​Engineer​ ​GENERAL MOTORS, Bangalore​ Oct 2006 - Apr 2009 ​ - Testing of Aspen Application Suite, auto-code features as per GM C standards. PowerTrain Controls Tools. - Testing of Models generation and code of MatLab, simuLink integrations in ASPEN. - Point of Contact for Aspen Application Suite at GM, India for GM NA & GM Europe. Initiative:​ Trained Automotive & Mechanical Engineers to build simple Web pages to showcase Powertrain models using HTML. LANGUAGES & TECHNOLOGIES Java,javaScript, testCafe, kantu, python, Behave, pyTest, selenium2, protractor, cucumber, appium, openCV, GraphQL, SQL Server, Oracle APEX, burpSuite, QARK, nessus, snyk, jmeter, perfmon, loadrunner/performance center, metricbeat, filebeat, trepn, snapdragon profiler, instruments, Charles proxy for tracing requests, nginx, haproxy. Oracle Public Cloud, Azure, HP Helion, AWS, Rackspace EDUCATION B.E​ in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering, Shimoga 2005. Diploma​ in Computer Science​ ​from Bapuji Polytechnic, Davangere 2001
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