My Journey so far…

I’ve had the good fortune to view IT from various perspectives of the SDLC and my roles have evolved progressively since I first set foot as a young engineer.

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Timeline:-

2010 – 2013 (QA Engineer):

Responsibilities of manual and automation testing.Initially into QA of a Desktop Application, later moved into QA of Web Applications. In this period I have extensively worked with QTP and Selenium as part of the automation architecture in my workplaces on desktop applications. Also built expertise in various QA processes of Test Case designing, documentation & test management.

Highlight: ISTQB Foundation Level Certification

2014 -2015 (SDET Engineer):

Responsibilities were reduced from manual QA activities and more into developing automation frameworks – Desktop Automation using Selenium and Mobile applications automation using Appium. Writing custom scripts for Mac Platform using Applescript. Single point of contact in my team to build up Continuous Integrations (CI) pipelines using Jenkins. Writing custom Python scripts to automate various build tasks. Managing automation integrations and adding it to the build pipeline.

Highlight: Spot Award for ‘Successful Implementation of Appium Automation Framework on iOS.’

2015-2017 (Senior Engineer):

Responsibilities have changed into a JavaScript based Web Development role. Also developed a Rest Api Test Framework for our application used by various stakeholders.

2017-present(Cloud Platform Engineer III):

Working in a Backend team on Rails & Golang applications where we deal with data from various sources and carry out their normalisation and ingestion. Heading a team of 3 for Content Support Activities. Looking into various AWS cloud hosting functions like cost optimisations, monitoring, security etc.

Highlight: Patent US 20190236090 – Obtaining enhanced metadata for media content.

Let’s see where this goes 😉

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All in all it has been a wonderful career with lots and lots of learning. I understand the importance of all roles in a SDLC personally having contributed in all 3 of them. It has surely refined my knowledge over the years and built up a passion inside me for technology! Want to be keep going and excel in my craft. And one last thing to all reading…

“What you lack in skill… You can make up with will…”

Cheers to a wonderful life ahead 🙂

Regards,

VJ