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curriculum vitae
About Me
Praveen is an Open-source advocator and contributor and is an active contributor for projects like Postman htmlextra reporter and Webdriver-IO. He is one of the “Supernovas” for postman community. He has been an esteemed speaker in various global meetups and conferences like APISummit2021, and API Meetup Netherlands. He also presented his ideas in ACM Italy womEncourage conference and was invited as a Guest Lecturer in LYIT, ireland. He has a MSc in cybersecurity and is Currently pursuing the responsibility of Test Automation Engineer at Eurofins Ltd, Ireland.
Test Automation Engineer
Sep 2019 – Present | Dublin, Ireland
Key Roles:
Handling test automation task across multiple projects and solutions. Ensuring fast build feedback by CI/CD integration.
Coaching teams on QA frameworks, tools and processes like BDD, WebdriverIO, Selenium, Protractor, Cucumber, Postman, Fitnesse
Developing test automation framework for WPF, WebAPP, Mobile and doing other PoCs as when required
Cyber Security Intern
July 2019 – Aug 2019 | Letterkenny, Ireland
Key Roles:
Working on integrating security tools like Snyk, SonarQube, Retire.js, and Zap in CI/CD
Developing test framework for integrating owasp zap with selenium and running it as part of CI/CD
Senior Software Test Specialist
Aug 2017 – Aug 2018 | Bengaluru, India
Key Roles and achievements:
Ensuring quality product release by coordination with project managers and clients.
Improved test efficiency by developing Quality test automation scripts and framework for UI regression and acceptance test using selenium cucumber.
Validating and enhancing the existing QA plan and strategy through efficient retrospective meetings.
Software Engineer- Systems
Feb 2015 – Aug 2017 | Bengaluru, India
Key Roles and achievements:
Developing Robot Framework (Python) Manual and test automation Scripts for acceptance test-driven and behavior-driven testing for Rest API component.
Responsible for UI, Regression, integration, cross browser, cross OS, smoke test, sanity test and bug validation. test environment setup and test closure activities
Technical Skills
He works extensively on Developing solutions for automating tests across multiple test domains like API, WebApp, electronJS app, WPF, and Mobile apps (Android).
He is an advocator of API first eco system. He is one of the Supernovas in the Postman community programs that shows his in-depth skills about the tool and API domain.
Extensive experience with automation libraries and technologies like Robot-framework (Python), Selenium (Java) Cucumber, TestNG, Postman, Rest assured, WebdriverIO and Protractor (Java script + Jasmine).
Worked on ensuring Continuous integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) through Tools like Jenkins, Azure, octopus and GIT.
He is an educator and trainer, and has provided talks in Global meetups, colleges, and conferences across Europe.
He is an active contributor in the WebdriverIO and postman community tools projects.
Extensively worked on different methodologies and processes like, Agile, DevOps, DevSecOps, V model and waterfall etc and is a stubborn fan boy of Agile and DevSecOps approaches.
Advocates development practices like Test-driven, and Behaviour-driven developments, and makes sure to reiterate that BDD is not Gherkins but about collaboration between stakeholders. Removing the silos!
His work usually involves Regression, Sanity, Smoke, Exploratory, and Adhoc testing. The result of the test activities is tracked using Defect reporting and verification tools like azure. Test Framework creation, Test case peer reviewing; Test environment setup; and Test closure activities are also part of the responsibilities.
Other responsibilities include bug fix validation; requirement analysis; and; communicating product risks to stakeholders.
He had extensive experience in Datacentre and industrial networks; and Cybersecurity tools and processes like Windows Servers, Kali Linux, Wireshark, Zap, burpsuite, sonarqube ,DefectDojo to name a few.
Has good Understanding about containerization (Docker), Hardware Virtualization (VMware), and SQL server
Tool sets
Praveen has worked on different technologies and solutions, and have expertise in using a range of tools and libraries. Below are a few of the toolsets he has expertise in but is always keen on learning new approaches that suites the best.
Education
Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 | Letterkenny, Ireland
Msc in computing and cybersecurity at Letterkenny Institute of Technology, with an excellent academic track record of First-Class (1.1 GPA) [Dissertation: A Self-Adaptive Approach to Security and Functional Testing (Five-Stage-DevSecOps) in CI/CD Pipeline]
TocH Institute of Technology (CUSAT University)
June 2010- June 2014 | Kerala, India
B-Tech in Electronics and communication from Cochin University (CUSAT), with second-class (2.1 GPA)