About

Pradeep KV is a Manager of Quality Assurance & Testing with over 10 years of experience in Quality Management. He has extensive experience in manual and automated testing of enterprise edition products with complex architecture involving various technologies such as Ubuntu OS, No-SQL Data Stores (Mongo, ElasticSearch, Ceph, AWS, Azure), Computes (Storm, Hazelcast, Karaf, SpringBoot applications), Message Queuing-kafka, properties management-zookeeper, Reporting-Kibana, Monitoring-DataDog and Delivery-concourse pipelines. He has also authored writing docker files to bring up a setup within 30 mins involving all above in replica sets in a single empty VM for test environments. Pradeep has 2 years of experience as a QE Manager and 10 months of experience as a Manager of a team of 18 Functional Test Engineers, taking care of 80+ games in MPL. He has 3.5 years of experience in backend automated testing using Scala, co-authored and brought up the framework (Scala Test) from scratch. He also has 2 years of experience in automating web applications using Selenium Web Driver employing Java and Java Design Patterns ‘POM Class’. Pradeep has contributed to CI/CD by understanding of concourse pipelines and embedding test automation frameworks into it. He has 2 years of experience in microservices and API testing. He has extensive experience in manual testing of ‘telecom partner settlement system’ involving RDBMS viz., MS SQL and Oracle11g, direct customer interactions, debugging on production environments. Pradeep has led a team of 6 Test Engineers, helping transform from Manual Quality Analysts to Automation Quality Engineers, monitoring the changes in real-time in production environments using DataDog, thereby providing an effective feedback loop to Test Data Management in Test Suites. He has good understanding and basic experience in concepts involved in non-functional testing such as Performance Testing, Security Testing, Scalability Testing, Resiliency Testing (single-handedly did a successful POC of chaos-toolkit to the company). Pradeep is experienced in the transformation of teams from Waterfall to V model to Agile to Kanban method of executions. He has excellent communication skills – verbal (technical/business situations) and non-verbal (Release Notes). He has a comprehensive understanding of Business Test Scenarios relevant to markets & domains-effective test plans, strategies, and cases. He has hands-on experience in restructuring workflows within a team so that efficient usage of engineers in