About

Sampath Kumar Maka is a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with over 8 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at NTUC NE Digital, where he is responsible for implementing Shift Left Testing, creating test automation frameworks for web, API, and mobile platforms, and ensuring static code coverage in Sonar cloud. Sampath is a single point of contact for clients and business analysts on testing-related activities and is responsible for project deliverables from a testing perspective. He is also the gatekeeper for the QA environment and quality improvement processes. Sampath has expertise in preparing ambiguity documents, testing scope, test estimation, test strategy, test plan, and test cases documents for the scope identified. He is skilled in allocating and managing resources until the completion of the project. Sampath has experience in preparing test cases and maintaining the traceability matrix of requirements with resources and corresponding test cases along with defects. He is proficient in finalizing automation test cases based on the cost-benefit analysis of the POC performed on the identified set of test cases. He has experience in creating automation scripts and frameworks for automating regression test cases using tools such as Test Complete, Selenium web driver, and UFT 12.5 using keyword-driven, data-driven, or hybrid frameworks with corresponding scripting languages. Sampath is skilled in performing data validations by SQL on databases for corresponding test cases. He is responsible for preparing and reporting the test execution status to all stakeholders on a daily basis and raising red flags to ensure timely delivery of projects. He has expertise in preparing defect reporting status and updating the same to all stakeholders. Sampath is responsible for analyzing productivity metrics for the QA team, including defect acceptance ratio, defect rejection ratio, QA defects vs. UAT defects, etc., to improve the productivity of the QA team. Sampath has a track record of being responsible and accountable for any production issues and providing the necessary RCA for the same. He is responsible for providing the QA sign-off for modules ready for deployment into production and providing the QA post-mortem analysis for the release to identify possible opportunities to make the process better and improve productivity. Sampath has worked with companies such as Circles.life and Arcesium (D E Shaw Group) in the past, where he was responsible for managing workload, creating and maintaining automation frameworks, sprint planning, and prioritizing requirements. He has a Master of Technology degree in Computer Software Engineering from Jawaharlal Neh