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📖 Summary

• 4+ years of Software Quality Assurance experience • Worked on Groovy, Ruby, C# and C • Extensive knowledge and work experience with automation tools WebDriver/Selenium, testNG, Rspec and GSpec • Experience with Jenkins, Git and other CI tools • Wrote technical documentation including test cases, test plans, how-to guides, and release notes • Strong communication skills, excellent team player • Highly proficient at learning in depth: new tools, scripting languages, applications and technologiesSoftware Development Engineer in Test @ Developed automated tests on C# * Developed test cases and user scenarios for testing next generation site builders using selenium * Developed base methods that were further extended and used across the project * Developed executables to be used during Continuous integration for test setup and tear down Part of a team responsible for developing a new test framework using Ruby and Rspec * Automated various sitebuilder APIs and added the project to the CI pipeline * Migrated selenium web driver tests to Ruby * Responsible for performance improvements by including parallel run of test specs * Categorized tests based on priority and tags for scheduled nightly & regression runs Automated chrome browser performance using groovy and chrome driver for Gspec * Developed a prototype tool to detect memory leaks on Go daddy's sitebuilder * Used groovy and Gspec to harness the power of the experimental chrome web driver * Implemented an API to push data to a server where results could be charted. From May 2013 to Present (2 years 8 months) Senior Quality Assurance Engineer @ Automated testing of SOAP and REST Web Services (April 2012 – August 2012) Developed test cases and scenarios for testing Direct-Carrier billing SOAP Api's on SOAP UI PRO Developed an automated test framework for testing REST web-services using Groovy. Responsible for regression testing, ad-hoc testing, and prototype testing Project Lead for Commerce Registry (August2012 - Present) Developed comprehensive test cases and user case scenarios for Payfone's Commerce Registry. Developed a testing framework using Groovy Worked closely with Product development to identify project risks and possible enhancements From April 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 2 months) Software QA Engineer @ Automated API testing for Admin UI and third party vendors (Dec 2011 -present) • Expanding the existing tool framework to automate all API’s used for admin UI and third party vendors(200+ APIs) • The tool is scripted on GROOVY and run on Jenkins which allows for scheduling automated runs after bug fixes Bandwidth throttling tools for HTTP live video streaming (March 2011 – May 2011) • Part of a team developing bandwidth throttling tools on C for testing HLS video streaming on IPTV Set top boxes • Analyzed bit rate switching between video streams by changing available bandwidth • Set Acceptable quality parameters for STB’s for video stream switching like delay, jitter and packet loss. Automated Web services and JS API’s for remote scheduling and Video on demand ( June 2011 -present) • Developed a tool to enable automated testing of Webservices and Java script API’s using PERL and java script • The tool was capable of logging data and results using ajax to perform cross domain request and PERL for data processing Other tasks • Extended the framework for automated testing of video server/client request using the groovy language. • Developed PERL scripts for automated channel change soak tests. • Designed automated test cases and documented software bugs using smart bear bug reporting tools • Hands on experience of IPTV implementation, delivery and architecture, HTTP live streaming, bandwidth management, bug reporting and test management. From February 2011 to April 2012 (1 year 3 months) Peer Health Educator @ Headed a team that developed and delivered curriculum to diverse student population and actively organized events promoting safe and healthy lifestyles. From August 2009 to May 2010 (10 months) Research Assistant @ • Developed a MATLAB simulation of the error performance of 4-QAM system with OFDM on AWGN, Coherent and non Coherent Rayleigh channels. • Developed a Software virtualization of Linux OS for software defined radio From August 2009 to December 2009 (5 months) Intern @  Responsible for the configuring and troubleshooting networks built on Cisco routers and switches including the Cisco 2610/2620 routers and the Cisco catalyst 3560 switch  Completed Cisco Certified network profession training. From July 2008 to October 2008 (4 months) MSEE, Electrical Engineering @ San Jose State University From 2009 to 2011 Bachelor, Engineering; Electronics and telecommunication @ University of Mumbai From 2004 to 2008 Nigel Dsouza is skilled in: DSP, Echo Cancellation, C, Embedded Systems, Test Automation, IPTV, EPG, DVB-S, DVB-T, Modulation, QAM, FDMA, Firmware, Groovy, Middleware