The document provides a resume for Sreekrishna H P Pandit, including his contact information, educational background, work experience, skills, and career history. He has over 12 years of experience in software quality assurance for STB, OTT, and mobile applications. Currently he works as a Senior Technical QA Lead at Quick Play, Chennai, where he leads testing efforts for various projects involving content delivery and video streaming.
1. SREEKRISHNA H PANDIT
Address: No. 2, 2nd floor, AT Street, Sunnakal Pet, Bangalore - 560 002
Phone: +91 9731899771 | E-mail: pandit.sh@gmail.com | Date of Birth: 26th August 1978
Software Quality Assurance Professional with experience of over 12 years in STB, OTT & Mobile software testing domain.
Bachelors Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and currently associated with Quick Play, Chennai as Senior
Technical QA Lead.
Possess experience in project management & delivery, Test planning & Strategy, Test Designing & execution, Defect tracking,
RCA and Impact Analysis for defect fixes.
Automation of end-to-end STB features like ZAPPER, PVR, DVR-Lite, etc., using VB scripts with IEX (IRD Exerciser) tool
using debug logs technique & performance measurement with IEX tool using bitmap comparison technique.
Automation of B-Mail & Media Gateway feature using GENIE automation tool based on Genie frame work.
Automation of Performance scenarios using Red Rat.
System testing of STB features like PVR, nPVR, PDL, IPPV, OPPV, Catch-up TV, Restart/Lookback TV, TSTV, Hybrid TV, B-
Mail, Finger Printing, Transcoding, Dynamic Update, EPG Ads, Channel Logo, MRDVR, Live Streaming, Wi-Fi, on multiple
platforms & chipsets.
Video On Demand [VOD] – SVOD, TVOD, NVOD, PVOD
VOD and Linear content delivery via OTT with HLS/MSSS/DASH packaging.
HE components – VGC CAS/DRM, SSR Admin, NDS Scheduler, MP5 for content Ingestion, HMS & FFMPEG encoders &
Oracle for DB management.
Impact Analysis – Performing Impact Analysis for the implemented CQs and providing impact details to the team members so
as to help running regression tests as part of continuous Integration (CI) development process.
Root Cause Analysis on all the Showstopper & Major CQs using RCAT tool.
Experience in Building the executable and creating release documents.
Always eager to learn and take up new activities, positive team player.
CAREER PATH
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore Dec 2016-Till
Date
Manager - Projects
Quick Play Media, Chennai May 2015-Dec
2016
Senior Technical QA Lead
CISCO, Bangalore Apr 2006-Dec
2014
Senior Software Engineer Grade III
Kyocera wireless India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore Feb 2005-March
2006
Product Test Engineer
PCS Technologies (Indian Airlines Ltd.) Mar 2004-
Jan 2005
Technical Support Engineer
2. TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems : Unix/Linux, OS2/21, Window XP/7/10
STB/IPTV
Technologies &
Standards
: DVB-H, DVB, MPEG, H.264, HLS, MSS, MPEG-DASH, JITP
Tools : IEX (IR Exerciser), GOTSS, GENIE, Eclipse 3.1, Rational Clear Quest, Change Request
Management Database (CRMDB), Mercury Quality Center-10.0, JIRA, Rally for Agile Project
Management, RCAT, MP5 Controller.
Scripting Language : VB and Java Scripting
Certification
“International Software Testing Qualification Board” (ISTQB) Certification.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Lead E2E QA delivery form implementation till production for OCD & NetStorage project delivery for SingTel HOOQ.
Head India QA Team for post-production support activity with regard to VOD content ingestion for various clients such as
SingTel, AT&T, Bell, TELUS, Lotto, MTS & Rogers and co-ordinated with off-shore development team.
Single point of contact for QC activity regarding Requirement Clarification for multiple client projects such as Tata Sky, Bharti,
Get, Visit, DBS, etc.
Played a major part in bringing down the defect leakage.
Ensured Timely & Quality delivery of various product features.
WORK EXPERIENCE – PROJECTS
At Quick Play, Chennai
Project - 1 : Optimised Content Delivery
Role : Sr. Technical QA Lead
Duration : 6 Months
Platform & Devices : Chrome/IE/Firefox/Safari & Android 4.0+ & Apple iOS 6.0+
Work Environment : Windows XP/7/8/Vista & MAC OSX 10.6+
Player : SilverLight & Shaka
Tools : JIRA for Defect Tracking, Test Case Preparation & execution, Oracle DB.
Client : SingTel-HOOQ
Description : Since Google announced withdrawal of NPAPI used by Silverlight player on Chrome browser
as its unlike to be updated till 2020. Chrome has the number one worldwide market share
amongst desktop browsers notably in Asia, Quick Play has to ensure that video can be
delivered to Chrome in a maintainable way, it gave way for OCD project. Its intended to deliver
DASH-WV protected content to Chrome browser. JIT-P was used to produce both linear and
3. VoD streams in the appropriate format and with the appropriate DRM envelope [DASH-WV] by
re-using the existing MSSS-PR CER.
Responsibilities : Review and analyse the project requirements.
Designing Test Strategy and Creating Test Plan.
Plan, monitor, organize and lead all QA team activities such as review of test cases, test
effort estimation, track the requirement updates and modify testing artifacts accordingly,
conducting team meetings at appropriate time, task allocation, Test Case preparation and
execution, QA Report generation, etc.,
Project -2 : MP5 Ingestion
Role : Sr. Technical QA Lead
Duration : 8 Months
Work Environment : Windows 7 & Linux
Tools : MP5 for Content Ingestion, HERO Management System for MXL monitoring, JIRA for Defect
Tracking, Test Case Preparation & execution.
Clients : SingTel, TELUS, Bell, Lotto, AT&T, MTS & Rogers
Description : Facilitation all pre & post production QA activities related to content ingestion via MP5. As part
of which validate workflows & modules with new implementation, enhancements or fixes.
Responsibilities : Lead India QA Team for all MP5 Ingestion activity and co-ordinate with off-shore
development team.
Facilitating Dev team by reproducing Production Issue with respect to Content ingestion.
Designing Test Strategy, Creating QA Report, SIT CR & PROD CR for deployments.
Preparing/Execution of Regression & Functional Test Cases.
Project - 3 : NetStorage
Role : Sr. Technical QA Lead
Duration : Since last 2 Months
Tools : MP5 for Content Ingestion, JIRA for Creating User Stories, Defect Tracking, Test Case
Preparation & Execution, mp4Split for fragmenting and Oracle DB.
Client : SingTel HOOQ
Description : Store the most requested content in Asia region in Akamai’s CDN to reduce start-up latency.
Since Akamai’s infrastructure is not capable to providing JIT origin with appropriate DRM, it is
necessary to render the chosen content to a format that can be played out directly from disc
without any special server side functionality.
Responsibilities : POC Implementation.
Leading QA Tasks – Review and analyse the project requirements, Preparing User
Stories for all QA Tasks, Test Execution, Content playback and Demo the implemented
Stories at the end of the sprint to Stack Holders.
Dev Tasks - Providing Feature Implementation Guidance with respect to Project
requirements, Workflow, Tables and Parameter mapping to DB.
At CISCO, Bangalore
Project - 1 : Mobile TV
Product : HTC, ASUS, Gigabyte
Role : QC Engineer
Duration : 1.5 Years
Phone Type : Windows Mobile
4. Communication
Software
: Microsoft Active Sync
Tools : Mercury Quality Center for TC writing & IBM Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking/logging,
SOAP-UI for Interactive Applications.
Description : The Mobile TV solution supports applications such as Electronic Program Guide, Personal
Video Recorder (PVR), IPPV, Interactive Mobile TV Applications such as Voting, Weather &
Finance, E2E content and service protection for DVB-H using mVideoGuard.
This Project enable mobile service providers to benefit from innovative & efficient Mobile TV
delivery based on latest H.264 Video Compression standards complaint with DVB-H standard
allowing Mobile TV operators to deploy the service offerings on 2.5G & 3G networks.
Responsibilities : Test Case Preparation for Functional and UI Testing.
Regression testing to validate the Mobile TV functionality such as Zapper, PVR. PPV and
Interactive Application.
Defect tracking and preparation of Test Summery Report and creating release document.
Project - 2 : VISION TV, ASTRO, DBS & GET
Role : Senior QC Engineer
Duration : 2 Years
Platform : PACE, Kaon & Broadcom (BCM 7XXX) chipsets
Work Environment : Win XP & Linux (2.6.12)
Tools : Mercury Quality Center 10 for Test Case writing, execution & Requirement Mapping, IBM
Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking/logging, Rational Clear Case for code base checking
and version creation
Description : As part of component team, responsibility is to certify that the feature implementation meets all
the UI & functional requirements before delivering the release to System QC. All the relevant
tests were carried out on cable & satellite STB’s whichever is applicable to validate features
such as Zapper, PVR, VOD, PDL, PPV, B-Mail, Finger Printing, Dynamic Update, etc.,
Responsibilities : Review and analyse the project requirements
Building the executable.
Test Case Preparation for Functional and UI Testing.
Regression testing to validate the functionality of EPG, NAVIGATION, PVR and
Interactive Application.
Defect tracking and preparation of Test Summery Report and creating release document.
Project - 3 : EVOLUTION
Role : Technical Lead
Duration : 4.5 Years
Platform : PACE, Kaon & Broadcom (BCM 7XXX) chipsets
Work Environment : Win XP & Linux (2.6.12), IEX Server - Client hardware
Tools : Mercury Quality Center 10 for Test Case writing, execution & requirement Mapping, IBM
Rational Clear Quest for defect tracking & logging, Rational Clear Case for code base
checking and version creation, IEX & RedRat for automation, RCAT for Root Cause Analysis.
Description : As part of component team, responsibility is to certify that the feature implementation meets all
the UI & functional requirements before delivering the release to System QC. All the relevant
tests were carried out on cable & satellite STB’s whichever is applicable to validate features
such as Zapper, PVR, PDL, PPV, EPG Ads, MRDVR, Channel Logo, Dynamic Update, B-
Mail, etc.,
Responsibilities : Review and analyse the project requirements.
Leading QA Tasks - Designing Test Strategy and Creating Test Plan, Test Preparation
5. and Execution both Manual and Automation (Functional, Performance & Stress Tests),
Assign and tracking the assigned tasks to the Software Test Engineers, Defect tracking
and preparation of Test Summery Report and creating release document.
CI – Performing Impact Analysis for the implemented CQs on daily basis and running
regression tests as part of continuous Integration (CI) development process.
Root Cause Analysis on all the Showstopper & Major CQs using RCAT tool.
Project - 4 : Media Gate Way – Live Streaming
Role : Technical Lead
Duration : 6 Months
Platform : PACE (BCM 7XXX) chipsets
Work Environment : Win XP & Linux (2.6.12)
Tools : Mercury Quality Center 10, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Rational Clear Case for code base
checking and version creation, GENIE for Automation and Rally for Agile development.
Description : Media Gate Way project was completely developed on Agile methodologies. As the name of
the project implies it’s a server-client based architecture for a given home network. Here one
of the STB act as a Server which is usually a PVR STB and rest of the STB’s as client, usually
a Zapper STB’s. The client server communication and streaming is via IP.
Responsibilities : Requirement analysis, writing & executing automation test scripts for the user stories
using GENIE automation tool.
Checking-in automation scripts to Rational Clear Case for running the everyday
regression test.
Regression Testing of STB features based on Impact.
Preparing DOD [Definition of Done] check list for the user stories picked up in the sprint.
Building the executable & providing demo to Product Owner at end of every script.
At Kyocera wireless India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore
Project - 1 : Mobile Feature Testing
Role : Product Test Engineer
Duration : 8 Months
Product : SLIDER – SE44, GRAPHITE – KX5, STROM – KX21, THUNDER – KX24, JAGUAR – KX22
Client : Verizon, Movilnet, Movistar, Alltel, Tata, Reliance, Telestra, US Cellular
Operating System : REX Operating System
Communication
Software
Tools
:
:
Kyocera Wireless PST
CRMDB, TOPEK for test case generation, Chameleon for flashing the build, Simulator like
AGILENT, RACAL & SPIRENT
Responsibilities : Tested features like SMS, MMS, Voice Messages, GAMES application using simulators
like AGILENT, RACAL & SPIRENT.
Validated functionality using Smoke, Regression and Adhoc testing.
Programmed customer specific device parameters using Kyocera Wireless Phone
Support Toolkit (PST).
Generated test cases and conditions using Topek and logged bugs using CRMDB.
Project - 2 : Field Testing
Role : Product Test Engineer
Duration : 6 Months
Product : PRISMA-KX17, KW770 & TOPAZ-KX7
6. Client : Tata & Reliance
Communication
Software
Tools
Description
Features
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Kyocera Wireless PST
CRMDB & CAIT
RF Field Testing was performed on new model handsets in live network before launch, by
carrying out drive tests to identify Pilot signal strength, Handoff parameters, Mobiles receive
transmit power and Voice Quality in order to enhance the handset’s performance. Drive test
was carried out using CDMA Air Interface Tester (CAIT) tool. The main objective of drive test
was to minimize call drops.
MO & MT Calls
Responsibilities : Ensured minimum eventual relative performance is <= 2% of the reference product
performance.
Analysed the feature test results using CAIT.
Logged Bugs using CRMDB.
At PCS Technologies (Indian Airlines Ltd.)
Project : Indian Airlines Ltd
Role : Technical Support Engineer
Duration : 11 Months
Operating System : Windows XP & DOS
Responsibilities : Assembling Computer Hardware Peripherals as well as installing software’s.
Troubleshoot computer hardware, software & network issues.
Installing, configuring and maintenance of IAL Reservation Software (PCOM), Thermal
baggage Tag Printer and Boarding Card Printers.
EDUCATION
RVCE, Bangalore
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics – Sept 2001
MEI POLYTECHNIC, Bangalore
Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering – May 1997
REFERENCES
Available on request.
7. Client : Tata & Reliance
Communication
Software
Tools
Description
Features
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Kyocera Wireless PST
CRMDB & CAIT
RF Field Testing was performed on new model handsets in live network before launch, by
carrying out drive tests to identify Pilot signal strength, Handoff parameters, Mobiles receive
transmit power and Voice Quality in order to enhance the handset’s performance. Drive test
was carried out using CDMA Air Interface Tester (CAIT) tool. The main objective of drive test
was to minimize call drops.
MO & MT Calls
Responsibilities : Ensured minimum eventual relative performance is <= 2% of the reference product
performance.
Analysed the feature test results using CAIT.
Logged Bugs using CRMDB.
At PCS Technologies (Indian Airlines Ltd.)
Project : Indian Airlines Ltd
Role : Technical Support Engineer
Duration : 11 Months
Operating System : Windows XP & DOS
Responsibilities : Assembling Computer Hardware Peripherals as well as installing software’s.
Troubleshoot computer hardware, software & network issues.
Installing, configuring and maintenance of IAL Reservation Software (PCOM), Thermal
baggage Tag Printer and Boarding Card Printers.
EDUCATION
RVCE, Bangalore
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics – Sept 2001
MEI POLYTECHNIC, Bangalore
Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering – May 1997
REFERENCES
Available on request.