Abhijit Sipani

Software Engineer

Nokia Networks•  January 2015 - Present

• Scrum Master responsible for getting automation team to follow best agile practices. Interfaced with worldwide teams to collect requirements for automated scenarios and did design and test strategy reviews with the automation team. • Responsible for data analysis of build/automation failures to identify risk areas using custom scripts and Splunk. This helped catch approximately 20% of potential customer issues before builds were released to customer engineering teams for testing, contributing significantly to product quality. • Setup the entire framework for launching automated test cases/jobs in Jenkins/Pipeline with groovy code. This allowed agile/CFT teams to avoid duplicating code and re-use the same codebase for different test scenarios. This helped increase productivity and led to at least 85% of legacy code being obsoleted. Build times were also reduced from three to two hours by utilizing parallel stages in Pipeline, leading to a 30% decrease in overall build time. • Installed open-source tools and with custom python scripts, tied them back to Jenkins for optimized use of hardware resources across multiple sites. Total of six shared testbeds were setup offshore and with the proper scheduling in place, these were able to replace twenty testbeds across the US, achieving a 70% savings in hardware utilization. • Responsible for owning test and automation team processes for entire BU and developing tools to support the processes, that were used worldwide. Wrote macros in Confluence and JIRA enabled teams to present release critical data in a simple format. Managed milestones and test plans in TestRail and wrote scripts to interface with the API. • Did bug analysis/triage during the cycle to assign severity and on that basis, priority for teams to fix. Also did an RCA/Lessons learned after every release cycle to understand gaps in the automation team deliveries and designed plans to rectify them.