Nagaiah Vivekananda

Result-driven quality engineering professional with nearly 7 years of experience, specializing in OTT functional testing across Mobile App Testing and Web Application ecosystems. Currently working as Test Engineer QA-1 at GlobalLogic India, delivering high-quality solutions for Warner Bros Discovery across large-scale, business-critical streaming platforms. Steering end-to-end OTT quality engineering initiatives, ensuring seamless playback experiences across multi-device, multi-region streaming platforms and diverse user environments.

Collaborating with product, engineering, and analytics stakeholders to validate complex event tracking, playback metrics, and user engagement insights across platforms. Driving defect prevention through advanced root cause analysis, production monitoring, and implementation of proactive quality governance frameworks ensuring release stability. Delivering high-impact global releases in AMER, EMEA, and APAC regions, ensuring localization, regulatory compliance, performance optimization, and superior user experience consistency.

Test Engineer – QA 1 at Global Logic India Private Limited (2020-11 – Present)

Client: Warner Bros Discovery.

Applications: HBO Max, Discovery Plus (AMER, APAC &

• EMEA), D+Legacy.

Domain: Media &

• Entertainment.

Platform: Mobile(Android &

• IOS), ROKU Ultra, XBOX, ROKU Stick, Android, iOS, Connected TV(fire TV &

• Android TV), Samsung Smart TV, LGTV, PlayStation 4 & 5(Dev Kit &

• Retail Kit).

Tools: Data Bricks, Mux, Media Melon, Studio(multiverse), Grafana, jfrog, Github, JIRA, Qmetry, ADB, Tizen Studio TV Labs &

• STBT's Tester Tools.

VPN: HBO End Points, Wonder Proxy, Express VPN, Global Protect.

• Leading validation of Multiview streaming capabilities for live and VOD content, ensuring seamless playback, synchronization, and superior user viewing experience.
• Orchestrating end-to-end testing of advanced player controls, including progress bar, MLP, IPD CC, 'Watch from Start,' and trick-play functionalities.
• Leveraging Postman and Python scripts to validate API responses events/analytics data.
• Driving successful production launches of HBO Max across APAC, EMEA, and AMER regions, ensuring quality, compliance, and region-specific functionality readiness.
• Designing and executing comprehensive test strategies, including functional, regression, and exploratory testing, ensuring robust coverage and defect prevention across releases.
• Developing and Maintain Selenium Automation scripts using Python to Execute Regression Sanity & Exploratory Testing, Improving Test Coverage & Reducing Manual Execution.
• Driving defect lifecycle management, conducting root cause analysis and ensuring timely resolution to maintain release timelines, UAT Testing and production stability.

Test Engineer – QA 1 at Global Logic India Private Limited (2020-11 – Present)

Client: Warner Bros Discovery. Applications: Discovery +, TLC, Food Network, HGTV & Animal Planet. Domain: Media & Entertainment. Platform: ROKU Ultra, XBOX, ROKU Stick, Android, iOS, Connected TV (Fire TV & Android TV), Samsung Smart TV & Mobiles.

• Leading live application testing for Discovery+ across US, BR, CA, and EMEA regions on Fire TV using Amazon LAT and AWS Athena analytics.
• Engineering and executing comprehensive end-to-end test scenarios, encompassing edge cases and failure conditions to ensure robust application performance and reliability.
• Conducting in-depth analysis of business requirements to design exhaustive test coverage, ensuring alignment with functional expectations and high-quality product delivery.
• Administering quality engineering best practices, contributing to process improvements, test optimization, and enhanced efficiency across QA delivery cycles.

Test Engineer 1 at Zucitech Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2019-07 – 2020-11)

Client: The Walt Disney Company. Applications: Disney+, Disney-now, FX-Now, Freeform, NatGeo, NG Migration, Marvel. Domain: Media & Entertainment. Platform: Android TV, Fire TV, Xbox, LG, Tizen, Roku, Android Mobile, Tab, Kindle & iOS. Tools: Charles Proxy, Jira, Express VPN.

• Leveraged Charles Proxy to validate event analytics schemas, ensuring data accuracy, integrity, and alignment with defined tracking and reporting standards.
• Designed and developed comprehensive test cases derived from business requirements, ensuring complete functional coverage and alignment with product specifications.
• Executed rigorous regression testing using Jira Xray, ensuring release stability, defect traceability, and consistent application performance across iterative deployments.
• Developed structured test cases based on business requirements, ensuring comprehensive coverage, traceability, and alignment with expected application functionality.
• Performed cross-platform testing across web, mobile, and OTT devices, ensuring consistent performance and user experience across diverse environments.
• Logged, tracked, and managed defects using test management tools, ensuring accurate reporting, prioritization, and timely resolution in collaboration with development teams.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – BNMIT College (2019)