# Vine Baskaran

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vine

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ C1X Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present
Backend Engineer, Data Engineering, Data processing pipelines, SDET QA Lead

### Software Engineer | SDET | Data Engineering & Analytics @ ZenOptics
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States
Connect with multiple databases and data sources(BI tools) to provide quality assurance of incoming data. Create ad-hoc and standard reports, dashboards and visualizations based on business needs. Perform data discovery, analysis, modeling and ETL. Automate test data in various BI tools and test Tableau, Power BI, BOBJ and Cognos APIs integrated with ZenOptics

Develop UI automation framework to handle functional and regression testing using Cucumber and Cypress, Selenium WebDriver (Java) to reduce manual effort and test cycles by 50%. Develop test automation for backend APIs for core web application using Rest Assured (Java based test framework). Test stored procedures and verify data integrity, correctness using SQL queries

Develop test plan, test case, triage issues and log critical bugs. Define test coverage and testing scope. Understand the Business requirement Specification to develop Test Strategy document in achieving product goals. Collaborate with product managers and development teams across all phases of testing from planning to execution. Contribute to documentation, release notes and responsible for QA Sign-off every release.

### Software Development Engineer in Test @ Automation Anywhere
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California
Used Selenium WebDriver & Cucumber, TestNG, Data Driven framework and Page Object model extensively for testing UI. Setup test environment – Jenkins & Redis on build server and installed test packages.
Wrote SQL queries to perform backend-validation and performed API tests using Java Rest Assured. Test  Automation Anywhere RPA bots partnered with Salesforce, Microsoft, MuleSoft and Bot Insight to extract, visualize, and analyze data (Tableau and Power BI). Perform Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Regression, Manual testing & Automated testing in Integration and UAT environments.

### Software Development Engineer in Test @ T4.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Automate functional test cases and prepared automated scripts for regression and functional testing. Utilized Postman for manual API testing and automated APIs

### Network Engineer / QA @ AT&T
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Logged defects, followed-up with engineers to triage issues, identify root cause and perform gap analysis. Managed various severity and priority cases and tracked their progress during the resolution process of incident and problem tickets. Utilized HP Network automation tool extensively for testing and creating complex automation flows for software image updates. Deployed and monitored operating system images from a centralized network management system. Monitored network outage and prediction - created dashboards and KPIs

### IT Analyst @ HSBC
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Document functional business requirements, process flow diagrams and business cases. Supporting and configuration in production environment. Triage issues, identify root cause and perform gap analysis. Logged severity and priority cases and tracked progress of incident and problem tickets. Evaluated current processes and developed new procedures improving production work flow to increase efficiency and quality. Expert understanding of ITIL based service Service Support process (Change management, problem management, event management and incident management).


## Education
### Masters in Business & Data Analytics | - in | Java | Python | SQL | Data Visualization | Machine Learning | Data Mining | NLP | Deep Learning |
California State University - East Bay

### Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vine-baskaran

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Last updated: 2026-04-01