SUDHAKAR REDDY BANDI

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudhakar-reddy-bandi-ab483111/

SUMMARY

14+ years of experience: with 9+ years of experience in SOAP and RESTful API testing using SOA Test, Soap UI Pro, Ready API tools, Functional and UI test automation with Selenium/Webdriver (With Maven, TestNG & JUnit framework) and 8 years of experience in Framework Development.

Have good Functional & Automation experience for API and Database testing

Repeated success in areas of Test Automation, Functional Testing, Automation tools, Testing methodologies, Project Management, Project Transitioning, Development, Onsite/Offsite Coordination

Good domain knowledge in Prepaid Card Programs, Payments, Banking, Digital Media and Broadcasting solutions, Content Protection Services and Web Application Testing

Experience in creating an overall cross program test strategy document by liaising closely with Product Manager and Technology PM and to ensure test strategy accurately reflects the overall approach to cross program phases of testing

Worked with top notch U.S. Clients – Google, LinkedIn, Irdeto over 5 Years

10+ years of experience working with USA, Canada and European clients

Experience in preparing optimal Financial Impact and 3rd Party Integration check points to serve Best and No Loss financial platform

Good knowledge in preparing test reports – Bug Quality/Testing Effectiveness/Test summary documents

Create cross program SIT and UAT test plan document (working closely with Development Team, SMEs and Business to ensure full coverage of acceptance criteria to be met during each phase of testing)

Manage overall defect tracking process and defect logging tools across all test phases to report Quality metrics

Ensuring the adherence to the requirements traceability matrix against the delivered product

Extensive expertise on all the phase of the Software Testing Life Cycle ranging from Requirements gathering to User Acceptance Testing, Defects logging and tracking till closure

Extensive working experience on Functionality Testing, GUI Testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing, Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Database Testing, Load Testing, White Box and Black Box Testing

Exemplary records of working with International clients like Google, LinkedIn, Irdeto, GTech and O2Telefónica

Hands on experience in writing script in Selenium, WebDriver using Java, and for Web Services Automation

Ample experience in design and develop Test driven, Keyword driven, Data driven automation frameworks for the best business needs

Experience in Continuous Integration tools with JENKINS mapped with CI Regression suite to Daily builds for build certification

Experience in Mobile Testing specifically on Tablets, Android, iOS

Well versed with Resource On boarding, Training, Vendor Management and Billing process

EDUCATION

Degree

College / University

Bachelor of Technology

S V University, India

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages

JAVA, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML and XML

Databases

Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server

Operating Systems

Windows, UNIX, LINUX

Programming Languages

Java, Python, Groovy

Build Tools

Maven, Ant

Testing Frameworks/Tools

Selenium, WebDriver, SOATest, SOAP UI Pro, Ready API, Junit, TestNG, JIRA, WIKI, RallyDev

Reporting Tools

Jira, RallyDev, Bugzilla, Pivotal Tracker, QMetry

Version Control

Git Hub, Perforce, SVN, CSV

Build tools

Jenkins, Cuisecontrol.net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wave Crest Payment Technology, India

QA Manager Jul 2011 – May 2017

Clients : Provided platform services for Telecom, Tax, Corporate Payments, Digital Currency, Taxi, Gaming, Gift Card Issuance clients and spanned across Authorization, Settlements, Intra Bank settlements, Batch job processing, Third party client integration management & coordination

Integration Partners : FIS US, Metavente, Idology, Au10tix, Arrow Eye, OCS, Thames, MaxMind, Plum Voice, Twilio, Ubiquity and Elavon

Managerial Responsibilities:

Participate in the design process and collaborate with Engineering and Products team to develop comprehensive test plans.

Release scope and ticket prioritization

Orient the team in User Stories walkthrough, help and correct them in efforts estimation

Drive Knowledge sharing and collaborate with other QA Engineers, Project Managers and Product owners to improve productivity

Focused releases to with customer’s business impact and marketing timelines

Prepare Release Wiki, Scope and Defect Dashboards for release transparency

Made sure the release scoped user stories are clearly documented and understand by the team

Provide timely status updates to assist the team in making decisions on the release quality.

Review the RTM, test coverage metrics and analyses the release quality

Build management and certification

Perform core components testing

Conduct release health check calls and organize the war rooms to expedite the impending release defects

Defect management and bug triaging.

Conduct internal Demos and UAT Assistance the client

Test Automation coverage review and key features enhancement

Early life support for newly on boarded partners

Set the KRA’s and KPI’s to the team and drive towards the organizational goals

Training and mentoring Functional and automation team

Had managed 35 members team and multiple projects in parallel

Automation Responsibilities:

Understand the requirements and identify automatable test case.

Prepare automation test scripts using Webdriver

Strategize the testing approach, identify the right set of automated regression test suites and executed them as part of risk based testing

Enhance the existing test suites per release changes

Update the scripts and maintain them up to date

Execute the regression test suites on the release candidate build

Prepare test scripts to perform Database validation and data integrity testing

Prepare traceability metrics for the requirement with automation test case coverage

Coordinate with manual testing team in certifying the release features

Automated 1200+ Smoke and Regression UI test cases with Selenium/Webdriver

Automated 9000+ UI and API test cases

Automated POS, EPOS, ATM Transaction settlements and ACH batch processing

Created production Test Probs to monitor production server status

Reduced Mean Time to Test (MTTT) all the platform services from 160 Man Days to 2 Man Days

Performed smoke test in less than 5 minutes

Hooked automation suites to Continuous Integration build tools for overnight certification

Implemented best testing practices to certify the builds and target the production with less cost

Trained and transited the manual engineer to automation specialist and improve the QA efficiency

Followed Agile process since 4 years

Initiated release process changes, adhered to the process and successfully executed sprints

Platform functionality testing from Web, Mobile, API, IVR channels and Back Office tool testing

Handled difficult production support cases and saved hundreds of man days for CSR team through automation scripting

Provided cross functional and cross regional training across the team members and removed single point of failure on resource

Conducted 1–1 meetings and shared the performance feedback to better up the individual’s qualitative and quantitative delivery

Effectively handled the work forecast and managed the vendor teams

Vedams, India

Automation Test Lead Sept 2009 – Jun 2011

Clients: Irdeto (San Diego), DotHill

Responsibilities:

Lead the functional and automation team

Hands on experience in using Selenium and SOATest tools

Worked on Billing, Payments and Subscription Management component APIs automation and integrated the robust suites with continuous integration build tool

Effectively worked with Agile Team and achieved high quality deliverables for over 20 months

Worked on QA processes improvements, training and mentoring team in API and UI test automation

Trained manual test members to automation test engineers and derived better performance

Worked closely with onsite teams created testing and automation best practices

Coordinated Onsite-Offshore teams and get the teams in sync on release progress

Worked on Continuous Integration tools and set up nightly executions

Created suites to check the code coverage and helped in minifying the unused code

Global Logic, India

Sr. SDET Feb 2007 – Sept 2009

Clients: Google, LinkedIn

Responsibilities:

Elite member in Automation Framework development team in Google

Worked with onsite offshore team and handled Gmail, Google Apps Admin tools automation

Handled automation framework code re-factoring to support test suites reusable

Actively participated in code reviews to increase test coverage.

Performed functional testing on Google Apps administrative control panel for standard, premier and education domains.

Handled complex features automation for LinkedIn client

Worked from Google headquarters for about 6 months and be part of new framework development

MindTree Ltd, India

SDET May 2006 – Feb 2007

Clients: Google

Responsibilities:

Provided test automation support for Google Client.

Involved in preparing BAT automation suite for Gmail-1.0 version using C++

Automated UI test cases using Selenium and Java.

Involved in BVT Test Suites maintenance, execution and reporting

Worked closely with onsite team and worked on needed enhancements to the legacy platform

Lucid Software Ltd, India

Software Engineer Mar 2005 – May 2006

Clients: German Stock Exchange

Responsibilities:

Share Market Data processing

Data pattern processing from Data Analytics

Develop Scale Control and Graph Control components to depict numeric data on GUI.

Involved in Unit testing and white box testing using MBUnit on C#.Net

Project Intern, SVU, India

Lab Consultant Feb 2003 – Dec 2004

Responsibilities:

Provide software trainings to the students

Coordinate software lab assignments

Conducting programming internals.

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