PRACHI SHENDE

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Professional Experience : 4 years Full-time, W2 Dedicated Quality Assurance(QA) and Automation Engineer with 4 years of hand-on experience in automating frameworks and developing reliable software validation environments. Adept in designing and implementing test and validation strategies, optimizing processes through automated techniques resulting in time, efforts and cost savings. With excellent collaboration strategies in a cross-functional setting I am dedicated to developing projects with high software quality. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer Graduate Intern at AT&T Labs, Atlanta, GA, USA June 2023 - Aug 2023

• Automated the Microsoft Azure Operator Nexus(AON) carrier infrastructure for project migration to cloud

• Advanced proficiency in crafting Bash scripts to conduct validation processes on cloud infrastructure.

• Managed the Azure DevOps pipeline and automation suite, ensuring their ongoing maintenance, monitoring and scalability.

• Worked with our Agile team for test and automation plans reducing effort hours by 80%

• Supported the project migration on cloud and participation in a continuous flow of planning, designing, testing development and execution, data and system analysis, documenting status and test metrics

• Created and executed automated test scripts to validate the acceptance criteria defined within the epics and user stories implemented by team members.

Graduate Assistant at University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC, USA Aug 2023 - Dec 2023

• Participated in the defect triage procedure to detect and prioritize the bugs in the existing web application system.

• Crafted a well-planned test and validation architecture to enhance the use cases of the system.

• Implemented API tests with Gherkin(BDD) architecture to write scripts and test on the development environment.

• Successfully executed and delivered the test cases before releasing the system on UAT. Software Engineer in Test at Tech Mahindra Ltd, Nagpur, India Dec 2020 - June 2022

• High Expertise in writing Java scripts for test automation on PEDMobility APIs and to validate the micro services

• Implemented Unit Tests, Functional Tests, Performance Tests, Integration and Regression tests using TestNG, Selenium, Rest Assured on the web based application

• Crafted Test Driven Development (TDD) testing plans for automation test suite implementing the Page Object Model and Plain Old Java Object methodologies

• Cross functional collaboration with product, engineering and other domain teams to understand features, develop and automate process creation, improve product quality and shorten development release time.

• Automated the GUI for AT&T PedMobility Application using Katalon Studio, Selenium, TestNG, WebDriverIO resulting in eradication of manual processes, reducing 50% of effort hours whilst increasing automation efficiency.

• Participated in defect triage meetings to review user stories in Jira for debugging and bug tracking adhering to continuous improvement and deployment (CI/CD) cycle

Test Engineer Trainee at Orange Tales, Nagpur, India July 2020 – Nov 2020

• Collaborated with senior test engineers to create test plans and strategies based on project requirements and specifications.

• Develop and document test cases and test scenarios to cover various aspects of software functionality, functional, regression, performance, and usability testing

• Assisted in the defect triage, documentation, verification of reported defects, ensuring they are effectively resolved and retested.

• Participated in regular regression testing cycles to verify that software updates do not impact existing functionality. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India Dec 2018 – May 2020

• Headed the development and testing of clean data corpuses, utilizing image processors like TesseractOCR and GoogleDoc, to enhance OCR accuracy for high-resolution multimedia images.

• Pioneered load testing strategies, leading a team to optimize OCR script performance under various load conditions, ensuring system resilience and efficiency.

• Spearheaded the testing of language translation tools, focusing on the accurate representation of semantic meaning in different languages, and ensuring software reliability and linguistic precision.

• Managed cross-functional teams to systematically test neural network-based translation systems, concentrating on sentence alignment and dictionary efficacy to boost overall software performance and reliability. EDUCATION

University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC Aug 2022 - Dec 2023 Master of Science in Information Technology (GPA : 3.50/4.00) St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering and Technology, Nagpur, India Aug 2016 – Mar 2020 Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology (GPA : 3.39/4.00) SKILL SET

• Programming languages : Java, Python, Bash/Shell Scripting, C, JavaScript

• Domain of Expertise: Carrier Networks, Quality Assurance and Automation, Natural Language Processing, Research and Development, Project Management, DevOps

• Frameworks / Tools : Eclipse, VSCode, Selenium, Azure DevOps, Azure Nexus Operator, Katalon Studio, Postman, SOAP, Jira, SQLWorkbench, TestNG, Maven, OCR Image processors, Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, MicrosoftOffice, DigitalOcean, MongoDB, Appium, SwaggerUI, Figma, Cypress, Git,POM PERSONAL AND ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Azure Cognitive Services Multilingual Translator API Implemented Azure Cognitive Services to develop Multi-Language Translator, Language Detection and Alternate Translation

(Synonyms) APIs. The APIs were hosted on DigitalOcean server and documented using SwaggerUI.

• Network Based Application Development Instrument Trading Website Developed a trading website using nodeJs for scripting and MongoDB for database. The project followed a Model-View- Controller(MVC) architecture.

CERTIFICATION AND TRAININGS

• Java Certification Course, Tech Mahindra, 2020 AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS, 2020 Microsoft Azure AZ-900, Azure Training and Certifications, 2020 Agile-Scrum Fundamentals, Udemy, 2021 Could Computing with AWS, Udemy, 2020 Understand Nodejs, Udemy, 2021 SQL Bootcamp, Udemy, 2020 Google Project Management, Google, 2021 ISQTB, Tech Mahindra Trainings, 2021

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY AND LEADERSHIP

• Elected as the Marketing and Promotional Head for TECHNEX’19, lead a team of 15 core student members.

• Elected as the Cultural Ambassador at International Student and Scholar Office at University of North Carolina Charlotte

• Elected as the Institutional Event Manager of Computer Society of India – Student Chapter (CSI).

• Recognized as the Master of Ceremony for 8 programs at university cultural fest.

• Events In-charge at INFOTSAV’19 for 7 events inclusive of workshops and competitions.

• Part of the Core Committee of 10 delegates at ETHNOS-MUN’19

• Active Volunteer at National Service Scheme (NSS) for 3 consecutive years.

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