CHAITHANYA Devi. BOJJA

858-***-**** adynoa@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/chaithanya-devi-b-657369237

SOFTWARE TEST LEAD

Highly experienced and skilled Quality Assurance Leader with a proven track record of ensuring high-quality product delivery. Seeking to contribute my expertise in testing methodology, automation, and project management to drive efficiency and excellence in software development processes.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Gap analysis and roadmap development for QA practices and team skillsets.

Extensive experience in System Integration, Regression, End to End, User Acceptance, Performance, ETL, API, and Database Testing.

Consultation with internal stakeholders and knowledge transfer to team members.

Automated test development and test data creation.

Knowledge and implementation of Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Proficient in working in an agile environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Testing Tools: Postman, Selenium WebDriver, WinRunner, Quickest Professional, JMeter, LoadRunner, Postman, Spec flow, TFS, test Studio, Unit, Nodejs, BDD Cucumber, SOAP.

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Mac.

Programming Language: C, C#, VB Script, Java, Java Script, Object Oriented Concepts.

Web Technologies: HTML, XML, JSON.

Database: SQL Server, Oracle, PL SQL, SQL Profiler, PostgreSQL

IDE: Eclipse.

DevopsTool: TeraForm

Test Data Management Tool: Informatica TDM Tool, Test data Management (TDM), Delphi.

Continuous Integration: GitHub, Visual Studio, CI/CD build pipelines in Azure.

Defect Tracking Tool: Microsoft Azure, JIRA, HP ALM.

Browsers: Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox.

Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure, AWS, Snowflake.

Analytical Tools: ThoughtSpot, PowerBI.

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Kanban.

EXPERIENCE

Randstad, Beckton &Dickinson (BD), San Diego, CA February 2015 – May 2023

Staff Quality Engineer

BD Alaris smart pumps allow Customer to expand and customize infusion delivery to meet individual patient needs, in addition to protecting clinicians and patients from medication errors. Guardrail Infusions allows to Increase Patient Safety, Simply User interface, Customize drug library and Extensive IV Safety System worldwide. BD Alaris infusion pump system combines a single point-of-care unit featuring Guardrails Suite MX Safety software with large volume pump, PCA, syringe, respiratory monitoring, and barcoding to help protect every type of infusion.

Established and documented testing methodology to maintain and enhance overall QA performance.

Led the transition from manual testing to automated testing, increasing testing efficiency and accuracy.

Upheld Clients Quality standards and coding best practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products.

Contributed to end-to-end user acceptance tests, ensuring products meet client requirements and expectations.

Provided support for QA tools and activities as needed to streamline testing processes.

Assisted in developing comprehensive test plans, coordinated test execution, and measured and reported results.

Collaborated daily with cross-functional development team members, including product owners, SMEs, BSAs, and developers.

Ensured the accuracy and accountability of quality initiatives by implementing metrics and reporting mechanisms.

Communicated issues, risks, and scope impacting project execution and provided metrics to support decision-making.

Conducted training sessions and managed standards to ensure adherence to testing procedures.

Mentored junior QA team members, fostering professional growth and expertise within the team.

Worked closely with project teams to understand business processes and drive system improvements for improved quality delivery.

Successfully reduced 'Break/Fix/Bug' tickets that had production impact, enhancing overall system stability.

Assumed responsibility for QA of releases, including post-rollout smoke testing, to ensure smooth product deployments.

Updated and maintained test cases and managed the scope of testing for deliverables, including QA, UAT, Regression, System/Smoke, and Performance testing.

Analyzed testing output and conducted root cause analysis to provide feedback for system improvements.

Worked with Devops and Infrastructure team and build functional and Performance test environments critical test infrastructure, maximize infra usage with 24/7 both offshore and onshore test execution for Global collaboration.

Generate Test data from Infusion devices and implemented End to End Integration testing. Building CI/CD Pipelines for Automation testing using Microsoft Azure Tool Bamboo and Jerkins tools.

Creating highly reliable dashboards, reports, and presentations for a wide range of customers using Power BI and ThoughtSpot tools.

Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad, India December 2005 – December 2014

and San Jose, California

Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services is a multinational IT outsourcing company consulting-led, cognitive-powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology, and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile™ delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development. Worked as a Consultant for QA teams, responsible for release delivery test support for various clients like British Telcom, Life Scan J&J, USAA, 99cents Cisco, Kaiser Permanente, and Qualcomm clients.

Ensures delivery against QA group goals and objectives, i.e., meeting commitments and coordinating overall quality assurance schedule.

Manages the estimations, planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates.

Lead a team of 17 engineers onsite and offshore in different time zones, out of which 4 are direct reports, facilitate collaboration and ensure 24/7 test execution and test progress.

Provides effective communication regarding issues, objectives, initiatives, and performance to plan.

Works with Project Managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects and other activities such as software deployment, customer integration, and professional services validation.

Assures the viability, functionality, and effectiveness of essential tools. Analyze Automation test tools for various project needs.

Worked on Selenium, Cucumber, Appium or Cypress, API manual and automated testing, design of automated testing approaches and strategies for functional, API, integration, and End to End, TDD, BDD, Git hub.

Responsible for scheduling Jenkin jobs and executing automated regression suites and smoke test suites in CI/CD Pipeline

Experience with test automation framework architectural design

Experience with Object Oriented Design, and extensive use of programing languages (Java, JavaScript, SQL/PL-SQL)

• Strong experience with Selenium, Cucumber and BDD Framework

Strong Knowledge in Mobile test automation (eg: Appium)

Experience in Webservices test automation using tools like Soap UI

Experience with relational database management systems (e.g. MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle,) Proven proficiency with: SQL and PL/SQL

Proven experience with Agile and Waterfall software development life cycle (SDLC) models

Lead a team of engineers to test Apps on All mobile platforms (iOS and Android) and work with development team on debugging and bug fixes for failure.

Experience with Selenium, Cucumber and Business Driven Development (BDD) framework.

Experience in API testing using Postman tool.

Worked on Datawarehouse tools like Informatica and SAP business object testing.

Anticipates QA delivery release problems and takes corrective action, escalating as needed, to resolve and achieve commitments.

Preparation of SOW for project and Reviews documentation before is sent out to External Customers.

Provided Software Quality Assurance metrics to the higher management and performance entry and exit criteria.

Provided Software Quality Assurance metrics to the higher management and performance entry and exit criteria.

Create and Review Test strategy and test plan documents.

Review and approve Test Scenarios and test cases based on story boards.

Coordination of integration testing multiple applications in a cluster and complete Integration Testing.

Coordinating with offshore team for test execution and other testing related activities.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Quark Media House Pvt Ltd, India

Quality Engineer

EDUCATION

Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, India

Master of Science (M. Sc), Specialization Computer Science

CERTIFICATIONS

Generative AI technology course certification.

Lambdatest Test automation-professional-certificate

Leadership Principles from Harvard Business School online.

Advance ISTQB Test Manager certification from ASTQB.

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level 2018.

Project Management Prep cast certification.

Crucial Conversations Certification from Vital smarts.

Agile /Scrum Boot Camp.

Performance Engineering level 1 (Load Runner) from HP.

QTP Product Specialist Fundamental HP Certification.

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