Test Automation Quality Control

VISWANATH YANAMALACHINTALA (VISWA)

Sr. Test Automation Lead (SDET) No Sponsorship needed

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, specializing in Quality Control and Assurance.

Expertise in Technical Management, working hands-on with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality final products.

ISTQB Certified Tester with strong test automation skills using Java, JavaScript, Typescript, Python, and Tosca.

Extensive experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Agile SDLC environments.

Proven track record of creating and implementing automation frameworks using tools like Tosca, Playwright, Selenium, Rest Assured, and Karate.

Strong background in Release Management, coordinating deployments, CRQs, and handling incidents during the warranty period, as well as supporting CI/CD pipeline activities with Jenkins.

PROFICIENT IN:

Expertise in Test Processes, Test Management, and Agile Product Testing methodologies, including UAT and Test Certifications.

Proficient in creating Test Plans, Specifications, Reports, and handling Test Sign-offs and UAT activities.

Subject Matter Expert (SME) on all projects and products worked on, ensuring high-quality deliverables.

Test Automation expert using a variety of tools and technologies in Agile, CI/CD, and Cloud environments.

Experience in Akamai migration, Splunk and Kibana for reporting and debugging, and working with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) services.

Strong understanding of OOP concepts for developing reusable and maintainable automation scripts.

Expertise in testing and working with cloud-based components including GCP Compute Engines, Big Query, and Identity/Security tools like Cloud IAM.

Hands-on experience with container orchestration, building apps in containers, and developing automation frameworks using Tosca and other tools.

Extensive experience integrating automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, AWS), and working with infrastructure tools like ServiceNow.

Broad testing experience across industries such as FinTech, Medical, Healthcare, and Airlines, with knowledge of standards like HIPAA, PHI, and Class A Medical Devices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

AUTOMATION TOOLS: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium with Java/C#, Gatling with Scala,

Smart bear Test Complete and Experitest SeeTestAutomation for mobile, Apache JMeter and LoadRunner

IAM TOOLS: ForgeRock

AGILE TOOLS: Atlassian Toolset (JIRA & Confluence), Rally, Microsoft SharePoint & Office 365.

CLOUD TOOLS / TECHNOLOGIES: GCP, AWS and Azure.

BUSINESS PROCESS AUTOMATION TOOLS: Automate BPA, UiPath and PEGA.

TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORKS: BDD, Karate and Hybrid Frameworks.

AUDIT AND REPORTING TOOLS: Dynatrace, Splunk.

TEST AUTOMATION REPOSITORIES: GitHub and Gitlab

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Java, Python, Scala, C# (.net platform with CSS, Angular and Azure).

SCRIPTING LANGUAGES: Typescript, JavaScript and VB Script.

DATABASES: Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, NoSQL and Mainframes (DB2)

WEB SERVICES: Tosca, Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI and Gatling.

CI/CD/Deployment TOOLS: Jenkins, Kubernetes with AWS / Azure / GCP, Docker with Azure.

Release Management Tools: Smart IT, SysAid, Service Now, Jenkins Pipelines etc.

ERP Tools: Oracle NetSuite

Reporting Tools: Tableau, SAP Business Objects.

Expense Management Tools: SAP Concur

Workflow Interoperability Tools: Mirth Connect.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Florida Blue (BCBS Florida) – June 2023 to till date

Bristlecone Inc. – August 2022 to May 2023

Nous Infosystems - July 2021 to August 2022

Netvision Resources Inc. – Nov 2007 to July 2021

Siemens AG – April 2004 to Sept 2007

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

EMPLOYER: BCBS Florida (June 2023 – till Date)

SDET and QA Lead

Project: P360

Responsibilities:

Developed and led the quality control processes and framework for the program, collaborating with stakeholders (Product Owners, Technical Product Managers, Program Managers, Development Leads) to enhance project quality.

Managed requirements, test, and defect tracking using Rally, ensuring efficient communication across teams.

Represented QA in all release activities, handling CRQs, approvals, IVPs, and obtaining sign-offs from external and integrated teams during deployment.

Led 3 software test teams, mentoring 6 QA testers, providing process improvement guidance, and conducting gap analysis to enhance team capabilities.

Directed various testing efforts including System Integration, Regression, End-to-End, User Acceptance, Performance, ETL, API, and Database Testing.

Acted as a stakeholder in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, and Story Grooming, ensuring alignment with testing deliverables and PI objectives.

Led the creation of a new Test Automation Framework using Selenium, Rest Assured, Java, Allure Reports, and GitHub, integrated with Jenkins Pipelines for CI/CD.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams (Product Management, DevOps, Customer Service) to implement technological enhancements aligned with enterprise goals.

Conducted internal knowledge transfer sessions, sharing best practices with the QA team and other stakeholders.

Implemented API Test Automation using Rest Assured, Selenium, and Java, alongside UI Automation with Playwright (TypeScript), integrated into a CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins.

Monitored test execution via Splunk Dashboard, ensuring real-time visibility and quick issue resolution.

Provided QA certifications and sign-offs for each release, ensuring code promotion to higher environments met quality standards.

EMPLOYER: Bristlecone Inc.

CLIENT: Equifax (August 2022 – May 2023)

QA Lead / SDET

Project: Employer Workforce Solutions (EWS)

Responsibilities:

Developed and led quality control processes and the overall quality framework for the program, collaborating with stakeholders (Product Owners, Technical Product Managers, Program Managers, Development Leads) to improve project quality.

Managed requirements, test, and defect tracking using JIRA (Zephyr Enterprise for testing), ensuring alignment across teams and efficient tracking of issues.

Worked in an Onsite-Offshore Model, overseeing distributed teams and ensuring clear communication and collaboration.

Conducted gap analysis for QA practices and team skillsets, creating and executing a roadmap to address identified gaps and improve overall team performance.

Represented QA in all releases, managing CRQs, approvals, IVPs, and obtaining sign-offs from external and integrated teams during deployments.

Led and executed comprehensive testing efforts, including System Integration, Regression, End-to-End, User Acceptance, Performance, ETL, API, and Database Testing.

Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), testing SDLC artifacts across services like PubSub, GCP Buckets, Fire store, Big Query, and Kubernetes workloads and clusters.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams (Product Management, DevOps, Customer Service) to align technological enhancements with enterprise goals and implemented solutions with the test team.

Implemented CI/CD with Jenkins, ensuring seamless integration and automated testing across environments.

Led API Test Automation using Karate, Selenium with Java, and GitHub, and UI Automation using Cypress (TypeScript), integrated with Jenkins for continuous delivery.

Provided QA certifications and sign-offs for each release, ensuring code met quality standards before being promoted to higher environments.

EMPLOYER: Nous Infosystems

CLIENT: Hilti (July 2021 – August 2022)

Software Test Manager

Project: MEP F&P Solutions (Profis MSE & Profis Installation)

Responsibilities:

QA Testing – according to product roadmap.

Owning the QC/QA activities and sign-off the product releases.

Creation and Execution of Automation Scripts using Selenium with Java.

CI/CD Implementation with Gitlab for Automation Scripts.

Be a QA representative in all releases for the organization – Work on CRQs, approvals, and IVPs during the deployment activities, along with being a liaison for getting sign offs from all external and integrated teams during the releases.

Involved in full cycle of detailed Functional, System Integration and Regression testing.

Working Experience on Akamai migration and knowledge of Akamai Cloud Test and mPulse Platforms.

Testing of Restful Web Services using Postman.

Creation of Test Plan for each release cycle.

Creation of test data in various lower regions (i.e., DEV, QA, and Pre-Prod) - using Automation batch jobs and client proprietary tools.

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

Creating Functional and Regression Test scenarios.

Requirements, Test & Defect Management using JIRA.

Automation Test Development using Cypress with Typescript.

API / Webservices testing using Postman.

EMPLOYER: Netvision Resources Inc.

CLIENT: CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) (June 2020 – July 2021)

QA Lead & Test Automation Consultant

Project: Healthcare.gov

Responsibilities:

Requirements & Defect Management using JIRA.

Test Management with Microsoft Azure Test Plans.

Being part of Daily Scrum Calls to ensure the completeness of the Product Testing scope.

Providing estimates for the scope of testing on a module basis.

Interact with scrum teams and conduct system integration tests.

Creation of test data in various lower regions (i.e., DEV, QA, and Pre-Prod) - using Automation batch jobs and client proprietary tools including mechanisms to handle PHI data per HIPAA.

Assess and perform gap analysis for QA practices and team skillsets, develop roadmap and plan to address gaps, and execute plan.

Consulting with internal customers / stakeholders and transfer knowledge to other team members.

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

Participate in Sprint planning, story grooming, daily scrum, demo, and retrospect meetings.

Automation Script Management with Git and GitHub.

Execution of Test Scenarios in an Azure Cloud platform (spin up VMs and test the solutions).

CI/CD implementation with Azure DevOps.

Creation and Execution of Automation Scripts using Gatling and Scala.

API testing / Restful Webservices Testing using Postman & Gatling.

Perform Load Testing with Gatling and Scala.

EMPLOYER: Netvision Resources Inc.

CLIENT: Elevance Health (July 2019 – June 2020)

QA Lead / Test Data Manager

Project: Claims Intake and Workflow (CI&W)

Responsibilities:

Requirements & Defect Management using JIRA.

Define UAT test cases, Application Acceptance Criteria, and conduct UAT for business users.

Maintain QA, UAT and Pre-Prod Environments for best Software Test Practices.

Being part of Daily Scrum Calls to ensure the completeness of the Product Testing scope

Performed functional and System Integration Testing (End-To-End) on a PEGA application.

Data validation using PEGA Clipboard and database tables.

Performed end to end functional testing using PEGA AI Bots for resolving high dollar claims.

Performed Load / Performance Testing using PEGA PAL tool (Performance Analyzer).

Providing estimates for the scope of testing on a module basis.

Interact with scrum teams and conduct system integration tests.

Creation of test data in various lower regions (i.e., DEV, QA, and Pre-Prod) - using Automation batch jobs and mechanisms to handle PHI data per HIPAA.

Automation Scripts Development using Cypress and Typescript.

API testing / Restful Webservices Testing using Postman.

EMPLOYER: Netvision Resources Inc.

CLIENT: MATRIX MEDICAL NETWORK (Feb 2016 – July 2019)

Test Lead

Project: Care Management

Responsibilities:

Creation and Execution of Automation Scripts using Selenium Web Driver and Test NG for reporting.

Creation of test data - using data scrubbing / decryption mechanisms to handle PHI data, per HIPAA regulations.

Involved in full cycle of detailed Functional, System Integration and Regression testing.

Testing of Restful Web Services using Gatling and Scala.

Creation of Test Plan for each release cycle.

Creating Functional and Regression Test scenarios.

Requirements, Test and Defect Management using JIRA.

Automation Test Development using Cypress and Typescript.

API / Webservices testing using Postman.

Perform Load Testing with Gatling and Scala.

Facilitating Daily Defect Triage Calls to ensure the completeness of the Product Testing scope.

EMPLOYER: Netvision Resources Inc.

CLIENT: MATRIX MEDICAL NETWORK (Feb 2012 – Feb 2016)

Test Lead

Project: Electronic Data Capture (EDC)

Responsibilities:

QA Testing – according to product roadmap.

Creation of test data - using data scrubbing / decryption mechanisms to handle PHI data, per HIPAA regulations.

Creation/Review of Test Plan for each release cycle.

Automation of Regression and Smoke Tests using Selenium with Java.

Testing XMLs and JSONs along with extensive use of Web Services in testing needs (using SoapUI and Postman).

Requirements, Test and Defect Management using JIRA.

Facilitating Daily Defect Triage Calls to ensure the completeness of the Product Testing scope.

Working closely with Project Manager, QA Director and Vendors to provide insight into Product specific issues on a regular basis, prioritizing defects with Business/Clinical Affairs and triaging the production issues that get reported from the field.

Providing estimates for the scope of testing per release.

Key contribution in decision making when it comes to scoping & de-scoping test scenarios/Defects per release.

EMPLOYER: Netvision Resources Inc.

CLIENT: VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS (Jan 2011 – Feb 2012)

Sr. Test Automation Consultant

Project: Vantage

Responsibilities:

QA Testing – according to product roadmap.

Creation of automation test Strategy for existing manual System Tests.

Test Automation using Selenium with Java as the programming languages and TestNG for reporting needs.

Test and Defect Management using Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Maintain test lab server instances on VM sessions.

Creating the VMs on ‘Cloud based environments’ (Amazon Cloud Services) and executing tests in a cloud-based application hosting.

Work closely with Product Owner and / or project manager, supporting team and developers to assist in communicating testing results and in resolving test discrepancies.

Process knowhow of Histology Workflow, HIPAA Standards and Agile Methodologies.

EMPLOYER: Netvision Resources Inc.

CLIENT: AMERICAN AIRLINES (NOV 2007 – DEC 2010)

Sr. QA Analyst

Project: Compuware Vantage

Responsibilities:

Converted business and functional requirements into automation testable requirements.

Test Management and Defect Management using HP Quality Center.

Creation and execution of automated Regression test scripts using QTP.

Created a Library of user-defined functions.

Perform Load Testing with Apache JMeter.

Providing real time reporting to Customer on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis. Reporting involves both the automated scheduled reporting as well as manual report creation on a case-to-case basis.

Analyzing and suggesting the customer with the network / application upgrades.

Extensively working closely with project manager, supporting team and developers to assist in communicating testing results and in resolving test discrepancies.

Extensive knowledge of AA environment, Network Vantage, Net flow, and Client Vantage.

EMPLOYER: SIEMENS AG (APR 2004 – SEP 2007)

Sr. QA Analyst

Project: SPPA – T3000

Responsibilities:

Gathering the requirements from business users for End-to-End testing.

Test Management and Defect Management using Mercury QTP / HP Quality Center.

Creation and execution of Automation Test Scripts using QTP.

Produced Requirements Traceability Matrices (TM s) to support the application development.

Active participation in Reviews of Test Deliverables (Test Specifications, Test Cases, Test Reports etc.).

Performing Regression Tests for each build.

Perform Load Testing with HP Load Runner.

Defect reporting and follow-up.

Documented defects in Net Results Problem Tracker and helped developers identify the modules, code sections to be fixed.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS & CERTIFICATIONS:

Masters in Computer Applications (MCA) from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India – (1998 – 2001)

ISTQB Certified Tester.

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