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Qa Engineer Software Development

Location:
Leander, TX
Posted:
June 04, 2025

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Sailaja Reddy

Senior QA Engineer

Austin, Texas

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Result driven QA Engineer with 7 years of experience in both automated testing and manual software testing. Team player well-versed with knowledge of Software Development and Test life cycles, adept at creating and executing test plans, identifying and documenting defects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high- quality software solutions.

Professional Summary:

● 7 Years of experience in the software industry with Functional and Automation Testing using Selenium Web Driver.

● Automated web application testing using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and Cucumber framework with Maven.

● Good Testing Experience in Guideware Applications like Policy center and Agent Portals

● Good knowledge to automate windows components using AutoIT,Robot

● Designed and implemented test automation frameworks using TestNG, JUnit and Cucumber, applying the Page Object Model (POM) design pattern for maintainable and scalable automation scripts.

● Experience in automation debugging and functional data preparation.

● Working Knowledge on Behavior Driven Development using Cucumber for smoke test cases.

● Good working knowledge in Selenium Grid.

● Strong expertise in Test Management Tools and Defect Tracking Tools like HPALM/ Quality Center and JIRA.

● Greater knowledge on Agile/Scrum Methodology.

● Well versed with Handling Web Elements in Selenium WebDriver.

● Experience with all levels of testing including Smoke, Usability, Functional, Integration, Regression, API Testing, Re-testing and User Acceptance Testing.

● Insightful experience & expertise in different phases of Software Testing Life Cycle and Software Defect Life Cycle.

● Good Knowledge in Java OOP's Concepts.

● Expertise in designing and executing comprehensive test plans for new features and system upgrades.

● Collaborated effectively with development and product management teams to understand project requirements.

● Expertise in Developing, executing and maintaining automation test scripts within Agile project teams.

● Provided mentorship and guidance, fostering a collaborative learning environment and supporting career development in automation testing.

● Involved in participation of daily and weekly project status meetings to discuss the risks involved in ongoing projects with Teammates and Team Lead. Technical Skills :

● Testing Tools : Selenium, BDD Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit

● Programming Languages : Java (Core)

● Build & Integration Tools : Maven

● CI/CD && Version Control : Jenkins, Git && GitHub

● Database Tools : SQL Server

● Test Management : JIRA, Rally

● Methodologies : Agile-Scrum, SDLC, STLC, Bug && Automation Life Cycle Work Experience:

● Career Break [May 2022 - present]

● Cognizant Technologies Pvt Ltd.[Aug 2019 - May 2022]

● Vantage Agora marketing Pvt Ltd.[May 2015 - July 2019] Experience

Senior Quality Automation Engineer 10/2020- 05/2022 Project Overview:

The Encova Automation Project has been carried out by using the CITS tool, which enables scripting and executing the End-To-End Test Scenarios. This automation project covers automation in Guidewire Suite [Portal, Policyholder, PC, BC and CC] regression automation. We have taken into account the regression cases involving end-to-end scenarios of the five applications. The scripts have been designed in a manner that it goes through multiple applications and validates the integration between the applications. We have used the CITS framework,( ie. A Keyword driven framework, as keys can be aligned with the transactions and actions taken on them ) along with tweaks to ensure that it suits Encova insurance PC, BC, CC, Portal and Policyholder applications. The automation project has integrated with Jenkins to ensure that there is minimal effort in running all the scripts and the results can view as an html

Responsibilities:

● Lead QA Team and delivered various critical modules by writing automated test scripts to validate large number of UI fields, system generated XML files

● Worked on Policy Center, Billing center and Agent Portals.

● Implementation of CI/CD pipelines, Defect tracking, maintaining user stories, prioritization and managing using Jira

● Leading team and guided offshore and played key role in meeting the deadlines by delivering and updating the client with daily status

● Responsible for delivering the transition to teams.

● During each release, ensure the stability of the release by running the regression suites through Jenkins thereby saving many efforts.

● Interacting with onsite coordinator for requirement gathering and clarifications.

● Prepare/enhance the regression test cases for both Policy center and Agent Portal modules.

● Analyzed Manual Test cases and develop Automation Test scripts using CITS framework

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 08/2019 - 10/2020 Allstate-Central Automation Pro

Project Overview : AllState Project has been carried out by using the xFramium framework for scripting and executing the End-To-End Test Scenarios. xFramium has both XML and JAVA support, where the project works with the BDD implementation of xFramium using Java. This automation project covers automation in different partners of Whitelabel applications and the dependent systems are automated through UI flows. Responsibilities:

● Developed and executed end-to-end test scenarios using XFramium framework

● Automating cases using Selenium and BDD

● Maintain source code in GitLab and execute scripts using Jenkins.

● Interacting with client for any clarification according to the requirement and Handled Client meeting everyday and discussed the issues.

● Documented test results,defect and testing progress.

● Reviewed Test data and test cases.

● Responsible for delivering the transition to Clients/Support teams.

● Provided leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring and training to team members. Software QA Tester 05/2015- 07/2019

Stock Accounting System

Project Overview: Target Market is one of the biggest chain of Retail Stores in US, which sells Provisions, Food & Beverages, Furniture, Electronics, etc. This ERP system used for Inventory management knowing what they have in warehouse

,Supply chain visibility,Accurate financial reports, Complete Stock levels from Ware house to Multiple Stores, ordering levels to Booked stock,Create own Barcodes, use Supplier Barcodes or Auto Create Barcodes, Purchases, Customer Specific Pricing and Much More

It has modules like Stockitems, purchases, Customers, Suppliers, Sales Responsibilities:

● Analyzing and Understanding Functional Specification documents.

● Developed Test Scenarios and Test Cases for integration testing and functional testing.

● Reported the defect on QC and coordinated with the development team and resolved the issue

● Proficient in identifying and documenting database-related defects, working closely with development teams to resolve issues promptly. Education and Training:

Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. 05/2014



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