Quality Assurance Cloud Security

Vanaja Jagini

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LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vanaja-jagini

Professional Summary

Results-driven QA Leader with 19+ Years of Experience Seasoned QA professional with a strong leadership background, driving quality assurance initiatives across diverse industries, including Cybersecurity (Cloud Security, Router Security), Social Networking, Search Engines, Finance,Router Appware, and Healthcare.

● Architect & Design and implementation of comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and automation frameworks for AI based Copilot, MicroService, API, Web and Mobile applications.

● Demonstrated success in leading QA teams, driving cross-functional collaboration, and delivering high-quality products with complete automation coverage

● Experienced in hiring, mentoring, and managing QA professionals across multiple regions, driving team productivity and continuous improvement in testing practices. Core Skills

Testing Tools & Frameworks: Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, RESTful API, SOAPUI, Postman, Xcode Static Analyzer, JIRA, Bugzilla, Pytest, ROBOT, Playwright, Appium Programming Languages: SQL, Java, HTML, XML, Python Databases: DynamoDB, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS Access Operating Systems: Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, Windows CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitLab

Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI

LLM/AI Tool: OpenAI/ChatGPT,Anthropic/Claude, Cody/Sourcegraph, Google DeepMind /GenAI Experience

Principal SQA Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks Mar 2019 to Apr 2025 Worked on Prisma Cloud Security, it is a cloud native security platform that enables you to secure your cloud native infrastructure and cloud native applications using a single dashboard.

Participate in the planning process for new features and initiatives.

Led and contributed to testing initiatives across several key features, Copilot (LLM: Google DeepMind

/GenAI), Policies, Remediation, Workloads, Compliance, Alert Rules, Alerts, Authentication, Authorization, MSSP, Microservices, and SSO integration.

Played a key role in integration testing for Twistlock, Microsegmentation, and Bridgecrew acquisitions, focusing on authentication and authorization flows. Additionally, contributed to testing for the Asset Aggregation Redesign project.

Managed quality tracking tools and metrics. Negotiated scope, removed blockers, and mitigated risks for bi-weekly client releases. Maintained focus on dependencies and integration points.

Design and develop E2E automation framework for API and UI automation using Pytest, Robot, WebDriver/Selenium that helped to achieve 100% inline automation and reduce manual testing in certifying the releases.

Reviewed the SWQA team members MR, maintaining 3 test stage environments across various geographies and 13 production stacks, which ensured smooth customer deployments and effective sanity and regression run

Create Jenkin jobs for test regression, smoke, and feature based

Validated data workflows, compliance, and alert systems across AWS/GCP/Azure.

Managed test infrastructure, Jenkins pipelines, and quality metrics for CI/CD.

Drove triage, root cause analysis, and collaborated with global DevOps and SRE teams.

Actively Conduct and participate in design, code and test plan reviews

Established the Processes and templates (Test case, Test Plan, and Bug defect standards) within the team to achieve the best quality of reports.

Good understanding of web technologies including HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, JavaScript, and REST APIs

Technologies Used: Python, Postman, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, SSO,OKTA, Jenkin, Gitlab, Selenium, Sealights, Pytest, API Automation, UI automation, Test plans, JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr, Agile Methodology, SDLC, SAML, OIDC, Traceability Metrics, Containers, Prompt Engineering, Kafka, Kubernetes, Athena, Airflow, S3 bucket, AWS Glue Job, Sealights, UAT, Agile methodologies, DAGs, React UIs, i18N, Super set, Opensearch, Grafana, CD/CD,Google DeepMind /GenAI and Anthropic/Claude Principal SQA Enginee@ Symantec Inc Mar 2016 to Dec 2019 Worked on Norton Core Mesh, a high performance WIFI secured router with built-in security for the connected home, providing blazing fast wi-fi network.

Led testing on new features of router software, cloud (RESTful API) and mobile testing (iOS and Android), ensuring they worked according to the requirements.

Contributed to the development of a python-based automation framework to support new features.

Designed, implemented and reviewed the automated test cases for router software, cloud (AWS) REST APIs and end to end test cases to support BAT, Smoke, Regression and Functional test suites

Planned, designed the testing process (Test strategies, test plans, test cases, test scheduled, test executions), and proactively coordinating with stakeholders, development team and cross functional team for releases.

Planned, scheduled, prioritized, and assigned the tasks by using the JIRA board as a Scrum Master. Tools Used: Router AppWare, AWS, Appium, Postman, Python, API, iOS, Android, Web, Wireshark, and S3 bucket, IoT devices testing, L2-L7 networking protocols, and etc. Technologies Used: AWS Cloud (API calls, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, Kibana, S3 Bucket), Postman, iOS, Android, Hockey App, C++, Jenkins(CI/CD), Python, wireshark, iperf, Net Speed, etc. Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer@Epcorates (AthenaHealth Company) Aug 2009 to Dec 2015 Managed a team of 12 QA resources at both onsite and offshore. Evangelized quality throughout the team working closely with Stakeholder, Development, Product management, Operational Teams

Ownership and hands-on approach participating in testing on all Commercial projects (Ads, Notifications, Educational resources, Drug Samples and clinical trials) on iOS, Android platforms, Web services and API.

Managed team resources, negotiated scope, removed blockers, and mitigated risks for bi-weekly server and mobile client releases. Maintained focus on dependencies and integration points. Managed complex stakeholder relationships, both locally and remotely, on a peer and executive level, including direct reports. Senior QA consulting Engineer @ Obopay April 2009 to Aug 2009 Lead the Mobile payments.

Senior QA/DevOps @ AhaMobile Inc Mar 2009 to April 2009 As the QA consultant, helped the startups to establish the QA practice from the ground up and configured and maintained the SVN, Trac, WIKI and Bugzilla

Senior QA consulting Engineer @Loopt Inc June 2007 to Mar 2009 Led the Quality Assurance for Loopt application on iPhone first release. Worked on Loopt app integration with Facebook, web application, server side testing and WAP/AIM landing pages testing. Gray Box QA Engineer @Intuit Mar 2007 to June 2007 I have contributed to FIBCM My Banking application QA Engineer @Google Mar 2006 to Mar 2007

Worked on Google base API and Attribute Search (Google Base) projects. Performed functional, validation, integration, compatibility, end-to-end, regression and smoke testing. QA Engineer @ CTB McGraw Hill 2005 to 2006

Education:

Post Graduation Diploma in MISCA(Management Information Systems in Computer Applications) - Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

B.S(Mathematics) from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India Personal Profile

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