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Anish Kilaru

Summary

Expert and committed professional with experience in large, complex projects on health care, retail and proven proficiency leading and organizing geographically dispersed teams Led end-to-end test strategy and execution for multiple agile projects, managing cross-functional teams and maintaining clear communication channels between technical and business stakeholders, resulting in 100% on-time delivery and 95% stakeholder satisfaction Spearheaded the testing process and automation tools like Selenium C#, playWright used company-wide, enabling iterative deployment of product with Automation scripts executing for each build Promoted from SDET role to SDET Lead within a year of hire, outpacing Premera’s typical timeline. Recognized for developing excellent test plans/scripts and diligently identifying defects.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead SDET

Starbucks
08.2021 - Current
  • Being single point of contact to stakeholders, managing all aspects of testing and providing key reports by implementing comprehensive test strategies resulting in 30% reduction in deployment issues
  • Designed and developed test automation for several applications that relied exclusively on manual testing and reduced manual testing efforts by 40% for testing delivery partners like DoorDash, UberEats
  • Created load test tools in Azure cloud and having experience in Azure function apps triggered by Service bus messages, schedule triggering azure functions, Azure event hubs
  • Created and scheduled, CI/CD pipelines for tests using Azure devOps which lead teams to successfully implement continuous delivery of software

Principal QA Engineer

Cognizant
12.2020 - 07.2021
  • Company Overview: (telecommuter)
  • Served as Principal QA and led test-driven development (TDD) initiatives in an Agile environment by collaborating with developers to create test cases before feature development, resulting in 30% decrease in production defects and improved code quality through early bug detection
  • Streamlined bug management process on enterprise wide projects and was directly involved in successfully implementing internal tool release which is used by all blue Cross companies in 48 states
  • Created hybrid UI/backend tests for the claims application by using Selenium Webdriver and PalyWright
  • Independently responsible for identifying a deeply embedded software flaw in a new version of the company's cornerstone software product prior to its 2020 release, saving in product-replacement costs
  • Developed a cross-platform solution that utilizes extension methods and the page object model to apply to all versions of our applications
  • Created a functional anyAUT framework that has been turned into a downloadable Nuget package by other teams in the organization saving numerous hours of effort
  • (telecommuter)

SDET/ QA Lead

Premera Blue cross
06.2017 - 12.2020
  • Company Overview: MLT, WA
  • Updated existing broken API automation suite and restored to working order and refactored code to follow clean architecture
  • Migrated UFT automation scripts to Selenium Web Driver, C# by bringing c# tech stack at org level
  • Formulated functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using Selenium WebDriver
  • Flawlessly automated more than 560 test cases in two months (March, April -2019)
  • Mentored team of 5 engineers in offshore on 3 automation projects with c# and selenium and Jmeter
  • Co-authored PAF as automation framework exclusive to Premera which had built in libraries being the most cost-effective solution to more than 12 teams by reducing 50% of scripting time
  • Performed digital accessibility testing by using accessible compatibility in testing of applications for accessibility violations
  • This saved company over $100K in operating costs by using our solutions every year
  • MLT, WA

SDET

Donato Technologies
08.2016 - 05.2017
  • Company Overview: Dallas, TX
  • Pioneered the design of C# based scripts for Selenium WebDriver with MS Test as automation framework
  • Streamlined defect management process using HP Quality Center (ALM) by establishing standardized bug reporting templates and SLA tracking mechanism, achieving 25% faster defect resolution time and maintaining 95% on-time bug verification rate
  • Scheduled Regression testing on new builds, every modification in the application by integrating Selenium WebDriver with ADO pipeline and saved 45% of manual efforts
  • Implemented comprehensive test automation framework using Jenkins, resulting in 40% reduction in regression testing time by scheduling and orchestrating 200+ automated test scripts across multiple environments
  • Dallas, TX

QA Analyst

LNC IT
07.2013 - 01.2014
  • Company Overview: India
  • Leveraged API intercepting for stubbing, ensuring comprehensive testing coverage while isolating dependencies
  • Used Selenium C#, Postman to automated 2000+ test cases during tenure with 70% ROI
  • Automated API testing for all service endpoints using Jmeter and Postman
  • Created UI automation using Katalon and first to implement SpecFlow
  • Developed automation scripts using SOAPUI and Ready API for REST and legacy SOAP APIs
  • Groovy scripting to generate test data, control program flow and perform auto clean-up
  • Authored internal tool to create complex JSON payload for manual testers by click of button
  • India

Education

MS - Com.Engineering Technology and Leadership

Western Illinois University
01.2015

Undergrad bachelors - CE

SRK Institute of technology & sciences
01.2014

Skills

  • Test automation
  • Software testing
  • Defect tracking
  • Quality assurance
  • Continuous integration
  • Cross-browser testing
  • API testing

Timeline

Lead SDET

Starbucks
08.2021 - Current

Principal QA Engineer

Cognizant
12.2020 - 07.2021

SDET/ QA Lead

Premera Blue cross
06.2017 - 12.2020

SDET

Donato Technologies
08.2016 - 05.2017

QA Analyst

LNC IT
07.2013 - 01.2014

Undergrad bachelors - CE

SRK Institute of technology & sciences

MS - Com.Engineering Technology and Leadership

Western Illinois University

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