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APARNA PRAYAGA

Fremont,CA

Summary

Software Quality Engineer with an eye for detail and commitment to product quality. Experience in debugging, programming, running root-cause-analysis, automating test scripts and evaluating test results, ability to develop and implement test plans, scripts, and tools that improve the quality of software products. A proven team player and effective communicator who can work collaboratively with various stake holders.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

AUTOMATION ENGINEER

BACKBLAZE INC
10.2019 - Current
  • Achieved 80%-time savings by automation of manual test cases, ensured product quality every release cycle by execution of these integration tests
  • Automated UI test cases, in doing so I was able to help team members focus on feature testing of Backblaze products
  • Instrumented plugins on Jenkins to report integration test results to developers via slack and email
  • Reported defects in Jira and worked with developers to resolve the bugs
  • Contributed to Api libraries that were used for integration tests
  • Added a Gmail Api wrapper to fetch codes, receipts etc
  • As may be needed for validating test results
  • Participated in code reviews and offered feedback to code contributors, interviewed members to be hired to the QA team
  • Maintained and updated test cases in Trestrail.

AUTOMATION ENGINEER

GOOGLE INC (CONTRACTOR)
12.2018 - 08.2019
  • Created UI automation test suite using Selenium WebDriver and Junit
  • Executed test suites in Google Cloud CI, thus achieving faster Go-To-Market delivery
  • Ran regression tests for iOS bilirubin tracker app.

SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER

BLUESHIELD OF CALIFORNIA(CONTRACTOR)
08.2014 - 03.2016
  • Maintained Selenium, TestNG based test automation framework for www.blueshieldca.com
  • Created an automation test framework using RESTASSURED Api to test the BlueShield portal service end points
  • Verify the data with SQL statements (Data Model Definitions) using the Oracle SQL Developer.

PHP DEVELOPER

XILINX INC (CONTRACTOR)
07.2013 - 03.2014
  • Built a web-based framework in PHP4 Zend to track and log inventory status
  • Presented the developed functionality to various stakeholders: engineering manager, product manager and PMs.

PHP DEVELOPER

University of California Office of The President (CONTRACTOR)
10.2011 - 04.2012
  • Built and tested multiple web application projects for University of California Office of President, using LAMP stack, jQuery.

PHP DEVELOPER

Ebay Inc (CONTRACTOR)
07.2010 - 10.2011
  • Implemented SEM using PHP 4/5+, custom framework/Zend Framework, jQuery, MySQL.

Education

MaSTERS IN Science COMPUTER SCIENCE -

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, SC
05.2007

BACHELORS IN TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -

JNTU Hyderabad
06.2004

Skills

  • JavaScript
  • NodeJS
  • CSS
  • Mocha
  • Selenium WebDriver
  • Java
  • PHP
  • GitHub
  • Jenkins
  • Postman
  • SOAPUI
  • Swagger

Timeline

AUTOMATION ENGINEER

BACKBLAZE INC
10.2019 - Current

AUTOMATION ENGINEER

GOOGLE INC (CONTRACTOR)
12.2018 - 08.2019

SOFTWARE QA ENGINEER

BLUESHIELD OF CALIFORNIA(CONTRACTOR)
08.2014 - 03.2016

PHP DEVELOPER

XILINX INC (CONTRACTOR)
07.2013 - 03.2014

PHP DEVELOPER

University of California Office of The President (CONTRACTOR)
10.2011 - 04.2012

PHP DEVELOPER

Ebay Inc (CONTRACTOR)
07.2010 - 10.2011

MaSTERS IN Science COMPUTER SCIENCE -

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY, SC

BACHELORS IN TECHNOLOGY COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -

JNTU Hyderabad
APARNA PRAYAGA