Bharathi Kadali
Jersey City,NJ
Summary
Highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing automated testing frameworks. Proficient in Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, TestNG,Junit , Testim,SQL, Regression, Manual testing,Exploratory testing, Payments, Swift messages validation and a range of API(Rest Assured, READYAPI,KARATE) and performance testing(JMETER) tools. Skilled in defect detection, debugging, and providing corrective actions for software quality enhancement. Experienced in optimizing quality assurance metrics to align with product quality goals following Scrum methodology to ensure continuous integration, collaboration, and iterative improvements in product quality.Experienced in end-to-end CI/CD processes, integrating automated tests to ensure seamless deployment and continuous quality throughout the development lifecycle.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
QA Automation Engineer
BNYMellon
New York
02.2023 - 10.2024
- Designed and implemented automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and Cucumber in a BDD, TDD framework, improving test coverage and reducing manual effort of 50%
- Created and maintained test plans, test cases, and test automation scripts for complex systems, adhering to project timelines and quality benchmarks
- Ensured the created automation scripts are passed in parallel execution and scheduled CICD timely jobs for tracking the regression tests
- Leveraged ReadyAPI and Groovy to create automated API tests for REST API's, validating critical functions such as payment transfers, KYC, and account management
- Conducted comprehensive regression testing and monitored defect tracking to support deployments, collaborating with developers and product managers for effective issue resolution
- Employed JMeter for load testing, ensuring performance metrics aligned with business requirements
- Actively engaged in Sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives to streamline development and testing processes
- Implemented Karate framework and enhanced report generation by integration cucumber report libraries which helped in providing overall metric dashboard status report
- Evaluated software functionality through unscripted testing to verify complex workflows, validate business logic, and assess usability, ensuring that the software not only meets requirements but also offers a smooth user experience
- Enhanced test coverage by combining exploratory testing insights with automated test cases, creating a robust framework that addresses both standard workflows and unique, unforeseen usage patterns
- For logging/Monitoring used splunk to track the progress/issues/results of the job that ran in gitlab
QA Engineer
Green Dot Bank
Newark, OH
07.2022 - 06.2023
- Automated 100% API's related to Accounts Registration, Card Management, Payment Transfers, Authorization using ReadyAPI using groovy scripting
- Automated and validated Database testing using complex SQL queries
- Optimized long running test cases to few seconds which reduced running time spent
- Actively participated in production testing and e2e flow functional testing
- Scheduled jobs in Jenkins and worked on fixing regression failures in TestRails
- Ensured the test coverage of automation scripts are covered based on the impacted functionality
- Environment: Ready API, Groovy, JMeter, REST, Postman, Test rails, Jira, Cassandra, Team City, Jenkins, Perforce, SQL server, Intellij, splunk, Swagger, CICD
QA Engineer
Wipro
Hyderabad, India
01.2015 - 10.2017
- Company Overview: Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Played key role in documenting config spec, Application Master Test plans, Requirement traceability matrix, test metrics, Test strategies, creating deliverables in VSO, and tracking it
- Involved in creating project plans
- Involved in collaborating with onsite and external/customer team's effectively
- Involved in automating test cases using C# and executing them
- Involved in writing and executing complex SQL queries
- Performed API testing using Postman
- Involved in developing test strategy, test plan, test cases using JIRA for Functional and Regression Testing
- Perform functional and regression testing and Performs test data conditioning and validation
- Performed Data-driven testing using Selenium WebDriver and TestNG functions which reads data from property and XML files
- Implemented the project using Selenium Web Driver, Cucumber, JAVA, Selenium Grid
- Involved in Behavior Data-Driven approaches like cucumber for the creation of automation framework in selenium web driver
- Involved in writing and executing test scripts using Selenium WebDriver and Java
- Worked on Selenium GUI Object/element verification is done through XPath, CSS Locators
- Proficient in writing Automation Test Scripts Using Java
- Performed BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Automation Framework using Cucumber Features, Scenarios and Step Definition in Gherkins format
- Involved in conducting defect triage meetings
- Involved in complete STLC until sign-off
- Involved in sending status reports to clients
- Motivating the team towards their improvement and conducting brown bag sessions
- Implemented test parameterization, and Glider framework automation with integrated Selenium framework
- Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Environment: Java, Selenium WebDriver, JIRA, Cucumber, XPath, GitLab, Cucumber (BDD), TestNG, JUnit, Postman, JAVA, HTML, Maven, Jenkins, SQL Server
Test Lead(QA)
Wipro
Hyderabad, India
06.2013 - 01.2015
- Company Overview: Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Played a key role in documentation of Application Master Test plans, Requirement traceability matrix, and test metrics, Test strategies
- Involved in Test plan reviews, and test case reviews
- Involved in automating test cases using selenium and executing them
- Involved in writing and executing complex SQL queries
- Involved in regression testing
- Involved in designing test cases and executing them on time with good quality
- Involved in conducting defect triage meetings
- Involved in complete STLC until sign-off
- Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
Software Test Engineer
Wipro
Hyderabad, India
01.2011 - 06.2013
- Company Overview: Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Involved in automating the scripts using C# in visual studio2013 for both the desktop and metro apps sprint wise
- Involved in stabilizing the scripts in win7,win8,win10 and win blue machines in all x86,amd64 architectures
- Involved in mentoring the team members and allocating work to them
- Involved in organizing the team meeting between onshore and offshore
- Involved in reporting the status directly to the clients and interact with them
- Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Environment: Visual studio 2013, TFS 2010, BugZilla, Product Studio
Production Support
Wipro
Hyderabad, India
05.2012 - 08.2012
- Company Overview: Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Involved in enhancing features like UI designing for critical applications like TALISMA, CAPTIVA, and PRIMUS
- Involved in writing WSR
- Involved in fixing production bugs using Asp.net, Java script, CSS, HTML
- Handled all the critical issues, deployment activities
- Monitoring the production servers and extending the hands in setting up the site scope alerts
- Involved in solving the tickets and providing the relevant information to the users or customers
- Involved in scheduling the batch jobs
- Handled the applications and issues even at the odd timings through on-call support
- Took part in stand up meetings to discuss any issues
- Team Coordination and tracking the activities
- Involved interaction with different teams like DBA, Network team and systems team
- Involved in deployment builds during Product support
- Involved in handling change requests during Product support
- Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
Testing Engineer - Testing
Wipro
Hyderabad, India
12.2010 - 05.2011
- Company Overview: Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Understanding of Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Microsoft quality control standards and business practices and procedures
- Coordinated with clients and onsite team for Business, Technical and Functional clarifications and in providing the estimates
- Involved in Writing Test plan, test scenario, Test cases, test steps, bug reports
- Involved in windows services testing
- Involved in writing and executing few automation scripts using C#
- Involved in writing and executing Sql queries
- Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
Testing Engineer
Wipro
Bangalore, India
04.2009 - 11.2010
- Company Overview: Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Understanding of Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Microsoft quality control standards and business practices and procedures
- Coordinated with clients and onsite team for Business, Technical and Functional clarifications and in providing the estimates
- Involved in Writing Test plan, test scenario, Test cases, test steps, bug reports
- Involved in all phases of system, integration and Regression testing
- Involved in writing and executing Sql queries
- Involved in End to End testing
- Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
Testing Engineer-BI Testing
Wipro
Hyderabad, India
10.2007 - 03.2009
- Company Overview: Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
- Understanding of Client Processes and to work efficiently to meet targets and deliver solutions in accordance with Microsoft quality control standards and business practices and procedures
- Coordinated with clients and onsite team for Business, Technical and Functional clarifications and in providing the estimates
- Involved in Writing Test plan, test scenario, Test cases, test steps, reviewing test steps, and bug reports
- Involved in all phases of system, integration and Regression testing
- Involved in writing and executing complex Sql queries
- Involved in End to End testing
- Wipro is a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company
Education
Masters - Software Engineering
BITS PILANI
India01-2012
Masters - Project Management
Harrisburg University
Harrisburg, PASkills
- Selenium
- Testim
- ReadyAPI
- Postman
- JMeter
- Karate
- Rest Assured
- TestNG
- JUnit
- Java
- Groovy
- Gherkin
- SQL
- JavaScript
- JIRA
- Jenkins
- TeamCity
- GitHub
- GitLab
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- Cassandra
- DB2
- Git
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ
- Swagger
- Splunk
- Datadog
- Agile
- Scrum
Accomplishments
- Successfully identified and resolved critical bugs through exploratory testing in Agile environments, which enhanced software quality and reliability.
- Played an instrumental role in CI/CD integrations, achieving faster release cycles and improved software stability across multi-layered environments.
- Spearheaded test automation projects that reduced test execution time by 40%, significantly boosting team productivity.
- Created Confluence pages and provided KT sessions to different teams as part of quick solutions to the issues found in the project which helped new joiners/ team members to unblock them from execution.
Educationcertificationmembership
- M S in Software Engineering, BITS PILANI, India, 8.5/10
- M S in Project Management, Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA, 3.8/4
Timeline
QA Automation Engineer
BNYMellon
02.2023 - 10.2024
QA Engineer
Green Dot Bank
07.2022 - 06.2023
QA Engineer
Wipro
01.2015 - 10.2017
Test Lead(QA)
Wipro
06.2013 - 01.2015
Production Support
Wipro
05.2012 - 08.2012
Software Test Engineer
Wipro
01.2011 - 06.2013
Testing Engineer - Testing
Wipro
12.2010 - 05.2011
Testing Engineer
Wipro
04.2009 - 11.2010
Testing Engineer-BI Testing
Wipro
10.2007 - 03.2009
Masters - Software Engineering
BITS PILANI
Masters - Project Management
Harrisburg University
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