DURGA PAVANI VONTEDDU
San Ramon,CA
Summary
Results driven hands on Quality Assurance leader with 15 years of experience in manual, automated testing of web applications and infrastructure devices. Experience in software development with cloud native micro services and deep understanding of infrastructure domains and cloud platforms to bring the best in software quality.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr QA Manager
Morgan Stanley
05.2022 - Current
- Responsible for managing QA team supporting 25+ million customer transactions on products supporting user accounts, back office and various financial services
- Responsible for converting 19M customers accounts and demographic data from ADP to backoffice as part of Etrade to Morgan Stanley merger efforts
- For near real time events validation, deployed new automation jobs which has resolved customer impact issues tied to data sync process
- Transformed legacy QA team, raised bar by getting them trained using new collaboration tools, introducing automation frameworks, culture and one team goal.
- By collaborating with engineering and product management teams, streamlined existing SDLC procedures, sprint grooming and championed getting new QA process adopted
- Lead Initiative for Survivorship batch jobs automation that receives millions of data records from downstream applications, consumers, and manipulated data get stored to database
- Represented QA team in RCA meetings and got technical debt reduced release over release by increasing automation coverage during pre and post release of every feature push into production environments
- Hire, coach, mentor teams and collaborate with engineering and product leaders in driving improvements, incorporated into product features and overall process for validation, monitoring and bug fixing
Sr QA Manager
Cloud Fabrix
03.2019 - 05.2022
- Responsible for all aspects of Quality Assurance & Management for AIOps SaaS product
- Managed 60 Manual and Automated QA engineers, established frameworks to execute test suites for clustering module which runs AI and produces data frame to execute ML test cases using Selenium and Jenkins
- Provide weekly program status reports to management with appropriate KPI metrics, Risk and Mitigation plans.
- Actively involved in all phases from requirements gathering to solution delivery and customer support for AIOps product
- Established process to run load, performance testing and failure mode analysis
- Experience in detailed root cause analysis of test failures, defects, performance and scalability issues
Sr Software Engineer
Cloud Fabrix
06.2016 - 03.2019
- Developed using Python, JavaScript, to fetch data for front end applications from different sources (like ServiceNow, Databases, AWS CloudWatch, VCenter, Storage Management Systems) through highly secure API calls.
- Designed and built Micro services application using python/pandas(version -3.7) with CFX proprietary API invocations through Macaw client library and Notification handler implementations through Macaw notification handler.
- Developed pipelines in YAML format for collecting data to perform data analysis
- Wrote services and batch jobs which are scalable up to 1000 jobs to concurrently run at any given time.
- Build backend and UI dashboards for depicting data and parameters using dashboard framework.
- Built code to detect time sensitive changes and timely update data in dashboards to display most current data. Collect feedback from users, analyze feasibility of new requirements and roll out updates in future releases of application.
- Collaborated with development leads, sprint planning and triage activities.
QA Team Lead
Cisco Systems
07.2012 - 06.2016
- Responsible for Quality Assurance and Management of Cisco UCS Director and VNX products Lead team of 8 QA engineers across Cisco global offices
- Lead planning test effort for integration of NetApp and EMC Storage devices in UCSD
- Build complex workflows to support customer use cases that include SAN Boot, NFS/FC/iSCSI Datastore creation and validating them on converged infrastructure solutions like FlexPod, VBlock, VSPEX
- Lead automation effort for automating all storage features, closely track new features introduced for different storage devices and test their Orchestration and HTML UI
- Lead test effort for Orchestration component that consists of scripted actions that constitute automation solution for UCS Director
- Actively involved with UX and UI team in design and implementation discussions, conduct usability studies, providing constant feedback and leading test effort for new HTML UI for UCS Director
QA Manager
Cloupia Inc
10.2009 - 07.2012
- Led and managed 10 Manual and Automated QA engineers
- Being Fast-paced agile environment, built and coached teams to deliver quality product adhering to strict process
- Participated in product requirements analysis, document reviews and bug scrub meetings
- Identify and understand customer use cases, design, develop, review and executed test plans and test cases based on product functional specifications
- Setup process to Identify and document software defects and involved in prompt verification of defects Established process to run regression and sanity tests on several patch releases to address customer bugs
- Actively contributed to catching up of automation backlog for existing features Storage Integration (NetApp- 7mode, cluster mode, EMC – Unity, VNX, VMAX, VNXe, Isilon)
QA Lead Engineer
Cloupia Inc
10.2006 - 06.2009
- Actively involved in all phases from requirements gathering to solution delivery and customer support Lead QA effort for Feature, Performance and solution testing of CUIC, Multi tenancy supporting Disaster Recovery using VMware Site Recovery Manager
- Application Containers, Bare metal and VM deployment using Resource Groups
- Supported and worked for POCs with TMEs, Solution Architects, partners and cross functional teams to deliver solutions
- Established QA best practices for testing front end and backend applications using established process and manual testing
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics
Osmania University
IndiaSkills
SDLC: Agile with SCRUM/Sprints, Iterative, Waterfall
Testing Tools: Mercury Test Director, Mercury Quality Center, Rally,Selenium, QTP, Load Runner,
Automation:- JUnit, TestNG, WebDriver, Pytest, Allure, RESTAPI, SOAP, XML
Database: MySQL, SQL Server, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
Languages: Python, JavaScript, Java
Cloud:- AWS, Azure, Microservices, Docker
Datacenter Infrastructure: VMware, Nexus5K/9K, Cisco UCS, NetApp 7mode/ Cluster mode, EMC – Unity, VNX, VMAX, Recover Point
VMware Plugins: Virtual Storage Controller, Site Recovery Manager
Shared Tools:- Jira, Jenkins, Git, Github, Confluence, Sharepoint, CI/ CD
Observability:- ELK Stack, Grafana, Splunk,
Accomplishments
- Lead the major initiative efforts of RedHat OS7 Migration for 19M customers which involved 5000 instances and 8000 services executed in phases within the tight deadlines
- Designed and rolled out application agnostic step level framework in Python to improve post release validations using automation resulted productivity increase in teams by 70%
- Reduced the production bugs from 45% to 20% by implementing multiple gatekeeping procedures on test coverage, coverage review meetings with product and developer teams for every release. This helped the team improve the knowledge base by enabling them to interact with other stakeholders
- Collaborated with DevOps and SRE teams in integrating QA regression and integration tests into the automated pipeline which provided immediate feedback and quick actions in fixing the validation scripts for new features and hot fixes rollout, reduced the overall incidents by 30% over a 14 months release cycle
- Developed innovative testing strategies and streamlined processes with development activities to reduce risks that led to 20% efficiency gains across multiple projects
- Enhanced and standardized software defect life cycle management process that helped to reduce downtime from bug detection to resolution
Certification
- FlexPOD Certified
- VNX Certified
Timeline
Sr QA Manager
Morgan Stanley
05.2022 - Current
Sr QA Manager
Cloud Fabrix
03.2019 - 05.2022
Sr Software Engineer
Cloud Fabrix
06.2016 - 03.2019
QA Team Lead
Cisco Systems
07.2012 - 06.2016
QA Manager
Cloupia Inc
10.2009 - 07.2012
QA Lead Engineer
Cloupia Inc
10.2006 - 06.2009
Bachelor of Science - Electronics
Osmania University
- FlexPOD Certified
- VNX Certified
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