LAKSHMINARASIMHA DAMOJIPURAPU
McKinney
Summary
Experienced Quality Assurance Professional, adept in bringing forth expertise in building testing solutions to test Web, Mobile, and back-end applications. Equipped with a diverse and promising skill-set. Proficient in various platforms, languages. Able to effectively self-manage during independent projects, as well as collaborate as part of a productive team and manage one.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager Software Testing & Automation
JPMorgan Chase
10.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of solutions according to customer needs and objectives
- Contributed to the development of strategic plans and roadmaps for customers aligning with the company's overall objectives
- Stayed up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, leveraging your technical expertise to provide valuable insights to both customers and internal teams
- Optimized resource allocation by conducting regular performance evaluations and providing personalized coaching for staff development.
- Developed a strong company culture focused on employee engagement, collaboration, and continuous learning opportunities.
- Streamlined workflows by identifying bottlenecks in existing systems and proactively addressing these challenges through appropriate solutions implementation.
- Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
- Monitored and analyzed business performance to identify areas of improvement and make necessary adjustments.
- Communicated clearly with employees and stakeholders to keep everyone on same page and working toward established business goals.
Small Deposits Testing Manager
JPMorgan Chase
04.2022 - Current
- Planned, designed and performed manual and functional project testing and reported defects.
- Provided technical support to development teams and debugged test systems.
- Contributed to project plans by providing time-scale estimates.
- Developed and maintained test and evaluation strategies for testing to show operational readiness and suitability with planned project decision points.
- Tracked test reports and failures determined by root cause data trends.
- Scheduled available resources to conduct assessments and prototype testing.
- Provided technical advice to improve quality of engineering practices.
- Researched new developments in testing methods and made recommendations to improve testing procedures.
Testing Manager - Helix Merchant Services
JPMorgan Chase
07.2019 - 04.2022
- Integrated test automation into all layers of application stacks to improve end to end product quality
- ·Designed versatile Karate Framework for automated API test executions
- Built BDD framework using Cucumber, Selenium and the programming language JAVA
- Completed both progressive and regressive testing scenarios through application of comprehensive testing frameworks like BDD or Karate encompassing both
- Applied Agile Delivery methods to simplify testing process decisions through iterative development
- Managed product release planning, execution, & testing/validation
- Conducted ongoing inspection / validation of client journey design & value intent
- Ensured forward & backward compatibility of each product increment and monitored product release performance with daily reports, monthly dashboards, and periodic stakeholder reviews
- Automated most of the released functionalities, end to end, using Selenium-Cucumber-Java following Acceptance test-driven development (ATDD)
- Lead and managed teams of highly skilled quality engineers working towards a common the goal of defect-free, Minimum Viable Product - MVP
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Bank Of America
11.2018 - 07.2019
- Built an end-to-end automated testing solution, using Selenium as the testing tool and BDD as the framework
- Created complex SQL queries to extract and validate test data and to validate test results
- Diagnosed and resolved complex issues with applications and systems to enable integration testing
- Effectively leveraged test case management and defect tracking solutions like Jira, Azure DevOps to guide defects to its final state
- Debugged test failures, worked closely with the Software Development Teams and reported software bugs in the bug tracking system
- Managed a group of highly technical engineers, successfully implementing bleeding-edge quality processes
- Conducted meetings, training, and workshops to in-house & off-shore teams in about QA
practices - Create results, generated reports, and developed robust documentation based on output from nightly regression runs using Jenkins
Information Technology Quality Assurance Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
02.2018 - 08.2018
- Worked closely within an Agile team consisting of Developers, QA Engineers, Business Owners, and testers to complete deliverables
- Planned, created, and executed manual and automated test cases using Java and Selenium
Defined test methods and created test plans for new and updated software projects to determine if the application will perform accurately and reliably according to documented requirements. - Selected an appropriate testing approach/strategy and effectively communicated approach to the project team to achieve test left strategy
- Designed, developed, and maintained test automation frameworks, tools, and scripts, as well as written and executed load and performance test cases using Jmeter and Load Runner
- Performed well with on-time completion of tasks, efficiency in the completion of work, and the ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item
- Supported the company in maintaining a work environment focused on quality, communication, collaboration, integration, and teamwork
Test Automation Engineer
Capital One, N.A
03.2010 - 01.2018
- Created the Test Plan Document, Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on the requirements in some projects under the waterfall methodology
- Developed a Data-driven framework using Selenium Web driver to Automate testing of web applications under various projects
- Continuously improved software engineering practices by working with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
- Analyzed risk identifiers and developed, implemented, and improved automated testing frameworks, leveraging the knowledge of open-source tools and software development principles
- Developed smoke, functional and regression test suites for front-end/user interface (UI layer), API Services, and back-end
- Participated in the development of software quality engineering procedures including functional, regression, Integration tests and roll-back testing scenarios, scripts and procedures
- Guided mid-level and junior-level resources, assist Leads and Managers, and able to contribute to innovative ideas, etc.
- Developed white Framework which leverages UFT to identify legacy application objects and interact with them using Selenium, cucumber, and C#
Education
Master of Science - Analytical Techniques
University of Strathclyde
MSc Analytics03.2009
Skills
- Selenium
- Karate Framework(REST API)
- Cucumber
- Maven
- REST API
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/XP)
- Test management Tools(JIRA/QTest/Version One, Azure DevOps))
- Version Control (Git/SVN/BitBucket)
- Programming Languages (Java/C#/Java Script)
- Databases (SQL)
- JUnit
- Sprint management (JIRA/Version One)
- UFT
- Team Building
Timeline
Manager Software Testing & Automation
JPMorgan Chase
10.2023 - Current
Small Deposits Testing Manager
JPMorgan Chase
04.2022 - Current
Testing Manager - Helix Merchant Services
JPMorgan Chase
07.2019 - 04.2022
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Bank Of America
11.2018 - 07.2019
Information Technology Quality Assurance Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
02.2018 - 08.2018
Test Automation Engineer
Capital One, N.A
03.2010 - 01.2018
Master of Science - Analytical Techniques
University of Strathclyde
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