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NEERAJA PATHRI

Atlanta,GA

Summary

  • Innovative & Quality-driven Principal SDET with over 14 years of experience designing, testing and developing software solutions. In-depth understanding of web technologies with focus on delivering innovative business solutions.
  • Excels in fast-paced, high-energy and deadline-driven environment with willingness to take on additional tasks.
  • Over 7 years of experience in developing enterprise applications across a range of domains, platforms and environments
  • Hands On Developing software products using Java, J2EE, Typescript,Spring, SOA, RESTful Web services, UI Technologies - GXT, HTML, CSS, JQuery, JSON, MVC-AJAX, JPA technologies like Hibernate and Automation Tools using PLAYWRIGHT,SERENITY, REST-API, BDD-CUCUMBER,CYPRESS & Selenium WebDriver
  • Exposed to variety of vendor specific tools like AWS, Salesforce, IBM Case Manager, IBM BPM, Liferay and FileNet Enterprise Manager
  • Understanding and exposed to popular languages like Typescript, PHP, C# and technologies such as JavaScript, EXTJS and Amazon web services
  • Worked on proven development methodologies like Waterfall, Iterative, AGILE -SAFE and Scrum
  • Demonstrated ability in leading development team as well as test team with diverse customer base
  • Excellent communication skills, comfortable interacting with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Develop key application features (hands-on coding), define and implement application-level architecture.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Software Engineer in Test

Linksquares Inc
BOSTON, GA
08.2023 - Current
  • Enhanced Integration Testing: Spearheaded the development and integration of automated testing frameworks for external tool integrations (Slack, Email, Salesforce, Adobe, DocuSign) with LinkSquares’ Finalize and Analyze application, improving the reliability and coverage of integration tests.
  • Automation Strategy Leadership: Promoted and implemented automation test strategies within the scrum team, ensuring high-quality deliverables and early detection of issues in the SDLC.
  • Quality Coaching: Acted as a quality coach, advocating for early testing and comprehensive test planning during backlog refinement to enhance overall product quality.
  • Code Review & Best Practices: Conducted detailed reviews of pull requests to ensure adherence to best practices and maintain high standards of code quality.
  • Framework Collaboration: Worked closely with fellow SDETs to enhance and maintain automation test frameworks, contributing to ongoing improvements and adoption of best practices.
  • Architectural Testability: Collaborated with the architecture team to ensure that system designs were testable and aligned with automation requirements.
  • Documentation & Training: Developed and contributed to documentation and training materials for automation frameworks, facilitating better understanding and usage across the team.
  • CI/CD Integration: Integrated automation tests into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring quality was maintained throughout the SDLC and providing early feedback on potential issues.
  • Process Improvement: Identified gaps in existing pipelines and processes, offering recommendations and solutions to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Reporting & Visibility: Contributed to the creation of reports providing visibility into the status of automated tests, aiding in transparency and informed decision-making.
  • Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration: Facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions and collaborated with other development teams to promote the adoption of modern testing practices and frameworks.
  • Coaching & Mentorship: Coached and mentored junior engineers and team members on automation best practices, helping them achieve sprint commitments and contribute effectively to automation stories.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring deadlines were met on time.

Senior Dev Engineer II (Full Stack)

CVS HEALTH CORPORATION
Alpharetta, GA
03.2019 - Current
  • Innovated and Implemented Health Tracker Test Tools and Framework that is now leveraged and implemented across the projects in Aetna Digital
  • Responsible for implementing, authoring performance scripts for BFF services
  • Provided necessary definition, development and deployment of the Health Tracker product strategy, addressing all phases of product development
  • Spearheaded the PR standardization and PR process
  • Compiled data on quality issues and vulnerabilities and reported findings with suggestions for improvement
  • Designed routine maintenance schedule for test scripts, enabling compliance with latest conventions and framework updates affecting system architectures
  • Contributed framework ideas, best practices and process towards having one consolidated Test Framework across all projects
  • Facilitated and educated various agile teams to use the modern test automation framework that I authored and accelerated the software development life cycle
  • Collaborated with other development teams and organized knowledge sharing sessions for rest of the organization to adopt to the new framework
  • Coached Developers and helped them achieved sprint commitments on Automation stories
  • Took complete ownership of rehauling the existing test cases with new frameworks and broader test scenarios
  • Helped identify and address Infrastructure bottlenecks to wider audience that helped to swiftly solution on DB services for regression tests just in time before PROD release
  • Directly supervised new and junior Engineers including the project set up, development, delivery of test cases and software automation activities
  • Coached team member to come up to the speed swiftly so team goals are not affected during my absence
  • Implemented ongoing quality improvement processes working with interdepartmental teams
  • Managed and responded to Software Quality Assurance issues with related groups such as Development, Architecture, DFP, and Professional Services
  • Helped Teams in finding right talent by effectively participating in taking the interviews.

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Columbia IS Consulting Group Inc
Tampa, FL
02.2018 - 03.2019
  • Understand Business challenges, problem statements and existing environments for LCI
  • Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing and development of LCI Unified user interface
  • Design and implement of Hybrid framework to run regression
  • Support the Test execution with day-to-day report analysis
  • Identify, analyze and document problems encountered on existing test scripts and track the resolution
  • Create Test plans in JIRA to identify record and notify the regression run for any new releases
  • Key participant in Communicating resource operational challenges to Test Manager
  • Communicate summarized information about test plan and execution activities occurring in shared integrated environments to all impacted groups
  • Manage the test automation activities throughout the software development and test phases
  • Manage refactoring approach and methodology to ensure automation code continues to run in efficiency
  • Responsible for creating and adherence to coding standards, code storage and designs to ensure quality and practices to be followed.

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Columbia IS Consulting Group Inc
Charlotte, NC
05.2015 - 01.2018
  • Designed and implemented business solutions on P8 platform using IBM Case Manager
  • Development of Custom Case Operations components
  • Responsible for developing solution artifacts using case builder and performing case manager configurations using Filenet Enterprise Management, Case Builder, WorkplaceXT, Process Designer, Process Administrator and Process configuration console
  • Design and implement solution architecture for complex business process, create proto types and help business in refining the requirements
  • Design and development of workflow modules for Payout, Money Transfer and FileHub Systems
  • Instrumental in creating unique process modules that updates and integrates with reporting process, the service layer and GUI
  • Development of P8 service layers using FileNet PE, CE API's
  • Development of Service Integration layer using java/J2EE, Spring, REST Web services and Oracle 11g
  • Support all levels of necessary testing including but not limited to Unit, UAT, Regression and Integration testing.

Senior Software Engineer

International Software Systems Inc, ISSI
Boston, MA
04.2014 - 08.2014
  • Talk to business and gather requirements, write design specifications and translate the higher-level requirements to technical design
  • Participate in architecture design discussions and develop original and creative technical solutions meeting scalability, security, quality, and performance standards
  • Develop, execute & maintain automation test scripts, utilities, data sets leveraging Selenium web driver and Page Object Model
  • Tracking Defects, Root cause analysis, Analyzing Test Report and Task assignment in JIRA
  • Hands on coding for developing the tool and test suite for test automation
  • Enhance the existing test framework
  • Design and documentation of Test Automation API.

Tech Lead

International Software Systems Inc, Bank of America
Boston, MA
08.2013 - 03.2014
  • Module Lead for one of the key modules in the project XMAN 'Campaign Manager'
  • Actively involved in developing Business Layer and Data Management components of this multi-tiered web-based system over J2EE architecture
  • Worked on to create presentation layer using GWT widgets and event handlers
  • Created custom composite widgets to make it reusable across the application
  • Responsible for bug fixing, release support, production support.

Programmer Analyst

IFuturistics Inc, Bank of America
Boston, MA
03.2012 - 08.2013
  • Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and writing the framework for Test Automation using Selenium WebDriver on the current AJAX enabled UI platform
  • Developed an initial detailed e2e Prototype with the functional and technical requirements in place that helped to analyze the Selenium WebDriver and dependency API's readiness for this initiative
  • Hands on coding for developing the tool and test suite for test automation
  • Design and implementation of QA governance, standard operating procedures and test framework
  • Design and documentation of Use case standards
  • Tracking Defects, Root cause analysis, Analyzing Test Report and Task assignment in JIRA
  • Led a development team for QA Automation framework.

Senior Software Engineer

Helios & Matheson Technologies Pvt. Ltd
04.2010 - 07.2010
  • Actively involved in writing various business layers, data management components, and UI over J2EE architecture
  • Participate in the requirement gathering and writing the technical specification document
  • As a module lead responsible for coding the service layer using J2EE and struts
  • Responsible for writing the jUnit test cases and test suites
  • Was involved in dev test and deployment of the project.

Senior Software Engineer

Lesto Technologies Pvt. Ltd
11.2006 - 06.2007
  • Worked on various projects including Brand Centric Social Networks, BlackBerry LWR, Stratus CALM, and Project Management Tool.

Software Engineer

Daisy Systems Ltd

Education

Master of Computer Science -

Osmania University
Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Computer Science -

S.V. University
AP, India

Skills

Languages: Java, J2ee, Typescript, NodeJS C#, PHP, XML, PLSQL UI: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, JQuery, GWT/GXT, EXT-JS

Open Source: SpringBoot, GWT, GWT-EXT, Spring, Liferay, Hibernate,

Testing and Automation: JUnit, TESTNG, REST API, PLAYWRIGHT, SERENITY, GATALIN, Selenium WebDriver,Cucumber

Build/Log: Ant, Maven, Log4j

FileNet Tools: FileNet P8 51 Content Engine, Process Engine, Application Engine, Process Designer, Business Process Framework, Process Analyzer, IBM Case Manager

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle,MongoDB Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere

CI/CD: HARNESS, CIRCLE CI Version Control: GITHUB, CVS, SVN, Perforce

Defect tracking tool: RALLY, JIRA, TEST RAIL

IDE: Eclipse, Netbeans OS: MAC OS, Windows, Unix, Linux Tools: AWS Tools, TOAD, SQLYog, PostgreSQL, MongoDB

Methodologies: SAFE, Agile & Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative

Certification

Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)

Accomplishments

  • Awarded the CVS Health recognition for excellence
  • Created highly effective Automation Test Tool that significantly impacted efficiency and improved operations
  • Trained new employees to acquaint them with projects, resulting in quicker overall completion dates
  • First to evaluate and Develop Automation TEST tool in BOA
  • Sun certified JAVA programmer

Languages

Full Professional, Native/ Bilingual, Native/ Bilingual, Limited

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer in Test

Linksquares Inc
08.2023 - Current

Senior Dev Engineer II (Full Stack)

CVS HEALTH CORPORATION
03.2019 - Current

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Columbia IS Consulting Group Inc
02.2018 - 03.2019

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

Columbia IS Consulting Group Inc
05.2015 - 01.2018

Senior Software Engineer

International Software Systems Inc, ISSI
04.2014 - 08.2014

Tech Lead

International Software Systems Inc, Bank of America
08.2013 - 03.2014

Programmer Analyst

IFuturistics Inc, Bank of America
03.2012 - 08.2013

Senior Software Engineer

Helios & Matheson Technologies Pvt. Ltd
04.2010 - 07.2010

Senior Software Engineer

Lesto Technologies Pvt. Ltd
11.2006 - 06.2007

Software Engineer

Daisy Systems Ltd

Master of Computer Science -

Osmania University

Bachelor of Computer Science -

S.V. University

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