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Neeraja Pathri

Atlanta,GA

Summary

  • Results-oriented Principal Engineer with 14 years of experience in software solutions design, testing, and development. Demonstrated expertise in web technologies for delivering innovative business solutions.
  • Highly motivated professional with a proven track record of thriving in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments. Demonstrates a strong work ethic and a willingness to take on additional responsibilities.
  • Experienced professional with over 7 years of developing enterprise applications in diverse 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 & Selenium WebDriver
  • Exposed to variety of vendor specific tools like AWS, LIferay, IBM Case Manager, IBM BPM, and FileNet Enterprise Manager
  • Experienced in popular languages like PHP and C#, as well as technologies including JavaScript, EXTJS, and Amazon Web Services.
  • Experienced professional adept at utilizing proven development methodologies such as AGILE-SAFE, Waterfall, Iterative, and Scrum. Demonstrated ability to effectively apply these methodologies to drive successful project outcomes.
  • 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
  • Experienced professional skilled in developing key application features through hands-on coding and implementing application level architecture.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Software Engineer in Test

LinkSquares Inc
Boston, MA
07.2023 - 08.2024
  • 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 Software Engineer (Full Stack)

CVS HEALTH CORPORATION
Alpharetta, GA
03.2019 - 07.2023
  • Innovated and Implemented Health Tracker Test Tools and Framework, which is now leveraged and implemented across the projects in CVS-Aetna Digital. Responsible for implementing and 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 the rest of the organization to adopt the new framework.
  • Coached developers and helped them achieve sprint commitments on automation stories.
  • Took complete ownership of overhauling the existing test cases with new frameworks and broader test scenarios.
  • Collaborated to uncover and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks for a broader audience.
  • Directly supervised new and junior Engineers, including the project set up, development, delivery of test cases, and software automation activities.
  • Coached team members to come up to 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 the right talent by effectively participating in taking the interviews.

Automation Lead

Columbia IS Consulting Group Inc
Tampa, FL
02.2018 - 03.2019
  • Projects: LCI - Low Cost Internet
  • Role:, Understand Business challenges, problem statements and existing environments for LCI
  • Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and writing the framework for Test Automation on LCI Unified user interface
  • Design and implement of Hybrid framework
  • Collaborate with the Manual testing team, vendors in development, implementation and responsible for delivery on automation scripts and execution
  • Support the Test execution with day to day report analysis
  • Identify, analyze and document problems encountered on existing automation 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
  • Environment: Python, RESTful web services, Selenium, Java, Jenkins, GIT, SQLServer

Senior Software Engineer

Columbia IS Consulting Group Inc
05.2015 - 01.2018
  • Projects: Enterprise Money Movement, Payout Operations, Institutional Servicing
  • Role: WorkFlow Dev Lead
  • 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
  • Environment Support and bug fixing
  • Environment: IBM-FileNet Tools - Case Builder, Workplace XT, Process Designer, FEM, PA, PCC, Java, J2EE (JDBC, JSP, Servlets, Java Beans), XML, PL/SQL, Spring, Hibernate, RESTful web services, Log4j, jUnit, Tomcat, JBoss, Oracle, Linux, Agile & Scrum

Senior Software Engineer

International Software Systems Inc, ISSI
04.2014 - 08.2014
  • Collaborate with 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, and maintain automation test scripts, utilities, and 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
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 creating the presentation layer using GWT widgets and event handlers.
  • Created custom composite widgets to make them reusable across the application.
  • Responsible for bug fixing, release support, and production support.

Team Lead

iFuturistics Inc, Bank of America
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
  • Environment: Java, J2EE (JDBC, JSP, Servlet, JavaBeans), Design Patterns, Selenium WebDriver, MS-SQL, PL/SQL, XML, Log4j, JIRA, Maven, Eclipse, WebSphere, UNIX, Linux, Agile & Scrum
  • Other Projects

Sr. 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.

Sr. Software Engineer

Lesto Technologies Pvt. Ltd
08.2007 - 02.2010
  • Brand Centric Social Networks
  • Project: BlackBerry LWR
  • Project: Stratus CALM
  • Project: Project Management Tool

Software Engineer

Daisy Systems Ltd
11.2006 - 06.2007
  • Analyzed user requirements to develop software solutions and created technical specifications.
  • Developed, tested, debugged and documented software programs using Java, JavaScript and HTML and CSS.
  • Conducted unit tests on code modules to verify accuracy and functionality of program logic.

Education

Master of Computer Science -

Osmania University

Bachelor of Computer Science -

S.V. University

Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) -

Skills

Languages: Java, J2EE, Typescript, PHP, XML, PL/SQL

UI: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, jQuery, GWT/GXT, Ext JS

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

Testing and Automation: Playwright, Cypress, JUnit, TestNG, REST API, Serenity, Kotlin, Selenium WebDriverr

Build/Log: Ant, Maven, Log4j

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

Databases: MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle

Application Servers: Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere

CI/CD: Git, Harness, CircleCI

Version Control: GitHub, CVS, SVN, Perforce

Defect tracking tools: RALLY, JIRA, TEST RAIL, HP ALM

IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans

OS: macOS, Windows, Unix, Linux

Tools: AWS Tools, TOAD, SQLYog

Methodologies: SAFE, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Iterative

Languages

English
Full Professional
Telugu
Native/ Bilingual
Hindi
Native/ Bilingual
Tamil
Limited

Accomplishments

  • Awarded the CVS Health recognition for excellence .
  • Created highly effective Automation TEST TOOL that significantly impacted efficiency and improved operations.
  • Promoted to Lead Engineer after 6 months of employment.
  • Trained new employees to acquaint them with projects, resulting in quicker overall completion dates.
  • First to evaluate and Develop Automation TEST tool in BOA .

Certification

  • SCJP JAVA certified
  • SAFE Training - 2019

Timeline

Principal Software Engineer in Test

LinkSquares Inc
07.2023 - 08.2024

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

CVS HEALTH CORPORATION
03.2019 - 07.2023

Automation Lead

Columbia IS Consulting Group Inc
02.2018 - 03.2019

Senior Software Engineer

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

Team Lead

iFuturistics Inc, Bank of America
03.2012 - 08.2013

Sr. Software Engineer

Helios & Matheson Technologies Pvt. Ltd
04.2010 - 07.2010

Sr. Software Engineer

Lesto Technologies Pvt. Ltd
08.2007 - 02.2010

Software Engineer

Daisy Systems Ltd
11.2006 - 06.2007

Master of Computer Science -

Osmania University

Bachelor of Computer Science -

S.V. University

Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) -

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