Pavani Dhupaguntla

Pinnacle Global Payments is a modernized application for creating wire, ACH, and instant payments for corporate and commercial customers.

• Leading a team of 10 quality engineers, driving test strategy, automation standards, and continuous improvement across multiple product teams.
• Collaborated closely with the product team in an agile environment to gain a deep understanding of the application's business requirements, resulting in effective test planning with maximum test coverage to align with the identified requirements.
• Developed regression, smoke, and sanity test suites for release management.
• Analyzing and understanding requirements, and interacting with business partners to perform GAP analysis to identify problems and inconsistencies with the business requirements specification and the existing system.
• Collaborated with product owners to define acceptance criteria, ensuring that both manual and automated tests align with business requirements and user expectations.
• Followed Agile methodology, used JIRA for requirement tracking, defect reporting, and Confluence for documentation and requirement clarifications.
• Prepared Test Plan, Testing Scope Document, Test Summary Report, and Postproduction Validation Plan.
• Design manual test cases, test scenarios, and relevant test data using the Test Data Management tools.
• Responsible for tracking and updating enhancements and requirements in the Traceability Matrix.
• Performed web services testing using Rest Assured and Postman.
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
• Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize the success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
• Developed and executed automated test scripts using Selenium and JUnit to enhance software quality.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects in production environments.
• Mentored junior testers on best practices for automation techniques and testing frameworks.

Customer core has various tools to support existing customers in managing their new accounts, merging accounts with others to create a single entity.

• Design test cases based on functional requirements and design documents
• Automated test scripts and wrote complex SQL queries to test Big Data applications by pulling data from the data warehouse, Spark on Azure Databricks.
• Proficient in conducting backend testing of data pipelines for batch processing using SQL and Apache Airflow, ensuring accurate data transformation, scheduling, and monitoring.
• Performed database testing using SQL queries on data warehouses such as Snowflake.

The Yard Repairs (YR) mobile project is to help and enable repair users to use a handheld device to record general and trivial repairs performed on the cars on the Yard Track, without moving the car to a Repair Track or repair shop.

• Automated regression, sanity, and smoke test suites using a combination of Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, Cucumber, and TestNG frameworks improve efficiency and reliability in the testing process.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver iterative, high-quality software solutions.
• Developed and implemented CI/CD pipelines utilizing Jenkins to automate daily test executions and regression test suites, resulting in streamlined testing processes, and increased efficiency.
• Conducted daily execution of service and smoke suites for web services and automation test scripts to ensure the reliability and functionality of the systems.
• Created Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) test scripts using Cucumber, and implemented RESTful API web services automation.