Pranavee Pusukuru
Prosper,TX
Summary
Dynamic Quality Engineer with over 11 years of experience in QA, specializing in UI automation and API testing. Proven track record in designing scalable automation frameworks and enhancing test coverage through strategic leadership and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Quality Engineer
Aven Hospitality
11.2024 - 06.2026
- Designing comprehensive test strategies, writing test plans, and setting up scalable automation frameworks.
- Guided junior QA staff, reviewed code, and fostered a strong quality culture within the team, enhancing overall team performance.
- Working alongside developers, product managers, and stakeholders to define acceptance criteria and resolve bugs.
- Conducted risk analysis and tracked quality metrics (e.g., test coverage, bug escape rates) to align QA processes with business goals.
- Developed and Implemented a Karate framework for API testing to facilitate scripting, scalability, modularity, process definition, reusability and maintenance and reduce costs.
- Perform integration, functional and regression testing while creating regression tests in Java using Selenium WebDriver framework.
- Utilized Jenkins for continuous integration testing.
- Collaborated with cross functional teams and utilized strong communication skills to successfully prioritize critical bugs and feature improvements.
- Integrated automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, accelerating weekly release cycles by (25%) while maintaining a (0%) critical bug escape rate.
- Reduced production defects by (15%) by implementing shift-left testing and comprehensive API test suites.
- Expanded automated test coverage from 40% to 85% for critical user paths, preventing high-severity regressions.
- Increased pass percentage from 40% to 80% of regression automated cases by fixing the code and improving the run time by including api calls for requirements or data implementation.
- Reviewed peer pull requests and provided actionable suggestions, improving coding standards and promoting best practices.
- Communicated with product owners and managers on the features working and provided training on the app for data creation required for the features.
- Assisted teams during software release processes by addressing issues and ensuring smooth deployment.
- Triaged the production bugs and provided a workaround for critical cases.
- Monitored test execution, reporting, and failure analysis within deployment pipelines.
- Defined and tracked QA KPIs such as defect leakage, automation coverage, and test execution efficiency.
Lead Quality Engineer
Extensiv
06.2021 - 10.2024
- Led a QA team of 5, implementing a new testing framework that reduced project delivery time.
- Promoted from Lead Quality Engineer to Manager of Quality Engineering, overseeing a team of 3.
- At Extensiv, I was part of building an automation framework using Selenium TestNG framework coupled with Java HTTP client for Api calls.
- Built a scalable Selenium framework from scratch, increasing test automation coverage by 60% and cutting release cycles by 3 days.
- Contributed to core Billing application as Lead QE, ensuring accurate charge and invoice generation by integrating data from various Extensiv applications.
- Developed a robust framework for Billing application. Leveraged using API calls for integration data set up and clean up. Built verification methods for complex calculations involved in creating the charges as per different rate conditions.
- Built automation for APIs using Postman and integrated it with Newman for runs and reports.
- Trained new joiners(QE’s) on different topics which involved testing types to product knowledge.
- Trained Associate QE’s with basic automation skills which helped them to start and implement automation for the applications being worked on.
- Guided and mentored QE’s on any issue they faced either on automation or sprint activities.
- Acted as a customer/client advocate, ensuring software products met the highest standards of quality and usability. Collaborated closely with engineering teams, Test Leads, and Product Managers to align testing strategies with business objectives, ensuring timely and successful project deliveries.
- Remained at the forefront of software testing best practices and industry trends, applying this knowledge to continually enhance testing methodologies and outcomes.
- Work closely with developers, business analysts, and other stakeholders to ensure that testing activities are aligned with project requirements.
- Manage testing environments and ensure that they are properly configured and maintained to support testing activities.
- Identified areas of risk and advise the business on embracing and managing said risk.
- Delivered comprehensive training materials for qa practices, significantly enhancing the team’s efficiency and expertise.
- Identified and resolved discrepancies for in-sprint tickets by collaborating with Product Manager, developers, and QEs, enhancing product quality and effectiveness.
Senior SDET
Cvent
Dallas, USA
01.2019 - 05.2021
- Implemented the framework and developed automation scripts for new user stories.
- Automated integration testing by creating step definitions for the different API calls which checks the status codes and then parsing through JSON Objects and JSON arrays to get the result from responses and then comparing them with DB call responses.
- Integrated Karate framework to be used as creating integration tests into the project repos. Checked for dependencies and resolved convergence issues.
- Converted ReadyAPI automated cases to integration tests using karate framework.
- Built in best practices to be used while developing karate cases and documented them for future reference. Trained and mentored the team in building the cases using Karate.
- Created reusable methods for API calls through HTTP client of Spring framework into the existing UI automation repo.
- Used Jenkins for continuous integration and to build periodically.
- Developed and executed SQL queries to analyze data from Oracle database, ensuring data integrity and consistency against web service responses.
- Conducted mobile testing for iOS and Android, verifying requirements were correctly implemented according to provided prototypes.
- Performed load tests on a project involved with third party integration using scala scripts in Gatling and monitored the results through Datadog and logs in Splunk.
- Created mock services of integrated third-party APIs for load testing the integration cases using WIREMOCK framework.
- Location: Dallas, TX
QA Engineer
Copart
Dallas, USA
08.2016 - 11.2018
- Extensively worked on Automation Frameworks using IntelliJ, Maven, Selenium WebDriver and JUnit.
- Worked on automating REST, SOAP Web services, SFTP services testing using Cucumber BDD and Junit and integrated with Selenium Webdriver for UI applications.
- Developed automation framework for SOAP services using ReadyAPI, enhancing testing efficiency and coverage.
- Conducted load testing with Apache JMeter and ReadyAPI (LoadUI NG) for REST and SOAP services, ensuring application performance under varying conditions.
- Automated Data Integrity testing using SQL, JDBC.
- Created customized XPATH and CSS for identifying dynamic elements.
- Worked on applications – RUMBA, DBeaver to support AS400 technology.
- Collaborated daily with offshore team, facilitating project turnover, training new candidates, and reviewing work to ensure quality and alignment with project standards.
- Communicated updates from offshore team to onsite team during daily scrum meetings.
- Provided presentations on project functionality for the higher management as well as for the end users.
- Adapt quickly to changes in priority and/or strategic direction. Managed multiple priorities effectively and regularly to meet project timelines.
- Dallas, TX
QA Analyst
Lanyon
Dallas, USA
01.2015 - 08.2016
- Analyzed business requirements based on BRD and developed test plans and test cases.
- Automated test cases using BDD framework with Selenium WebDriver and TestNG.
- Prepared release-level test plan, conducted testing status meetings to track progress, and presented metrics regularly to stakeholders.
- Reviewed project requirements and design specifications to identify gaps and ensure documented project criteria are clear, consistent, and testable.
- Collaborated with development team to understand application, analyzed testing processes, and developed strategies to enhance product testing.
- Performed Back-End/Database testing by writing complex SQL queries.
- Validated web services related to customer, account, and transaction management using the SOAP UI 5.2 and SOAP UI PRO 5.1.
- Trained QA team members on tools including Soap UI, Postman, and Advanced Rest Client to improve testing proficiency.
- Dallas, TX
QA Analyst
Transunion
Chicago, USA
02.2014 - 09.2014
- Created and executed test cases to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
- Performed Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, System Testing, Database Testing, and Black Box testing at various phases of the development and test cycles.
- Performed User Acceptance Test (UAT) to get feedback from Users to verify the application has no critical bugs and it meets the users' expectations.
- Tracked and reported testing activities, detailing results, test case coverage, resources, defects, and their status for stakeholder visibility.
- Reviewed test conditions, test cases, and test scripts; verified defects and automated test scripts while providing feedback.
- Developed and executed SQL queries in the database to conduct Data integrity testing.
- Preparing traceability matrix for test cases prepared against the requirement.
- Location: Chicago, IL
Software Tester
Fidelity Life
Chicago, USA
02.2013 - 01.2014
- Executed Smoke Testing immediately after deployment to identify critical issues, such as insurance claims screen freezes, ensuring high-level functionality was intact.
- Conducted manual Regression Testing to validate new billing and payment plans, confirming that changes and fixes functioned as intended.
- Managed Software Testing Life Cycle (SDLC) using Quality Center, including writing and executing Test Cases, mapping them to requirements in RTM, and logging defects to facilitate claim billing and settlement.
- Implemented Agile methodology to enhance project efficiency.
- Attended Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, and Retrospective meetings in Agile.
- Analyzed Business Requirements Document (BRD), High Level Designing (HLD) and Technical Design Document (TDD) to deliver better customer service by handling claims requests quickly.
- Chicago, IL
Education
Masters - Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Kakatiya University
Bachelors - pharmacy
JNTU
Skills
- Selenium
- JAVA
- JavaScript
- Karate
- Rest Assured
- Postman
- SOAP UI
- Bruno
- SQL
- JSON
- IntelliJ
- VisualStudio
- DBeaver
- JIRA
- Datadog
- Splunk
Personal Information
Visa Status: Permanent Resident (Green Card)
Additional Information - Technical Skills
SELENIUM Web driver, SOAP UI, READY API, Postman, Bruno, Newman, JMeter, Gatling, IntelliJ, VisualStudio, Jenkins, GitHub, Putty, WinSCP, RUMBA, DBeaver, DataDog, Splunk, Grafana, HP Quality Center, QTP 10.0 (ALM), Test Rail, Test Link, JIRA, SQL, XML, HTML, JSON, Selenium, Groovy, JAVA, JavaScript, Scala, C, C++, MacOS, MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Windows, XP
Timeline
Senior Quality Engineer
Aven Hospitality
11.2024 - 06.2026
Lead Quality Engineer
Extensiv
06.2021 - 10.2024
Senior SDET
Cvent
01.2019 - 05.2021
QA Engineer
Copart
08.2016 - 11.2018
QA Analyst
Lanyon
01.2015 - 08.2016
QA Analyst
Transunion
02.2014 - 09.2014
Software Tester
Fidelity Life
02.2013 - 01.2014
Masters - Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Kakatiya University
Bachelors - pharmacy
JNTU