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Prudhvi Edara

Prudhvi Edara

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Summary

Highly motivated and performance driven professional with 10+ multifaceted experience in QA lifecycle, Automation framework designing, implementation, Business Analysis and Test management. Hands-on experience in performance testing tools (JProfiler, JMeter) and test management tools (HP ALM, Eclipse, Jenkins, CVS, Maven, Ant). Experienced in developing and executing manual and automated tests in different platforms using Java and Selenium. Integrated AI-based testing techniques, such as test data generation and anomaly detection, to enhance test coverage. Extensive experience with automation frameworks using C#, TypeScript, Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, and C++ in Agile environments. Experience in Databases and ETL testing including SQL, Dyanamo DB, Oracle and Teradata. Proficient in test case execution, defect tracking, test plan creation, and requirements analysis. Demonstrated expertise in various testing types, including Sanity, Feature, Functional, System, Compatibility, Retesting, Regression, Performance, Load, and Stress Testing for both mobile and web-based applications. Skilled in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver, Appium, WebDriver IO, q Test, REST Assured, SOAP UI, Egg Plant, Postman, and Cypress. Adept at working with AWS Services (EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, ELB, ECR, ECS, AMI, CloudWatch, CloudTrail) and implementing event-driven and schedule-driven Lambda functions. Proficient in CI/CD processes, implementing continuous integration from development to QA, staging, and production environments to streamline delivery pipelines. Strong knowledge of macOS and iOS platforms, including their architecture, features, and usability guidelines.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

QA Test lead/Python Automation Tester

Verizon
Fremont
01.2023 - Current
  • Company Overview: This project focuses on enhancing Verizon’s telecommunications platform by developing and maintaining scalable and secure systems to handle customer data, billing, and service management. The goal is to streamline customer-facing portals, consolidate backend systems, and implement robust automation frameworks for seamless data integration, migration, and testing.
  • Led testing efforts for Verizon’s telecommunications services, focusing on manual testing of service activation and device activation flows, ensuring seamless provisioning and activation of customer devices and services.
  • Developed and maintained Cypress and Playwright frameworks for end-to-end testing, improving test efficiency for web applications and ensuring smooth service activation workflows.
  • Designed, implemented, and executed automated test scripts for validating Telecom Order Provisioning processes and activation steps, covering various customer scenarios and edge cases.
  • Conducted API testing using Postman and REST Assured to verify service integration and activation protocols across backend services.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams (onshore and offshore) to ensure smooth project delivery, troubleshooting provisioning issues and resolving activation defects in a timely manner.
  • Worked closely with business stakeholders to refine requirements and align the testing process with real-world provisioning and activation scenarios, ensuring accurate order flow management and activation success rates.
  • Ensured compliance with industry standards for device activations, including testing end-to-end workflows from order creation to service activation and customer notifications.
  • Led defect management efforts, identifying root causes related to provisioning issues and working closely with development teams to resolve them promptly.
  • Conducted regression testing on activation workflows, ensuring system stability and performance when provisioning large volumes of customer data and services.
  • Utilized version control and CI/CD tools such as GIT, BitBucket, and Jules to streamline testing and deployment processes.
  • Developed and tested PHP-based applications, ensuring seamless backend and API interactions.
  • This project focuses on enhancing Verizon’s telecommunications platform by developing and maintaining scalable and secure systems to handle customer data, billing, and service management. The goal is to streamline customer-facing portals, consolidate backend systems, and implement robust automation frameworks for seamless data integration, migration, and testing.
  • Environment: Cypress IO, C#, PHP, Type Script, Selenium WebDriver, Appium, JIRA, Jenkins, Maven, SOAP UI, Postman, Python, JavaScript, AWS, HDFS, Spark, Kafka, SQL Server, Oracle, C++, Agile Methodology, CI/CD Pipelines, JMeter.

Quality Assurance Analyst/Lead Automation Test Engineer/ Automation QA

American Family Insurance
Madison
06.2020 - 12.2022
  • Company Overview: This project aimed to enhance American family insurance contact center operations by implementing Amazon Connect-based IVR solutions and automating end-to-end testing for call flows and customer interactions.
  • Led the automation testing efforts for financial applications using Selenium WebDriver, TypeScript, and C#.
  • Led the manual testing of financial applications, including validating data migration and ensuring end-to-end workflow testing.
  • Performed manual testing to validate that order provisioning, activation processes, and customer data were being properly handled across internal and external systems.
  • Focused on testing workflows for both call centre interactions and back-end processes to ensure service activation and customer interactions flowed smoothly.
  • Collaborated closely with business analysts and developers to define testing strategies and develop manual test cases for validating the integration of financial workflows.
  • Conducted manual data validation and API testing using Postman to ensure data consistency and successful transactions between integrated services in both RESTful and SOAP services.
  • Led the manual regression testing of financial systems and telecom integrations, ensuring data integrity between telecom provisioning systems and customer management solutions.
  • Conducted manual testing of end-to-end workflows related to customer data, ensuring that provisioning, activation, and billing data were accurate and aligned with business expectations.
  • Participated in UAT (User Acceptance Testing), working directly with business stakeholders to identify gaps in business workflows and ensure all customer requirements were met.
  • Collaborated with business analysts and developers to identify and resolve defects related to data governance and quality.
  • This project aimed to enhance American family insurance contact center operations by implementing Amazon Connect-based IVR solutions and automating end-to-end testing for call flows and customer interactions.
  • Environment: Selenium WebDriver, MDM Tools PHP, Appium, TestNG, Py Test, Maven, JMeter, LoadRunner, Postman, SOAP UI, SQL Server, MongoDB, Java, C#, Type Script, Python, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, AWS, GCP, Salesforce, Apache Beam, Spark, Visual Studio, JIRA, C++.

Quality Assurance Analyst/ Lead Automation Test Engineer

Cigna
Lafayette
06.2019 - 05.2020
  • Company Overview: The project deals with e-commerce-based development of a website to enable the people to select the medicines and place order from different pharmacies.
  • Automated test cases using Selenium and TOSCA, enhancing testing efficiency.
  • Validated change orders and executed application and infrastructure upgrades, ensuring uninterrupted system availability and optimal performance.
  • Automated test cases for healthcare applications using Selenium and C#.
  • Developed test automation frameworks in TypeScript for validating web applications.
  • Validated PHP-based healthcare applications for secure and scalable performance.
  • Successfully migrated legacy manual and automated test cases into modern automation frameworks using open-source technologies, streamlining testing processes.
  • Developed comprehensive Test Plans, Test Scenarios, and automation scripts in JavaScript to meet functional and business requirements, ensuring robust test coverage.
  • Designed, developed, and tested a secure end-to-end mobile quiz application using JavaScript (ES6), React Native, and MySQL, adhering to Agile Scrum Methodologies for efficient delivery.
  • Processed response data from RESTful web services with XML, JSON, and jQuery, enhancing dynamic user interface updates.
  • Delivered seamless UI enhancements by implementing custom HTML tags and modularizing component design.
  • The project deals with e-commerce-based development of a website to enable the people to select the medicines and place order from different pharmacies.
  • Environment: Selenium, C#, PHP, Spec Flow, Postman, TFS, MTM, JIRA, Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, BDD, Gherkins, JMeter, Selenium-Grid, Chai, Java, JavaScript, VB, Test Data Management, Jenkins, Azure, GCP, Salesforce, Jira, C++.

Quality Assurance Analyst/ SDET Automation Test Engineer

Tata Consulting Services
INDIA
05.2016 - 12.2018
  • Company Overview: The primary objective of this project was to replace multiple legacy broker portals with a unified platform, making it easier for brokers to access and view relevant data without navigating through various systems.
  • Developed SQL queries for backend testing and validated database, comparing the data.
  • Identified mobile elements using Appium Inspector, UI Automator Viewer.
  • Used Appium to facilitate mobile testing by creating mobile Driver class with the required Mobile capabilities.
  • Performed Integration and Regression testing by using C++ to check compatibility of new functionality with the existing functionalities of the application.
  • Involved in discussions/ Testing with the Business Analysts to identify the technical requirements and exclusive interactions with UX/UI teams in various geo locations.
  • Worked on SOAPUI 4.5.0 with WSDL coverage, WSDL refactoring, composite project, requirement management form-based request editor, XML inspector, Data Source Test Step.
  • Design and document REST/HTTP, SOAP APIs, including JSON data formats and API versioning strategy.
  • Worked with various formats of files like delimited text files, click stream log files, Apache log files, Avro files, JSON files, XML Files. file formats like RC, ORC Parquet formats.
  • Implemented python libraries Pandas, Matplotlib, Numpy to manipulate visualize data using charts.
  • The primary objective of this project was to replace multiple legacy broker portals with a unified platform, making it easier for brokers to access and view relevant data without navigating through various systems.
  • Environment: TFS, SQL Server 2012/2014/2016, SQL Server Management Studio, .Net, SharePoint, Azure.

Education

Bachelors - Mechatronics Engineering

VIGNAN University

Skills

  • Selenium Web Driver
  • Selenium IDE
  • Selenium GRID
  • QTP
  • HP Quality Center
  • JUnit
  • Cucumber
  • TestNG
  • SOAPUI
  • Appium
  • JMeter
  • PHP
  • Load Runner
  • Cypress io
  • MF ALM
  • Octane
  • TOSCA
  • API
  • Gatling
  • K6
  • Neo load
  • Ruby
  • Egg plant
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Shell Script
  • VBScript
  • C
  • C#
  • Python
  • Gherkin
  • Power Shell
  • Nodejs
  • Bash
  • C
  • Type Script
  • TDD
  • BDD
  • Jasmine
  • Protractor
  • XCTest framework
  • Appium (iOS & Android)
  • WebDriver IO
  • Xcode
  • Android Studio
  • UI Automator Viewer
  • HTML
  • XML
  • CSS
  • Bug Zilla
  • Visual Studio TFS
  • JIRA
  • Rally
  • HP ALM
  • Ant
  • Maven
  • Jenkins
  • Hudson
  • Git
  • Bitbucket
  • Bamboo
  • UDeploy
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Big Query
  • Hive
  • Hadoop
  • Apache Spark
  • Espresso
  • Swift
  • Objective C
  • Kotlin
  • Salesforce
  • SAP
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Dyanamo DB
  • Kubernetes
  • Computer Storage
  • Database networking
  • Big Data
  • Developer Tools
  • Identity and Security
  • Cloud Data Proc
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Informatica MDM
  • IBM Info Sphere
  • SAP MDG
  • Talend MDM
  • Keyword Driven
  • Data Driven
  • Hybrid
  • Page Object Model
  • VR testing
  • Call routing validation
  • Chatbot
  • Voice workflow automation
  • Cyara
  • Q Test
  • Automated IVR
  • Voice workflow testing
  • Test case management
  • Delphix
  • Broad cam
  • K2 View
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Iterative Development
  • Waterfall

Certification

  • ITIL foundation V3
  • ISTQB Advanced level test Automation Engineer
  • Certified professional selenium tester

Languages

English
Professional
Telugu
Professional
Hindi
Professional

Timeline

QA Test lead/Python Automation Tester

Verizon
01.2023 - Current

Quality Assurance Analyst/Lead Automation Test Engineer/ Automation QA

American Family Insurance
06.2020 - 12.2022

Quality Assurance Analyst/ Lead Automation Test Engineer

Cigna
06.2019 - 05.2020

Quality Assurance Analyst/ SDET Automation Test Engineer

Tata Consulting Services
05.2016 - 12.2018

Bachelors - Mechatronics Engineering

VIGNAN University
Prudhvi Edara