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Sahiti Lalama Indrakanti

Sahiti Lalama Indrakanti

Pleasanton,CA

Summary

Over 10 years of IT experience with a strong focus on Release Management, Configuration Management, and Quality Assurance. Demonstrated expertise as a Release Engineer and SQA professional, supporting end-to-end release cycles, test planning, execution, and release validation. Extensive experience performing manual testing for web, mobile, and stand-alone applications to ensure production readiness.

Experienced with managing software release processes and ensuring seamless integration. Utilizes automation tools and continuous integration to enhance deployment efficiency. Knowledge of troubleshooting and resolving issues, maintaining high standards and reliability.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Configuration/Release Engineer II

PINTEREST
San Francisco
01.2021 - Current
  • Handle Web/API/Ads deployments independently, including on call after business hours.
  • Managed deployment-blocking test failures, canary/ACA, and production issues, coordinating with the appropriate engineering teams to drive rapid resolution and unblock continuous deployments.
  • Developed and executed contingency, rollback, and mitigation plans to address deployment risks caused by upstream and downstream dependencies, minimizing impact to release timelines and system stability.
  • Served as IMOC (Incident Management On-Call) during deployment events, owning incident triage for test, build, release, and rollout failures, and partnering with engineering POCs to restore deployment pipelines.
  • Handle and drive resolutions to incidents to unblock deployments promptly.
  • Handled execution of rollback and hotfix procedures during business hours and after business hours.
  • Planned and carried high-volume batch deploys after holiday change freezes, applying risk assessment, sequencing, and monitoring to ensure safe and reliable releases.
  • Look into areas of improvement for all services (web/api/tpp/ngwidgets) in staging and other environments and collaborate with the team and come up with ideas and solutions.
  • Independently investigate ACA alerts (for all services) by looking at statsboard, git stacktrace, kibana - look into root cause and revert the changes when necessary.
  • Onboarded ads deployments seamlessly and work on unblocking the deployments, driving incidents independently.
  • Move to new tools - like pindeploy and perform required testing before onboarding.
  • Work closely with both the api and web platform team to make any improvements towards the automated canary analysis.
  • Trained teammates on Deployment procedures (Rollbacks, Hotfixes, Batch Deploys etc).
  • Worked on browser extension releases and performed ad hoc release and requested the offshore team to help with testing.
  • Handle and maintain Android releases.
  • Involve in Smoke testing of Android builds.
  • Create incidents in a timely manner when the release incidents are blocked and involve the right team to help continue with the investigation.
  • Designed rollout strategy when there is a lag in the current release.
  • Developed and maintained automated deployment pipelines using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools.
  • Led release planning and coordination for cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of software updates.

Release Specialist

PINTEREST
San Francisco
03.2019 - 12.2020
  • Handled iOS releases independently, including on-call after business hours.
  • Able to handle iOS releases as per schedule and get the necessary testing done before the build is rolled out.
  • Synced with the build team to automate important and redundant areas of iOS.
  • Follow up and escalate issues surfaced from test runs during a feature/product alpha and beta builds to the appropriate Engineering manager and potentially avoid release blockers.
  • Performed Hotfixes for iOS on a need basis.
  • Working with the platform team in defining and executing the Release Strategy efficiently.
  • Designed rollout strategy when there is a lag in the current release.
  • Strategize & implement change freeze for holiday schedule.
  • Provide Manual Metis testing support as necessary.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

LINQIA
San Francisco
12.2015 - 02.2019
  • Worked as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Linqia Inc., where the main focus is automating the current web application using Selenium.
  • Saved a lot of manual effort by creating detailed test plans and automating them.
  • Experience in automation testing using Selenium WebDriver.
  • Perform automation functional testing on multiple platforms across different browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari).
  • Automate and execute end-to-end test scripts, scheduled in Jenkins.
  • Review and analyze the system's functional specifications.
  • Develop and maintain an end to end Software Testing Framework.
  • Develop test code using Selenium WebDriver in Java and Protractor for the AngularJS application.
  • Determine testing requirements developing and reviewing test cases for positive, negative and edge case (error handling) scenarios.
  • Actively used Source Code Management system GitHub.
  • File defects in Jira and work close with the development team to verify bug fixes against new builds.
  • Perform root cause analysis for production defects identified.
  • Provide functional and technical expertise in bug fixes.
  • Experienced in developing, executing Test Cases/Scripts and Test Scenarios.
  • Developed and enhanced data driven automation framework effectively utilizing page object model.
  • Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Waterfall, Agile models and exposure to all stages of SDLC & STLC applications.
  • Manage sprint activities such as implementing feature test plan, developing test cases, automation, reporting defects and verifying defects.
  • Implement test scenarios and detailed test cases for smoke, functional and regression testing.
  • Active participation in the continuous improvement of the automation strategy and framework.
  • Deploying weekly and monthly release to stage & production.

Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies
Hyderabad
06.2011 - 05.2013
  • Ensured compliance and compatibility of applications with regards to Security Patches, Enhancement releases and service packs being released for the existing operating system.
  • Simulating end user scenarios with a predefined set of applications to certify the compatibility of respective patches.
  • Good experience in preparation of test bed, Installation testing, Replication of problems & Generation of bug report through Microsoft Product Studio (PS).
  • Extensively performed Manual Testing process to ensure the quality of the software.
  • Logging quality bugs.
  • Testing different kinds of Applications (Windows based Applications, Game Applications, Online applications, etc.) to check their compatibility with the Operating System (Pre-released).
  • Logging and updating bugs (Operating System bugs and Regression bugs) using Product Studio.
  • Installing Patches, General Distribution Releases (GDR) and hotfixes from the given release point.
  • Testing the installed applications based on the test cases.
  • Writing test cases for applications, focusing on the components of the OS, which needs to be prioritized.
  • Analyzing the Updates (Windows Updates/Knowledge Base’s (KB)) in every test pass, as to which component of the OS does that particular fix, which Dynamic Linked Library (DLL) it affects, and overall how the OS might be affected and so on.
  • Participating in package analysis sessions related to analysis and look up for loopholes in the fix given by the developer.
  • Presenting the analysis to the team for every test pass, thereby educating the team on different components of the OS, different DLL /processes that build up the OS.
  • Providing Test recommendations to the team as to which areas/components of the OS They need to focus while testing the applications.
  • Preparing Test Guidance documents with the analyzed content to be submitted to the client (Microsoft) for every test pass.
  • Worked on hotfixes, Private fixes being released from Microsoft and tested these packages to ensure that fix is proper and not leading to any regression.
  • Test Engineer for Microsoft

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

International Technological University
San Jose, CA
10.2015

Bachelor of Tech. - Biotechnology

Sathyabama University
Chennai, India
05.2011

Skills

  • End-to-end release process
  • Deployment workflows
  • Release velocity/reliability/management
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Test case development & execution
  • Test scenario design
  • Functional testing, Smoke testing, System testing, Regression testing, UAT testing
  • Production readiness
  • UNIX/Linux
  • SQL
  • Debugging
  • Log analysis
  • Data validation
  • Tools - Spinnaker, Teletraan, Jenkins, Git, Buildkite, Zephyr, Bugsnag, Metro, Statsboards charts, Kibana

Skills Expertise

  • Owned the end-to-end release process for Pinterest Web and API infrastructure, ensuring stable, predictable, and high-quality releases.
  • Streamlined and standardized deployment workflows to improve release velocity, reliability, and cross-team coordination.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD and release platforms, including Teletraan, Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Spinnaker, and Jenkins, with a strong focus on automation and release governance.
  • Acted as a key cross-functional partner with engineering, QA, and product teams to plan, execute, and validate releases.
  • Designed, developed, and executed test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios aligned with release milestones.
  • Extensive experience in Functional, Smoke, System, Regression, and UAT testing, ensuring production readiness.
  • Working knowledge of monitoring and troubleshooting using tools like Kibana during deployments and post-release validation.
  • Beginner-level experience with UNIX/Linux and SQL, used for debugging, log analysis, and data validation.

Timeline

Configuration/Release Engineer II

PINTEREST
01.2021 - Current

Release Specialist

PINTEREST
03.2019 - 12.2020

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

LINQIA
12.2015 - 02.2019

Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies
06.2011 - 05.2013

Bachelor of Tech. - Biotechnology

Sathyabama University

Master of Science - Software Engineering

International Technological University

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