Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Websites
Cloudtechnologies
Cloudservices
Infrastructureascode
Cicd
Monitoringtools
Containerizationorchestration
Versioncontrolsystem
Databases
Agilemethodologies
Talentmanagement
Qualityfirstattitude
Projectexperience
Internationalexperience
Collaboration
Testautomationframework
Industryexperience
Timeline
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Saikumar Jalda

San Jose,CA

Summary

Highly skilled QA Automation Engineer with experience in designing and implementing automated testing systems. Strengths include developing custom test automation frameworks, executing quality assurance tests, and identifying system malfunctions to improve product quality. Notable impact includes successful detection and resolution of numerous software bugs, ensuring optimal performance and user satisfaction.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Automation Engineer

Synopsys
01.2022 - Current
  • Automation Tester using BDD Framework using Selenium and Java (Unified Test Framework for UI and API) and running automation scripts using Azure Dev Ops Pipeline.

Member of Technical Staff 4

NetApp
01.2019 - 01.2022
  • Worked on the BDD Cucumber Framework using Selenium and Java for UI and automated the API Services for the AWS services using AWS boto3 and exposed the Api’s to the customers
  • Running the automated scripts using Jenkins pipelines
  • UI validation against MongoDB.

Test Specialist

UST Global
01.2017 - 01.2019
  • Developed a Data Driven Framework using Selenium and Cucumber
  • Automated 90% of tests using Selenium and functional testing.

Senior Quality Analyst

Thomson Reuters
01.2012 - 01.2017
  • Developed data driven framework using Selenium and C#, running the automation suits using Jenkin Pipeline
  • Analyzing the failure analysis and reporting the issues
  • Validation of API’s using Swagger UI

Software Test Engineer

SmartNet IT Solutions
01.2010 - 01.2012
  • Automation of Testing using Selenium and C#, running the automation suits using Jenkin Pipeline
  • Analyzing the failure analysis and reporting the issues.

Software Engineer

INDAX Internet Services Pvt Ltd
01.2008 - 01.2010
  • Dot Net and Php Developer in developing ecommerce applications.

Education

Master of Computer Application -

Osmania University
India
01.2007

Bachelor of Computer Application -

Osmania University
India
01.2004

Skills

  • QA Automation Engineer
  • Selenium
  • Java
  • C#
  • API automation
  • Dev Ops
  • Cloud Platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)
  • UI and API functional testing
  • Postman
  • Unified Test Automation Framework
  • Cucumber
  • BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Framework
  • Cloud Technologies and Platforms
  • Azure Dev Ops
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • CloudFormation
  • Continuous Integration / Deployment (CI/CD)
  • Jenkins
  • Monitoring tools (Kibana, Elasticsearch)
  • Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Software Version Control System (Git, SVN)
  • Programming languages (Java, C#, Python, PowerShell, Selenium, QTP, VB Script, Bash Shell Scripting, JavaScript, HTML, CSS)
  • Databases (MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)
  • Zephyr Test Management tool
  • QTest
  • Quality Center
  • JMeter
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Scrum
  • Project Planning, Design, Execution, and Management
  • International engineering/business experience
  • Collaboration with Product and Business teams

Cloudtechnologies

Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Cloudservices

EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, AWS Code Deploy, Cloud Formation Template

Infrastructureascode

Terraform, Ansible, Chef and CloudFormation

Cicd

Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops

Monitoringtools

Kibana and Elasticsearch

Containerizationorchestration

Docker and Kubernetes

Versioncontrolsystem

Git, SVN

Databases

MongoDB, Cosmos DB, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL

Agilemethodologies

Scrum and Agile practices

Talentmanagement

Ability to attract, retain and motivate top engineering talent.

Qualityfirstattitude

Quality first attitude, using running the daily automation scripts to improve product quality.

Projectexperience

Proven ability to deliver complex projects on schedule with a good quality.

Internationalexperience

International engineering/business experience (India, China and Israel).

Collaboration

Worked closely with Product and Business teams.

Testautomationframework

Unified Test Automation Framework using Cucumber with BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Framework for UI and REST AP’s.

Industryexperience

QA Automation Engineer using Selenium with Java/C# and API automation, Dev Ops, and Cloud Platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP and UI and API functional testing using Postman.

Timeline

QA Automation Engineer

Synopsys
01.2022 - Current

Member of Technical Staff 4

NetApp
01.2019 - 01.2022

Test Specialist

UST Global
01.2017 - 01.2019

Senior Quality Analyst

Thomson Reuters
01.2012 - 01.2017

Software Test Engineer

SmartNet IT Solutions
01.2010 - 01.2012

Software Engineer

INDAX Internet Services Pvt Ltd
01.2008 - 01.2010

Master of Computer Application -

Osmania University

Bachelor of Computer Application -

Osmania University
Saikumar Jalda