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Sailaja Pallakonda

Seattle,WA
Sailaja Pallakonda

Summary

Precise Quality Assurance Manager proficient in all QA operations, policies and procedures. Strong Management and leadership in building a high-performance QA teams by hiring, coaching and mentoring QA engineers & UAT team. Proficient in developing full automation & manual frameworks guaranteed to produce exceptional customer satisfaction levels, best practices, leadership strategies and employee motivation to improve productivity and job performance. Well-coordinated in addressing problems, investigating root causes and implementing successful resolutions. Experience at working in close association with Release management teams, Business, Development Teams, Third-party clients & vendors, Managing and interfacing between them.

Overview

15
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Amazon
Seattle, WA

QA Manager
06.2021 - 01.2023

Job overview

  • Managed & Lead Customer based experience cards developed in React JS, MIX & Fern.
  • Set QA standards and methodologies by establishing performance targets and guidelines.
  • Managed & delivered major projects - all of testing activities manual & automation for UI, Accessibility, Latency, Functional, Language of preference & currency of preference & Metrics for devices - iOS, Android, Fire & Mac 1 for all surfaces Mobile, Tablet, Desktop for all Market places.
  • Automated end to end UI, functional, API & Accessibility tests using Selenium & BDT, Postman.

Exxon Mobil, Abbvie, ANICO
The Woodlands, TX

Sr QA Manager
05.2019 - 05.2021

Job overview

  • ExxonMobile - Designed QA for major projects
    Financial Transformation Program integration of ERP systems between SAP & Oracle/SQL with timelines, budgets, scope of work plans, formed teams off shore & onsite across global.
  • Abbvie - Lead AbbVie Onecare web app, AbbVie &
    Allergen Data migration - Designed, Architected & implemented Tosca DI tests to validate ETL across AbbVie & Allergen Systems between SAP, Non SAP (Oracle, SQL) systems & Salesforce app.
    Organized and overseeing assignments, planning and coordinating in-house QAT, UAT, stakeholders (Chicago, TX, CA) and outsourced resources (Philippine, India, Singapore).
  • ANICO: As a Lead Consultant Designed, Architect & developed Mobile test automation for ANICO using Appium, Perfecto & Simulators for native web app on iOS & Android.

National Oilwell Varco, NOV
Houston, TX

Sr QA Manager
05.2014 - 04.2019

Job overview

  • Established, Scoped & assigned resources for Manual & Automation methodology, frameworks, tools - Selenium & Coded UI.
  • Collaborated with VP, Directors, Data engineers, warehouse managers for 6+ projects in providing resource, architecting & scoping end to end
    testing.
  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
  • Trained developers and quality assurance team in automation framework and processes - Selenium, Coded UI & UAT teams with TCs that are automated and added to UAT test plan. Reduced the bugs encountered in UAT to less than 3%.

Stewart Lender Serivices

QA Manager
03.2012 - 02.2014

Job overview

  • Developed quality standards, strategy for multiple new product launches by verifying customer requirements and implementing in design and production.
  • Create, Manage & Report quality issues to development & release teams, improved high level of customer expectations by providing high quality systems.

ABS Wavesight

QA Manager
08.2011 - 02.2012

Goldman Sachs

QA Automation Lead
03.2008 - 07.2011

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India

MBA from Finance & Computer Science
05.2004

Skills

  • Manual, Automation, Web Load & Performance, Data Integrity testing
  • Agile, Scrum & Kanban
  • Automation design, architect Object-oriented solutions, Page Object Model
  • Security Certifier - Security treat model, Architecture review, Code review, Pentest, Security test
  • Device testing - iOS, Android, Fir & Mac 1
    Accessibility, Language of preference, currency of preference, latency & Metrics & Market Places testing
  • Selenium, Tosca Commander, Tosca DI, QTest, BDT, Coded UI
  • C#, Angular, Type Script, Net, Entity framework

Certification

  • Security Certifier from Amazon
  • PMP from PM Mentors
  • Professional Scrum Developer from Improving
  • Enterprises Tosca Architect - Tricentis

Timeline

QA Manager

Amazon
06.2021 - 01.2023

Sr QA Manager

Exxon Mobil, Abbvie, ANICO
05.2019 - 05.2021

Sr QA Manager

National Oilwell Varco, NOV
05.2014 - 04.2019

QA Manager

Stewart Lender Serivices
03.2012 - 02.2014

QA Manager

ABS Wavesight
08.2011 - 02.2012

QA Automation Lead

Goldman Sachs
03.2008 - 07.2011

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

MBA from Finance & Computer Science
Sailaja Pallakonda