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Overview
Work History
Education
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Other Projects - 08/2025
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Sindhu Susarla

San Jose,United States

Summary

Senior SDET with 9 years of experience specializing in software testing and automation frameworks, driving Continuous Integration initiatives.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Test Engineer/Software Engineer

Tesla
Fremont, California
05.2025 - Current
  • Improved the automation framework by adding design patterns, like POM, which increased the reusability of code and increased automation test coverage from 50% to 85% using python and selenium.
  • Developed an AI-powered agent that leveraged application data to analyze user queries and deliver accurate, context-aware responses, enhancing user experience.
  • Built a Random Forest–based anomaly detection model to identify outliers in application data.
  • Ensured team implemented unit tests to achieve 80% code coverage to reduced code breakages by over 50%.
  • Introduced agile methodologies to streamline release cycles and improve efficiency.

Quality Engineer

Carmax
Sunnyvale, United States
07.2021 - 01.2024
  • Automated UI(salesforce) and REST API test cases using node.js(JavaScript), webdriver.io, mocha & setup daily regression runs that reduced manual effort by 70% and increased automation coverage from 25% to 80%.
  • Performed code reviews & suggested reusable utility functions, page-object-model design pattern that improved the performance of tests by 30%.

Software Test Engineer

SiriusXM
Dallas, United States
03.2019 - 04.2021
  • Automated REST API micro-services and UI flows(Salesforce) using Java, Rest Assured, Selenium, Test NG, Maven framework. Increased test coverage from 50% to 95%.
  • Performance testing of 7 different micro services using JMeter. Visualized and Analyzed performance in Kibana. Identified bottlenecks that on fixing reduced response time from 15 seconds to 0.8 seconds.

Education

MBA - Business Administration

SUNY Buffalo
Buffalo
05-2017

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Atria Institute of Technology
India
06-2012

Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX

Skills

  • Data Structures, Algorithms
  • Test automation - Selenium, Rest Assured,
  • Web-driver io, Mocha
  • Software quality assurance
  • Problem solving
  • Java,NodeJS,Python
  • AI/ML
  • Deep Learning
  • TensorFlow, PyTorch

Other Projects - 08/2025

Neural Networks model using TensorFlow/Keras , PyTorch

  • Built and tuned neural network classification model on 20,000+ sensor records (40 predictors) to predict wind turbine generator failures.
  • Optimized for high recall to minimize false negatives (costly replacements), reducing potential downtime and maintenance costs.

Timeline

Senior Test Engineer/Software Engineer

Tesla
05.2025 - Current

Quality Engineer

Carmax
07.2021 - 01.2024

Software Test Engineer

SiriusXM
03.2019 - 04.2021

MBA - Business Administration

SUNY Buffalo

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Atria Institute of Technology

Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

University of Texas At Austin