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
2025.05 - 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
2021.07 - 2024.01
- 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
2019.03 - 2021.04
- 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
Buffalo2017-05
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Atria Institute of Technology
India2012-06
Post Graduate Program - Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TXSkills
- 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
2025.05 - Current
Quality Engineer
Carmax
2021.07 - 2024.01
Software Test Engineer
SiriusXM
2019.03 - 2021.04
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