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Spandana Pasham

Ashburn,VA

Summary

Having accumulated over 15 years of experience in the technology industry, I have dedicated the past decade to refining my abilities as a developer, mentor, and test automation engineer. My proficiency lies in front-end development utilizing React/Redux and back-end development employing GraphQL. I am also highly knowledgeable in testing frameworks like Jest, Selenium, CodeceptJs, and playwright. Furthermore, I possess practical expertise in event-driven architecture within AWS ecosystems.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer 3

Asurion
07.2021 - Current
  • Consistently met project deadlines by effectively managing time and prioritizing tasks according to importance.
  • Analyzed proposed technical solutions based on customer requirements.
  • Developed scalable and maintainable code, ensuring long-term stability of the software.
  • Collaborated with management, internal and development partners regarding software application design status and project progress.
  • Conducted thorough code reviews to identify potential areas for improvement, ultimately enhancing code quality across all projects handled by the team.
  • Delivered unit-tested systems within customer-prescribed timeframes.
  • Designed robust testing frameworks to validate functionality and ensure a high level of quality assurance.
  • Participated in agile development processes, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
  • Enhanced user experience by designing intuitive interfaces and incorporating user feedback into continuous improvements.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.

Senior QA Analyst

Asurion
08.2016 - 07.2021
  • Company Overview: Horizon is redesigning the existing legacy icare.com used for mobile devices claims
  • It has multiple teams which handle operations like client configuration, DAL Services, Account management, IVR, claims etc
  • These applications are used by customers, Customer representatives and Business Owners
  • Work closely with business owners on understanding the requirements
  • Designed automation framework using Cucumber and Selenium
  • Automated and maintaining the regression and end to end scripts
  • Creating Jenkins jobs and scheduling them to run on daily basis
  • Expand the test scenarios for automation
  • Working in Agile a team
  • Participating in Sprint planning and Elaboration meetings
  • Working on Sprint stories as planned and reporting blockers or issues on daily basis
  • Running a bug triage meetings weekly or as needed
  • Creating a test plan and discussing it with the team members
  • Guiding other QA members in the team and getting the work done
  • Giving demo to the business owners after each iteration
  • Giving status updates to the higher management
  • Performing complete end to end testing before release and end of Sprint
  • Validating production issues
  • Documenting test results in confluence
  • Using Jira for Sprint planning
  • Using Tortoise svn and bit bucket for storing the test artifacts
  • Oracle SQL developer for Database validations
  • Horizon is redesigning the existing legacy icare.com used for mobile devices claims
  • It has multiple teams which handle operations like client configuration, DAL Services, Account management, IVR, claims etc
  • These applications are used by customers, Customer representatives and Business Owners

Senior Software Test Engineer

College Board
08.2014 - 03.2016
  • Played a QA lead role where I was responsible to perform complete end to end testing
  • Coordinating with multiple teams within the organization
  • Worked in Agile development Team
  • Gathered and reviewed the Requirements with the Product Team
  • Prepared Test Plan and Test Strategy documents and reviewed them with the team
  • Performed both manual and automation testing
  • Documented Test Cases by referring the Wireframes
  • Executed Test Cases and performed Functional and Regression Testing
  • Documented the test results
  • Performed User Acceptance Testing
  • Performed Browser Matrix testing against different browsers and Operating Systems
  • Automated the manual test cases using Selenium Web Driver
  • Automated Test Cases using Java and TestNG Framework
  • Logged the defects identified from different Test Cycles in JIRA
  • Conducted weekly Bug Triage meeting
  • Performed Validation in QA/Stage environments during the Production release
  • Performed Validation in the Production environment
  • Executed Automated Regression Suite script in timely manner
  • Performed Content Testing against the vignette content management System
  • Performed Data base testing by executing SQL Queries
  • Used Tortoise svn to store the Test Artifacts

Quality Assurance Engineer II

comScore, Inc
10.2012 - 08.2014


  • Constant communication with developers in explaining the issues raised and understanding the product functionality
  • Created test cases using HTML, JavaScript and VAST.xml
  • Executed Test Cases and performed Functional and Regression Testing
  • Documented the detail test results and saved the test logs from each build
  • Performed User Acceptance Testing
  • Performed Browser Matrix testing against different browsers and Operating Systems
  • Automated the manual test cases using Selenium web driver
  • Wrote Verification code in java to verify the measurements collected
  • Created sql database to store the measurements collected and executed sql commands to retrieve the data
  • Logged the defects identified from different Test Cycles in JIRA
  • Documented test procedure and steps to run the automation scripts in wiki
  • Performed Mobile apps testing on IPhone, I pad and Android devices
  • Executed Automated Test case Suite using ant script in timely manner
  • Used Tortoise svn to store the Test Artifacts

Software Test Engineer

College Board
06.2010 - 09.2012


  • Gathered and reviewed the Requirements with the Product Team
  • Prepared Test Plan and Test Strategy documents and reviewed them with the team
  • Performed both manual and automation testing
  • Documented Test Cases by referring the Wireframes
  • Executed Test Cases and performed Functional, User Acceptance Testing and Regression Testing
  • Performed Browser Matrix testing against different browsers and Operating Systems
  • Performed Accessibility Testing using JAWS and Fire Eyes
  • Automated Test Cases using Selenium, Java and TestNG Framework
  • Attended weekly Bug Triage meeting
  • Performed Validation in QA/Stage environments during the Production release
  • Executed Automated Regression Suite using ant script in timely manner
  • Performed Content Testing against the vignette content management System
  • Performed Data base testing by executing SQL Queries

Team Lead Quality Engineer

DataGuardz Inc
10.2008 - 05.2010
  • Company Overview: Client: Kroger, O
  • Used SOAPUI for Testing Web Services Functionality
  • Created positive and negative Test Cases in ITKO LISA

Junior Software Engineer

Caliber Technologies, India
02.2007 - 01.2008
  • Designed and developed the user-interface and web-interface for major modules of the project using ASP.NET
  • Developing test cases and performed unit testing

Education

B.TECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE and ENGINEERING

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
05.2006

Skills

  • Javascript
  • SQL
  • React/Redux
  • GQL
  • GIT
  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • Codecept
  • JIRA
  • Kibana

Certification

MCTS, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, 09/01/09

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

Software Engineer 3

Asurion
07.2021 - Current

Senior QA Analyst

Asurion
08.2016 - 07.2021

Senior Software Test Engineer

College Board
08.2014 - 03.2016

Quality Assurance Engineer II

comScore, Inc
10.2012 - 08.2014

Software Test Engineer

College Board
06.2010 - 09.2012

Team Lead Quality Engineer

DataGuardz Inc
10.2008 - 05.2010

Junior Software Engineer

Caliber Technologies, India
02.2007 - 01.2008

B.TECH - COMPUTER SCIENCE and ENGINEERING

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Spandana Pasham