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Sreenivasa Rao Yadlapalli

Atlanta

Summary

Accomplished professional with 18 years of experience in multi-cloud cost optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Demonstrates proficiency in financial governance and billing tools, alongside strong expertise in scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, and PySpark. Skilled in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and adept at developing data pipelines and dashboards with ADF, SQL, Tableau, and Power BI. Proven leadership and project management abilities enhance cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder engagement to drive innovation and value.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Devops Implementation/Automation Architect

T-Mobile USA
Atlanta
04.2013 - 05.2018
  • Company Overview: T-Mobile US, Inc., commonly shortened to T-Mobile, is a United States based wireless network operator whose majority shareholder is the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom
  • T-Mobile has started digital transformation (UI & Billing Transformation) 2013 and replacing complete Legacy systems
  • Advocate and Evangelize best practices such as pair Programing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavioral-driven development (BDD), Continues integration and Continues Delivery
  • Evaluate business user needs and determine the Automation Strategy, Prioritization of automation projects Scope based on ROI, quality engineering methodologies and techniques to improve and maintain standard operating procedures that reduce the time & Cost needed for production delivery
  • Evaluate existing Design and New design solutions in each business systems layers, identify design gaps, predict and measure outcome and consequences of design issues in Implementation, Execution and Production delivery phases by using systematic analysis and measured models
  • Selenium automation framework development/extension using Java bindings
  • Implement Behavioral-driven development (BDD), techniques and automate all phases quality engineering tasks using JBehave, Cucumber or similar tools
  • Design and Develop End to End Customer journeys UI automations scripts using selenium web driver and Java
  • Maintain and Own Administration of DevOps tools like Github, Bitbucket, Cloudbees Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus Pro, JIRA, Puppet etc
  • Implement Continuous Integration solutions and automation
  • Build and automate release pipelines and quality engineering delivery activities using Jenkins CI and scripting
  • Design, Develop and improve continues testing framework by using selenium, Maven and Jenkins
  • Assists in the creation of automated test cases and provides business abstractions of the UI and API interfaces to enable non-programmers to accomplish test automation
  • Design, Develop Jenkins Pipeline, Repository structure to build the application, test it and deploy the application to target server
  • Architect and design virtual services, frameworks and utilities to support Quality engineering operations across the enterprise
  • Automate Web Services, Restful api, Micro Services by using REST sharp, CA LISA, Postman, JSON and Python
  • Design, Develop API and Applications performance monitoring techniques using Splunk and AppDynamics
  • Research, understand diverse types of data patterns to develop statistical learning models for complex data analysis
  • Build and Use 'Data Science platform' to automate data analysis steps
  • Develop and Run informatica workflows in Data science platform to process data from different adapters to client master databases
  • Develop Scripts, Procedures and support functions to certify Data Quality in backend data bases
  • Design and develop fine tune smart Dashboards and Improve existing quality analytics by integrating tableau with Quality Center, Rally and Other Tools
  • Write Complex PL/SQL packages/Procedures, Design and Develop API 's to transform the data into Tableau
  • T-Mobile US, Inc., commonly shortened to T-Mobile, is a United States based wireless network operator whose majority shareholder is the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom
  • T-Mobile has started digital transformation (UI & Billing Transformation) 2013 and replacing complete Legacy systems
  • Environments/Systems: Angular JS/Task Applications, Amdocs Billing systems, Ericsson Billing systems, Apigee, Micro Services, SAP Care, sterling Order management systems, TIBCO, RESTful API’s, HP ALM 12.01, CA Rally
  • Java 8, J2EE, Springs 3.x Spring Security, Spring MVC, Micro services, WebSphere Application Server 8.5, Oracle 11g, Eclipse STS, Maven, Log4j, Tomcat, AWS, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling, Jenkins, Selinium, Selenium web driver, JUnit, TestNG, Wily Interscope, Docker, Ansible, Kubernets, Maven, JIRA, Cloud Foundry, VPC instances, IAM, Linux(RHEL7)

Sr Devops Engineer/ Test Automation

Lowe’s
North Carolina
04.2012 - 03.2013
  • Design, Build and Implement Order Capture, Order fulfillment, Inventory Management, Revenue Management, Systems to manage the Lowes retail Stores
  • Participate in the processes of strategic project-planning meetings
  • Attending daily project standup meetings and participating in all Agile ceremonies
  • Demonstrating the functionalities delivered in sprints
  • Participating in functional and technical grooming of user stories for upcoming sprints
  • Identify potential UI &API automation candidates and create automation approach & strategy
  • Support and Run Automation Scripts Execution and Share Test Results metrics with all Project Stake holders
  • Defect Management and Weekly QA Metrics review with Client’s
  • Build and Maintain Mobile App and Live Testing requirements using Perfecto
  • Developing automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver with Java under TestNG BDD framework using Cucumber and Gherkin
  • Maintain the source code under central repository (bit bucket) with the help of source version control tool (GIT)
  • Install and configure solutions, implement reusable components, translate technical requirements, assist with all stages of test data develop interface stubs and simulators and perform automation script maintenance and updates
  • Developing step definitions from Gherkin feature files
  • Implementing Page Object Model (POM) using Selenium WebDriver under TestNG framework
  • Following coding standards aligned with SonarLint and SonarQube
  • Performing peer reviews and doing review fixes to maintain the coding standards
  • Build both standalone and End to End API test automation scripts
  • Built and Maintaining continues testing framework to support both API and UI scripts execution and Reporting
  • Continue to enhance existing automation scripts by adding more test code intelligence validations for better defects coverage
  • Develop/script utilities which can mine data in existing databases to produce reports
  • Review weekly automation Progress metrics with Sr Leadership and all Project stake holders
  • Build and Maintain Test Automation Scripts Jobs using Configuration management and Deploy in Enterprise delivery pipeline
  • Environment: Sterling (COM, SOM & DOM), Siebel CRM, SOAP UI 3.5, TIBCO Active Matrix BusinessWorks (BW) 5.7.2, TIBCO BusinessEvents 3.0.1, TIBCO Designer 5.6.0, TIBCO Enterprise Message Service 5.1.2, TIBCO Hawk 4.8.1, TIBCO Rendezvous 8.1.2, TIBCO Runtime Agent 5.6.1, TIBCO CLE 2007, XML, Oracle SQL Developer 2.1.0, Oracle 11g, AS/400, UNIX, Web services, Windows XP, Bug tracker 3.0, WIN SCP 4.2.5, IBM DB2

Quality Engineering Automation Lead

Frontier Communications
08.2010 - 03.2012
  • Company Overview: Frontier is a local telephone service provided from Rochester, Frontier acquiring Verizon properties in 13 States
  • Capgemini had given a change to look over multiple modules in this IT Transformation from Verizon systems to Frontier systems across business modules including Retail and Wholesale
  • Frontier Data Conversion quality engineering is a project responsible for certifying all the system end to end using converted data
  • Understand several types of data patterns and model data quality procedures
  • Create and Review Data Modeling use cases, Test strategies with all project stake holders
  • Review customer data requirements and develop the quality engineering proof of concepts
  • Estimate the project based on the complexity, size and degree of structural uncertainty
  • Create Project Plan and estimate the required resources to deliver the projects
  • Research and develop statistical learning models for data analysis
  • Build and Use 'Data Science platform' to perform data analysis
  • Develop and Run informatica workflows in Data science platform to process data from different adapters to client master databases
  • Develop Scripts, Procedures and support functions to certify, Data Quality in all business system layers
  • Create and Review Data quality results dashboard and review with project stake holders
  • Implement new statistical or other mathematical methodologies as needed for specific data models
  • Execute Data quality check automated scripts by using DevOps operations tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Sauce labs, and share daily status reports with Project stakeholders
  • Join Defect management meetings to assign the priority and track them until closure
  • Join release planning meetings and finalize the production deployment package
  • Setup Post-Production Support checklist before production deployment
  • After Project completion, Create Exist Reports and review the same with Project stakeholders
  • Support weekly/Daily production deployments
  • Perform and report post deployment validations during the business off-hours maintenance windows
  • Frontier is a local telephone service provided from Rochester, Frontier acquiring Verizon properties in 13 States
  • Capgemini had given a change to look over multiple modules in this IT Transformation from Verizon systems to Frontier systems across business modules including Retail and Wholesale
  • Frontier Data Conversion quality engineering is a project responsible for certifying all the system end to end using converted data
  • Environment: AS400, ETL, HP Quality Center 10, Java 1.5, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, TOAD, AS/400, UNIX, MS-Access2003, Java Servlets, Jakarta Struts1.1, Tiles, Log4J, Eclipse3.1, Harvest, Web services, Windows XP, CARE billing system, C++, VC++, TELEGENCE billing system, TELEGENCE NBI, Maven 2.0.4, Sun solaria’s 5.8, Rational Clear quest 7.0.1, Citrix Meta Frame

Sr. Automation Engineer

FairPoint Communications
08.2007 - 08.2010
  • Company Overview: FairPoint Communications, Inc
  • Was headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and operated communication services in 31 markets in 17 states, mostly in rural areas
  • FairPoint services include local and long-distance phone service, data, Internet, broadband, television, business communications solutions and fiber services
  • FairPoint, along with Frontier Communications, has been at the forefront of acquiring Verizon landline operations in past years
  • Gathering requirements for UI, Web Services automation Scope for both Regression and Progression
  • Analyzing requirements by interacting with business analysts create the automation test strategy and Delivery Plan
  • Developing automation scripts in Selenium WebDriver with Java under TestNG BDD framework using Cucumber and Gherkin
  • Automate all Web services layers by using SOAP UI Pro and Groovy Scripting
  • Maintain the source code under central repository (bit bucket) with the help of source version control tool (GIT)
  • Developing step definitions from Gherkin feature files
  • Implementing Page Object Model (POM) using Selenium WebDriver under TestNG framework
  • Following coding standards aligned with SonarLint and SonarQube
  • Performing peer reviews and doing review fixes to maintain the coding standards
  • Built and Maintaining continues testing framework to support both API and UI scripts execution and Reporting
  • Continue to enhance existing automation scripts by adding more test code intelligence validations for better defects coverage
  • Develop/script utilities which can mine data in existing databases to produce reports
  • Review weekly automation Progress metrics with Sr Leadership and all Project stake holders
  • Build and Maintain Test Automation Scripts Jobs using Configuration management and Deploy in Enterprise delivery pipeline
  • Supporting Technical reviews, design review, code quality by maintaining Capgemini quality standard
  • Collaborative with Business requirements/product design and process development teams for faster to market approach
  • Develop and Run informatica workflows in Data science platform to process data from different adapters to client master databases
  • Develop Scripts, Procedures and support functions to certify Data Quality in all new business systems layers
  • Create and Review Data quality results dashboard and review with project stake holders
  • FairPoint Communications, Inc
  • Was headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and operated communication services in 31 markets in 17 states, mostly in rural areas
  • FairPoint services include local and long-distance phone service, data, Internet, broadband, television, business communications solutions and fiber services
  • FairPoint, along with Frontier Communications, has been at the forefront of acquiring Verizon landline operations in past years
  • Environment: Siebel, Oracle, Kenan Billing system,Java 1.4, HTML, XML, PL/SQL, Oracle 10g, PL /SQL, TOAD, AS/400, UNIX, Mercury Quality Center 9.0, MS-Access 2003, STAF 3.0, Windows XP, CARE Billing system, Eclipse 3.x, JSP, UML, XML, XSD, XML-Beans, Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, WSDL4J, HTTPS, SSL), Java, JSP, CSS, Struts, Tag-Lib, Log4j, Apache-open source, Axis3
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Mobile Test Automation Engineer

MOTOROLA
04.2004 - 08.2007
  • As a part of this Project, Motorola wants to automate all quality engineering related activities
  • Mobile Apps Automation and Execution
  • Tool Maintenance and Enhancement
  • Automate all mobile features delivery, Stress/Performance Engineering activates, Stability, Data and SMS and Other Network related activities
  • Analyze Market Requirement specifications, Technical design Documents
  • Work with Business, Design/Solution Team and make sure we do not have design issues or gaps
  • Evaluate Project Scope and Identify all potential automation candidates
  • Prioritize the automation Scope based on the Reusability, Business criticality, Project time lines and ROI
  • Use Appium and automate all type of mobile applications like Native, hybrid and Mobile web
  • Execute these automated tests on actual devices, emulators and Simulators
  • Virtualize the network and Perform load and stress test
  • Environment: JAL, RSS, Cp-Edit, x-Flash, Sync, iDat, iPTF, iRemote Plus, Unix, SOAP UI, Appium, Selenium, iDENM Network Setup environment, Selenium

Education

Masters of Business Administration - Marketing Management And Human Resource Management

Andhra University
India
04-2006

Skills

☁ Cloud Platforms & Cost Optimization
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS): Expertise in AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Trusted Advisor for cloud cost visibility and optimization
  • Microsoft Azure: Skilled in Azure Cost Management Billing and Azure Advisor for cost control and performance improvement
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Proficient in GCP Billing and Cost Insights to drive financial accountability and cloud spend efficiency
⚙ Automation, Scripting & Infrastructure as Code
  • Scripting & Programming: Hands-on experience with Python, Groovy, and PySpark for automation and data manipulation
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in Terraform for scalable infrastructure provisioning and environment consistency
🗃 Data Engineering & Analytics
  • Data Handling: Advanced SQL skills for querying and analyzing billing and usage data
  • ETL Development: Experience building and managing ETL pipelines using Azure Data Factory
  • Dashboarding & Monitoring: Skilled in developing interactive dashboards with Tableau and Power BI for data visualization and reporting
🧭 Strategic Planning & IT Governance
  • IT Strategy & Roadmapping: Ability to align technology initiatives with business objectives to drive innovation and operational efficiency
  • Budgeting & Cost Control: Proficient in managing CapEx and OpEx, cloud cost forecasting, and vendor cost optimization
  • Project Management: Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies; PMI or Prince2 certification considered an asset
  • Vendor Management & Procurement: Skilled in handling RFPs, negotiating SLAs, and managing vendor relationships and contracts
👥 Leadership & Collaboration
  • Team Leadership & Mentorship: Proven track record in leading high-performing teams, conducting performance reviews, and fostering skill development
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Experienced in working with Finance, HR, Security, DevOps, and other business units to deliver integrated solutions
  • Change Management: Successfully led rollouts of new technologies and upgrades with minimal business disruption
  • Conflict Resolution & Decision-Making: Strong interpersonal skills in resolving challenges and making data-driven decisions
📊 Business & Communication Skills
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Adept at translating technical insights into actionable strategies for executive and non-technical stakeholders
  • Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving: Expertise in root cause analysis and solution architecture to resolve complex issues
  • Business Acumen: Deep understanding of ROI, TCO, KPIs, and core business drivers impacting IT decisions

Timeline

Devops Implementation/Automation Architect

T-Mobile USA
04.2013 - 05.2018

Sr Devops Engineer/ Test Automation

Lowe’s
04.2012 - 03.2013

Quality Engineering Automation Lead

Frontier Communications
08.2010 - 03.2012

Sr. Automation Engineer

FairPoint Communications
08.2007 - 08.2010

Mobile Test Automation Engineer

MOTOROLA
04.2004 - 08.2007

Masters of Business Administration - Marketing Management And Human Resource Management

Andhra University

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