VENKATESWARA RAO THAVVA
Frisco,TX
Summary
Accurate SDET Engineer skilled at designing rapid and impactful diagnostic and testing frameworks. Dogged tracker of bugs, defects and performance bottlenecks. Develops rigorous validation frameworks producing exceptional final products.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Expert( Principle SDET)
SAP Ariba
05.2017 - Current
- Built several automation frameworks for UI and API tests in using Java, C#, and TypeScript/JavaScript/Python.
- Played a key role in designing an automation approach for a project with multiple teams spread across different regions.
- Architect for reviewing and finalizing automation strategy for new projects.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and ADO for both automation and development pipelines.
- Developed custom script to migrate Protractor scripts to custom DSL automation framework with tool-independent syntax.
- Developed Intellij plug-in to convert the scripts dynamically to avoid manual work.
- Developed k8s grid to scale logic based on session availability to accommodate new automation jobs.
- Developed several UI applications to consolidate development and production environment details.
- Developed custom scripts in Groovy to orchestrate the deployment 50+ microservices.
- Participated in Agile development processes to support continual improvements in overall delivery efforts.
Senior QA Engineer
Heat software Inc
04.2016 - 05.2017
- Lead QA team of 20 engineers and automation efforts for ISM product
- Developed new automation framework from scratch using C#, NUnit, VS teams and Jenkins
- Worked closely with developers to come up with a design for assigning unique Ids for dynamic elements
- Implemented CI/CD pipeline for ISM project
- Involved in testing and automation of new features
- Train the team on new automation framework and review the code.
Principal Quality Assurance Engineer
CA Technologies
01.2011 - 03.2016
- Developed automation framework in Java, TestNG, maven and Jenkins
- Design and developed infrastructure that spun multiple VMs and run tests in parallel on each VM and collect reports
- Developed the deployment scripts to provision the builds on CA cloud called AppLogic
- Develop scripts to clean and populate test data
- Train and led a team of 14 contractors to get 2000 TCs automated
- Developed REST API automation framework and using it team automated 3000K API scripts.
Lead (QA)
SumTotal Systems
12.2004 - 11.2010
- Initially started a career as a manual tester and was responsible writing and executing test cases for multiple customers on SumTotal product custom implementations
- Started career in automation using C# and Selenium RC
- Involved in developing automation framework with team of four
- Work closely with development team to develop initial product schema creation during the install
Education
Post-Graduation - Master of Computer Applications
Sri Venkateswara University
Andhrapradesh, India06.2003
Graduation - B. Sc
Sri Krishna Devaraya University
Andhrapradesh, India06.1999
Skills
- Built several automation frameworks for UI and API tests using different languages like Java, C#, TypeScript/JavaScript/Python, TestNG, Cypress, and Playwright tools for several individual projects
- Expertise in DevOps tools like ADO, Hashicorp, and docker
- Played key role in designing automation approach for projects with multiple teams spread across different regions
- Architect for reviewing and finalizing automation strategy for new projects
- Designed CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and ADO for both automation and development pipelines
- Developed custom script to migrate Protractor scripts to custom DSL automation framework with tool-independent syntax
- Developed Intellij plug-in to convert scripts dynamically to avoid manual work
- Developed k8s grid to scale logic based on session availability to accommodate new automation jobs
- Developed several UI applications to consolidate development and production environment details
- Developed custom scripts in Groovy to orchestrate thedeployment of 50 microservices
Timeline
Quality Expert( Principle SDET)
SAP Ariba
05.2017 - Current
Senior QA Engineer
Heat software Inc
04.2016 - 05.2017
Principal Quality Assurance Engineer
CA Technologies
01.2011 - 03.2016
Lead (QA)
SumTotal Systems
12.2004 - 11.2010
Post-Graduation - Master of Computer Applications
Sri Venkateswara University
Graduation - B. Sc
Sri Krishna Devaraya University
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