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Ankita Agarwal

Software Development Engineer in Test
Bangalore,Karnataka

Summary

Results-driven Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with over 15 years of experience in architecting and implementing robust test automation solutions for backend systems. Adept at integrating quality practices into CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native environments. Known for driving test strategy, improving coverage and reliability, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Walmart GTS India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2022 - Current
  • Architected a modular Cucumber + TestNG test automation framework in Java supporting API, Cassandra, and Kafka validations with CI/CD integration using Jenkins.
  • Worked with GitHub copilot for code optimizations and Walmart Test genie for test data creation.
  • Conducted performance benchmarking using JMeter based tool for US Holiday readiness.
  • Introduced and observed metrics dashboards on Kibana, Grafana, Splunk, Open Observe.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create test strategies for infrastructural migration of applications, implementation of multi-tenancy on existing backend services, Airflow DAG based Hive and Cassandra data pipelines, rate throttling, retry and caching mechanisms for failover from Braze and Experian.

Software Development Engineer in Test

Populus Group
San Diego, California
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Created automated test suites for REST APIs for backend applications of CRM Marketing in Walmart using Java, TestNG, REST Assured, JDBC, DataStax and Apache Kafka.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create test strategies for Omni-channel UI experience on web and mobile for marketing campaigns.

Software Development Engineer

Royal Philips
San Diego, California
07.2020 - 01.2021
  • Migrated application for AT&T Sim activations to Spring Boot integrating REST and SOAP webservices, RabbitMQ messaging and MySQL DB for integration with Philips HSDP Cloud platform.

Senior Engineer

Qualcomm Life Inc.
San Diego, California
05.2017 - 07.2020
  • Led backend automation efforts for healthcare data pipelines using Java, TestNG, JDBC and Jenkins.
  • Developed performance test suites using JMeter for burst and baseline evaluation saving $5M per fiscal quarter in AWS infrastructure cost optimizations.
  • Led QA offshore team in Philippines for AWS hosted spring boot apps of UHC Motion Streamlines.
  • Hosted Release readiness reviews with cross-functional teams and presented test execution reports.
  • Created test strategies to validate cloud migration efforts to AWS Ops Works, for validation of OAuth processes, AES Data encryption, Redis-based caching, Disaster recovery mechanisms and Certificate renewals.
  • Participated in HIPAA compliance testing and audit documentation.

Senior Engineer

Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2013 - 05.2017
  • Validated system integration plans for 25 medical devices with 2net Hub android device enabling an increase of $30M in revenues.
  • Conducted weekly defect triages, worked with developers to debug defects and test fixes.
  • Supported release cycles with smoke and sanity testing using ADB and Blue cove BTLE simulator.
  • Collaborated with DevOps on OQ for prod deployment of distributed backend services on vCenter Hyperic.

Senior Test Engineer -SDET

Mindtree Ltd.
Pune, Maharashtra
02.2013 - 07.2013
  • Automated end-to-end test cases of Symantec Data Loss Prevention for Endpoint.

Technical Associate

Tech Mahindra Ltd.
Pune, Maharashtra
02.2010 - 02.2013
  • Designed test automation framework for web services of 6 British telecom projects using Selenium.
  • Mentored and led a team of 4 for test automation of regression testing efforts.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2009

Skills

Test Automation

Performance Testing

Quality Assurance

Spring Boot application development

Certification

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level, 2015

Locations

  • India

Work Availability

monday
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Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Work Location

On-SiteHybrid

Important To Me

Company Culture

Software

Java, TestNG, Cucumber, REST Assured, Selenium, Jira, Git, Maven, Jenkins

Postman, SOAP UI, MSSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, ADB (Android Debug Bridge)

JMeter

Python, Hive, GCP Data proc, GCP Storage

Spring Boot Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS

Kibana, Grafana, Splunk, Open Observe, Tableau

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer - Walmart GTS India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2022 - Current
Software Development Engineer in Test - Populus Group
01.2021 - 04.2022
Software Development Engineer - Royal Philips
07.2020 - 01.2021
Senior Engineer - Qualcomm Life Inc.
05.2017 - 07.2020
Senior Engineer - Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd
07.2013 - 05.2017
Senior Test Engineer -SDET - Mindtree Ltd.
02.2013 - 07.2013
Technical Associate - Tech Mahindra Ltd.
02.2010 - 02.2013
Visvesvaraya Technological University - Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science
Ankita AgarwalSoftware Development Engineer in Test