CHANDRASHEKAR LANKA
Cupertino,CA
Summary
Seasoned Manager in Software Development at PAYPAL, adept in JavaScript and leading cross-functional teams to innovate and enhance user engagement. Spearheaded projects that significantly increased annual revenue, demonstrating a keen ability to mentor and upscale engineering talent. Proven track record in automating and streamlining processes for efficiency and scalability.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, Software Development
PAYPAL
San Jose, CA
02.2017 - Current
- Manage and collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, helping to build, automate, test, and release software components.
- Spearheaded the development, testing, and release of key web-based and full-stack applications, resulting in generating good annual revenue for the company.
- Lead a team of around 14 engineers and oversaw the operations of 2-3 scrum teams in parallel.
- Collaborated with the Produce and Marketing teams to innovate customer-centric solutions, enhancing user engagement.
- Provide technical guidance to detect issues with software automation, and help improve the automation coverage.
- Provide estimates, scope, strategy, and resource allocation to help the team meet the deadlines and deliver software features on time.
- Mentor the team to upskill them with the latest trends in technology and software automation.
- Provide executive status updates on mission-critical software engineering projects.
- Maintain various PayPal quality standards, and software development metrics for assigned teams.
- Analyze, design, and deliver software development solutions that are appropriate for the business and technology strategies.
- Consult with senior management to recommend new software designs and project plans to be implemented.
- Build performance-efficient, highly scalable, configurable, and available software systems.
- Implement enterprise-level software system designs, and work with one or more development teams to realize product design and implementation.
- Creation of automation scripts and deploying them through continuous integration jobs.
- Responsible for preparing and maintaining release candidate builds for certification.
- Executing Jira stories for the weekly release cycle, I was involved in release grooming and sprint meetings.
- Guiding team members to prepare test scenarios, conditions, cases, and scripts.
- Stories, defect logging, and tracking using the Jira tool.
- Daily status reporting and maintenance of manual and automated regression runs to all the stakeholders.
Lead Engineer
Ness USA Inc.
San Jose, CA
10.2014 - 02.2017
- Involved as a QA lead for projects under the Onboarding Platform.
- Involved in the preparation and maintenance of the Nemo Cucumber BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) automation framework.
- Handling progressive onboarding and marketing publishing platform projects for both manual and automated testing using the Agile (Scrum) software development lifecycle.
- Creation of automation scripts and deploying them through continuous integration jobs.
- Understanding Marketing, Business Requirement Specifications.
- Involved in different testing behaviors, such as A2B testing, cookie tracking, localization testing, meta tag testing, and analytics.
- Testing multiple iOS and Android devices (iPhone, iPad, Nexus).
- Executing Jira stories for the weekly release cycle.
- Also involved in release grooming and sprint meetings.
- Guiding team members to prepare test scenarios, conditions, cases, and scripts.
- Stories, defect logging, and tracking using the Jira tool.
- Daily status reporting and maintenance of manual and automated regression runs to all the stakeholders.
- Team coordination of testing activities with other testing vertical teams.
Lead Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
San Jose, CA
08.2013 - 10.2014
- Involved as the QA Lead for projects under the Marketing Publishing Platform (MPP).
- Hands-on working in the Agile (Scrum) software development lifecycle.
- Creation of automation scripts and deploying them through continuous integration jobs.
- Understanding Marketing, Business Requirement Specifications.
- Executing Jira stories for the weekly release cycle.
- Also involved in release grooming and sprint meetings.
- Guiding team members to prepare test scenarios, conditions, cases, and scripts.
- Stories, defect logging, and tracking using the Jira tool.
- Daily status reporting and maintenance of manual and automated regression runs to all the stakeholders.
- Team management and coordination of testing activities with other testing vertical teams.
Automation Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Menlo Park, CA
03.2010 - 07.2013
- Automation activities involved in new script creation and maintenance of the entire regression suite built on the Ruby Selenium framework.
- API REST Client Automation using the Java WebDriver TestNG framework.
- Understanding Business Requirement Specifications.
- Writing test cases according to the business requirement specification.
- Executing the test cases, and also guiding team members to prepare test scenarios, conditions, cases, and scripts.
- Defect logging and tracking in Quality Center.
- Daily status reporting and maintenance of automated regression runs to all the stakeholders.
- Team management and coordination of testing activities.
- Identifying test cases for automation.
- Actively participated in KT Sessions
- Involved in reviewing Daily and weekly status reports
- Involved in Metrics collection
- Innovatively on the lookout for implementing new technologies and libraries for the smooth progress of the project.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the financial brokerage domain.
- Ability to build useful tools to aid in productivity of the team
- Ability to handle offshore team them as and when required
- Involved in Quality Center Admin Activities
TEST Engineer II
Zyme Solutions Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, India
04.2006 - 03.2010
- Channel Visibility (Cvis) Application - Involved in TEST PLAN based on Requirements doc
- Cvis - RULE Framework
- Cvis -DTC is acronym for Dynamic Template creation
- Liferay Portal - Partner Portal provides a virtual space where you can centralize, share and collaborate
- Following services like Account Management, Service Management, User Management etc are deployed as Portlets in the portal application
- Load Testing of Portal application using web load - Based on the parameters such as Total Hits, Total Throughput, Avg
- Response time etc, we were able to conclude on the point at which the performance of this system was coming down
- Extensively involved in Designing Test cases and executing test cases
- Integration testing, System testing, Regression testing
- Successfully Automated Master & channel data loading using Selenium & ruby
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Instrumentation Technology
Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology
BangaloreSkills
- JavaScript
- Nodejs
- Java
- Ruby
- Bash
- React
- Jboss
- Tomcat
- Apache
- LAMPP/XAMPP
- HTML & XML
- GitHub
- Jenkins(Fusion)
- SQL
- WebDriver
- Cypress
- Playwright
- Saucelabs
- CVS
- SVN
Training
- Certified Internal Auditor in ISO 27001, Zyme Solutions, 2007 - 2009
- Agile Workshop, IT-Grids
- TTCN-3 Asia Conference & workshop
Awards
- PayPal Bravo/Spot awards (2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master) Certification
- Cognizant Quarterly Spot Awards (2011, 2012)
- Excellence Award, Zyme Solutions Pvt Ltd (2006, 2009)
Timeline
Manager, Software Development
PAYPAL
02.2017 - Current
Lead Engineer
Ness USA Inc.
10.2014 - 02.2017
Lead Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
08.2013 - 10.2014
Automation Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
03.2010 - 07.2013
TEST Engineer II
Zyme Solutions Pvt Ltd
04.2006 - 03.2010
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) - Instrumentation Technology
Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology