Hi, I’m
KUMAR GORLA
Hyderabad,Telangana
Summary
With over 9.5 years of software testing experience in various domains, including client-server, web-based applications, and mobile, I have developed expertise in Java, C#, Selenium WebDriver Automated Testing for Web Apps, and functional testing. I am skilled in both manual and automated testing tools, with proficiency in POM, BDD Cucumber Framework (UI and API), and Data Driven framework. Additionally, I am experienced in AGILE methodologies such as SCRUM and have hands-on knowledge of test management tools like JIRA, TFS, and Rally. Through my extensive domain knowledge in banking, life insurance, airlines, and financial services, I bring valuable contributions to any testing project.
Overview
10
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
HCL TechnologiesHyderabad, Telanaga
Senior Consultant
08.2021 - Current
Job overview
- Developed and executed comprehensive testing strategies for Pay To and Apply flow optimization.
- Investigated and leveraged Kafka Automation framework to successfully automate key test cases for Kafka Topic as a first-ever automation for Payments Tribe.
- Fully automated DNA and API functionality, and consistently executed DNA/API Automation scripts for each vNext release through test release pipelines.
- Played pivotal testing role in Pay To Phase 1 and 2 deployment, conducting thorough dyn-dm, dyn-rc, solo offline, and online testing, guaranteeing high-quality delivery.
- I identified and reported a significant majority of defects in DYN-DM and DYN-RC during Phase 1 & 2 release.
- Functioned as the testing lead and key point of contact, driving team efficiency and delivering high-quality test results during Pay To and Apply Flow Optimization.
- Collaborated with DevOps to create DNA, API, and TRIX Test Release Pipelines for Payments and Daily Banking Tribes, ensuring successful execution.
- Authored and curated a definitive, tribe-agnostic 'Daily Banking Testers Tools/How-to Articles' knowledge base, featuring essential tools, articles, and child pages for dev testers' everyday use.
- Designed and prepared complex test data sets using SQL queries for more than 90% of the stories on board, enabling efficient story testing.
- Facilitated automation framework implementation, enhancing testing efficiency across teams for New Dev Testers.
- Initiated and led brainstorming sessions with the testing team, promoting peer-to-peer knowledge transfer and skill development.
- Participated in ING's Global Hackathon, showcasing innovative problem-solving skills and collaborative spirit.
- Delivered Apply Flow Optimization to production, implementing 3 critical features that improved application workflow and conversion rates.
EPAM Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Software Test Automation Engineer – QA
08.2019 - 07.2021
Job overview
- Understanding, implementing, and updating the Agile Test Strategy
- Work with Product Owners/Business Analysts to define Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done
- Managing Test Environments and Test Data Preparation
- Participating proactively in daily standup meetings, story grooming sessions, team retrospectives, suggesting and implementing improvements
- Validating the System against the Business Requirements
- Writing and executing automated test cases in sprint and reporting back to the team if any bugs arise
- Participating in code review for Automation Suite
- Executing Daily Nightly Regression Suite
- Based on the result report assigning to Dev Team if any Defect comes or fixing those Regression Failures test cases
- Participating in Integration Demo and System Demo with the clients on iteration basis
- Participating in Release Activities
- Contribute to test automation scripting standards and best practices.
Value Labs Private Limited
Senior Software Engineer – QA
02.2018 - 07.2019
Job overview
- Understanding the business requirement specifications, analyzing, Reviewing and assessing requirements and design specifications
- Develop, Implement, and maintain quality and test procedures, processes and best practices for QA
- Write automation scripts and participate in peer reviews
- Develop a repeatable process for designing, developing, and executing scripts
- Conduct tests, document and analyze test results and present findings to development teams
- Communicates with the Business Analyst/Onsite Team on any issue clarification
- Contribute to test automation scripting standards and best practices.
HCL Technologies
Software Engineer
03.2015 - 01.2018
Job overview
- Understanding the business requirement specifications, analyzing, reviewing and assessing requirements and design specifications
- Involved in or even be the primary people identifying test conditions and creating test designs, test cases, test procedure specifications and test data
- Communicates with the Business Analyst/Onsite Team on any issue clarification
- Involved in System and Functional testing and retesting the cases for Web Application and Mobile Application
- Involved in Executing the Test Cases and Defect Reporting, Defect Tracking
- Experience in handling the keyboard iterations, desktop interactions using Actions and Robot class respectively
- Generating Test Cases using TestNG XML, Parallel execution, Data Driven Testing, Cross Browser Testing
- Good Knowledge in Java Programming to implement advanced topics in Selenium Automation
- Delivered detailed artifacts such as bug reports and status reports
- Automating Test Cases for Staging and Production (Test Scripts) using Selenium Web driver for Daily Regression Run
- Enhancing Test cases using Java programming, Debugging Test Cases and Fixing errors
- Grouping Test cases, Prioritizing Test Cases, creating dependency of Test Cases, Executing Test Batches and generating Customizable Report using TestNG
- Implemented script runtime/Page load time to monitor performance related issues
- Daily Executing/Running Automation Scripts and Report Generation and sharing it across Health Area Globally
- Running the Automated Production Validation Scripts on Daily Night, using Jenkins server to make sure that System is Stable
- Raised Major Incident through the scripts developed when executing APV (Automated Production Validation) scripts.
Education
JBIETHyderabad
Bachelor of Science from EEE
Skills
- Manual Testing
- Functional & Automation Testing of Web Applications
- API and Kafka Automation
- Selenium WebDriver
- Core Java, C#
- SQL
- Postman
- Azure Cloud
Accomplishments
- Earned Live-Wire award for excellence in Automation activities.
- Got Appreciation from Client for implementing new concepts at Automation end.
- Pat on Back award for Sprint Hero
- Great Demo award for my contribution on Content Metrics feature on Mastercard GDPR project
Certification
Azure Fundamentals - AZ 900
Azure AI Fundamentals - AI 900
Languages
Eng
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Telugu
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Senior Consultant
HCL Technologies
08.2021 - Current
Software Test Automation Engineer – QA
EPAM Systems Pvt. Ltd.
08.2019 - 07.2021
Senior Software Engineer – QA
Value Labs Private Limited
02.2018 - 07.2019
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
03.2015 - 01.2018
JBIET
Bachelor of Science from EEE
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