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NAGA GUDAPATI

Sidcup,London

Summary

  • Software Testing hands on experience in all phases of Software Development and Testing Life Cycles, with emphasis on Functional, Non-Functional, Technical, Manual and Automation Testing. Professional Summary:
  • Over 9+ years of manual and automation software testing experience and 3+ years of development experience with Onshore/Offshore coordination and Quality Assurance with market leaders.
  • Firm knowledge of all phases of Software Testing and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including Agile Methodology and Waterfall.
  • Experienced in creating Selenium automation frameworks like Data-driven, Hybrid and POM using Selenium WebDriver, JAVA, C#, JavaScript, Typescript.
  • Working experience on Junit, NUnit, TestNG framework, Maven and Ant for Project building tool, and managing Regression Runs using Jenkins CI/CD deployment methods.
  • Experience in API testing using both SOAP and REST services using SOAP UI, Postman and Tested both XML and JSON formats.
  • Experience in database concepts and Backend Testing using SQL queries in ORACLE for backend data validations.
  • Investigation and logging of bugs on TEST DIRECTOR and JIRA ensure bugs are fixed and fully retested
  • Experience of designing acceptance test criteria for user stories and development tasks.
  • Executed automation scripts on different browsers/environments & reported defects/results to the team.
  • Analysed BRD, FRD documents and designed appropriate Test Plans, defining Test Cases, developing and maintaining Test scripts, analysing the results of scripts, interaction with developers in fixing the errors.
  • Good Problem Solving and analytical skills in support with ability to show the improvements in Manual Testing Process
  • Passionate about Devops activities and have experience in CI/CD Jenkins Deployments, Creating Pipelines for the automation Project.
  • Implemented Sanity and smoke tests across Azure and AWS cloud environments, enhancing testing efficiency and reducing deployment cycle times during production releases.
  • Good academic record, document writing skills with strong communication and comfortable working directly with senior business staff
  • Good experience in financial, ecommerce, travel, telecom domains and real time streaming data applications
  • Experience in performing UAT, Exploratory, Integration, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and Browser Compatibility Testing.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work history

QA Automation Analyst

BizNuvo Inc
, US
11.2021 - 08.2025
  • Led testing of key BizNuvo modules, including Payload transformations and complex business rule flows.
  • Developed and maintained automation scripts using C# and Selenium, reducing manual testing cycles.
  • Collaborated on cloud-ready solutions hosted on Azure, performing comprehensive deployment testing.
  • Created CI pipelines in Jenkins, decreasing integration issues by 30%.
  • Tested complex ETL workflows to ensure robust data transformation and load processes.
  • Scheduled and monitored daily regression tests, delivering reports to management and teams.
  • Managed QA and release processes in collaboration with technical teams, ensuring backlog completion.
  • Maintained Jira reports for tracking bugs identified during daily regression runs.
  • Participated actively in all scrum meetings contributing significantly to team's overall performance.

Automation Test Analyst

IRIS Software
London
11.2016 - 09.2021
  • Company Overview: IRIS Software launches UK's first professional cloud-based tax compliance suite – IRIS OpenTax. It is the UK's only professional cloud software available for submitting personal, partnership and corporate tax returns online. It provides tax return completion and online filing direct with HMRC, accessible over an Internet connection from any device, at any location at any time.
  • Creating an automation test framework using Selenium web driver for Open tax project.
  • Responsible to create Automation for HMRC TCs and maintain.
  • Prioritizing and grouping the Test cases and running during release commitment.
  • Develop and maintain selenium test scripts in C# and Automation of scripts after every deployment. End to end testing for the Open Tax project in different environments and analyse Test Result.
  • Actively participated in test plan and test cases review meetings to discuss about the improvements of Automation framework for the projects.
  • Involved in developing Test plan and Test scripts using User stories and finalize automated test cases.
  • Highly involved in scheduling the Automation test runs, investigate and identify root cause of issues and maintain detailed test logs and report test results.
  • Generating test exit reports for the major Builds, and send daily status reports to team via emails.
  • Setting up and introducing Continuous Deployment processes via Bamboo.
  • Responsible for the JMeter script development and integrating with the selenium scripts.
  • Attended daily stand-ups, Bug review meetings, Sprint planning and retrospective meetings and walkthroughs and interacted with Business Analysts and Developers for resolving Defects.
  • Environment: C#, NUnit, Visual Studio, Sql server, MySQL, Selenium, Jira, Test Rail, XMind, Bamboo, JMeter, Agile

Test Analyst

Search Flow
Kent
02.2015 - 10.2016
  • Company Overview: Search flow have over 25 years' experience and run more than 1 million conveyancing searches every year for over 2,500 legal clients in England and Wales. Search flow provides user-friendly reports enable to quickly pinpoint risks, and our insurance products provide a ready-made and cost-effective solution for managing those risks.
  • Creating an automation test framework using Selenium for the different projects.
  • Develop and maintain selenium test scripts in java and Automation of scripts after every deployment Performing Functional, Regression, Integration, System, Smoke, Database, Performance Testing, Non Functional, Unit testing, End to end testing for the M&B in different environments.
  • Testing experience in Agile Development Environment using TDD and BDD approach.
  • Involved in Web Services Automation Testing using SOAP UI.
  • Tested extensive backend testing using SQL Queries to retrieve the data from the database and checked data integrity.
  • Started developing BDD scripts with Cucumber for workflow project in the recent sprints.
  • Actively participated in QA vision and team meetings to discuss about the Definition of done, Test approaches, strategies and methodologies and share knowledge and experience to the team.
  • Environment: Java, SQL, Selenium, Jira, TestRail, XMind, SoapUi, Eclipse, Jenkins, Agile

Application Support analyst

Digital Look Ltd
London
07.2011 - 01.2013
  • Company Overview: Digital Look is a financial media and technology company providing online advertising opportunities and a complete suite of financial information solutions to leading organisations throughout the UK.
  • Perform functional testing on contract creation and amendment.
  • Participate in Formal Technical Review (FTR) meetings.
  • Reporting and logging defects using Bugzilla.
  • Creation of SOAP UI scripts for Testing web services.
  • Fixing issues related to configurations and environments.
  • Responsible for UAT test phase organization with various clients and running UAT.
  • Performing queries to the database using SQL to check successful Transaction & to create particular test cases.
  • Clients: Barclays, Halifax, BBC, HSBC, Jarvis etc.
  • Environment: Java, XML, ANT, Java Script, Eclipse, MySQL, Linux, Junit, Bugzilla, Mantis

Application Developer

Internet Intelligence Ltd
Kent
02.2008 - 06.2011
  • Company Overview: Internet Intelligence services and solutions help e-strategy to stand out. Intelligent commerce analyses and interpret customer's e-commerce requirement, and it offers both highly manageable and marketable on-line shop solutions.
  • Developing new applications and providing enhancements to existing applications.
  • Fixing bugs by debug the application code to help drive root cause rectification to prevent recurrence of incidents related to those errors.
  • Interacted with external customers and partners to providing technical support & development.
  • I have developed and integrated 3D secure authentication to applications and PCI compliance which makes application more secure for customers. I have developed internal projects like intelligent mailer which provide java mail service, integrated YOUTUBE video services for product demos, intelligent payment which provides functionality for connecting with the banks like HSBC, SAGEPAY etc.
  • Clients: TJDmodels, Similar Shop, Spares4Repairs
  • Environment: Java, J2EE, JSF, JSP, EJB, XML, ant, SVN, CSS, Java Script, HTML, Oracle

Intern

Virtusa Private Limited
06.2006 - 08.2007
  • Work within the team to complete work products to time and budget.
  • Fixing production bugs and finding root cause and prevent recurrence of incidents related to those errors.
  • Identify risks and issues where work is a change in scope and escalate appropriately.
  • Review support and handover documentations and provide feedback based on customer experiences and Write clear technical articles to enable user's self-help.
  • Schedule approved Change Requests into the team work-plan.Ensuring that all deliverables in area of responsibility are quality assured and delivered to an acceptable level of quality.
  • Clients: BT (British Telecom), UK
  • Technologies: J2EE, Java Script, JDBC, HTML, ANT, SVN, IBM WebLogic, TOAD, Oracle, Unix

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Information Technology

JNTU University
India
01.2001 - 01.2005

Skills

  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix
  • Programming Languages: JAVA, C#, SQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript
  • Other Tools: Jenkins, TOAD, Rapid SQL, Clover, ANT, JIRA
  • Databases: Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2008, MySQL
  • Web Technologies: HTML, XML, and CSS
  • Servers: Sun App Server 9, Apache Tomcat 55/60
  • Testing Tools: Selenium, Playwright, Load Runner, Test Rail, XMind
  • Defect Management Tools: Bugzilla, JIRA, Test Director

Timeline

QA Automation Analyst

BizNuvo Inc
11.2021 - 08.2025

Automation Test Analyst

IRIS Software
11.2016 - 09.2021

Test Analyst

Search Flow
02.2015 - 10.2016

Application Support analyst

Digital Look Ltd
07.2011 - 01.2013

Application Developer

Internet Intelligence Ltd
02.2008 - 06.2011

Intern

Virtusa Private Limited
06.2006 - 08.2007

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Information Technology

JNTU University
01.2001 - 01.2005

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