Nithin Pranav Gummadi

Walmart Inc. is a global retail giant known for its extensive network of retail stores and a strong e-commerce presence. The company focuses on providing a seamless shopping experience to millions of customers worldwide. Walmart continuously enhances its technology and operations to improve efficiency, ensuring high-quality products and services.

• Gained strong domain knowledge, improving issue identification during testing.
• Followed the Waterfall model, executing structured testing phases.
• Designed and executed manual test cases for Walmart’s retail and e-commerce platform.
• Performed functional, regression, smoke, and system testing to ensure application stability.
• Logged and tracked defects in SBM and internal tools, ensuring timely resolution.
• Conducted basic SQL validations to maintain backend data integrity.
• Verified UI consistency and business workflows across desktop and legacy systems.
• Created test reports and documentation, maintaining clear defect tracking.
• Collaborated with developers for bug fixes and retesting, ensuring smooth releases.
• Consistently met deadlines, contributing to on-time product launches.

Walgreens is one of the largest pharmacy chains in the U.S., specializing in health and wellness, prescription services, and retail. The company focuses on digital transformation, enhancing its e-commerce platform, and streamlining pharmacy operations for a seamless customer experience.

• Mentored junior QA engineers, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
• Led test planning, execution, and defect tracking for Walgreens’ pharmacy and e-commerce platforms.
• Followed the Waterfall model, ensuring structured testing and defect resolution.
• Designed and executed test cases covering prescription orders, checkout flows, and online store functionalities.
• Conducted system integration testing (SIT) for pharmacy, inventory, and billing systems.
• Performed functional, regression, and smoke testing, ensuring smooth releases.
• Logged and tracked defects in HP ALM / Quality Center, coordinating with developers for timely fixes.
• Validated database transactions using SQL, ensuring data accuracy in pharmacy records.
• Conducted UI and usability testing, enhancing customer experience across web and desktop platforms.
• Reviewed business requirements, improving test coverage and software quality.

Walgreens (www.photo.walgreens.com) offers the best value for film developing, printing, storing and sharing photos on line it helps families stay connected. Both film and digital camera users can seamlessly and effortlessly share, store and order high quality reprints with unsurpassed security. Walgreens is one of the partner solutions of snapfish.

• QA POC for the project, managing test activities, stakeholder communication, and issue resolution.
• Acted as an onsite coordinator for three months, ensuring seamless collaboration between offshore and client teams.
• Led test planning, strategy, and execution for Walgreens Photo platform, ensuring high-quality releases.
• Participated in PRD discussions, clarifying requirements with the client and ensuring test coverage.
• Designed and developed high-level and detailed test cases based on use cases and PRDs.
• Developed and maintained automation scripts using Selenium WebDriver with Java, improving test efficiency.
• Conducted backend/database testing using TOAD, validating data integrity and querying results.
• Identified, tracked, and closed defects while collaborating closely with development teams.
• Used Visual Source Safe for version control and configuration management.
• Served as Quality Coordinator (QCo), ensuring compliance with project audit standards.

Shutterfly, Inc. is a leading e-commerce retailer and manufacturer of high-quality personalized photo products and services. Founded in 1999, Shutterfly enables customers to transform their memories into photo books, gifts, home decor, and stationery.

• QE POC for the Cart & Checkout module, managing both Front-End and Back-End testing.
• Led a team of 5 QA engineers, driving test planning, execution, and process improvements.
• Served as an Onsite Coordinator in the US for 1 month, ensuring seamless collaboration between offshore and onshore teams.
• Designed and executed manual and automated test cases to ensure seamless checkout and order processing.
• Gained expertise in API manual and automation testing, Jenkins enhancing validation of payment and order workflows.
• Conducted a POC with Katalon Studio, reducing test execution time by 90% and improving efficiency.
• Improved QA processes by identifying Root Cause Analysis (RCA), optimizing testing efforts, and implementing best practices.
• Actively participated in peer reviews, test case reviews, and team meetings to enhance test coverage and knowledge sharing.
• Provided weekly status updates to track testing progress and highlight key issues to stakeholders.
• Analyzed the Product Backlog and actively participated in Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Retrospective, and Demo meetings.
• Conducted database validations for order transactions, ensuring data integrity across multiple services.
• Led functional, regression, system integration, and end-to-end testing, ensuring high-quality product releases.
• Spearheaded defect triage meetings, ensuring quick turnaround on critical production issues.
• Provided technical mentorship to the QA team, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.

Shutterfly, Inc. is a leading e-commerce retailer and manufacturer of high-quality personalized photo products and services. Founded in 1999, Shutterfly enables customers to transform their memories into photo books, gifts, home decor, and stationery.

• Driving QE strategy and execution across Cart, Checkout, OMS, and Pricing & Promotions, ensuring seamless product quality and timely releases.
• Transitioned from a hands-on role to a leadership position, overseeing a team of X engineers while optimizing QA workflows and efficiency.
• Spearheading the modernization of automation frameworks, successfully migrating from a legacy framework to a scalable POM-based framework, improving test coverage and maintainability.
• Pioneering AI adoption in QE, leveraging AI-driven tools to enhance testing productivity, reduce effort, and streamline test execution.
• Acting as the primary liaison between onsite and offshore teams, ensuring smooth collaboration and consistent QA delivery.
• Strategically leading the design migration of 8,000+ designs and project migration efforts as part of Shutterfly 3.0 (Aurora), contributing to the future of the platform.
• Guiding team members in process improvements, RCA, and optimization strategies, elevating overall test efficiency and defect prevention measures.
• Defining and implementing scalable regression testing strategies, reducing release cycle times while maintaining high defect detection accuracy.
• Providing technical mentorship and career development support, ensuring a high-performing and engaged QE team.