Phani Bandaru

Forward-thinking technical leader with over 20 years of experience specializing in conceptualizing and implementing impactful ideas and strategies to enhance organizational value. Proven ability to drive innovation and solve complex challenges in software testing, test automation strategy, testing solutions architecture, quality assurance, and digital transformation. Expertise in navigating complex domains such as Identity & Access management (IAM), Mobile device management (MDM), e-commerce, and more. Excited to contribute skills and knowledge to challenging roles within esteemed organizations in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

• Software Testing Life Cycle (Manual & Automation)
• Quality Assurance & Control
• Testing Strategy Documentation/ Test Framework Development
• Testing Solutions Consultation & Architecture/ Test Process Automation & Transformation
• Ownership of Product Lifecycle Management
• Bug Lifecycle Management
• Project Management & Service Delivery Excellence
• Agile/ Scrum, Kanban & Waterfall Methodologies
• Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployment (CD)
• Configuration & Release Management
• Team Set-up & Stabilization
• Strategic Planning & Execution
• Cross Functional Collaboration

Nutanix : Framework for testing of various versions of API & UI enabling Increased test coverage from 45 to 900+ test cases. Changes like enabling parallel execution, optimized selenium grid upgrade & DR framework helped reduce execution time from 12 day regression cycle to just 2 days with 70% API and 82% UI coverage.

MobileIron : Built highly customizable data driven mobile simulator based automation framework built on top of existing legacy framework to handle all API & UI features. Lead a virtual team where we take up projects other than work related(Extent Reports, Automated code coverage Jenkins Job, Clovers’ Per-Test code coverage, Smart Grid)

eBay : Built Results aggregator to help find the build health on various sites/browsers/platforms. Modified existing UI framework to cater to both browser based and mobile application without changes to test cases.

EMC: Built an XML based automation framework which generates test scripts using a simple UI to test distributed systems. Using this framework, we were able to automate 400 tests in a span of 2 months.