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PRASANNA LAKSHMI AVULA

PRASANNA LAKSHMI AVULA

Hyderabad

Summary

With a comprehensive background spanning a decade in the field of Information Technology, I have served in various capacities, including roles as a QA Functional and Automation Engineer, as well as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET). My proficiency lies in Automation Testing, where I have extensively utilized tools such as Selenium and Playwright, coupled with JAVA programming across diverse frameworks like TestNG, Cucumber (BDD), and Maven Build tool. Additionally, I possess adept skills in conducting Web services testing, employing tools such as Swagger, Postman, and SOAP UI

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

EPAM Systems
HYDERABAD
01.2022 - Current

The DHL Trade Automation Service (TAS) Portal provides users with essential trade-related tools and information, such as HS codes classifier, landed cost calculator, and customs compliance requirements for the products they import or export.

Our objective is to redesign the TAS experience, envision new and enhanced features, and eventually implement the new TAS 2.0 as part of the MyDHL+ Platform Tenant. This project will be delivered in two phases, with Phase 1 focusing on Research, Discovery, and Experience Design.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with project managers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand project requirements and objectives.

• Create detailed test cases based on functional and non-functional requirements.

Design and execute test scenarios that cover various aspects of the software, including positive and negative testing.

Identify, document, and prioritize defects or issues found during testing.

Perform regression testing to ensure that new code changes do not adversely affect existing functionality.

• Maintain and update automated test scripts.

• Review pull requests raised by the team.

Work closely with developers, business analysts, and other team members to understand the application and its features.

Participate in regular meetings to provide updates on testing progress, and discuss any issues or challenges.

• Identify and assess potential risks related to the software's quality and functionality.

Provide feedback on the testing process, and suggest improvements.

Provide guidance and training to junior testers, or team members.

• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders, providing clear and concise updates on testing progress and issues.

Senior Engineer-Quality Engineer

Altimetrik India pvt ltd
HYDERABAD
06.2020 - 01.2022

The Healthy Homes Program (HHP) is responsible for the agency’s activities for the lead prevention program, which identifies cases for children under 18 years of age, in addition to pregnant women.

HHP is also responsible for providing environmental services for individuals with asthma, living with pests or mold in their homes.

HHP also responds to complaints from the public about peeling paint and/or unsafe construction that is generating dust hazards in residential buildings.

The program educates parents, guardians, owners, and managing agents of residential buildings, and contractors about program requirements and best practices to prevent exposure to environmental hazards.

Responsibilities

  • Follows the Agile process with a sprint duration of 2 weeks, and has a production release for every 4 sprints.
  • Estimating the requirements, user stories, and working closely with developers by developing the tests and framework.
  • Testing is comprised of database testing, continuous integration and deployment, integration, and E2E testing.
  • Worked with multiple teams of sizes 5 to 7 people, and was involved in discussions with the program on requirement analysis, estimation of testing efforts, test case reviews, deployments across environments, and test execution sign-off for production releases.
  • Setting up the test environment.
  • Designing and executing a regression suite using Selenium, Java, Maven, and Cucumber.
  • Involve in functional, regression testing, and defect retesting.
  • Identification of defects, raising, tracking, and validation in the ALM.

Test Analyst

Infosys Limited
HYDERABAD
03.2014 - 06.2020

Smart meters are the next-generation meters for gas and electricity. As per the regulatory requirement in the UK, all residential and SME customers need to have smart meters installed by energy suppliers by 2020.

Smart meters come with an in-home display screen that shows you exactly how much energy you're using in pounds and pence, which will bring an end to estimated bills.

Reduce the data manipulation by customers and suppliers on meter reads, consumption, demand, and prices.

Responsibilities

  • Worked as a test analyst, onsite coordinator, and release coordinator for the SMART DCC project.
  • Involved in framework design using Selenium WebDriver, Maven build tool, TestNG configuration, and Jenkins to accomplish project requirements.
  • Worked on functional testing of mobile web applications on different platforms and cross browsers (Google Chrome, IE11, Firefox, and Edge browsers).
  • Involved throughout the sprint, starting from the sprint grooming, refinement, to the production release.
  • Estimating the requirements, user stories, and working closely with developers by developing the BDD tests and framework.
  • Commissioning, installing, and getting meter reads of real SMART fuel meters.
  • Testing is comprised of CRM Testing, Web Services Testing, Database Testing, Continuous Integration and Deployment, Integration, and E2E testing, Interaction with Emulators and Simulators in ST, and Regression using TestNG.
  • Handling multiple teams of size 4-5 people and involved in discussions with the client on requirement analysis, estimation of testing efforts, test case reviews, deployments across environments, and test execution sign-off for production releases.
  • Designing and Executing Test Scripts.
  • Developing the automation scripts for manual test cases in every sprint.
  • Key tasks involved certifying the application fit for UAT, and production cutover after the completion of System, Integration, and Regression Testing.
  • Act as a single point of contact for integration testing needs, coordinate, and facilitate testing with support from various application support teams.
  • Maintaining regression packs by adding new test cases to them as in-sprint automation, and running regression packs for every release through Jenkins.
  • Key member in the knowledge transfer process across applications and various functionalities with respect to business flows.
  • Preparing Weekly Progress Reports, Monthly Test metrics and Graphs

Appreciations:

  • E.ON Recognition award for efficient testing
  • Client Appreciation for supporting multiple Production releases
  • Infosys Insta Award for highest contributor

Education

BTech - Electronics and communication engineering

Aurora’s Technological & Research Institute
Hyderabad
05-2013

Intermediate - State Board

Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
05-2009

X - CBSE Board

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
01.2006

Skills

  • Strong team player
  • Expertise in selenium
  • Good in Playwright
  • Agile delivery
  • Behavior-driven development
  • Strong core Java skills
  • Test-driven development
  • Test case development
  • Comprehensive testing frameworks
  • Continuous integration experience
  • Git proficiency
  • Experience with JIRA
  • Experience with JUnit, TestNG
  • Expertise with cucumber
  • Cross-browser testing
  • Expertise in Jenkins
  • Defect tracking tools
  • SQL

Languages

  • English
  • Telugu
  • Hindi

Disclaimer

09/29/21, Hyderabad, Prasanna Lakshmi Avula

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 01/15/93

Corecompetencies - Technicalexpertise

PL/SQL, Core Java, Agile, Waterfall, Requirement Analysis, Test Planning and estimation, Test Scenario and case Preparation, Test Case Execution, Automation, Defect Logging, Test Closure, Automation Testing, Functional Testing, Database Testing, API testing, IOT – SMART Metering, Banking, Health, Publishing, Networking

Affiliations

• Bug Identification and Reporting: Successfully identified and reported >200 bugs in a year before the software release, preventing potential customer dissatisfaction and ensuring a smoother user experience

• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support: Provided valuable support during user acceptance testing, ensuring that the software met user requirements and expectations, and addressing any issues promptly

• Continuous Improvement: Actively participated in continuous improvement initiatives, suggesting and implementing process enhancements that increased the efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process

Accomplishments

  • Achieved Sprint hero title multiple times
  • Client Appreciation for supporting multiple Production releases
  • Infosys Insta Award for highest contributor

Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AI Literacy Program

Languages

Telugu
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
B1

Timeline

Senior Software Test Automation Engineer

EPAM Systems
01.2022 - Current

Senior Engineer-Quality Engineer

Altimetrik India pvt ltd
06.2020 - 01.2022

Test Analyst

Infosys Limited
03.2014 - 06.2020

BTech - Electronics and communication engineering

Aurora’s Technological & Research Institute

Intermediate - State Board

Sri Chaitanya Junior College

X - CBSE Board

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya
PRASANNA LAKSHMI AVULA