Rajesh Kothuru

Company Overview: Candescent Digital Banking is a comprehensive digital-first banking solution designed to offer services such as customer onboarding, account management, payments, KYC processing, loan servicing, and transaction tracking.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyzed business requirements and API specifications (Swagger/OpenAPI) to design effective test strategies.
• Developed and executed functional and regression test cases for various REST APIs, including account creation, KYC, fund transfers, and transaction history.
• Conducted API performance testing using JMeter to assess response time, throughput, and load-handling capacity.
• Collaborated closely with developers, business analysts (BAs), and DevOps teams for test execution, defect tracking (via JIRA), and root cause analysis.
• Ensured security validations such as token expiration, API key access control, and input validation to protect sensitive banking data.
• Maintained detailed documentation of test cases, test results, and API behavior for internal QA reporting and audit readiness.
• Developed and maintained automated API regression suites.
• Executed API test cases to validate request/response formats, status codes, headers, authentication (OAuth 2.0 / JWT), and business logic.
• Candescent Digital Banking is a comprehensive digital-first banking solution designed to offer services such as customer onboarding, account management, payments, KYC processing, loan servicing, and transaction tracking.

Company Overview: The WOS Author Transformation initiative will transform how our users and buyers experience information about people, so that they can see author output and impact completely and accurately represented across our products.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Developing Automation scripts using Selenium for the new functionality and interacting with the users for Requirement gathering.
• Modifying the Existing Selenium scripts as per the Application Enhancements.
• Develop, enhance, and execute the test scripts using Selenium Web driver.
• Creation of automation scenarios and Test cases.
• Run and test the Developed Automation script on Jenkins to verify functionalities on daily basis.
• Creation of the effective Test reports by evaluating Test results.
• Identifying the Defect and log & Report the Defects using JIRA.
• Providing client support for System Testing & User Acceptance Testing.
• The WOS Author Transformation initiative will transform how our users and buyers experience information about people so that they can see author output and impact completely and accurately represented across our products.

Company Overview: Smart Inspection Platform helps Transportation Oversight Unit (TOU) inspectors to inspect and regulate 150,000 regulated equipment in real time.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Involved in designing and Development of Manual test cases.
• Verifications of Bugs fixed by developers.
• Executed manual test cases and verified test results with expected results.
• Involved in Regression, Smoke and release level testing.
• Involved in Agile Sprint activities like Standups, Planning, Grooming and Releases.
• Requirement Analysis for User stories before Planning.
• Automated APIs using Karate framework.
• Performed validations on builds in QA environment, before production deployment.
• Working in the Agile development environment with frequently changing requirements and short two-week sprints.
• Smart Inspection Platform helps Transportation Oversight Unit (TOU) inspectors to inspect and regulate 150,000 regulated equipment in real time.

Company Overview: FedEx, a global leader in transportation, e-commerce, and business services, aims to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency through digital innovation.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Attended daily stand-up meetings and provided daily status on automation results.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts using Java and Selenium WebDriver.
• Built and managed automation frameworks using JUnit and Maven.
• Implemented Page Object Model (POM) design pattern for maintainable automation code.
• Wrote Gherkin feature files for defining test scenarios and acceptance criteria using Cucumber.
• Implemented step definitions in Java to automate scenarios defined in feature files.
• Configured and ran tests for different environments (Dev, Staging) using Maven profiles.
• Executed automated tests across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox) based on profiles and configurations.
• Used Maven to run test suites from Eclipse IDE for test execution and debugging.
• Executed test scripts and provided detailed test reports.
• Monitored automated test execution and reported issues in real-time.
• Generated and analyzed automation test results for reporting to the team.
• FedEx, a global leader in transportation, e-commerce, and business services, aims to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency through digital innovation.