Rajesh Patel Porandla
Hyderabad,Telangana
Summary
- Highly motivated Automation Test Lead with 14 years of experience and expertise in Testing methodologies, test planning, test management, Functional & Automation testing.
- Expertise in building automation framework for Web, Desktop, Application using TOSCA
- Consistent success in Leading the team and Design the robust framework and implementing test automation scripts, test execution and data management.
- Good knowledge of Agile Software Development Methodologies, Scrum processes, and related Quality Assurance best practices.
- Functional expertise in BFSI, Financial Services , Insurance and Audit domains.
- Experienced in designing Automation Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Estimates.
- Experienced in identifying gaps in current processes and tools and suggesting new ways to improve them.
- Led cross-functional initiatives, resolving technical and schedule conflicts, enhancing system integration timelines by 15%.
- Closely worked with client for functional review and suggested some features to enhance the application workflow.
- Technically astute in handling INT, SIT & UAT which includes leading Requirement Analysis meetings, Requirement gathering, Test Planning, Effort Estimation, Review of Test Scripts, Test & People Management, Defect management, Release management, Quality Management, Process Improvement Planning & Knowledge management activities.
- Diligent test lead with experience handling various projects and teams of 20+ members.
- Excellence in Web and API automation testing using
automation tools like TOSCA - Basic Knowledge on Playwright Automation.
- In process of learning Azure and AWS cloud.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior Associate-Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad, Telangana
04.2022 - Current
- Managing entire test delivery of account and playing the role of onsite coordinator including, Senior stakeholder management, people management, client communication, QA, UAT support, Go live support.
- Owned the on-time delivery, risk identification &
mitigation planning for the entire cycle of the program - Handling Manual and Automation Team through each PI cycle.
- Task Planning / Estimation for Sprint / stories allocation for team.
- Implemented Test Strategy and defined Test Processes for successful test management and delivery.
- Presenting the status and various reports to Cognizant Leadership and Client.
- Collaborating with Solution Architect, Business Analyst & Product owners in identifying client requirements, implementing necessary strategy to achieve the goals.
- Streamlined functional validation processes, which contributed to 25% cost reduction in system testing
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior members of the automation team.
- Expertise in data modelling and data management.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure quality of the product.
Test Engineering Team Lead
Accenture
Hyderabad, Telangana
08.2016 - 12.2019
- Led Automation Team and Requirement Analysis and feasibility study for automation task with application.
- Automation expert in TOSCA, designed most robust framework with scripting approach to increase code reusability.
- Managing TOSCA Repository Setup, Upgrades and Migration.
- Mastery in troubleshooting technical Issue in TOSCA scripting and execution.
- Customized and enhanced the Test Scripts defining various Checkpoints, Synchronization points, Parameterize Tests, Define Regular expressions, Recovery Scenarios using TOSCA
- Created component based Libraries for Functional and Regression testing using TOSCA
- Impact: Reduced the Regression failures by 70% by using proper recovery, Wait on, and Synchronization.
- Presenting the status and various reports to Accenture Leadership and Client.
Senior Software Engineer
Cheric Information Network Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Hyderabad, Telangana
12.2008 - 08.2016
- Worked collaboratively with Developers, QA Analysts, Business Analysts and Product Owners to define functional test strategies with a focus on BDD within an Agile/Safe environment.
- Worked on POC for Automation feasibility for various Application.
- Created test plans and test cases including Test data management for integration and system tests.
- Participate in project meetings to provide feedback and statistics on the project in relation to test quality.
- Reviewed, evaluated and identified requirements for testability.
- Planned and executed testing strategy for data analysis and synchronization.
- Identified bugs, risks and anomalies, applying action to prevent reoccurrence.
Education
Bachelor of Technological Education - Computer Science & Engineering
Aizza College of Eng & Tech
Mancherial, Telangana05.2008
Skills
- Project Management
- Test Delivery Management
- Functional, Regression Test
- Desktop, Web Application, Mainframe
- TOSCA Automation
- Web Services and API testing
- Strong SQL knowledge
- TDD and BDD knowledge
- Test Data Management
- People management
- Expert in Agile model of delivery using SAFe
- Core Banking, Insurance, Wealth Management, Audit
- HP ALM , JIRA, Azure Devops (Defect & Test management)
- Team Foundation Server(TFS), Sharepoint
Accomplishments
- Collaborated with team of 16+ in the development of Automation Suite.
- Delivered 300 Scripts to Bank of America Client on time with high quality which can be executed in any environment.
- Received PAT on Back Award for Outstanding performance during PI Cycle
- Maintained TOSCA Repositories as per best Practices and Standards.
- Resolved Automation Failures due to application performance which led to increase 70% pass rates in Regression pack.
- Created multiple Generic modules and Libraries in TOSCA to handle various Automation Flows.
Certification
TOSCA Certifications
- Automation Specialist 1
- Automation Specialist 2
- Test Design Specialist 1
- Test Design Specialist 2
- Automation Engineering 1
- Automation Specialist for API
- TOSCA Test Architect Level 1
- TOSCA Data integrity
Timeline
Senior Associate-Projects
Cognizant Technology Solutions
04.2022 - Current
Test Engineering Team Lead
Accenture
08.2016 - 12.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Cheric Information Network Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
12.2008 - 08.2016
Bachelor of Technological Education - Computer Science & Engineering
Aizza College of Eng & Tech