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Ravikanth Badam

Ravikanth Badam

Associate Consultant
Hyderabad,TG

Summary

Having overall 17 plus years of testing experience

Having 7 plus years of experience in Selenium and RestAPI Automation using Java, MAVEN, TestNG, JUnit, BDD Cucumber and RestAssured

Automation Testing, Accessibility Testing, Content Management Testing, Database Testing, Functional Testing, Non-Functional Testing, DevOps, Mobile Devices Testing, Web Analytics Testing, Splunk Monitoring, API and Web Services Functional and Automation Testing, User Interface Testing, Regression Testing, System and Integration Testing

- Robust Experience in Agile Scrum Methodology

- Rich Experience in Content Migration Testing Projects (AEM, SharePoint, SDL Tridion)

- Rich and robust experience in IME, BFSI, Education domains

- End to End Participation in all the Testing artifacts including preparation, execution, review and closure of activities and artifacts

- Proficient in bringing and implementing best practices in Testing Levels, STLC and effective stakeholder management

- Played the role of Test Manager with various project management activities

- Proven experience in Test Management, planning, scheduling, allocation, estimations, SLA monitoring, progress monitoring and delivery of the various Testing activities

- Proficient in requirements gathering, analysis, use case development, testing and UAT planning and support

- Managing and tracking QA team right from the inception till successful delivery

- Managing timely delivery of the scheduled activities, technical deliverables as per quality standards

- Monitoring progress of the test delivery and taking necessary steps to ensure the delivery within defined parameters

- Hands on experience in RFPs

- Performing RCA as per the set procedures / guidelines to enhance the quality of the projects

- Creating the required Projects monitoring and controlling deliverables like DSR, WSR, Resource Utilization and other status and tracking reports

- Strong Resource and Schedule management skills with Effective team mentoring capabilities

-4 plus years of experience working at client location.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
10
10
Certificates

Work History

ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
01.2024 - Current
  • Company Overview: A prominent and leading global financial infrastructure and data provider in UK

Automation and Functional Lead / Architect for the FXI MIT Modules

Stakeholders management with TPMs, POs and other QA and Dev Teams

Automation Test Scripts creation, execution, Implementing using Selenium Web Driver Java using Inhouse Automation Framework - UAFT with TestNG, Maven, Extent and Cucumber Reports for E2E

● Monitoring of the various integration systems using SysGuard Monitoring InHouse tool

● System Restart activities, logs creation and upload from various linux servers

● REST API Automation using RestAssured and KARATE

● Managing all the Testing activities of the Integration modules for FXI Integration – Exchange and Market Data applications

● End To End Testing of all the integrated applications/systems for FXI Integration

● Automation & Functional Lead – API, UI, DB using Selenium Java BDD & Selenium Python PyTest

AUTOMATION TEST LEAD / CONSULTANT

APPSTEK CORP
09.2023 - 12.2023
  • Company Overview: A prominent and national provider of mortgage services in US
  • Automation Test Lead and PoC for the Events and Reporting Dashboard modules
  • Client Communication
  • Automation Test Scripts creation, execution, Implementing using Selenium Web Driver Java using Inhouse Automation Framework - FACT with TestNG, Junit and Maven, Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • PoC and management of the various testing activities in Agile SCRUM and KANBAN methodologies

MODULE LEAD / QA AUTOMATION LEAD / CONSULTANT

MPHASIS
08.2021 - 09.2023
  • Company Overview: Leading Financial services provider in US and leading financial services and banker in UK
  • QA Technical Lead and PoC for the Testing
  • Preparation and review of testing artifacts which include Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Strategy, Estimations, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Logs, Daily Status, Test Summary Reports and QA Sign-off mails
  • Task planning and allocation to the team
  • Client Communication
  • Automation Test Scripts creation, execution, Implementing using Selenium Web Driver Java using Inhouse Automation Framework - Prometheus and BDD Cucumber along with TestNG, Junit and Maven
  • Conducting Automation demos to the clients
  • Functionality Verification in Mobile Devices
  • External Interviews and participation in weekend drives
  • CI/CD using Bitbucket, Bamboo and GitLab
  • Splunk Monitoring
  • Adobe Analytics Testing
  • REST API and UI Automation

QA TECHNICAL LEAD

ACCIONLABS
09.2020 - 08.2021
  • Company Overview: CISION
  • QA Technical Lead and PoC for the Testing
  • Preparation and review of testing artifacts which include Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Strategy, Estimations, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Logs, Daily Status, Test Summary Reports and QA Sign-off mails
  • Task planning and allocation to the team
  • Resourcing, Learning Plans, feedback evaluations, Client Communication
  • Automation Test Scripts creation, execution, Implementing using Selenium Web Driver Java using JUnit, TestNG and BDD Cucumber Frameworks
  • Conducting Automation demos to the clients
  • Functionality Verification in Mobile Devices
  • External Interviews, part of the Interview panel and participation in weekend drives
  • CI/CD PoC for Java applications using AWS, Ansible, Nexus, Sonar Cloud and Jenkins
  • REST API and UI Automation

ASSOCIATE - PROJECTS, SENIOR ASSOCIATE – PROJECTS

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
01.2010 - 06.2020

* Clients Worked. Ameriprise Financials, Credit Suisse, PRNewswire, University of New South Wales, CAPITA, Cambridge Assessment

* Major projects Involved in. CA Tridion Upgrade, Sum Total Workforce Management, SharePoint Migration, PRNewswire CMS, MyFA, BT Sales, GSM Rule Engine

  • Preparation and review of testing artifacts which include Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test Strategy, Estimations, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Logs, Daily Status, Test Summary Reports and QA Sign-off mails
  • Task planning and allocation to the team
  • Resourcing, Learning Plans, feedback evaluations, Client Communication
  • SharePoint Content Migration, features, list, libraries, site collection, site contents and features verification
  • Web Part features testing includes addition, edition and deletion and their properties
  • SharePoint templates, permission levels, layouts verification
  • Community, Team, Project, Portal site collection and sites testing
  • Site Provisioning, Site search, Nintex Workflows, OOTB and custom web parts verification
  • Participation and review of various Agile Scrum activities – Sprint Estimates, Commitment, Story Point, review, retrospection and Daily Scrum calls
  • Agile Metrics Collection and Metrics Pushing
  • Co-ordination and Sync-up calls between onsite counterparts and offshore team on a need basis
  • Analytics testing using Google Analytics and Adobe Site Catalyst, Test & Target tools
  • Creation and Review of knowledge repository for reusable test scenarios cases for the common functionalities for some of the projects worked for
  • Preparation, execution and completion of Business Continuity Plan document for the Project
  • Test Data Identification and Validation, Cross browser testing
  • Testing of the applications in Mobile Devices and using Browser Stack tool
  • Bug reporting using tools such as Quality Center and JIRA
  • Defect Triage Calls with tech team, business& POs
  • UAT support to test manager, business analyst and users
  • Responsive Web Design Testing on Mobile Phones
  • Automation Test Scripts creation, execution, Implementing using Selenium Web Driver Java using JUnit, TestNG and BDD Cucumber Frameworks
  • Conducting Automation demos to the clients

SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

MASTEK
10.2007 - 12.2009
  • Preparation of testing artifacts which include Requirement Traceability Matrix, Inspection, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Logs, Issue Logs, Daily Status and Test Summary Reports for complete module
  • Attending VC calls weekly / monthly i.e., onsite client communication for the requirements clarification
  • Participation and driving the Casual Analysis Meeting after completion of each testing phase
  • Involved in installation and configuring the datasets, application and smoke testing
  • Database testing using SQL Server 2005

EXECUTIVE SUPPORT ENGINEER

YALAMANCHILI SOFTWARE EXPORTS
03.2006 - 10.2007
  • UAT Support to various clients on a need basis
  • End to end application support to various domestic clients and acted as a Subject Matter Expert
  • Worked with different variants of cards such as Travel, Payroll and Gift Cards
  • Testing of the modules include Logging process (Access Management), Service Navigation and payment service through INDIA TRANSACT Card
  • Database testing using Oracle 9i for various reports

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

Andhra University
Vidhyaardhi Degree College
08.1998 - 08.2001

Skills

Java

Certification

Professional Scrum Master- 1 from scrum.org

Awards

QE&A Incredibles, Team award for building the CMS capabilities to the QE&A practice, 2013

Beyond Excellence award, 2025

Ravikanth BadamAssociate Consultant