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Sahitya Velala

Senior Automation Tester
Bengaluru

Summary

Proficient tester, designer and debugger with an in-depth understanding of building and running automated systems for Telecom,Banking and Regulatory domains. Well-versed in the full project lifecycle, technical support needs and project coordination functions. Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills.

Overview

1824
1824
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Automation Engineer

Luxoft India
Bengaluru
04.202 - Current
  • Project: Xceptor Confirmations | Client: Australia and New Zealand Bank
  • As Murex tester, working on validating different trade bookings in real life scenario and understanding financial trade life cycle.
  • Confirmations is swift/paper type messages sent to customers on confirmations on every trade bookings and in change of trade economics.
  • Kept on track with deadlines for development cycle times.
  • Participated in quality assurance testing of automated systems prior to full-scale implementation, identifying areas requiring further optimization or modification before deployment.
  • Discussed requirements and processes with project managers and developers.
  • Tested equipment for proper operation and freedom from defects.
  • Exploring usage of Gen AI tools to leverage performance in day to day activities

Senior Automation Engineer

Luxoft India
Bengaluru
01.2023 - 03.2024
  • Project: MIFID II (Markets in FInancial Instruments Directive) & Regulatory Reporting | Client: Standard Chartered Bank
  • In European Regulatory systems MIFID 2 helps in regulating the markets in financial instruments (shares, bonds, units in collective investment schemes and financial and commodity derivatives.
  • Validating the stock exchange trades flowing down from Murex and reporting further to UNAVISTA and Bloomberg systems for European financial markets.
  • Better understanding of business needs and detailed discussions with LDE and BA for current and upcoming projects
  • Participating in Planning and implementation phase and estimating complete work for next 3 sprints
  • Coordinating with external and internal teams ensuring proper validation of data flow regarding changes in trade exchanges.
  • End to end code and test walkthrough to Tech Lead's, Product Owners, and other relevant audience
  • Requirement analysis, test strategy preparations, UAT walkthrough and conducting knowledge sharing sessions.
  • Being Team player handling works and raising impediments.

Senior QA Engineer

Xactly Corp
Bengaluru
07.2021 - 01.2023
  • Project : Implementation of Profiles List Api and Reskinning of Incent application
  • Using Rest Assured jar, provided implementation for downloading the zipped data from Rest calls
  • Admin uses this data for clear view on Users hierarchical data
  • UX testing for the new reskin of incent application and validating the Figma designs and understanding Pendo requirements
  • Implementation and usage of Galen framework for UX testing

Test Analyst

Infosys Ltd.
01.2021 - 05.2021
  • Project: ITVT (Integrated Technical Verification testing | Client: NBN (Australia)
  • Performed functional, regression and integration testing for all web based application and Microservices API using Selenium testing framework and Cucumber, maintaining and Configuring Jenkins job with test framework and validating failures and reporting to detect early integration issues
  • Defect monitoring and resolution in JIRA, documented in Confluence & communicated test results accurately & efficiently with the stakeholders
  • Leading the team and reporting any unexpected behaviors during and before production deployments

Test Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
05.2017 - 06.2020
  • Project: SMP (Service Management Platform) & Integration Testing | Client: NBN (Australia)
  • Better understanding of business needs and detailed discussions with LDE and BA for current and upcoming projects
  • Participating in Planning and implementation phase and estimating complete work for next 6 sprints
  • Working in Agile team as a dev pair and delivering in 2 week's sprint
  • End to end code and test walkthroughs to Tech Lead's, Product Owners, and other relevant audience
  • Building automation test scripts on different browsers/environments for progression scenarios and reporting defects/results to teams as Sanity/progression/Regression reports
  • Maintaining automation pipelines from build to deploy from System environments to integrated environments, fixing regression failures and code
  • Test Plan preparations, Test case scripting, readiness of test data using wiremocks and Service Virtualization and maintaining test data in test framework
  • Conducting Showcases, feature walkthroughs and supporting SIT and UAT teams for executions
  • Hands-on experience on end to end applications like Remedy, Salesforce, Maximo, Comptel Fulfillment, Test & Diagnosis
  • Preparation of Knowledge sharing documents and confluence pages with detailed explanations on feature implementations and testing approach
  • Test Strategies preparation and detailed testing approach documentation before feature developments to understand and explain the wider audience on testing scope
  • On boarding freshers/ New Joiners and conducting knowledge sharing sessions and walkthroughs on the product and automation frameworks
  • Defect logging and RCA of defects slippage in Production and automation of defects identified in Production environment
  • Following the Hotfix procedure for production bug fixes

Test Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
Pune
10.2014 - 04.2017
  • Project: SMP (Service Management Platform) & Integration Testing | Client: NBN (Australia)
  • Better understanding of business needs and detailed discussions with LDE and BA for current and upcoming projects
  • Participating in Planning and implementation phase and estimating complete work for next 6 sprints
  • Working in Agile team as a dev pair and delivering in 2 week's sprint
  • End to end code and test walkthrough to Tech Lead's, Product Owners, and other relevant audience
  • Building automation test scripts on different browsers/environments for progression scenarios and reporting defects/results to teams as Sanity/progression/Regression reports
  • Maintaining automation pipelines from build to deploy from System environments to integrated environments, fixing regression failures and code
  • Test Plan preparations, Test case scripting, readiness of test data using wiremocks and Service Virtualization and maintaining test data in test framework
  • Conducting Showcases, feature walkthroughs and supporting SIT and UAT teams for executions
  • Hands-on experience on end to end applications like Remedy, Salesforce, Maximo, Comptel Fulfillment, Test & Diagnosis
  • Preparation of Knowledge sharing documents and confluence pages with detailed explanations on feature implementations and testing approach
  • Test Strategies preparation and detailed testing approach documentation before feature developments to understand and explain the wider audience on testing scope
  • On boarding freshers/ New Joiners and conducting knowledge sharing sessions and walkthroughs on the product and automation frameworks
  • Defect logging and RCA of defects slippage in Production and automation of defects identified in Production environment
  • Following the Hotfix procedure for production bug fixes

Education

BE - Electrical And Electronics

NIST
09.2010 - 06.2014

Skills

Selenium

Cucumber

Hybrid Frameworks

Data-Driven Frameworks

JIRA

GIT

Eclipse IDE

IntelliJ Idea

Quality Assurance

Requirement Gathering

Root Cause Analysis

UI/UX Testing

web-based Testing

Rest API testing

headless browser testing

Test Scripts Maintenance

Jenkins

ITVT validations

Deployment Sanity

Murex testing

Banking Domain

Test Strategy preparation

Adaptability to new technologies

Customer-focused approach

Quality assurance mindset

Awards

Spot awards, Recipient of 2 Spot awards and Instant awards in previous organization

Timeline

Senior Automation Engineer

Luxoft India
01.2023 - 03.2024

Senior QA Engineer

Xactly Corp
07.2021 - 01.2023

Test Analyst

Infosys Ltd.
01.2021 - 05.2021

Test Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
05.2017 - 06.2020

Test Engineer

Infosys Ltd.
10.2014 - 04.2017

BE - Electrical And Electronics

NIST
09.2010 - 06.2014

Senior Automation Engineer

Luxoft India
04.202 - Current
Sahitya VelalaSenior Automation Tester