Saiteja Ithagoni

• Led the development of automated scripts using GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, improving testing efficiency and team collaboration.
• Attained certifications in Tricentis qTest, as well as Tosca AS1 and AS2, showcasing expertise in test management and automation.

Worked as pure automation engineer supporting multiple projects with test automation strategies, estimations, design and execution of scripts.

• Framework Design: Designed TDD TestNG Page object model framework from scratch which is now being used across BU as base framework.
• Automation Testing: Selenium Java to automate smoke and regression test suites, API automation using postman, created CI/CD pipelines from scratch and Conducted in depth code reviews.
• Generative AI R&D : Part of global generative AI research team in investigating how generative AI(ChatGPT &Copilot) can help both technical and non-technical group in automating SDLC steps. Provided valuable POC's on generating test cases as well as test scripts automatically through english prompts
• Trainer: Trained 40+ QA on selenium web automation, 20 QA on API automation using postman and mentoring multiple QA in automating projects applications and API's.
• Tech Skills used: Selenium Java, API automation, TestNG, POM, Javax Mail Services, Github, Gen AI Testing, CircleCI(CI/CD), agile practices etc

• As a QA Successfully contributed in constant product deliveries with both Automation and Manual testing skills.
• Automated complex health care domain application called "WebMD".using Selenium Java and TestNG

Cucumber BDD Framework

• Created Cucumber BDD Page Object Model framework for automating web application using selenium java, JUnit, maven and Page factory design pattern.

Selenium WebDriver

• Hands on experience in testing web application using selenium webdriver(data driven testing).
• Experienced working with JUnit testing framework.
• Very good knowledge on programming language like Java.
• Reduced manual efforts and resource cost by 75% by creating Regression suite using Selenium supportive tool built based on keyword driven technology. Recognized as Customer Value Adds(CVA)

API Testing- Automation using Postman

• Reduced manual effort by 90% in testing REST APIs through API automation using postman. Recognized as Customer Value Add(CVA)
• Postman and SOAP UI tools were used to test REST(JSON) and SOAP(XML) services.

Performance Testing (Load Testing) using Jmeter

• Hands on experience working with Jmeter testing Application server performance as part of data center migration where clients were shifting first choice data center from Manchester to London. Load testing was done using Jmeter with 10000 user accounts for period of 4 hours. Much appreciated for this work.

Manual Testing(Agile Scrum)

• Understand Functional Requirements, Business requirements, requirement document, refine user stories, Prepare Test Plan, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Data and executing them.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies like Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Standup calls, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review.
• Provide feedback, business and functional improvement suggestions to Product owner.
• Create bugs, track status and close them on retesting fix.
• Update Scrum dev team, scrum master, product owner, UAT testers on work progress during daily standup calls
• Discuss sprint performance, make action items on sprint retro meeting.
• Perform Unit testing, system testing, integration testing, smoke and Sanity, regression, acceptability and End-to End testing where necessary.
• Identify regression test cases, convert cases into automated scripts, add into regression suite and make sure of successful production release as a QA.

Agile Performance Metrics Creation

• Create Agile Team Performance Analysis metrics(Sprint, quarterly, half yearly, yearly) for a team size of 25 using excel formulae. These metrics help tremendously in understanding "value delivered to customers and improving team performance"
• Very good understanding on Sprint Burndown, Backlog Health Index, Leadtime, Sprint Velocity, Cycle Time, Quality trend intelligence, Defect Tracking, Escaped Defects and other important metrics.

Managerial Activities

• Always been great team member keeping all meetings very lively with humor and happiness.
• Organized Team building activities like fun fridays, birthday events, been part of organization level team and culture building activities