Sivaprasad Polaki
Barcelona
Summary
Test Lead with a strong background at Wipro, specializing in Selenium and UFT automation. Expertise in developing reusable frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, leading to increased testing efficiency. Demonstrated ability to lead teams and promote collaboration for superior deliverables. Analytical skills and effective communication foster project success in high-pressure environments.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Test Lead
Wipro
Barcelona
01.2016 - Current
- Company Overview: Zurich is a global insurance company which is organized into three core business segments: General Insurance, Global Life and Farmers.
- Working as a Team Lead in the current company
- Agile Team operation with Functional and Automation Testing.
- Leading a Team of 7 Engineers as Core Automation Team and Functional Team for Digital Products and Compliance Products.
- As a Core Automation Lead and Engineer I have worked on developing Reusable Automation Framework in UFT, Selenium, Java, TestNg and configured with ->Maven Projects
- Created CI/CD Pipeline in Azure Devops for QA Automation tests executions.
- Proficient in creating pipelines in both classic and YAML based in Azure Devops
- Rest API Automation Testing using Rest sharp Library.
- Creating Test Strategy and Test Plan for Functional and QA Automation.
- Assigning the Tasks and validating the work done by Team members on regular basis.
- Taking up the new applications for QA and setup the QA process platform and involving new and existing team members.
- Automation Testing on Daily Smoke, Functional and Regression Execution
- Dashboard Implementation for Smoke Testing Execution on Daily basis in different environments.
- Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly report publish to the management on the QA work and achievements
- Implementation of Data-Driven Testing using Excel based testing and desktop utility tool developed for Test data update on the Source code.
- Zurich is a global insurance company which is organized into three core business segments: General Insurance, Global Life and Farmers.
- Technologies Involved: Selenium WebDriver, UFT, Postman, MSSQL, MS AZURE Storage HP ALM, SQL, Excel Macro, Power BI.
Test Engineer
Fixed Income Analytic Interfaces
Bangalore
01.2012 - 01.2019
- Company Overview: State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is the institutional investment management arm of State Street Corporation.
- Involved in L2 support and in programming pertaining to UNIX and Perl script
- Participated in requirement gathering with client and business users.
- Documented and presented actual test results and was responsible for the end-to-end tracking of all issues found for the assigned components
- Performed end-to-end testing of Client Server job control applications to ensure consistency and performance
- Tested total 2500 Autopsy’s Jobs including UAT.
- Executed Regression, System, UAT, Integration and Functional Testing
- Documented and presented actual test results and I was responsible for sending weekly status reports
- All issues found for the assigned components, Provides status and issue information to the Team Lead - Onsite Offshore Coordination.
- State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) is the institutional investment management arm of State Street Corporation.
- Technologies Involved: Perl Scripting, UNIX, Jilx Language, Batch job scheduling, Rational Clear Quest and Clear Case.
Test Lead
Wipro
Bangalore
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Shell helps meet the world's growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways.
- Created new test frameworks, designed and developed a reusable architecture for the test automation
- Created Test Scripts and test suites driver scripts using HP-UFT and Selenium Webdriver
- Interacting with the client to ensure the deliverables are meeting the requirements
- Managing the team to stick to timelines of deliverables and deliver quality product
- Ensured the Test environment availability and involved in requesting upgrades from Development team
- Handled environmental issues and resolved test advantage plugin issues
- Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. Shell helps meet the world's growing demand for energy in economically, environmentally and socially responsible ways.
- Technologies Involved: UFT, HP Selenium, ALM, SQL.
Senior Test Engineer
IFDS-DOMESTIC
Canada
01.2012 - 01.2016
- Company Overview: IFDS (International Financial Data Services Ltd.) is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company is Retained to provide Technical and Functional Support in maintaining the Customer’s product i FAST.
- Handled most of the projects as Single resource.
- Involved in regular scrum meetings.
- Involved Test plan review and Defect review meetings.
- Daily interaction with Clients.
- Generated script using UFT/QTP and Tool Agnostic Framework
- Preparation of Test Approach, Test Scenarios and Test cases from Functional Specifications.
- Performed Functional, Web, Sanity, Security and Regression Testing.
- Preparation of Daily Status Report and Post Test Report.
- Resolved issues of team members and helping them to improve their performance.
- Coordinating the team to complete the tasks on time.
- IFDS (International Financial Data Services Ltd.) is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company is Retained to provide Technical and Functional Support in maintaining the Customer’s product i FAST.
- Technologies Involved: UFT, HP ALM, SQL, Progress 4GL.
Education
M.S.IT - Information Technology
BITS Pilani
IndiaB.Sc. - Computer Science
Andhra University
IndiaSkills
- Selenium
- UFT
- TAF
- Ranorex
- Postman
- PowerBI
- Java
- Javascript
- C#
- VB Script
- Perl Script
- REST API
- Hybrid
- Data driven Frameworks
- Azure Devops
- TFS
- MS Azure storage Explorer
- MSSQL
- ALM
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ
- Visual Studio
- Notepad
- GIT
- SourceTree
Accomplishments
- Completed ICP interview Panel Certification in Wipro
- Completed ACE architectural Certification in Wipro
- Streamlined the knowledge transition process to business users which reduced transition time and ambiguity
- Received awards like BEST Employee and FEATHER IN MY CAP during my first two projects
- Complimented by project manager, leads, and co-workers
Languages
- English, Proficient
- Spanish, Beginner
- Telugu, Native
Affiliations
- Received awards like BEST Employee and Feather in My cap award during my first two projects
Languages
English
First Language
Timeline
Test Lead
Wipro
01.2016 - Current
Test Lead
Wipro
01.2015 - 01.2016
Test Engineer
Fixed Income Analytic Interfaces
01.2012 - 01.2019
Senior Test Engineer
IFDS-DOMESTIC
01.2012 - 01.2016
M.S.IT - Information Technology
BITS Pilani
B.Sc. - Computer Science
Andhra University