VAMSHI KRISHNA PULA
Hyderabad
Summary
Results-driven Automation Tester with expertise from Tata Consultancy Services, proficient in Java and Selenium. Achieved a 60% reduction in manual testing through robust automation frameworks. Strong collaborator, enhancing test coverage and clarity while managing defects effectively. Skilled in CI/CD with Jenkins, ensuring efficient release cycles and high-quality software delivery.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Automation Tester
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2022 - Current
- Developed robust Selenium WebDriver automation scripts using Java, reducing manual regression effort by 60%.
- Designed and maintained a scalable Data-Driven Automation Framework leveraging Selenium, TestNG, Maven, and Page Object Model, increasing reusability by 40%.
- Automated REST API test suites using REST-Assured, resulting in a 70% improvement in API test coverage.
- Implemented Cucumber BDD with integrated HTML and JSON reporting, enhancing defect traceability.
- Enabled parallel execution through TestNG and Cucumber Runner configurations, decreasing overall execution time by 50%.
- Set up Jenkins CI pipelines for nightly regression execution, accelerating release validation cycles by 50%.
- Analyzed BRD/FSD documentation to translate business requirements into clear, testable conditions, improving coverage and clarity.
- Executed cross-browser automation across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, achieving 100% coverage of critical business flows.
- Performed SQL/JDBC-based back-end validations, identifying and escalating 15+ data integrity issues.
- Logged and managed 150+ defects in JIRA with a 95% on-time closure rate.
- Conducted comprehensive Smoke, Functional, Regression, Integration, and Sanity testing, increasing overall test coverage by 30%.
- Collaborated closely with Business Analysts, Project Managers, and Developers, reducing requirement gaps.
Manual & Automation Test Engineer
PwC IT Services Limited
05.2023 - 03.2024
- Performed Smoke, Functional, Regression, and UAT testing across 10+ sprints, improving release readiness by 25%.
- Supported early SDLC phases through requirement reviews and clarification sessions, increasing requirement clarity and test coverage.
- Authored 150+ reusable test cases from BRD/FSD documents, reducing overall test preparation time.
- Executed negative, integration, ad-hoc, positive, and back-end testing, identifying 35+ defects prior to production deployment.
- Developed keyword-driven and data-driven automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver, enhancing script maintainability by 40%.
- Participated in framework design and peer code reviews, contributing to a 15% reduction in automation-related defects.
- Maintained a comprehensive Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), ensuring 100% alignment between requirements and test coverage.
- Prepared detailed test plans, acceptance criteria, and scenario documentation, improving stakeholder alignment.
- Conducted manual testing on mission-critical application flows and logged 50+ high-severity defects with a 97% reproduction accuracy rate.
- Performed SQL-based database testing to validate backend data integrity, ensuring 100% accuracy in all validations.
- Executed automated regression suites and performed failure analysis, reducing troubleshooting time.
Education
Bachelor of Technology -
Malla Reddy Engineering College
Hyderabad01.2021
Skills
- Java and Python
- Postman and Rest Assured
- Eclipse IDE
- TestNG and JUnit
- Cucumber BDD
- Data-driven testing
- Keyword-driven testing
- Page Object Model (POM)
- Jenkins CI/CD
- Maven build management
- Git and GitHub version control
- JIRA project tracking
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum framework
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
- Defect management strategies
- Test reporting techniques
- Oracle database management
- SQL Server administration
- Windows operating system
Certification
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Projects
End-to-End Automation Framework (Java + Selenium), Designed a complete automation framework with POM, TestNG, Maven, and reusable components., Integrated Data-Driven testing using Excel and Apache POI., Configured Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated execution., Added utilities for waits, logging, screenshots, and reporting., Validated REST APIs using Postman and Rest Assured., Executed tests on Selenium Grid for multi-browser compatibility., Documented setup, automation strategy, best practices, and scalability improvements.
Timeline
Manual & Automation Test Engineer
PwC IT Services Limited
05.2023 - 03.2024
Automation Tester
Tata Consultancy Services
02.2022 - Current
Bachelor of Technology -
Malla Reddy Engineering College