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VENKAT SAI KUMAR Kandavalli

Hyderabad

Summary

Product-focused Quality Analyst with 8+ years of experience testing enterprise platforms in telecom and wealth management. Strong at exploratory testing, root-cause analysis, and system behavior validation across APIs, databases, and UI layers. Proven ability to translate ambiguous requirements and real user behavior into clear engineering feedback that improves product reliability and release quality.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Product Quality Analyst

Tech Mahindra
Hyderabad
08.2022 - Current

Telecom (eSIM Hub, EOS3)

  • Performed exploratory, regression, and release validation testing across multiple production releases.
  • Analyzed API responses, DB state, and UI flows to identify defects and workflow gaps impacting users.
  • Investigated production issues end-to-end (API → DB → UI), enabling faster root-cause resolution.
  • Authored well-scoped defect tickets with reproduction steps, expected behavior, and impact assessment.
  • Collaborated with product and engineering during grooming and triage to prioritize issues by user impact.
  • Built and maintained Postman collections with assertions, improving validation consistency and coverage.

Test Specialist

Franklin Templeton
Hyderabad
05.2018 - 06.2022

Led scenario-based and exploratory testing for accounting and platform migrations impacting 150+ countries.

  • Validated system behavior for edge cases and exception workflows beyond standard test coverage.
  • Acted as a quality bridge between business, product, and engineering teams during UAT and releases.
  • Improved data reliability by validating reporting logic and operational workflows.

Senior Process Associate

Cognizant
Hyderabad
08.2016 - 04.2018
  • Analyzed business requirements to extract test scenarios, edge cases, and test data for reporting and analytics platforms.
  • Performed functional, regression, and smoke testing to ensure release stability.
  • Led process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and reduce waste.

Education

B.Com (Computers) - Computers

Kakatiya University
Khammam
04-2016

Skills

  • Product QA: Exploratory Testing, Regression Testing, Release Validation, Defect Triage, UX Gap Analysis
  • Systems & APIs: API Testing (REST), Postman, Swagger, SQL, PostgreSQL, DB Validation
  • Tools: JIRA, QTest, Git, Eclipse, Azure CI/CD, JMeter
  • Scripting: JavaScript (API assertions)
  • AI & Evaluation: Prompt Engineering fundamentals, response accuracy & edge-case evaluation

Certification

Prompt Engineering for LLMs – Udemy

Affiliations

Volunteer, Tech Mahindra 2022-2023

Timeline

Product Quality Analyst

Tech Mahindra
08.2022 - Current

Test Specialist

Franklin Templeton
05.2018 - 06.2022

Senior Process Associate

Cognizant
08.2016 - 04.2018

B.Com (Computers) - Computers

Kakatiya University
VENKAT SAI KUMAR Kandavalli