Vijay Tuppada
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven professional with nearly 17 years of experience in Quality Engineering and Automation projects. Adept at implementing process improvements and utilizing Agile project management skills to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products. Seeking exciting opportunities in the Quality Engineering and DevOps Domain with a prestigious organization in Bangalore.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Performance Engineering Architect
Quinbay Blibli
Bangalore
04.2022 - Current
- Spearheaded performance engineering initiatives within a dynamic Indonesian E-commerce Tech Team by leveraging tools such as Jmeter and K6 to enhance API performance. Additionally played a crucial role in optimizing Single user UI performance on Web and Mobile using Playwright. Led major squads responsible for Order Fulfillment, Shipping, Inventory, Catalog Products, and TMS.
- Established automated self-service platforms for both Performance Engineering and security purposes in a Docker-based environment, enabling Trivy on all dev repos for security vulnerabilities checks in the pipeline.
- Designed and developed efficient systems utilizing Kibana log-scraping techniques to detect occurrences of NPE in production, facilitating prompt creation of Jira tickets for respective teams based on their volume and impact.
- Executed a Shift Left approach, implementing API automation first and providing guidance to technical SDET's and Lead SDET for early bug detection.
- Implemented Production Customer Journey automation across all platforms (Mobile, Web, M-Web) to maintain system reliability and uphold a customer-centric approach.
- Created robust automation framework for UI with Selenium and Playwright, while also implementing API automation using Java and Rest Assured library
- Enhanced feature delivery by implementing in-sprint Automation in squads while also measuring performance using KPIs and quality metrics.
- Successfully implemented CI/CD alongside the DevOps teams by building jenkins pipelines from build system ( including Unit tests , Trivy security checks , API automation till deployment all unmanned from QA env to Preprod leading to a substantial decrease in release time.
- Leading the software quality process involving review of product functions, test specifications & documentation, defect prevention, debugging & resolution of issues. In Weekly Leadership meetings presenting the Production bugs metrics and MTTR metrics to align with Customer Centric approach.
Sr. SDET Architect Manager
Cerner Healthcare Solutions
Bangalore
01.2014 - 03.2022
- Managed and directed a team of over 30 automation testers in the Clinical Centers team, overseeing Radiology Bloodbank, Cardiology, and Women’s health teams.
- Orchestrated the implementation of a right branching strategy and CI framework alongside the DevOps team, resulting in enhanced quality assurance processes across multiple levels and support for a shift left methodology.
- Piloted and implemented building synthetic test data for functional automation using CA TDM test data management tool by building tiles and reusing them in Automation which in turn helped save time.
- In Powerchart Touch Mobile team, managed a team of mobile testers and together developed mobile automation framework with tool APPIUM for both Android and IOS.
- Completely built and owned the Automation framework Design for Selenium with java and single common framework provided to all testing teams
- Completely setup the best practices and the automation strategy for Web and API projects and also for thick clients
- Evangelized Eggplant tool across the Organization across BLR and Kansas City offices
- Was part of the Automation review board where the best practices ,best coding practices are documented and given technical inputs to build Static code analyzer checks to ensure teams are building the automation code uniformly.
- Finalized the code review checklists and the code review process and then published it for wider testing groups.
- Responsible for developing processes for project delivery activities (including project governance, resource planning, budget management, change management, stakeholder reporting and knowledge management)
- Formulated Automation Roadmap, timelines, milestone and goals for automation projects across teams.
- Suggested tool such as Mind-maps, RTM that helps in quantitative evaluation of test coverage.
Technical Specialist
Mindtree Ltd.
Bangalore
11.2010 - 12.2013
- Led Pre-Sales initiatives by overseeing candidate management for UK positions, conducting interviews, and managing onsite offshore teams in Bangalore, Pune, and the UK. Headed all stages of the process including customer discovery and final proposal delivery.
- Played a vital role in supporting the Presales team with resourcing activities, including the development of client use case slides, tooling analysis, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies for securing project bids. Effectively built and managed teams starting from BBC London location which expanded operations across BLR and Pune.
- Implemented an automation first strategy for increasing efficiency and functionality of BBC mobile applications, encompassing both online and offline capabilities.
Sr. Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
Bangalore
- Conducted validation of 2G/3G mobile features in European countries and built automation solutions for T-Mobile TMCC application
- Managed a team of 6 German contractors and worked as an acting lead for the T-Mobile TMCC Automation project.
Education
MCA -
Intell Institute of Sciences
Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh01.2004
Sri Krishna Devaraya University
Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh01.2000
Skills
- Performance Engineering
- Continuous improvement
- Customer Centric experience
- DevOps Implementation
- Data Driven decision making
- Team leadership & development
- Agile Methodologies
- Shift Left Strategy
- CI/CD Implementation
- Automation Frameworks
- Project Governance
- Leadership Mindset
- Communicator
- Decision-making
- Change Agent
- Collaborator
Notable Accomplishments
- Attained “Pat on the Back” award for exceptional and timely automation delivery to client in Germany T-Mobile (Wipro Technologies)
- Received “Night on the town” award for achieving seamless execution of automation and rolling up to teams
- Participated & contributed in Engineering Cultural Events such as DevCon Annual Conference – Participated as DevCon Reviewer and lead Papers in Testing Track.
- Engineering Culture Councils – Lead Innovations track and hosted ‘Hackathons’ for testing community for devising Solutions to those problems that impacted development and testing teams.
- Presented topic on Blockchain in DevCon and also part of the group which kick started and implemented blockchain technology
- ATS Auto test selection which helps in providing test detection system based on the code changes within the Sprint.
Personal Information
- Title: Sr Performance Engineering Architect
- Date of Birth: 06/10/80
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Telugu
- Kannada
- German
Timeline
Sr. Performance Engineering Architect
Quinbay Blibli
04.2022 - Current
Sr. SDET Architect Manager
Cerner Healthcare Solutions
01.2014 - 03.2022
Technical Specialist
Mindtree Ltd.
11.2010 - 12.2013
Sr. Software Engineer
Wipro Technologies
MCA -
Intell Institute of Sciences
Sri Krishna Devaraya University
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