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Vinod Lohana

Bengaluru

Summary

Accomplished Lead Software Engineer with a proven track record at Adobe, enhancing testing frameworks and team productivity by 30%. Expert in Playwright and Selenium, with a knack for mentoring and strategic test planning. Spearheaded major automation integrations, significantly improving efficiency and test coverage.

Have hands on experience in feature development from scratch using ReactJs, WebComponents

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Software Engineer In Test

Adobe
Bengaluru
06.2022 - Current
  • Designed and implemented a robust Playwright framework, resulting in a 50% reduction in manual testing effort.
  • Led a team of five QA Engineers, prioritizing tasks and mentoring junior members, which increased team productivity by 30%.
  • Led the migration of an integration automation from Selenium WebDriver to Playwright frontend automation.
  • Led non-functional testing efforts, memory and performance testing, and increased adoption, overall increasing application efficiency by 20%.
  • Integrated automated testing into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, improving build and deployment efficiency by 40%.
  • Spearheaded the adoption of API automation testing, increasing test coverage by 25%, and identifying critical backend issues.
  • Enhanced test case management using tools like TestRail, leading to better tracking and reporting of test outcomes.
  • Authored and maintained comprehensive QA documentation, facilitating knowledge sharing, and onboarding of new team members.
  • Handled calls, identified and debugged issues, and articulated RCA documents for quality checkpoints.

Lead Software Development Engineer In Test

Disney+Hotstar
Bengaluru
06.2021 - 07.2022
  • Led two teams of three QA engineers each: frontend and backend automation.
  • Played a key role in strategizing the testing of a load of 50 million traffic during the IPL 2021 and ICC T20 World Cup.
  • Played a key role in strategizing functional and non-functional testing for the migration of backend API(s).
  • Spearheaded automation of over 500 test cases for the primary web application, boosting release reliability.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of automation practices, improving product quality.
  • Contributed to the strategic planning of test automation infrastructure, aligning with company goals and technical roadmaps.

Senior Quality Engineer IV

Walmart
Bengaluru
05.2020 - 06.2021
  • Implemented automated regression tests with Selenium, reducing the regression suite execution time by 60%.
  • Participated in regular code reviews, reinforcing best practices, and maintaining code quality standards.
  • Developed a comprehensive performance suite for P0 APIs, and helped increase reliability and efficiency by 40%, and reduced downtime from 2 seconds to 750 milliseconds.
  • Contributed to fixing and adding integration backend suites, and created an automation suite for complex e-commerce workflows, from order placements to delivery, and various other complex scenarios.
  • Played a key role in the migration of the data from Oracle to the Azure service, with zero downtime.
  • Collaborated with the development team to integrate QA processes into the SDLC, promoting a culture of quality.
  • Trained two new QA hires, accelerating their ramp-up time by providing hands-on guidance on the company's testing tools and processes.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunications Engineering

Vemana Institute Of Technology
Bengaluru
05-2010

Skills

  • Javascript Typescript
  • Java
  • Selenium Appium
  • Playwright
  • Performance Testing (JMeter)
  • API testing and automation
  • Automation Framework Development
  • Agile development
  • Test planning and strategy
  • CICD
  • GIT
  • ReactJS frontend GUI development
  • AWS and Kubernetes
  • Code review and development
  • Peer Mentorship
  • Release deployment
  • Frontend GUI Development
  • HTML and CSS
  • Unit and integration testing
  • AWS and Kubernetes
  • Code review and development
  • Release deployment
  • Frontend GUI Development
  • HTML and CSS
  • Unit and integration testing
  • AWS and Kubernetes
  • Code review and development

Affiliations

  • Playing Badminton, Cricket and have participated in various sports events in and outside professional circle.
  • Participated in various corporate CSR activities Plant Trees, educating underprivileged children.
  • Enjoy trekking and solo travelling to explore various geographies and culture.
  • Fitness enthusiast.

Accomplishments

    Memory Tracker Automation Suite

    Contributed to a garbage collection detection project aimed identify memory leaks in web application. My contributions boosted the project's adoption rate by 70%, and almost 200 memory leaks automation test case, that helped improved application memory management by 30%.

    API Testing Tool Contribution

    Developed utilities for User management, and other API suites, to detect all kind of backend workflows, like purchase, onboarding, cancellation.

    Performance Dashboard & Analysis

    Analyzed and Strategize to use telemetry APIs, to identify the Performance of various FE APIs in Production and created SPLUNK Dashboard to evaluate overall performance and to present to stakeholders as an opportunity to increase the scope of optimization.

    Best Automation Practice Award

    Received the Best Automation Practice Award , for exceptional contributions to test automation and process improvements.

    Initiated and led a Memory analysis automation suite to help identify Garbage collection failures for Web and mobile Application, overall improved the application memory management by 30 %

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

Lead Software Engineer In Test

Adobe
06.2022 - Current

Lead Software Development Engineer In Test

Disney+Hotstar
06.2021 - 07.2022

Senior Quality Engineer IV

Walmart
05.2020 - 06.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Telecommunications Engineering

Vemana Institute Of Technology

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