Venkata Bala Kasi Viswanath Lakshmisetty
SDET III
Hyderabad
Summary
Currently employed at 6sense as a Software Development Engineer in Test III. I bring a unique combination of experience and curiosity to tackle complex software challenges through automation. Strong background in developing automated Functional Integration tests and end-to-end tests using open-source test frameworks in an Agile environment. Proficient in utilizing test automation tools such as Selenium Web Driver/Selenide library to create effective automation test scripts for web applications and API interactions. Skilled in using Make/Just as a Project building tool and Jenkins for Continuous Integration. Expertise in SQL and Git Commands using SCM tools like GitHub and GitLab. Comprehensive knowledge of testing, including designing test plans, writing and executing test cases, and verifying bugs. Adept at analyzing Business Requirements and Software Requirement Specifications to create essential artifacts such as Test Plans, Test strategies, Test Cases, Test Scripts, and Test & Effort Estimation. Expertise extends to various testing types including Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Sanity Testing, System Testing, UI Testing, Exploratory Testing, and Ad-hoc Testing. Valuable team player who successfully onboarded and mentored team members towards their professional growth while effectively communicating clear and compelling material through knowledge transfer sessions and meetings.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer in Test III
6sense
09.2022 - Current
- Currently utilizing and contributing to a robust Python QA automation framework at 6sense, including Pytest for test development, Selenium for UI automation, Requests for API testing, Make for project orchestration, Testrail for project management, GitHub for VCS and Jenkins for continuous integration.
- Analyzed Saleswhale’s automation tech stack and executed a phased migration strategy to incorporate its test flows into 6sense’s QA automation framework.
- Contributed to the automation of Pipeline Intelligence's complex APIs.
- Driving the automation of Sales Intelligence’s complex UI and API (REST + GraphQL) workflows—such as filters, sorting, lists, and exports—resulting in a 40% increase in test coverage.
- Contributed to QA automation framework enhancements, including the 'introduction of Optional and Enum support in the serialization-deserialization layer', 'utility API methods for handling nested responses', 'onboarding of new products into the framework', 'singleton-based thread synchronization for config management', 'addition of GraphQL API automation', and 'POC on LambdaTest and comparison against BrowserStack' among others.
- Automated daily Jenkins runs using Postman schedulers and implemented Slack notifications, accelerating issue resolution by 60% and significantly improving the feedback loop.
- Led first-round interviews for SDET positions and mentored newly onboarded SDETs to help them integrate smoothly into the team.
- Conducted automation knowledge transfer sessions for functional QA engineers. Led Security Focus Group initiatives and formulated a strategy to enforce best security practices across all layers.
- Promoted adherence to testing best practices and guided the team toward becoming a more effective and cohesive testing unit.
Senior Software Test Automation Engineer
EPAM
07.2022 - 08.2022
- Served as a Senior Automation Engineer for the WALG-CORE project at Walgreens.
- Involved in design and enhancements of automation framework using Java, Selenium Web Driver/Selenide library, TestNG with Maven such as 'custom user dequeues', 'custom design patterns', and 'utility components'.
- Mentored new members and helped them to get familiarized with the framework.
Software Test Automation Engineer
EPAM
09.2020 - 07.2022
- Served as a Functional and Automation Engineer on Mastercard’s MACD-SSIE project, part of the Shared Services division, developing backend services for internal enterprise applications.
- Gathered requirements docs such as business requirements, software specifications, and Test Strategy to understand the business requirement and then translated them into Test Plan.
- Identified test cases applicable for automation testing and manual testing.
- Captured Test Run Results daily, analyzed failed TCs, fixed and re-ran the manual test cases.
- Performed Smoke Test, Functional Test, Regression Test and Sanity Test throughout the sprint and completed all phases of STLC in each sprint.
- Actively contributed to development validation and assumed QA ownership for multiple modules by executing comprehensive test strategies and signing off deployments.
- Abided by Agile - Scrum process and participated in all Scrum ceremonies and updated with scrum artifacts.
- Identified Reported and tracked the defects using JIRA and maintained the Test cases using RALLY.
- Assisted in Defect prioritizing, post-fix retesting and Regression testing.
- Assisted in post release documentation, reporting and User Acceptance Testing.
- Continuous collaboration and sync-up with dev and cross functional teams.
- Participated in Daily stand-up call, review meeting and post sprint retro meeting.
- Contributed to effort estimation and analyzing product requirements during Sprint Planning.
- Utilized Postman, Rest Assured library for API testing and automation.
- Utilized SQL and JMeter for performance/load testing.
- Contributed as an Automation Engineer to Walgreens' WALG-CORE platform, focused on transforming the consumer healthcare experience through technology-driven solutions that enhance outcomes and lower costs.
- Involved in contributions to automation framework using Java, Selenium Web Driver/Selenide library, TestNG with Maven.
- Involved in code reduction using clean code principles and design patterns and by applying JAVA-8 features.
- Performed Cross-browser testing and parallel testing using Browser stack.
- Created and automated manual test cases to enhance the existing Framework functionality.
- Inspected locators for UI elements using Xpath-axes or CSS functions and used Eclipse IDE/IntelliJ for source code development.
- Maintained and tracked source code in GITHUB using Git Terminal, and GitLab.
Junior Software Test Automation Engineer
EPAM
07.2019 - 08.2020
- Equipped with strong foundational training in manual and Java-based automation testing.
- Contributed to EPAM’s internal project EPM-INOB, a pre-onboarding platform aimed at improving the onboarding experience for new hires and helped improve coverage by 20%.
Education
B.tech - CSE
Vardhaman College of Engineering
Shamshabad, India01-2019
Intermediate - MPC
Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Hyderabad, India01-2015
Schooling - SSC
Pratibha Vidya Niketan High School
Hyderabad, India01-2013
Skills
- Python
- Pytest
- Selenium Web-driver, Selenide
- Selenium Grid, BrowserStack, LambdaTest
- Requests, Postman
- MAKE/JUST, FLAKE8
- Pycharm
- Continuous integration with Jenkins
- GitHub
- Test Automation Framework
- SQL Query
- Agile-Scrum
Timeline
- Software Development Engineer in Test III, 6sense - 09/2022 to Present
- Senior Software Test Automation Engineer, EPAM - 07/2022 to 08/2022
- Software Test Automation Engineer, EPAM - 09/2020 to 07/2022
- Junior Software Test Automation Engineer, EPAM - 07/2019 to 08/2020
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
Telugu
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Software Development Engineer in Test III
6sense
09.2022 - Current
Senior Software Test Automation Engineer
EPAM
07.2022 - 08.2022
Software Test Automation Engineer
EPAM
09.2020 - 07.2022
Junior Software Test Automation Engineer
EPAM
07.2019 - 08.2020
B.tech - CSE
Vardhaman College of Engineering
Intermediate - MPC
Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Schooling - SSC
Pratibha Vidya Niketan High School
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