Name: Venkat Malla

Contact: 469.688.2517
Email id: hraajam@gmail.com

Sr. QA Automation Engineer (SDET)

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Expertise in Functional test planning, Test Cases Design, Test Environment Setup, Test Data Setup, Defect
Management, Requirements Analysis & Gathering (RTM), Cross functional training.

 Having 9+ years of experience in Software Designing, Development & Quality Testing, and
doing Manual, automated testing on Web based and Client server applications using Java
and Selenium.
 Good knowledge in using repositories J-Frog, GIT. Integrating automation test suites on
Team City for continuous integration(CI).
 Strong experience in Service SOA /APITesting
 Knowledge of Jira/ConfluencePages/RabbitMQ/Squids
 Strong knowledge in web services testing using SOAP UI and Restful WebServices.
 Good knowledge on using BDD frameworks likeCucumber
 Strong Knowledge in Core Java, JSON, XML andHTML
 Built real time data pipelines by developing Kafka producers and streaming applications
for consuming
 Experience spread across QA Testing, Production Support and Healthcare.
 Worked with Technical Architect, DBA, Dev. Team, Network team and Test Manager to
identify functional & performance bottlenecks & releasedelivery.
 Experience in deep defect root cause analysis and root cause solutions (specializes in
core configuration issues for PRIME-CreditCard)
 Worked on Domain - Payment System (Visa/Master Card/Amex/JCB), POS, Credit Card,
Debit Card, School Education management systems, Banking (Prime/Online-Card &
Merchant, Fraud Guard, Case Management & Dispute Management) &
ContentManagement.
 Experience in UAT and Patch testing (Real time Payment system issues) at clientenvironment.
 Experience in designing, developing, enhancing module base automation using Tricentis’
model- based automation tool TOSCA9.1
 Proficient experience in Agile and Waterfallmethodology.
 Extensively used Selenium (XPath and CSS locators) to test webapplications
 Experience in API testing, Regression Testing, Data Driven Testing, FunctionalTesting.
 Experience in testing Web Services using Soap UI tool, request, and responsexml.
 Good at bug-reporting and bug-tracking using Test Management tools like Quality
Center, Version One, ALM andJira.

Technical Skills:

Java, HTML, XML, HP ALM, REST Assured, CI/CD Pipeline, Cucumber, Gherkins, Rabbit
MQ, JDBC, BDD, Maven, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GIT, Bit-bucket, QC, Bugzilla,
JIRA/Confluence Pages, Eclipse, SOAP UI, Rest API, TOSCA.
Professional Experience:

Client: Wells Fargo, Cary, NC Mar 2022- Present

Role: SDET

 Experienced working in Agile Development environment.

 Participated in all phases of software development life cycle
 Created all test plans, test cases and manual and automated scripts to create greater coverage
for all initiatives assigned.
 Designed, developed and implemented POM based automation testing framework utilizing
Java, Test-NG and Selenium Web-Driver
 Created Selenium test cases for automation using Selenium Web Driver and JAVA
 Performed Data Driven Testing using Scenario Outline and Examples.
 Prepared Test Cases with the complete description of requirement, upload Test Cases &
reported results and bugs in JIRA.
 Developed Test Cases for Deployment Verification, ETL Data Validation, Cube Testing and
Report testing.
 Generated Test data and Data Request document for various types of testing for valid data,
Invalid data testing.
 Reviewed and interpreted systems documentation and business requirement gathering. 
 Developed Hybrid Automation Framework using Selenium Web-Driver and executed test
scripts with Jenkins.
 Setup test environment and test data for both positive and negative testing.
 Attended daily Scrum Meeting, Sprint Demo and Sprint Retrospective.
 Identified and logged technical and functional software detects
 Conducted Functional Testing and Regression Testing for every sprint
 Identified test scenarios required for the project and its preparations.
 Analyzed software failures, make them reproducible, report defects in Jira.
 Accessed Confluence Pages and Sharepoint to get more information about the project.
 Gained knowledge on finding root causes of issues efficiently
 Work closely with team to enhance the product output
 Experienced in testing applications using browser and mobile devices.
 Reviewed and analyzed requirements and specifications for testability and completeness.
 Interacted with team members and POC's if needed

Client: LPL Financial, Austin, TX May 2021 – Feb-2022

Role: SDET

 Extensively worked in Lift & Shift Migration of Projects from one framework to another
framework.
 Worked on Cucumber framework with web controls, creation of feature files, step definitions,
reusable methods.
 Used Page Object Model, Excel, Selenium, X-path locators as a part of Framework.
 Designed and documented REST, SOAP APIs including JSON data formats and API
versioning strategy
 Involved in writing test scripts using java and executed it through selenium cucumber
 Used Gherkin languages to write features and scenarios. Worked on agile scrum-based
methods for BDD
 Used BDD framework with Cucumber and created future files with scenario and scenarios
files.
 Maintained Selenium & JAVA automation code and resource in source controls SVN, GIT
over the time for improvements and new features
 Efficient management of Azure DevOps for creating User Stories, its sub-tasks and updating
 sprint board.
 Assisting in creating and maintaining automation framework comprised of Java Selenium and
Cucumber.
 Validated SOAP UI and Restful API services. Created API automation test scripts using
Postman API and Java Script command-line collection runner.
 Involved in setting up parallel execution for projects to run builds on Team City
 Developed the features, scenarios, step definitions, runner files, suites for BDD using
Cucumber and Gherkin
 Import projects from SVN, convert them into MAVEN, push them into GIT and run builds on
Team City
 Involved in Cross Browser Testing using Sauce-labs
 Attend meetings with project POC’s if needed to troubleshoot their issues.

Client: Humana, Louisville, KY, USA Aug 2019- April 2021

Role: SDET

 Extensively involved in all stages of testing life cycle (STLC) and Software Development
Engineer in Test (SDET) using Agile methodologies.
 Wrote Kafka producers to stream the data from external rest APIs to Kafka topics.
 Experience working for Security groups in AWS cloud and working with S3
 Define, develop, and execute automation test scripts using Core Java that leverage black and
white box testing across functional.
 Created Filters and Assertions to extract the desired values from response and validate that the
actual response meets the expected response.
 Interacted with various business user groups for the gathering the requirements for
salesforce.com CRM implementation.
 Knowledge to work on Salesforce Wave Analytics product
 Experienced in building automated tests, testing objects, migrating test cases using Q-Test.
 Maintained automated test cases for smoke testing and edited test cases manually from
Squids.
 Built S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets (AWS)
 Selected the Test Cases to be automated and performed functional testing of the front-end
using Eclipse.
 Performed end-to-end testing on the entire system.
 Seek out ways to utilize SFDC to improve processes and productivity and make
recommendations to support an organization scaling at a rapid pace.
 Actively involved in developing automation scripts using TOSCA 9.1
 Involved in writing test scripts using java and executed it through selenium cucumber
 Generating the detailed reports of the Bugs, Test Execution summary reports.
 Reviewed test plans, test cases and test scripts to ensure consistency with strategy direction,
goals and objectives of QA resources working on the projects with Agile SCRUM
methodology.
 Organize meetings with manual team when needed using Web-Ex meetings.
 Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, and Sanity testing

Client: CVS Health, Irving, TX, USA July 2018 – June 2019
Role: SDET
 Extensively involved in all stages of testing life cycle (STLC), Software Development Life
cycle (SDLC) and Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) using Waterfall, Agile
methodologies.
 Experienced in building automated UI tests, testing objects, performing verification and
handling errors using Test-Complete.
 Provided leadership within the TOSCA culture, including initiative, drive and motivation.
  Designed, executed, and maintained automated test cases for regression test cases and edited
test cases manually using TestRail.
 Efficient management of Jira Software for bug / defect tracking and Confluence for design
documents.
 Implemented the requirements on the salesforce.com platform and force.com ide plug-in using
eclipse.
 Worked on salesforce standard objects (accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities).
 Written gherkin scripting automation test scripts to execute in Cucumber
 Assisting in creating and maintaining automation framework comprised of Java, Selenium,
and Cucumber technologies.
 Performed product testing to help solve problems with current product and validated
suitability for end-use.
 Developed Core Java Script based library to read test data from XML & Properties files using
JUnit and Selenium.
 Worked on developing Enterprise Java Beans using Session beans.
 Developed and executed detailed ETL related functional, performance, integration, and
regression test case
 Extensively used RabbitMQ (order id, line items, activity id) to test the application’s backend
 process.
 Integrated applications with salesforce.com using SOAP web services API.
 Experience in using Source Tree to clone the core server.
 Complete end-to-end testing using Jenkin Jobs in CI implementation
 Create basic test plan cases for our QA automation team using TestRail for JIRA Cloud
application. Connected test scripts easily to Jira with Test-Complete.
 Experience in creating bugs, user stories and sub tasks in Jira Software.
 Selected the Test Cases to be automated and performed functional testing of the front-end
using IntelliJ IDE scripting console.
 Performed test automation by using open-source tools such as Visual Basic, Web Storm,
Selenium and Appium
 Completed SOA testing using SOAPUI, Postman, Apache HTTP Client Tool and Java
framework for Web services testing.
 Performed POS testing to prevent any issue at the customer end like invalid pin, expired card.
 Experience in retrieving data from database using SQL and used to create preferences
database.
 Tested request and response XML's based web services interfaces using RabbitMQ message
broker.
 Performed execution and logging defect in Quality Centre and Verification of defects for
System Testing.
 Conducted Smoke testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, Product testing, User
Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Data validation testing.
 Used Page Object Model, UI Mapping, Selenium Manager, Behavior Driven using Cucumber,
CSS Selectors as a part of Framework.
 Worked on UAT testing by creating new business users, setting up all the required data,
preferences and required permissions.
 Experienced in Testing and validating REST services in Java using REST Assured. Involved
in Web Services Testing using REST based web services to create and execute automated
functional, regression, compliance tests
 Used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS
 Created XML based test suit and integrated with Jenkins Server to execute automation scripts
on a regular basis by scheduling Jenkins jobs in different test environments with different test
configurations. Used Product backlog Kan-ban board to get information on To Do Checklist
and user stories.

Client: Comcast, Philadelphia, PA, USA Feb 2017 – Apr 2018

Role: SDET
  Extensively worked on Agile (Scrum) methodology throughout the Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC).
 Worked on creating test case for Object -driven framework for Selenium Web-Driver.
 Developed automation scripts using Selenium Web-Driver, Eclipse, TestNG and Java.
 Performed Data driven testing using Selenium Web-Driver and Test NG functions which
reads data from property and XML files.
 Involved in running Test scripts on different browsers using the Selenium Web-Driver.
 Used Maven for building the Web-Driver project. Integrated with Continuous Integration
tools Jenkins for running test on nightly basis automatically.
 Tested in deep defect root cause analysis and root cause solutions.
 Developed Automation framework using Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Eclipse,
 Junit, and Java and Extended TestNG Framework by adding some helper classes and methods.
 Responsible for planning, estimating, and developing JAVA based test automation using
ATDD/BDD tools.
 Involved in Writing Maven build scripts to automate the compilation and execution of Test
NG test cases/suites for VIN service, common data service, and Admin UI and java client
modules.
 Writing concise test plans and comprehensive test cases using Behavior Driven Development.
 Involved in the Continuous Integration of the automation framework with Jenkins.
 Implemented Automated execution of tests (nightly and need based) using Maven and Jenkins
 Used Cucumber for browser-based testing with scenarios and situations.
 Worked on Payment System (Visa/Master Card), Credit Card, Debit Card, School Education
management systems, Banking (Merchant, Fraud Guard, Case Management & Dispute
Management) & Content Management.
 Involved in providing the efficient locators strategy like X-Path and CSS to run Web-Driver
script in stable condition.
 Used SOAP UI to test SOA based architecture application to test SOAP services and REST
API. Also used REST Assured in testing and validating in Java.
 Preparation and execution of test scripts using J Meter and SOAP UI tool to perform Web
Services testing.
 Involved in writing unique X-Path using firebug and fire path to identify web elements.
 Assigned the new projects to testing team and track the Review schedules and Testing Status.
 Involved in tracking and reporting defects using Quality Center and was also responsible for
communicating the status to the development team.
 Developed and executed SQL queries in the database to conduct Data integrity testing by
checking the data tables on the server.
 Created concise and clear reports for distribution and presentation to senior management on
daily and weekly basis. Experience monitoring and tracking implementation plans.

Client: Cadence Health, Win-field, IL, USA May 2016 – Jan 2017

Role: SDET

 Actively participated in agile testing. Completed tasks on time for each sprint to meet the
deadlines.
 Used Selenium IDE for Open-source web testing.
 Involved in creation of Automation test framework using Selenium.
 Used Firebug Tool to identify the Object's id, Name, XPath, link in the application.
 Added annotations to the test. (Selenium).
 Used Core Java Concepts (Inheritance, abstraction, collections, properties), Selenium Web
Driver to design and implement the automation testing
 Developed the Automation Test Scripts using Java and execution using Selenium.
 Experienced in using Selenium Grid to execute Selenium automation suites on different
platforms and various browser combinations in parallel
  Involved in executing all Selenium test scripts on the different browsers and checked for
compatibility.
 Regression test cases were automated using Selenium Web Driver, and Web Driver Backed
Selenium.
 Executing Test Cases, Test Plans and Analysing the Test Results.
 Developed the Positive and Negative Test Cases for various modules based on the business
requirements.
 Performed Manual Testing on different Modules of the Application.
 Investigated software bugs and maintained reports, tracked defects.
 Prepared detailed reports of Bugs and Defects, Pass/Fail reports, and comparison analysis, and
interacted with the development teams, application and data architecture team, migration and
build teams and the DBA team to report and correct defects.
 Conducted Functional and Regression Tests and interacted with developers to fix defects and
resolve application user interface inconsistencies.
 Extensively used Quality Centre for test planning, maintain test cases and defects.
 Categorized bugs based on the severity and interfaced with developers to resolve them.
 Execution of daily smoke tests to ensure the deployment of each environment is stable.

Client: Harini Soft Solutions, INDIA Mar 2013 – Dec 2014

Role: QA Analyst

 Created Test plans and Test cases based on business and functional requirements.
 Interacted with business and development teams for requirements and test scenarios reviews.
 Designed, executed, and maintained Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, automated test cases for
regression test cases.
 Participated in Smoke testing the functional use cases during production deployments.
 Conducted White box and Black Box testing to strategize new projects requirements for
functional behaviour and performance
 Created test cases and executed these test cases to test the module functionality using test
functions
 Facilitated the implementation of a Quality System which complies with FDA and other
international regulatory guidelines.
 Developed and implemented software development lifecycle (SDLC) policies, procedures,
and validation test scripts according to the client's standards.
 Performed regression tests on various modified functionality.
 Developed test scenarios for Integration and Regression testing across system releases.
 Executed Test cases and participated actively in System Testing and Regression Testing of the
application.
 Performed backend testing of database by writing SQL queries for both internal & external
data interfaces.
 Used SOAP UI to test Web Services using WSDL file given by development team.
 Used Quality Centre for defect reporting and tracking, and generated documents and reports
for further analysis.
 Defect reporting and re-testing the software as the defects are fixed.
 Report assessment findings and recommend remediation strategies for compliance gaps.
 Developed status reports to communicate the testing progress.
 Provided guidance to business for User Acceptance test scenario specifics based on executed
Integration test cases.

Client: Aptra Technologies Pvt Ltd, INDIA Aug 2011 – Feb 2013

Role: QA Analyst

 Worked with Architects and Developers for requirements review and developing Test
 Scenarios.
 Designed Test Plan for testing life cycle of application.
 Developed System Test Cases and procedures to test various application points.
 Initially involved in creating a Manual Test Cases. Tests were grouped into test plan and
executed.
 Results were recorded and published to management.
 Involved in performing Smoke, Functional, System and Regression and backend Testing
 Created Java based scripts for Selenium WebDriver with JUnit/TestNG as automation
framework.
 Performed Unit Testing for java application.
 Performed GUI and Flash component testing and Cross Browser compatibility testing during
the releases.
 Performed Web Services Testing and XML validation by creating test case suite using
SOAPUI.
 Wrote SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.

Client: Millennium Software Solutions, INDIA Nov 2010 – July 2011

Role: Jr. QA Analyst

 Tested compatibility of application for dynamic and static content under various cross
browsers using HTML IDs and XPath in Selenium.
 Developed Hybrid framework with Selenium.
 Used ANT to build and run the Selenium automation framework. Once the script got over,
framework used to send the automation reports over email.
 Used Selenium GRID to execute test cases in parallel on different target machines.
 Performed Web Services Testing and XML validation by creating test case suite using
SOAPUI.
 Wrote SQL Query to extract data from various database tables for testing purpose.
 Database Change Verification testing using Oracle-Toad and SQL queries.
 Identified and documented defects using Buganizer to ensure applications functionality