Rama Sita Paladugu

• Verified Workday Financial and Analytics products that were being upgraded for performance while the products were in day-to-day use by customers. Actively participated and influenced architectural decisions, engaged in in-depth analysis of solutions to achieve "zero" disruption for customers.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and develop improved and reusable automation solutions.
• Implemented automated Scrum team monitoring tools using Python which provided visibility into system health on a day-to-day basis.
• Championed refactoring/re-design efforts for legacy automation solutions to improve maintainability, scalability and ROI.
• Led code reviews ensuring adherence to best practices, ultimately reducing bugs before deployment.
• Focused on application security by conducting thorough vulnerability assessments and implementing best practices in secure coding and testing techniques across the SDET organization. Based on experience and efforts, was nominated as the security champion, presented at monthly brown bags and played a key role in moving security testing left across Scrum teams.
• Mentored junior SDETs, in building automation solutions and guided them in understanding complex Workday processes and products. Proactively developed a knowledge base which was a useful point of reference for the entire team - Product, developers and SDETs.
• Contributed to ongoing improvement of team processes through proactive communication of ideas for enhancements.
• Implemented automated code coverage calculation solutions and emphasized importance of regular code coverage analysis across multiple teams.
• Developed an automated solution using Git Bisect to reduce the triage time of CI/CD pipeline failures. The solution reduced triage time by ~65% and skilled resource conservation improved by ~80%. Proof of concept was presented as part of an Org-wide hackathon and chosen as one of the top solutions for implementation.

• Responsible for building test automation strategy at organization level with focus on business value improvement, year-over-year.
• Established continuous improvement metrics to quantify progress and track team trends in areas of test efficiency, product quality and delivery predictability.
• Worked closely with managers and Agile teams to understand challenges, develop improvement approaches and prioritize efforts.
• Responsible for consolidating, analyzing, and presenting organizational quality metrics of ~40 Agile teams to Leadership.
• Developed strategy to implement API, Performance and Security testing practices across the organization.
• Championed utilization of latest automation technologies/tools to improve software delivery, best practices and testing methodologies.
• Enabled usage of BDD and Keyword Driven Development techniques using SpecFlow+ to be utilized by Software Quality teams.
• Helped develop migration and test strategy for the successful organization-wide migration from TFS 2013 to Azure DevOps.
• Fostered transparent communication and knowledge sharing among cross-functional teams by hosting regular technical forums and automation tool training sessions.

• Designed and helped develop a hybrid automation framework using Ranorex, with special emphasis on building reusable modules which can be utilized across different platforms and Products.
• Implemented Model-based testing using Microsoft Spec Explorer.
• Major contributor in establishing development processes that enabled in-Sprint automation.
• Technical Team lead for 12 offshore test automation resources - coached and managed day-to-day automation deliverables.
• Mentored manual test engineers working in different Scrum teams in automated test development.

• Worked closely with Product management to establish a practice of review and approval of acceptance test scenarios by the Product team.
• Automated new requirements using PowerShell and Carefusion-internal automation tools.
• Created and shared test execution reports regularly with the development team to promote transparency and to improve overall team confidence on Product Quality.
• Mentored junior team members, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and professional growth.
• Championed Agile principles within the team, driving improvements in flexibility and responsiveness throughout the development process.

• Designed and developed a data-driven automation test framework to test end-end user workflows using CodedUI.
• Pioneered the use of MTM and Lab Manager to organize test plans and to trigger and report on automated test executions.
• Functioned as Scrum master for the team.
• Created architecture flow diagrams of the application under test, test process workflow charts in Sharepoint.
• Responsible for establishing quality standards at organization level by conducting quality process audits.

Projects include development of user-friendly interface for an internal configuration management tool, development of SQL backend, prototyping and implementation of stand-alone internal tools that assist development, web page styling, development of reusable COM components, system replication in offshore for application development, migration of legacy applications to latest technologies and Production support.