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Wilson Palkuri

Wilson Palkuri

Vancouver,BC, Canada

Summary

A detail-oriented and highly efficient quality assurance engineer, skilled at operating on a wide range of platforms.


  • Over 11 years of IT experience in software Quality Assurance.
  • Around 4 years of experience as an Automation testing lead.
  • Around 8 years of experience in UI and Mobile Automation using Selenium, Java, xcode.
  • Good understanding of all phases of the development lifecycle.
  • Worked on Test Automation using the Protractor framework for Angular JS web application testing.
  • Expertise in working with BDD (Behaviour Driven) Framework using Cucumber, Maven, TestNG.
  • Extensively worked on RESTFUL API Web service Testing and Automation Using RestAssured.
  • Good understanding of Groovy scripting used for Web Automation.
  • Well versed in project execution in end-to-end agile methodology.
  • Experience in designing, implementing, and coding Automation test cases as per the client's requirements
  • Well versed in DevOPS configuration tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Maven, and Ant scripting.
  • Good understanding of Selenium grid and cloud based automation browser applications (the Browser stack).
  • Worked on Automating Web services, P2P API Testing, REST and SOAP calls, as part of the development unit testing.
  • Worked as an Openstack as community contributor.
  • Experience working on Ubuntu, Linux operating systems.
  • Documentation, Understanding Functional Requirements Documents, Preparing Test Strategy Documents, Test Plans, and Test Execution Reports.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certificate

Work History

Sr Automation Developer

Emirates NBD
07.2019 - 04.2023
  • As an Onshore Automation Testing Team lead - Responsible in delivering Automation Test pack for BUSINESSOnline, a Corporate banking Application consisting of ~100 banking features embedded into a single web Application.
  • Responsible for overall Automation delivery – Onshore & Offshore Resource planning, Team Velocity, Test execution designing and planning, Release planning and Go-live.
  • Responsible for Regression testing the product in 5 different entities (UAE – ENBD/EI, EGYPT, Saudi Arabia, India) product roll outs.
  • Expertise and successfully delivered quality selenium - Java code (Regression Test Pack) in complex business modules within BUSINESSOnline.
  • Expertise in working with parallel execution techniques such as selenium hub using docker containers.
  • Responsible for status reporting to Product Owner and other stake holders for QA Automation Testing.
  • Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.

Software Engineering Team Lead

Accenture Solutions Limited
07.2015 - 07.2019

Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployment projects in multiple Industry groups.

Project 1: DFS (Dell Financial Services)

  • Understanding Oracle Fusion (SOA) architecture to design business test scenarios.
  • Responsible in creating SOAPUI Automation solution to test API Request and response handling e2e transaction within Dell e-commerce payment gateway.
  • Reporting QA Status and metrics to leadership.
  • As Test Automation lead representing Accenture in entire QA activities from offshore.

Project 2: Motorola/Lenovo

  • Responsible for Planning, Design QA progress for the program.
  • Automating Lenovo ecommerce website and cloud based Hybris platform for e2e journey scenarios Automation.
  • Reviewing project specifications and designed technology solutions.
  • Involved and responsible for the Integration Testing along with multiple upstream and downstream components.

Project 3: RPA CoE

  • Responsible for setting up Orchestrator and UiPath Infrastructure.
  • Responsible for design, development, deployment of workflows and monitoring bot.

Sr. Software Engineer

Persistent Systems Limited
08.2010 - 06.2015

Project 1: Openstack:

  • Extensively worked on Worked on various Openstack versions – Grizzly, Havana and Icehouse.
  • Understanding and performing end to end Openstack deployments in various scenarios – Single Node, Multi Node and High Availability.
  • Worked on TEMPEST Automation framework, to test Openstack Installation.
  • Worked on automating HORIZON dashboard using Selenium Web Driver Automation Framework using Python as programming language.
  • Involved in Writing SOAK Tests for Performance testing Openstack Components using Jmeter.
  • Understanding and transmitting the business requirements for the project, and translating these into functional specifications and detailed test plans.
  • Performing root cause analysis for the defects encountered in Openstack setup.

Project 2: Navman Wireless, CA USA

  • Online AVL 2 (Navman Wireless, Explorer 11, SQL Server 2008, Reviewing/Studying Requirements Specifications and deriving the test scenarios.
  • Preparing high level functional test cases from specifications.
  • Involved in Smoke testing, Regression testing and defect management process.
  • As a Module : (Lead a team of 2).
  • Effort Estimation of testing activities.
  • Reviews of test cases and other specification documents (Preparing High Level Test Plan, Test Strategy).
  • Involved in Daily client interaction for issue resolution, Sprint Planning task, Test Environment Setup, Involved in Bug Triaging.
  • Status reporting including Test Reports to management and stakeholders Career progression and performance management of entire group.

System Test Engineer

AT&T Global Business Services Private Limited
03.2009 - 08.2010
  • As a System Test Engineer - Was involved in System Testing AT&T Servers racked in Annapolis DataCenter.
  • Responsible to test the server hardware by running predefined linux and shell scripts and commands on the hyper-v servers.
  • Involved in remote testing port mapping and network connectivity as per the client specifications through realtime calls with hardware engineers in the data center.


Education

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management - Business Management

Alliance Business School
Bangalore, India
03.2021

Bachelors in Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India
02.2008

Skills

    Technical Expertise:

  • - RPA - UiPath
  • - Selenium Web driver Automation
  • - Protractor web Automation Framework
  • - Mobile Automation Testing framework using Appium/Xcode
  • - Web API Automation using RestAssured, SOAP UI
  • JMETER
  • - Parallel execution using: Browser stack, JENKINS, Docker
  • Other Tools:

    Eclipse, SQL, Postman, MS Test Manager, Team Foundation Server, MS Office

Certification

  • ISTQB Certified Tester, Advanced Level, Test Manager
  • ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level Extension, AGILE Tester

Accomplishments


  • Awarded as Distinctive Achiever (DA) in Accenture for the year 2018-19.
  • Awarded with ACE (Accenture Center of Excellence) as an individual contributor in Accenture for the year 2015-16.
  • Six Sigma Greenbelt certified Quality Assurance Engineer in AT&T Global Business Services Limited.

Timeline

Sr Automation Developer

Emirates NBD
07.2019 - 04.2023

Software Engineering Team Lead

Accenture Solutions Limited
07.2015 - 07.2019

Sr. Software Engineer

Persistent Systems Limited
08.2010 - 06.2015

System Test Engineer

AT&T Global Business Services Private Limited
03.2009 - 08.2010

Executive Post Graduate Diploma in Management - Business Management

Alliance Business School

Bachelors in Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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