Kesava Indla

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Current Location: Honolulu HI
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INTERVIEW AVAILABILITY
(Dates listed must be 48 hours after candidate submission)
Time Slot 1 (Date/Time) Time Slot 2 (Date/Time) Time Slot 3 (Date/Time)

 07/08/2019 at 11:00AM to  07/09/2019 at 11:00AM to 04:00PM PST  07/10/2019 at 11:00AM to

04:00PM PST 04:00PM PST
Time Slot 4 (Date/Time) Time Slot 5 (Date/Time)  
07/11/2019 at 11:00AM to  07/12/2019 at 11:00AM to 04:00PM PST  
04:00PM PST
Availability to Start  2 Weeks  
Notice Period/ LWD on  2 Weeks  
last project
Interviews/ Offers in  NO  
Pipeline
LIST ALL EMPLOYMENT FOR THE PAST 7 YEARS
Dates of Employment Parent Employer Name /Project Company Location
(Month/Year – Name
Month/Year) i.e. ABC Staffing / Project at XYZ Client
Name
Apr 2017 – Till date   Hawaiian Airlines Honolulu, HI
Apr 2015 – April 2017 Consensus San Francisco, CA
Mar 2014 – Mar 2015 Symitar San Diego, CA
July 2013 – Mar 2014 Angie’s List Indianapolis, IN
July 2012 – June 2013   NFP Bangalore, India
Supplier Synopsis
Mandatory Skills(As # of Years’
listed in JD) Candidate’s relevant hands-on experience
Experience
Selenium 8 years
 Java     5 years
 Agile     10 years
 CICD   5 years 
Nice to Have(As listed in # of Years’ Candidate’s relevant hands-on experience
JD) Experience
     
Additional comments:  
SUMMARY
• Around 12 Years of experience in Automation testing using Selenium with C#, Java, VSTS Coded UI test,
Appium, WatiN, C++, C#, Manual, Performance and web services Testing, Rest Services, SOA testing,
SoapUI Pro/ReadyAPI, ServiceVPro, Silverlight and WCF.
• Ability to Establish, create innovative and efficient Automation testing solutions, and Automation Frameworks
to Accelerate delivery. 
• Collaborate with Client/Management to strategize & align long term solutions for automation including
roadmap, tools, framework & approach. 
• Ability to Manage Multiple Automation Projects on Multiple Automation Tools, Manage the Complete
Automation phases from Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Reporting
• World class expertise in Designing, Developing Scalable, maintainable and Generic Automation Testing
Frameworks on Selenium, Appium, VSTS Coded UI test, QTP and similar Automation tools. 
• Experience building and using test automation frameworks to support and accelerate DevOps delivery. 
• Expertise in architecting and designing the automation solutions at enterprise level. 
• Lead the design, modification, development, and implementation of test automation architecture and
framework 
• Expertise in enabling test automation Integration with DevOps Pipeline
• Expertise in configuring agents in VSTS, Bamboo and Jenkins
• Integrated Octopus/VSTS to enable continuous delivery in Devops pipeline.
• Expert in research and implementation of the advanced features of test automation.
• Managing the team of 15 people 
• Effective mentoring and monitoring teams progress 
• Experience in building test strategy and testing in Mulesoft environment, different layers, ESB. 
• Strong expertise in integrating automation into CI/CD/Devops pipeline. 
• Expertise in Selenium with Java and C#. 
• Expertise in API testing, SOAP, REST Web services automation using ReadyAPI/SoapUI Pro, Rest assured
framework
• Experience testing API/Microservices developed in Mulesoft.
• Experience in building mock services using ServiceV Pro 
• Strong experience in building Automation frameworks, Automation scripts with various tools. 
• Experience in working on agile scrum process, TDD, BDD. 
• Experience with Specflow, Cucumber
• Experience with Jenkins, Bamboo, VSTS, Octopus, ALM, TFS, Git. 
• Experience with Docker Containers
• Experience working with AWS, S3
• Experience working with Eclipse, Intellij
• Experience working Maven, Gradle, TestNG, Junit, MS Test, Nunit.
• Expertise in preparing test cases and executing Software test scripts on various systems manually and using
automated tools. 
• Experience integrating Bamboo/JIRA/Zephyr with custom code/plugin.
• Experience working with JIRA, Zephyr, VSTS
• Expertise in Shift left approach in CI/CD/Devops pipeline
• Expertise in Building mocks/Service virtualization using ServiceV Pro
• Excellent skills and Hands-on experience in web services testing in SOA environment using SoapUI Pro tool. 
• Experience in Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, cross browser and Performance
testing (Using load runner and VSTS tools). 
• Experience working with/testing Angular JS applications
• Familiar with Jasmine, Karma
• Experience in building the automated test scripts for use in development and testing cycles. 
• Expertise in building utilities using C++, C#. 
• Expertise in using VMware virtualization Technology, creating and using Virtual machines. 
• Good Knowledge on Software testing life cycle (STLC). 
• Experience in analyzing the use cases and preparing test cases. 
• Excellent Problem Solving, self-learning, Interpersonal and Communication skills. 
• A good team player and has an ability to work in a team and individual environment. 
• Enthusiastic and highly committed to the assigned responsibilities.

CERTIFICATIONS
• SmartBear software – ReadyAPI – SoapUI NG Pro certified
• Green Belt certified professional in six sigma Process Implementation. 
• SOA testing certified

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems:
Programming Languages:
Databases:
IDE Applications:
Version Control Tool:
Devops:
Test/Test Management Tools:
Windows Server 2008, Vista, win 7, DOS 
Java, C++, C#, VB, VBA, Python, Silverlight, Groovy
MS SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server 2008, 
Visual Studio 
Team Foundation Server, Git hub 
VSTS, Octopus, Jenkins
Selenium, Coded UI, QTP, SoapUI Pro, ALM, TFS, Cucumber, Specflow

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Hawaiian Airlines – Honolulu, HI April 2017 – Till date

SDET Architect
Roles & Responsibilities
• Completely transformed QA process from mostly manual testing to a suite of automated tests
• Provide leadership around test techniques or methodologies to support complex or strategic direction for
creation of the automation test suite environment.
• Provide leadership in the execution of automated test scripts and validation of requirements
• Lead the design, modification, development, and implementation of test automation architecture and
framework
• Responsible for the automation architecture and provides direction on automation techniques.
• Responsible for the research and implementation of the advanced features of test automation
• Provide consultation on the most complex Automation strategies
• Lead the automation development effort and helped to find critical issues by finding various ways to “break”
systems
• Create and validate automated scripts that support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery- Devops
pipeline
• Expertise in testing microservices developed in Mulesoft at different layers (Experience, Process and
Systems).
• Integrated VSTS/Octopus/ReadyAPI for continuous testing in Devops pipeline
• Integrated Bamboo/Git/JIRA/Zephyr
• Service virtualization with ServiceV Pro
• Building Automation framework for API With ReadyAPI/SoapUI NG Pro
• Experience with Groovy programming language With ReadyAPI/SoapUI NG Pro
• Building Automation framework for UI layer with Selenium
• Built reporting history capability with Klov using mongodb
• Built automation scripts BDD with Specflow and Cucumber.
• Built custom solution to publish automated test results in JIRA/Zephyr.
• Setting up the CICD configurations, agents in VSTS and Bamboo
• End to end automation integration into CI/CD pipeline
• Working experience with Docker containers.
• Implemented Shift left approach in CI/CD/Devops pipeline
• Optimized existing scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Design Components, and Test Cases and Defects.
• Participated in daily defect scrum meetings with the cross functional team members (developers, end users)
to discuss open defects and design issues.
Environment and tools: ASP.NET, C#, REST, ReadyAPI, Selenium, TestNG, Gradle, VSTS, Octopus, bamboo,
AWS, Github, Mulesoft

Client: Consensus – San Francisco, CA April 2015 – April 2017

Lead SDET
Roles & Responsibilities
• Client Interaction & Understanding requirements
• Coordinated with Offshore team to assign task as per the client requirement
• Performed comprehensive Functional testing of the system.
• Building Automation framework with Selenium, Java, cucumber
• Building Automation scripts for API/Rest services with rest assured framework.
• API/REST/SOAP services automation in SoapUI/ReadyAPI
• Expertise in testing microservices developed in Mulesoft at different layers (Experience, Process and
Systems).
• Performed backend testing by running SQL Queries
• Performed cross browser testing to ensure compatibility of the application.
• Optimized existing scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types.
• Used JIRA for defect tracking.
• Performed GUI Testing, Regression testing and Integration testing.
• Integrated test automation (API and UI) in Devops pipeline in Jenkins.
• Working experience with Docker containers
• Experience with Groovy programming language With ReadyAPI/SoapUI NG Pro
• Setting up the jobs, CICD configurations, agents in Jenkins
• End to end automation integration into CI/CD pipeline
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Design Components, and Test Cases And
Defects.
• Participated in daily defect scrum meetings with the cross functional team members (developers, end users)
to discuss open defects and design issues.
• Analyzing the test cases which can be automated.
• Creating the automated test scripts, execution of Automated Test Cases.
• Providing the test results and create bugs
Environment: Java, Selenium, AutoIT, TestNG, Gradle, Jenkins, JIRA, Rest Assured, Cucumber

Client: Symitar – San Diego, CA March 2014 – March 2015

Lead SDET
Roles & Responsibilities
• Client Interaction & Understanding requirements 
• Coordinated with Offshore team to assign task as per the client requirement 
• Building Automation framework with C# in Coded UI test. 
• Involved in designing the test plans and created the test cases for the different modules like Enterprise
module, Analysis Module, Document Module in the application. 
• Wrote and executed SQL queries to validate the data during the application migration between different
environments. 
• Performed comprehensive Functional testing of the system. 
• Performed backend testing by running SQL Queries using TOAD and SQL Plus to test for the data validation
at database level. 
• Tested the SOAP requests and responses using the SoapUI testing tool. 
• Performed cross browser testing to ensure compatibility of the application. 
• Optimized existing scripts for Regression testing of the application with various data sources and data types. 
• Used ALM for defect tracking. 
• Wrote SQL test scripts to verify the data in the database and verify the consistency with application UI. 
• Performed GUI Testing, Regression testing and Integration testing. 
• Automating test scripts for functional, regression and integration testing in C# Using CodedUI Test. 
• Worked with the co-testers closely in determining both medium and high severity defects, that would
potentially affect the downstream systems before the release of the project. 
• Maintained the Traceability Matrix between Requirements, Design Components, and Test Cases And
Defects. 
• Participated in daily defect scrum meetings with the cross functional team members (developers, end users)
to discuss open defects and design issues. 
• Design and develop the Automation framework, analyzing the test cases which can be automated. 
• Creating the automated test scripts, execution of Automated Test Cases. 
• Providing the test results and create bugs 
• Implementing CI 
Environment: VC++, C#, WPF, COM, VSTS CodedUI, C#, VC++, Selenium, ALM,TFS
Client: Angie’s List – Indianapolis, IN July 2013 – March 2014
Sr. SDET
Roles & Responsibilities
• Coordinated with Offshore team to assign task as per the client requirement 
• Conducted Functionality and Regression testing during the various phases of the application using Selenium
RC. 
• Automated the UI functional testing using Selenium RC & WebDriver. 
• Client/Server testing in .NeT. 
• Implemented UI Mapping in Selenium Scripts using Properties files. 
• Implemented Page Object Model in the Selenium scripts. 
• Used SoapUI to test Web Services. 
• Leading offshore team. 
• Design and develop the Automation framework, analyzing the test cases which can be automated. 
• Creating the automated test scripts, execution of Automated Test Cases. 
• Providing the test results and create JIRA bugs 
• Implementing CI 
Environment: ASP Net, C#, Python, SQL Server 2008, Selenium, Behave, BDD, Java, JIRA

Client: NFP – Bangalore, Karnataka July 2012 – June 2013

Sr. SDET
Roles & Responsibilities
• Automated 400+ test cases, which saves approximately 200+ manual hours effort for 1 execution cycle. 
• Estimating the automation efforts 
• Leading the offshore team. 
• Design and develop the Automation framework. 
• Analyzing the test cases which can be automated. 
• Creating the automated test scripts with C# using selenium. 
• Execution of Automated Test Cases using Nunit.
Environment: ASP Net, C#, SQL Server 2008, Nunit, Selenium, AutoIT

Client: Serengeti CBC – Bangalore, Karnataka August 2011 – July 2012

Sr. SDET
Roles & Responsibilities
• Automated 600+ test cases, which were running in multiple browsers and saves approximately 750+ manual
hours effort for 1 execution cycle 
• Developed the entire automation solution independently 
• Estimating the automation efforts 
• Developed the Automation framework independently. 
• Automating cross browser testing
• Analyzing the test cases which can be automated. 
• Creating the automated test scripts with C# using selenium. 
• Execution of Automated Test Cases using Nunit.
Environment: Dot Net, Java Script, SQL Server 2008, Nunit, Selenium, AutoIT

Client: Ontario – Bangalore, Karnataka June 2011 – August 2011

Sr. SDET
Roles & Responsibilities
• Analyzing the test cases which can be automated. 
• Creating the automated test scripts for the tests which can be automated. 
• Execution of Automated Test Cases and logging defects. 
• Building Automation test cases with VSTS coded UI Test with C#
Environment: Silverlight, WCF, ASP.NET

Employer: Honeywell
Project: Honeywell-Matrikon Institution – Bangalore, Karnataka December 2010 – June 2011
Test/Automation Engineer
Roles & Responsibilities
• Identifying and creating the test cases by understanding the client requirements thoroughly. 
• Creating the automated test scripts for the tests which can be automated. 
• Communicating with the onsite team for clarification of requirements 
• Building API/REST/SOAP Automation test suties with Soapui Pro tool
• Preparation and Execution of Test Cases 
• Tracking and logging defects and following up of defect till closure.
Environment: WPF, Silverlight, WCF, SharePoint 2010 and IIS 7.0

Employer: Honeywell
Project: SOA Foundation January 2010 – November 2010
Test/Automation Engineer
Roles & Responsibilities
• Identifying and creating the test cases by understanding the client requirements thoroughly. 
• Understanding the functionality of application and analyzed the test cases to be automated. 
• Proactively working with the dev team and getting inputs to develop the automation scripts before the build is
delivered to test team 
• Building API/REST/SOAP Automation test suties with Soapui Pro tool
• Building Automation test cases with VSTS coded UI Test with C#
• Developing UIs to consume web services without actual build 
Environment: C#.Net, Win Forms, Visio 2010/2007, SQL Server 2008, Silver light, WCF and IIS

Employer: Honeywell
Project: Axonite Technology Preview December 2008 – January 2010
Test/Automation Engineer
Roles & Responsibilities
• Involved in developing and testing API/WCF services using MES foundation 
• Involved in developing entity data model and rest services using MES foundation 
• Involved in developing Silverlight UI using MES foundation. 
• Building API/REST/SOAP Automation test suties with Soapui Pro tool
• Building Automation test cases with VSTS coded UI Test with C#
• Developed and executed test scripts for the application. 
• Understood the functionality of application and analyzed the test cases to be automated. 
• Major contribution in automating foundation components 
• Provided technical guidance to the team to ensure that overall testing process is proceeding in the
appropriate direction as some of the team members from domain background.
Environment: C#.Net, Win Forms, Visio 2007, SQL Server 2008, Silver light, WCF and IIS

Employer: Honeywell
Project: PHD Server - Bangalore, Karnataka
Development Engineer December 2007 - December 2008
• Understanding the requirements thoroughly and developed the load testing tool (VC++) with less technical
support. 
Environment: C++, C#.

Education :- MCA from Sri Krishnadevaraya University-2008