RAJ MENDA

Mrajesh.naidu2003@gmail.com 571.344.3807

SENIOR QA AUTOMATION LEAD

Hands-on, solution-driven testing expert with a proven track record of driving increased
levels of Quality, process improvement, team performance, and internal/external
stakeholder satisfaction.

 15+ years of Development, Test Automation and worked as a Scrum master.

 Started career as a developer and continued as QA Lead engineer.
 Test Expertise hands on with Test Planning, Scheduling, documenting Test Strategies, and Interact
with Stakeholders define/gather requirements/processes, Define test cases, test reports, test types, functional,
integration/interoperability, end-end, performance, security & system.
 Hand-on expertise on Development Technologies like Java (Core, Advanced, Spring and
Hibernate), C#, Angular Java, C, JavaScript, HTML, SQL
 Hands-on expertise in a wide range of Testing and QA Tools like Selenium Web Driver,
Protractor, UFT, Test Complete, Rational Functional Tester, HP Performance Center,
Quality Center, ALM, Bugzilla, Jira, MS Build, TFS, Team city.
 Hands on experience mobile testing, on premise & Cloud with multiple devices (iPad,
iPhone, Android devices, Windows Mobile devices), mobile testing tools Appium, device
anywhere, Perfecto Mobile integration with HP testing tools UFT.
 Experience in integrating test frameworks with Sauce Labs or Browser stack.
 Hands on Experience with Selenium WebDriver, Protractor, Appium, Junit, JTest, JMeter
with Java Bindings, SOAP UI, AppScan.
 Hands on Experience with Web and Mobile Applications. Worked on Cloud solutions
like AWS, MS Azure & Big Data, Splunk.
 Comprehensive experience in Frontend, Middleware as well as Backend Testing.
 Managed projects using various models like SaaS (Software as a Service) model, Managed
Services model.
 Sound domain knowledge Federal Home Loan System, Microsoft CRM, Fixed Assets
Management, Semiconductor, Security as a Service, Network as a service, Palo Alto
Networks, Mobility, and ERP.
 Certified Scrum Master, Certified Product Owner, Version One Admin, Big Data
Fundamentals, Hadoop Fundamentals, IOT device fundamentals.
 Trained by HP with tools HP QTP, HP ALM QC, HP Performance Center and got
certified with HP.
 Expertise with Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery & Continuous Deployment
using tools Jenkins Pipeline, Maven, BDD approach with Cucumber & Jasmine tools.
 Expertise with POC’s, prototypes with new automation tools and technologies over
the market.
 Tools & Technologies

⏐ C#| QTP ⏐ Load Runner ⏐ Nessus | Autosys ⏐ SOAPUI ⏐ AppScan ⏐  Altova XMLSpy ⏐ Test
Director ⏐ Bugzilla ⏐ Jira ⏐ Clear quest ⏐ Quality Centre ⏐ALM ⏐ RTM ⏐ Citrix ⏐  SQL⏐ Oracle ⏐
MS Access ⏐ MS Excel| ⏐ MS Project, Visio ⏐ TOAD ⏐ VBScript ⏐ MS-DOS ⏐ UNIX ⏐ Windows 7,
Office 2010⏐ Clear case ⏐SVN | Eclipse ⏐  Putty⏐ Beyond Compare ⏐ Service Now⏐ XML ⏐
JavaScript ⏐ CSS  ⏐ HTML ⏐ Junit ⏐ JTest ⏐ JMeter ⏐ LDAP ⏐ ETL ⏐Sybase ⏐SQL Server⏐
Selenium WebDriver ⏐  Java (Core, Advanced, Spring & Hibernate) ⏐ Big Data ⏐ Hadoop & AWS
⏐Rational Tools ⏐Jenkins ⏐Maven ⏐Continuous Integration ⏐Continuous Delivery ⏐ Cucumber.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FHL OFFICE OF FINANCE – Reston, USA 03/2018 – Till Date

Located in Reston, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., the Office of Finance (OF) is operated on
behalf of the 12 regional FHLBanks. Its primary function is to issue and service all debt securities for
the FHLBanks, while obtaining the most cost-effective terms possible given current market conditions.
Related activities include the compilation and publication of the combined financial statements,
analysis and joint development of new funding opportunities, and educational outreach to inform
investors and other interested parties about FHLBank debt products. These efforts can include investor
road shows, sales conferences, adopting dealer/FHLBank recommendations, preparing brochures and
educational materials, and enhancing the Office of Finance website. The OF also provides the
FHLBanks with credit and general capital market information/data and manages the relationship with
the credit rating agencies. In addition, the OF administers two tax-exempt government corporations,
the Financing Corporation (FICO) and the Resolution Funding Corporation (REFCORP).)

ENVIRONMENT: Java, Angular JS, Sybase, Selenium Web driver, Protractor, JMeter, HP
Performance Center, Jasmine, Jira, Jenkins, Dokerization, Devops, CI, CD, Service Now.

Selected Achievements:
 Being an individual contributor for manual & Automation testing 30% and 70%.
 Test Planning, Scheduling, documenting Test Strategies, and Interact with Dev & business to gather
requirements/processes, Define test cases, test reports, test types, functional, integration/interoperability, end-
end, performance, security & system.
 Developing test framework, test scripts, test log, test reports with Selenium Web driver &
Protractor. Analyzing and writing test standards and procedures.
 Owner for Performance & Load testing using JMeter & Performance center tools.
 Trained other team Manual & automation resources with agile methodologies and Jira
tools make sure testing process follow agile principles.
 Performing process design and standards, effort estimation, resource forecasting
and fulfillment, and task and risk management, including functional, performance,
regression and rollback testing.
 Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment with Jenkins (Including Load
Testing integrated with Jenkins), BDD with Jasmine make sure Unit & Integration
testing is done pre-deployment and run the engineering pre-qual, kick off regression suites
and generate email to the team it’s all automated.
 Service Now ticketing test done using Jira dashboard integrated with HP – UFT test
Automation tool. Tested the upgraded modules - ticketing system for Incident, Problem, Change,
Asset, CMDB, email, Service Catalog, User Administration.
 Done with many POC’s & prototypes when we picked tools for web Apps automation.
OPAQ NETWORKS – Reston, USA 01/2017 – 02/2018.
Located in Herndon, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The premier network security cloud
company enables partners to deliver security-as-a-service to mid-size enterprise customers. With the
OPAQ Cloud, service providers can deliver Fortune 100-grade network security, centrally manage, and
enforce policies through a single interface while optimizing networking performance. This empowers
partners to instantly grow their revenue and margins and establish a competitive advantage while
eliminating complexity and costs associated with managing a multitude of products.

ENVIRONMENT: Python, Java, Selenium Web driver, Protractor, JMeter, JUnit, Jira, Angular-
js, React, Python – Django, Jenkins, Devops, CI, CD, Maven, Splunk, DUO Mobile
authentication, Linux racks.

Selected Achievements:
 Developing test framework, test scripts, test log, test reports with Selenium Web driver
using Protractor wrapper tool. Analyzing and writing test standards and procedures.
 Backend Automation using Python for Palo Alto Firewalls, working with the front end Angular UI
making sure the data entered into the app synchronizes the backend Palo Alto firewalls where the admin
part is coded using Python Django.
 Owner for Performance & Load testing using JMeter.
 Trained other team manual & automation resources with agile methodologies and Jira
tools make sure test automation follow agile principles.
 Backend Automation using Python & Django frameworks.
 Security Testing for Cloud Flare zones, Duo mobile Authentication system.
 Infrastructure hosting Load & performance testing on both Azure & AWS.
 Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment with Jenkins (Including Load
Testing integrated with Jenkins), Dokerization, BDD with Cucumber make sure Unit &
Integration testing is done pre-deployment and run the engineering pre-qual, kick off
regression suites and generate email to the team it’s all automated. Maven integrated with
Jenkins.
 Lead the teams oversees, estimate and plan the activities.

FHL OFFICE OF FINANCE – Reston, USA 05/2016 – 12/2016

Located in Reston, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C., the Office of Finance (OF) is operated on
behalf of the 12 regional FHLBanks. Its primary function is to issue and service all debt securities for
the FHLBanks, while obtaining the most cost-effective terms possible given current market conditions.
Related activities include the compilation and publication of the combined financial statements,
analysis and joint development of new funding opportunities, and educational outreach to inform
investors and other interested parties about FHLBank debt products. These efforts can include investor
road shows, sales conferences, adopting dealer/FHLBank recommendations, preparing brochures and
educational materials, and enhancing the Office of Finance website. The OF also provides the
FHLBanks with credit and general capital market information/data and manages the relationship with
the credit rating agencies. In addition, the OF administers two tax-exempt government corporations,
the Financing Corporation (FICO) and the Resolution Funding Corporation (REFCORP).)

ENVIRONMENT: Sybase, Java, Selenium Web driver, JUnit, Jira, JMeter, Performance
Center, Web Intelligence, Jenkins, Devops, CI, CD, Maven, Linux racks, Service Now.

Selected Achievements:
 Being an individual contributor for manual & Automation testing 50% and 50%.
 Developing test framework, test scripts, test log, test reports with Selenium Web driver.
Analyzing and writing test standards and procedures.
 Test Planning, Scheduling, documenting Test Strategies, and Interact with Dev & business to gather
requirements/processes, Define test cases, test reports, test types, functional, integration/interoperability, end-
end, performance, security & system.
 Trained other team manual & automation resources with agile methodologies and Jira
tools make sure test automation follow agile principles.
 Performing process design and standards, effort estimation, resource forecasting
and fulfillment, and task and risk management, including functional, performance,
regression and rollback testing.
 Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment with Jenkins (Including Load
Testing integrated with Jenkins), BDD with Cucumber make sure Unit & Integration
testing is done pre-deployment and run the engineering pre-qual, kick off regression suites
and generate email to the team it’s all automated. Maven integrated with Jenkins.
 Done with many POC’s & prototypes when we picked tools for web Apps automation.

SAGE – Reston, USA 06/2011 – 04/2016

With a comprehensive depreciation engine containing more than 300,000 IRS and GAAP
rules, FAS Asset Accounting makes managing the lifecycle of your company's fixed assets -
from acquisition to disposal--fast, easy, and accurate, it has both Desktop & SaaS (Web
based app)

ENVIRONMENT: SQL Server, Sybase, Java, Selenium Web Driver, HP Performance Center,
Version One, HP QC, HP ALM, HP QTP/UFT, Jenkins, Devops, CI, CD, Maven, Cassandra,
Linux racks, Service Now.

Worked as a Senior Test Architect Lead working on Sage Fixed Assets & Sage Payments
Automation & test strategy. One of the leaders for Big Data SAGE Center of Excellence & part
of Sage Summit.

Selected Achievements:
 Being an individual contributor for manual & Automation testing 50% and 50%
management.
 Load, Performance testing using HP Performance center.
 Test Planning, Scheduling, documenting Test Strategies, and Interact with Dev & business to gather
requirements/processes, Define test cases, test reports, test types, functional, integration/interoperability, end-
end, performance, security & system.
 Done a decent Test Framework design and coding (product independent) which were
used across SAGE products.
 Trained Offshore manual & automation resources with agile methodologies and
Version-One tools make sure Manual & test automation follow agile principles.
 Service Now test Automation was done using Jira dashboard integrated with HP – UFT tool set, al the
new integration set was tested.
 Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment with Jenkins (Including Load
Testing integrated with Jenkins), BDD with Cucumber/Spec Flow make sure Unit &
Integration testing is done pre-deployment and run the engineering pre-qual, kick off
regression suites and generate email to the team it’s all automated. Maven integrated with
Jenkins.
 Done with many POC’s & prototypes when we picked tools for web Apps automation
& mobility solutions.

Earned reputation as top performer, consistently delivering high quality functionality on time and
within budget, including top skills of handling offshore Automation team delivering high quality round
the clock execution with continuous integration.

KLA-TENCOR SOFTWARE - Chennai, India 09/2006 - 06/2011

Klarity Bitmap is an automated bitmap analysis and yield enhancement solution that
collects multi-format bitmap analysis data from testers on the die test floor, classifies
failure patterns and views the bitmap failures. Flexible and easy to use, Klarity Bitmap
analysis solution separates yield-killer from nuisance defects and enhances root-cause
analysis and yield learning on memory arrays.
ENVIRONMENT: Java, MS SQL Server, JPython, Unix, Rational Functional Tester, HP ALM, HP
Performance Center, Version One.

Worked as a Sr. Test Architect implementing Testing Solutions across KLA-Tencor project starting
from designing Automation Test Framework/Suite using QTP and presenting the solution to other
teams.

Selected Achievements:
 Leading end-to-end QA implementations. This involved project management, analyzing
business requirements, developing and Maintaining Automation Test Suite, presenting to other
teams the usage of Automation Suite etc.
 Involved in testing server Racks in UNIX, Testing Algorithms using JPython.
 Involved in DB Testing to be able to verify for valid data
 Load, Performance testing using HP Performance center.

Technical Achievements:
 Created Automation Framework and Test Suite for an application being built (30 pages with
approx. 20 functional points per page) in just 1 month.
 The built Automation Suite helped reduce the testing timeframe by 1/3 , thus increasing the
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overall test coverage by 30% and increased regression test coverage by 50%. This led to an
overall cost saving of $600,000.
 Worked as a programmer for Catastrophic Module due to shortage of dev resources, thus
enabling to deliver a module being built using .Net.
 Was able to identify just over 17 errors (500) more than the next UAT resource for each test
cycle, thus helping the overall project stabilize in less than 4 builds than the anticipated 7 builds
per test cycle.

MICRO SOFT CRM - DYNAMICS – Hyderabad, India 10/2004-08/2006

Description:

Microsoft CRM product has wide visibility in the market for Office integration which is taken
in care of all customers are habit of using Microsoft Office

ENVIRONMENT: .Net, C++, Rational Robot with C++ scripting, MS SQL Server.

Worked on providing Testing Solution for this project and led through successful delivery to Dynamics
team in just 6 months, thus enabling the integration with Dynamics.

Selected Achievements:
 Did end-to-end QA implementation Solution. This involved Automation, analyzing business
requirements, developing Test Strategy, Test Plan, developing RTM & Test Cases, testing and
logging defects and presenting the same to the Engineering Teams.
 Did complete end - end automation in C++ using Rational tools.
 Was persistent in delivering the solution (product) to European customers in just 2 months of
initial release into the market.
 Recognized as key contributor to major Automation Project.
 Earned reputation as top performer, consistently delivering high quality functionality on time
and within budget

MICROSOFT DYNAMICS – Hyderabad, India 06/2003-10/2004

Microsoft Dynamics Great planes, product has wide visibility in the market for ERP with
Microsoft

ENVIRONMENT: .Net, C++, MS Automation Tool coding in C++, MS SQL SERVER.

Worked on multiple roles starting from Individual Contributor (IC), C++ Developer on Axapta &
Navision products, and SDET on Test automation.

Selected Achievements:
 Thorough understanding and possess the end-to-end vision of the application being developed
 Defined a complete Implementation Process which covers a Process Flow from Analysis to
Deployment. Defined new Document Templates for several Deliverables like Software Deployment
Checklist, Impact Analysis/Impact Checklist, Estimation, Test Plans, and Test Data
 Developed as the face of the customer in just few weeks of inception into Dynamics testing
team as an IC and thus grew to the role of Test Lead for Individual portal
 Earned reputation as top performer, consistently delivering all modules of Axapta and
Navision, thus enabling to grow to the role of SDET.

Technical Achievements:
 Through understanding of the domain and be able to handle the escalations and talk to
customers.

EDUCATION, CREDENTIALS & TRAINING

Master’s in computer sciences - India.
ACP Certified - PMP