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Abhilash Thaduka

Staff SDET
Hyderabad

Summary

Accomplished Staff SDET with over 12 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust, scalable test automation frameworks. Expert in developing comprehensive test strategies and delivering high-quality software across Agile and DevOps environments. Proficient in automation tools and frameworks for Web, Mobile, Performance testing, and CI/CD pipeline integration. Demonstrated leadership in driving quality assurance initiatives, mentoring and guiding QA and development teams, and leading cross-functional testing efforts to ensure timely delivery of reliable software solutions. Experienced in managing teams, resource planning, and performance management, with a strong focus on fostering collaboration, empowering teams, and championing continuous improvement to enhance overall product quality and operational efficiency.

Overview

12
years of professional experience

Work History

Greenlight

Staff SDET
08.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Skilled in resource management, performance evaluation, and continuous process improvements to maximize team productivity and drive the Quality
  • Leverage AI-powered tools such as Cursor and Junie to enhance automation workflows, improve test case generation, and streamline debugging processes.
  • Developed self-healing automation tests leveraging ML algorithms to automatically adapt to UI changes, minimizing test failures and maintenance efforts
  • Design, implement, and maintain robust test automation frameworks with expertise in Web, Mobile, API testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead and manage a high-performing QA team of 10 engineers, including QA analysts and SDETs, overseeing planning, designing, and execution of comprehensive test strategies for web, mobile, and performance testing.
  • Mentor and guide QA and development teams to optimize testing efficiency and foster cross-team collaboration, driving software quality and excellence.
  • Architect and sustain end-to-end test automation frameworks, significantly increasing test coverage and accelerating release cycles.
  • Skilled in resource management, performance evaluation, and continuous process improvements to maximize team productivity and product reliability.

Chingari

Lead SDET
04.2022 - 08.2023

Job overview

  • As a Initial member of team, I have created Test frameworks for Web, Mobile, API Automation and Performance suites [Tech: Selenium Webdriver, Appium, Rest Assured, Jmeter]from the scratch
  • Worked on new tech such as Web 3, Crypto, NFTs, Blockchain.
  • As a team, I'm responsible for all the QA activities like planning, estimating, monitoring and reporting of all test activities
  • Lead a QA team 15 people which includes both manual and automation Test engineers
  • Co-ordination with various functions like Product, Dev, SRE to deliver the best quality product as an output
  • Involved in hiring and setting up the right team structure.
  • Building process, managing releases

Freshworks

Lead SDET
04.2021 - 04.2022

Job overview

  • Responsible to Design and maintain Test Automation frameworks using selenium webdriver, Rest Assured
  • Communicate and coordinate with peers, management and cross functional teams to build alignment between various
  • Enable team effectiveness via project tools like JIRA, Confluence etc
  • Building CI-CD pipeline using Jenkins for automatically promoting the build to desired environment.

Fanatics

Staff Software Engineer
12.2019 - 04.2021

Job overview

  • Responsible to design the automation frameworks and internal tools using React JS, Springboot.
  • Developing the API and UI testing framework along with Realtime test execution monitoring tool
  • Communicate and coordinate with peers, management and cross functional teams to build alignment between various groups Building, maintaining and making recommendations for test infrastructure
  • Develop, modify and evaluate both automated TestNG framework based on Restassured for API testing and manual software test plans that accurately gauge product quality

Gainsight

Lead SDET
01.2015 - 12.2019

Job overview

  • As one of the Initial member of the team and organization, worked on designing UI and API automation test frameworks using Cucumber BDD, Java, Selenium webdriver, Rest assured.
  • Design a Single Automation framework for both UI and API
  • Delivered several products while working as a single
  • Designed test cases from requirements documents and functional specifications

Ed-ventures E-Learning Pvt Ltd

Associate Software Engineer
03.2013 - 01.2015

Job overview

  • Training in manual testing, quality practices and STLC life cycle.
  • Writing automation scripts in Java programming language and SQL

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad

B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) from ECE
07.2008 - 2012.05

Skills

Selenium WebDriver

Timeline

Staff SDET

Greenlight
08.2023 - Current

Lead SDET

Chingari
04.2022 - 08.2023

Lead SDET

Freshworks
04.2021 - 04.2022

Staff Software Engineer

Fanatics
12.2019 - 04.2021

Lead SDET

Gainsight
01.2015 - 12.2019

Associate Software Engineer

Ed-ventures E-Learning Pvt Ltd
03.2013 - 01.2015

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

B.Tech (Bachelor of Technology) from ECE
07.2008 - 2012.05

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