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Silpa Naidu
Senior, Software Development Engineer in Test

About

As a seasoned Automation Engineer with over 10 years of expertise across the Software Testing Life Cycle, I excel in automating test cases, interpreting user requirements, and implementing Agile/Scrum methodologies. My extensive hands-on experience encompasses designing and developing test frameworks for diverse applications, including Mobile, Cloud UI, API, and notably, in the testing of generative AI (GenAI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions. With my collaborative approach, I am poised to contribute significantly to the enhancement of the company's QE tools and processes.

Work Experience

Automation Anywhere
San Jose, CA
January 2022 – Present
Senior, Software Development Engineer in Test
Versatile QA expert with a focus on testing generative AI models integrated with RPA bots, specializing in the Workload Management module within Automation Anywhere across cloud platforms and on-premises environments.
Highlights
  • Spearheaded testing efforts for the integration of generative AI models with RPA bots on diverse cloud platforms, including AWS and GCP.
  • Conducted comprehensive testing of the Workload Management module in Automation Anywhere, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and optimal performance of the module.
  • Developed and executed detailed test plans, test cases, and automation scripts to validate the functionality and performance of AI-integrated RPA solutions.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define testing strategies and scenarios, ensuring alignment with business objectives and client requirements.
  • Conducted thorough testing of AI models' behavior, providing valuable insights to enhance accuracy and performance.
  • Executed end-to-end testing on various cloud platforms and on-premises environments to validate the scalability and compatibility of integrated solutions.
  • Automated repetitive testing tasks using industry-standard tools and frameworks to optimize testing processes.
  • Worked closely with RPA developers and AI engineers to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve integration issues, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Kaiser Permanente (ProKarma contractor)
Pleasanton, CA
March 2018 – December 2021
Software Development Engineer in Test
DRI for Automation efforts for Systems such as Identity Management, Order Management, Address services and Pharmacy Center within the Kaiser Organization
Highlights
  • Automation of UI (Java, Cucumber, Selenium) & Web Services (SoapUI Pro, Groovy, Postman) of Kaiser's Identity Management System & Pharmacy Center
  • Experience in testing flows pertaining to Order Management System such as Order, Wallet, Tokenization and Address Adapter Services using SoapUI, Groovy & Postman
  • Test Automation of Global and Shared components to facilitate AEM development governance for 'kp.org'
  • Authoring and publishing sites on AEM (Adobe Enterprise Manager)
  • Using AEM/CQ developing the sites including configuration, widgets, workflows etc
  • Using Testing Technics like smoke testing and user acceptance testing
  • Develop custom libraries to handle AEM pages in touchUI to support the upcoming versions of AEM
  • Testing Content Design and Publishing with Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
  • Supporting CMS components, integrations and applications
Apple Inc (Infosys contractor)
Newark, CA
February 2017 – March 2018
Software Development Engineer in Test
Design and develop framework to support UI and Web Services Automation of Apple's Enterprise scheduler - Autosys Promotion Automation (APA)
Highlights
  • Designed and developed framework from scratch to support BDD (Behavior driven development) by making use of Cucumber and Selenium / REST-Assured
  • Implemented zalenium, selenium hub docker images for parallel / compatibility testing with all browsers and operating systems
  • Experience with container-based deployments using Docker, working with Docker images, Docker Hub and Docker-registries and Kubernetes
  • Develop testing framework using bobcat libraries
  • Used SoapUI for testing the RESTful web services involved in the project using JSON, XML messages
  • Used SQL Developer for SQL queries and data validation
Apple Inc (Infosys contractor)
Sunnyvale, CA
August 2016 – February 2017
iOS Automation Engineer
Apple's iOS apps automation - Find My Phone & Find My Friends
Highlights
  • E2E testing of Enterprise iOS mobile app - Find My Phone & Find my friends
  • Worked on Appium for automating the native mobile applications on iOS platforms and used Simulators to perform cloud testing of using Sauce Labs
  • Ensured product quality and release readiness by development of test scripts to automate the testing of application features
  • Developed Jenkins pipeline scripts for continuous integration of the builds
IBM
Banglore, India
April 2012 – August 2014
Automation Engineer
AT&T Web Portal Automation
Highlights
  • Involved in development of REST application and developing API test scripts for both manual and automation of the REST application.
Intelli Group
Hyderabad, India
December 2010 – December 2011
Intern
Intelli Group
Highlights
  • Involved in development of Document repository Web application.

Contact

San Jose, California USA
(669) 224-0685
silpanaidu@gmail.com
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Education

  • 2005 2009

    JNTU, Kakinada

    Bachelors

    Electronics and Communication Engineering

  • 2009 2011

    JNTU, Kakinada

    Masters

    Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineering

Skills

Automation tools
Selenium / Selenium Grid Appium Cucumber Gauge REST-Assured Apache HTTP Client JMeter Sauce Labs SoapUI Pro TestNG / JUnit
RPA Tools
Automation Anywhere
AI Testing
Generative AI models RPA integration machine learning models
DevOps
Docker / Kubernetes Zalenium
Cloud Platforms
AWS GCP
CICD
Maven Jenkins GIT
Performance monitoring tools
New Relic BlazeMeter Sumo Logs Splunk
Languages
Java Python Bash