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Likitha Lokesh

Senior Architect, Quality Engineering

Phone:

773-791-4124

Email:

likithal39@gmail.com

Address:

2315 Boulder Ct, Naperville, IL 60565

Date of Birth:

October 24th, 1991

A Bit About Me

As a Quality Engineering Senior Architect, I bring over ten years of experience driving testing solutions and delivering quality code for various projects and clients. My areas of expertise include test strategy, platform engineering, test automation frameworks, client-facing, and team leadership.


 

I am eager to bring my track record of successful test management and automation frameworks to your esteemed team. I look forward to the opportunity to discuss in an interview how my expertise in quality assurance can contribute to your company’s continued success.

Work Experience 

Slalom
Senior Architect, Quality
March 2024 - Present

Application Modernization

  • Led the quality efforts to deliver significant business capabilities across web and mobile applications.

  • Architected test automation patterns with the ability to scale across multiple platforms and device resolutions.

  • Set up test automation frameworks to perform functional, UI, Mobile, and API testing and integrated them with the CI/CD pipeline for seamless delivery and deployment.

  • Developed a robust end-to-end test automation framework interacting with third-party libraries and AWS services.

  • Defined holistic quality approaches and strategies across various pods.

  • Mentored the team members and assisted them in unblocking tasks and driving them to resolution.

  • Collaborated on the solution architecture and deployment pipelines to enhance the overall client    deliverables

  • Configured and ran load and performance tests to simulate high-volume and uncover performance-related issues.

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Tech Stack

  • Cypress

  • Appium

  • Typescript

  • Fetch

  • Cucumber BDD

  • Firebase

  • Fastlane

  • React Native

  • Postman

  • Newman

  • React

  • BrowserStack

  • Cognito

  • Java

  • Junit

  • RestAssured

Slalom
Architect, Quality
Jan 2021 - Feb 2024

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Data Migration, and Modernization

  • Lead the quality efforts for an AWS-based modern data platform, the “Data Lakehouse” to empower robust, consistent, and scalable business insights for a company focused on financial technology, pioneering tax-smart financial solutions that empower consumer goals.

  • I validated data infrastructure to support dynamic business needs and provide data and insights promptly.

  • I facilitated data to be available hourly for consumption and analysis.

  • Fulfilled the goal to bring all necessary data together, remove silos, and the need to visit multiple platforms for data.

  • I created test automation frameworks to validate data mapping, infrastructure, and pipeline construction.

  • I created robust and scalable Data validation and profiling automation tools with dynamic test data.

  • Added data quality checks to ETL pipelines establishing connections across multiple databases across cloud and on-premises.

  • Defined and implemented Quality strategy across various complex projects and engagements, resulting in faster delivery with fewer defects.

  • Lead the User Acceptance Testing and Regression testing efforts by collaborating with the finance and order management Quality Engineering teams.

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Tech Stack

  • Pytest

  • Pyspark

  • Pandas

  • S3

  • SQL Server

  • Aurora

  • DynamoDB

  • Redshift

  • Snowflake

  • Glue

  • Lambda

  • SQS

  • Python

  • Azure DevOps

  • Confluence

  • Github

  • Cloudwatch

  • Stonebranch

AI/ML Enablement

  • Built a Web-based UI automation framework to validate a machine learning platform that will allow Data Scientists at Ford to deploy predictive models into production much more quickly and efficiently.

  • Executed test validation efforts at different stages of data flow from Data Ingestion, Data processing, Data Storage, and Data Migration for batch data and real-time streaming data.

  • Integrated the automated tests with the CI/CD Jenkins pipeline at various environment levels with every build to support the continuous release with minimal defects.

  • Tested the AI/ML models during the following phases:

    • Train (using training data set).

    • Validate (using test data set).

    • Evaluate and monitor.

  • Led multiple teams on Unit testing, functional testing, API testing, Integration testing, and analytics testing.

  • Supervised defect triage meetings to discuss bugs and enhancements with PO/PM and Tech leads.

  • Participated in SCRUM meetings to communicate the risks and track the progress on project test deliverables.

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Tech Stack

  • Hadoop

  • Oozie

  • HDFS

  • Hive

  • Apache Spark

  • Protractor (Typescript)

  • SauceLabs

  • Docker

  • Splunk

  • Putty

  • Jupiter-notebook

Work Experience

Slalom 
Senior Quality Engineer
Apr 2019 - Dec 2020

Backend Platform Development

  • Helped an eCommerce client in the industrial supply space to decouple from their legacy ERP system through a set of microservices built with GCP services.

  • Defined and implemented Quality strategy across various projects for faster delivery with fewer defects.

  • Designed, created, and monitored robust end-to-end automated test framework to test microservices interacting with third-party libraries and GCP services.

  • Implemented API testing efforts for microservice architecture.

  • Spearheaded the load and performance testing efforts to determine GKE auto-scaling of clusters, and inter-cloud latency (AWS and GCP) with detailed KPI reports.

  • Integrated the automated tests with the CI/CD Jenkins pipeline at various environment levels in GCP with every build to support the continuous release with minimal defects.

  • Created and maintained test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test runs for every milestone based on user needs and specification documents using test management tools.

  • Managed the team on Unit testing, functional testing, API testing, Integration testing, System testing, ad-hoc testing, and analytics testing.

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Tech Stack

  • Python

  • Pytest

  • Request

  • Jmeter

  • Blazemeter

  • GCP Firestore

  • Postman

  • Newman

  • Taurus

Slalom
Quality Engineer
April 2017 - Mar 2019

Trading Technologies
Software Development Engineer in Test
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Led the manual and automation testing efforts for Mobile development projects.

  • Created and maintained test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test runs for every milestone based on user needs and specification documents using test management tools such as TestRail.

  • Created a robust mobile automation test framework leveraging Xamarin.UITest technology based on C#.

  • Created a Web-based UI automation framework using Selenium Webdriver based on JAVA and integrated the tests with SauceLabs.

  • Leveraged Azure services platform to provide extensive test coverage and view the test results across multiple mobile devices/platforms for functional and regression runs locally and in the CI pipeline tool.

  • Extensively worked on Unit testing, functional testing, API testing, Integration testing, System testing, ad-hoc testing, accessibility testing, and analytics testing.

  • Participated and contributed to daily standups, sprint planning, and design review meetings for continuous improvement in meeting client goals and needs.

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Tech Stack

  • Visual Studio Team Services

  • GitLab

  • GitKraken

  • Xamarin test cloud

  • Microsoft App Center

  • BitRise

  • SauceLabs

  • Selenium Webdriver

  • JAVA

  • C#

  • Designed and implemented backend automated test framework using Unittest framework in Python using PyCharm IDE for TT Algos (ADL) which is a server-class product that provides the ability to deploy and run custom algorithms developed using the ADL (Algo Design Lab)

  • Worked with Selenium for creating, running, and maintaining test cases in front-end test automation for TT inbuilt web application.

  • Worked hand in hand with the developers, project managers, and manual testers/ traders to design appropriate test plans, and cases to verify features and functionalities and report the bugs through a detailed bug report using the Test management tool.

  • Participated and contributed to daily standups of ALGO development teams, sprint planning meetings, and design review meetings of the ALGO development and Automation team.

  • Extensively worked on unit testing, smoke testing, integration testing, system testing, performance testing, and Software regression testing in various environments.

  • Reported and monitored the results of automated tests daily.

  • Incorporated Linux commands to SSH into the local virtual machine and debug the error logs.

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Tech Stack

  • Selenium Webdriver

  • Atlassian JIRA

  • TestRail

  • Github

  • SourceTree

  • Python

  • Unittest

  • PyCharm

Work Experience

Trading Technologies 
Web Client Engineering Intern
June 2015 - May 2016

Cognizant
Software Engineer
April 2017 - Mar 2019

  • Design and development of web applications based on the Backbone.js framework to enhance and maintain existing functionality for TT’s trading application using PyCharm IDE.

  • Fixing, deploying, and testing issues in PROD, STAGE, and DEV environments in GitHub using GIT commands and SourceTree.

  • Participated in sprint planning meetings at different stages of SDLC.

  • Creating, updating, and monitoring issue reports on JIRA.

  • Created and maintained unit tests based on the Jasmine framework.

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Tech Stack

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • JavaScript

  • Backbone.js,

  • Bootstrap(client-side),

  • MongoDB

  • Python

  • jQuery

  • MySQL

  • Responsible for Design and Development of software requirements and new product features.

  • Development, designing, and testing web applications using JAVA (Apache Tomcat Server 7.0) for the backend code and JSP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the frontend code using MVC (Model View Controller) framework implementation.

  • Worked on Oracle Database, Oracle 10g, and JDBC Interface.

  • Experience in working with REST services and JSON objects.

  • Created and Implemented JUNIT test cases.

  • Assisted with high-level and detailed design documentation, unit testing, and ensuring overall product quality.

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Tech Stack

  • Eclipse IDE

  • SVN

  • MySQL

  • Oracle 10g

  • Junit

  • HTML

  • CSS

  • JSP

  • JavaScript

  • JAVA

Key Strengths & Accomplishments

  • Won second place at AWS Game Day organized by Project ADA

  • Certified AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Digital cloud leader GCP, Salesforce GenAI Associate

  • Presented at various internal and external tech talks such as Tech Together, Boston

  • Contributed and published blogs under Slalom Build Organization on Medium

  • Recipient of Quality Hero and Moghul awards, Slalom Build

  • Elected as Senator from the School of Applied Technology at IIT for the term, Fall 2014 - Fall  2015

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