LIKITHA LOKESH
Naperville,IL
Summary
10+ years of IT Consultant experience with projects involving designing, developing, and testing automation frameworks for frontend, backend, unit-level components, Database Technologies, AWS, Azure, and GCP with complete exposure and Passion for Software Development Process & Life Cycles, Testing Methodologies, Security concepts, and Agile Methodologies.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Architect, Quality Engineering
Slalom
03.2024 - Current
- Leading the quality efforts to deliver significant business capabilities across mission-critical web and mobile Use cases to increase confidence in Usability in a fast-paced agile environment
- Collaborating with product managers, development teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications, test plans, and test execution/automation
- Reviewing functional specifications, technical design documents, test plans, and test cases, and providing meaningful feedback
- Mentoring a team of 10 members and assisted them in unblocking tasks and driving them to resolution through code review and mentorship
- Collaborating on the solution architecture and deployment pipelines with development and Infrastructure teams to enhance the overall client deliverables and support High-performing teams
- Successfully led the shift left strategy initiative that helped identify critical issues and an improvement of 40% less critical production issues along with faster release cycles in 8 weeks
- Architected test automation patterns with the ability to scale across multiple platforms and device resolutions
- Developed high-quality, reusable, and maintainable code following Best practices and coding standards
- Set up test automation frameworks to perform functional, UI, Mobile, backend API adoption, and Security testing and integrated them with the CI/CD pipeline for seamless Delivery and Deployment
- Developed a robust and high-quality end-to-end test automation framework interacting with third-party libraries and AWS services with reusable and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards
- Defined holistic quality approaches and strategies while collaborating with Cross-functional team members
- Strengthened client relationships with regular office hours and demos across various client practices
- Configured and ran load and performance tests to simulate high-volume and uncover performance-related issues by performing root cause analysis
- Collaborated with product managers, development teams, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications, test plans, and test execution/automation.
Architect, Quality Engineering
Slalom
01.2021 - 02.2024
- Led 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
- Validating data infrastructure to support evolving user, business, and technology trends and provide data and insights promptly
- Facilitating data to be available hourly for consumption and analysis by identifying opportunities with upstream and downstream teams
- Fulfilled the goal to bring all necessary data together, remove silos, and the need to visit multiple platforms for data
- Developed test automation frameworks to validate data mapping, infrastructure, and pipeline construction
- Enhanced testing efficiency by creating robust and scalable Data validation and profiling automation tools with dynamic test data, reducing manual efforts by 50% within 1 year
- 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
- Led User Acceptance Testing and Regression testing efforts by collaborating with finance and order management Quality Engineering Supporting teams
- Validated security requirements with AWS Cognito integrated with OKTA.
Senior Software Quality Engineer
Slalom
04.2019 - 12.2020
- Assisted 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
- Implementing API testing efforts for microservice architecture
- Spearheading the load and performance testing efforts to determine GKE auto-scaling of clusters, and inter-cloud latency (AWS and GCP) with detailed KPI reports thereby helping elevate performance efficiency by 80% to process to complete the cart payment
- Integrated the automated tests with the CI/CD Jenkins pipeline at various environment levels in GCP with every build and achieved optimizations for the continuous release with minimal defects
- Created and maintained test strategies, test plans, test cases, and test runs for every milestone based on Customer use cases and specification documents using test management tools to also be used as a reference for customer support
- Designed manual and automated tests to evaluate software from various angles, such as Quality, Speed, Accuracy, and Functionality using white box, black box, and gray box testing methods
- Managed the team on Unit testing, functional testing, API testing, Integration testing, System testing, ad-hoc testing, and analytics testing.
Software Quality Engineer
Slalom
04.2017 - 03.2019
- Led Manual and Automation testing efforts for Mobile development projects
- Partnered with test leads on creating 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 robust mobile automation test framework leveraging Xamarin.UITest technology based on C#
- Created Web-based UI automation framework using Selenium Webdriver based on JAVA and integrated tests with SauceLabs
- Leveraged Azure services platform to improve test coverage by 60% 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.
Software Development Engineer in Test
Trading Technologies
06.2016 - 03.2017
- Designed and implemented backend automated test framework using Unittest framework in Python using PyCharm IDE for TT Algos (ADL), 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
- Coached the traders to use the framework to test multiple combinations and permutations and reduced the manual efforts by 50%
- 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.
Web Client Engineering Intern
Trading Technologies
06.2015 - 05.2016
- Design and development of web applications based on Backbone.js framework to enhance and maintain existing functionality for TT’s trading application using PyCharm IDE
- Fix, deploy, and test issues in PROD, STAGE, and DEV environments in GitHub using GIT commands and SourceTree
- Participated in sprint planning meetings at different stages of SDLC
- Created, updated, and monitored issue reports on JIRA and reduced the bug leakage by 40%
- Created and maintained unit tests based on Jasmine framework.
Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2013 - 04.2014
- 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.
Education
Master of Science in Information Technology and Management -
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Chicago, Illinois05.2016
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science -
Visveswaraya Technological University (VTU)
Belgaum, India06.2013
Skills
- Friendly, Positive Attitude
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Consulting
- Problem-Solving
- Decision-Making
- Python
- Pytest
- PySpark
- AWS/Azure/GCP services
- Appium Webdriver IO
- Typescript
- JAVA
- Javascript
- SQL
- Database tools and technologies
- Agile Methodologies
- Cypress/Selenium Webdriver
- BrowserStack
- Saucelabs
- Docker
- Azure Devops
- Github
- Postman/Newman
- Cucumber
- RestAssured
- Jmeter
- Test Strategy
- Testing types
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 2016
Strengths and 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 2016
Certification
· Certified AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Digital cloud leader GCP, Salesforce GenAI Associate
Timeline
Senior Architect, Quality Engineering
Slalom
03.2024 - Current
Architect, Quality Engineering
Slalom
01.2021 - 02.2024
Senior Software Quality Engineer
Slalom
04.2019 - 12.2020
Software Quality Engineer
Slalom
04.2017 - 03.2019
Software Development Engineer in Test
Trading Technologies
06.2016 - 03.2017
Web Client Engineering Intern
Trading Technologies
06.2015 - 05.2016
Software Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
10.2013 - 04.2014
Master of Science in Information Technology and Management -
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science -
Visveswaraya Technological University (VTU)
· Certified AWS Solution Architect Associate, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Digital cloud leader GCP, Salesforce GenAI Associate
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