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Laxmana Gandhi - Sr.SDET

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Professional Summary: Overall, 10 plus years of experience combining Automation testing with Java Application Development. Extensive Experience in Manual and Automated testing using Selenium, Junit, TestNG, LeanFT, and SoapUI. Extensive Experience in Black box testing, system, GUI, integration, functional, user acceptance, database testing, E2E testing and regression testing. Experienced SAP Performance Engineer with over 6+ years of expertise in analyzing, optimizing, and validating performance across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Fiori, and SAP Business Suite applications. Experienced identifying system bottlenecks and improving end-to-end response times for batch jobs, SAP GUI transactions, Web UI (Fiori), ABAP programs, Batch jobs and HANA database queries. Worked extensively with NeoLoad, Jmeter, LoadRunner, created scripts, and ran performance tests and created reports. Deep understanding of SAP Basis, HANA in-memory architecture, network layers, and SAP application server performance tuning. Experienced in validating SAP performance KPIs during upgrades, enhancement packs, patch deployments, and large-scale rollouts (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Fiori launches). Experienced in developing and Documentation of Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Procedures and Test Scripts for the Relational Database, Java, WEB and Client/ Server applications. Experience in Backend testing by writing SQL queries, functions, views, packages, and procedures to test the integrity of application. Using Python libraries like Panadas and NumPy validated the data objects between source and Target systems. Wrote logic to includes data transformation and validated millions of records in database. Extensive data validation in batch files, reports, and databases; used SQL to query database extensively for data validation; expert in SQL for sub-queries, nested queries and for complex data enquiries. Automated functional test cases using tools like Selenium IDE, Selenium RC, and Selenium Web Driver (JUNIT and Java TESTNG), Lean FT. Experience with SOAP UI and REST API web services testing. Extensively worked in executing tests by using Browser stack in different browsers/Cross Browser testing. Worked on Catchpoint tool to build a custom dashboard for live tracking business critical flows in web application. Working knowledge in Web development and testing tools like Firebug, Fire Path, XPath, DOM Inspector, and Chrome Console. Experience in bug reporting tools like Bugzilla, Quality Center, HP ALM, and JIRA. Exposed to different troubleshooting/debugging/testing/version control methodologies. Good experience in testing Mobile Applications and Desktop applications. Technical Skills: Languages Java, Java Script, Python SAP SAP ECC, SAP S4 Fashion, HANA, CAR, CFIN, MDG, ODATA Services, ABAP Programs Database Oracle, SQL Server, MY SQL, PostgreSQL, HANA DB Tools Soap UI, Post man, GitHub, Splunk, Selenium Web driver, JIRA Lifecycle Methodologies Waterfall Model, Agile, Test-Driven Development (TDD), BDD Automation Testing Frameworks Selenium, Junit, TestNG, Cypress, DMSV, Gatling, Rest Assured, Cucumber, SoapUI, Cucumber IDE Eclipse, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Sublime Build Tools Gradle, Maven, Jenkins Web/App Servers Apache Tomcat, JBoss Cloud Services Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure Performance tools Gatling, Load Runner, Neo Load, JMeter, New Relic, AppDynamics. Education Details: MS in Computer Science, Lewis University, Romeoville, Il, USA Professional Experience: Care First, Virginia March 2024 Till date Role: Sr. SDET Roles & Responsibilities: Analyzing the Business Requirements and worked closely with the Business Team to get the clarifications addressed Working on Rest Assured with Cucumber integration to automate Rest API s by introducing Feature Files and integrated this with Jenkins to schedule the jobs. Designed, executed, and maintained testing on the real devices with the help of browser stack tool and updated browser versions runs automated test scripting to run the regression test cases. Selected the Test Cases to be automated and performed functional testing of the front-end using Selenium & created Data Driven framework using JUnit. Architected scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Cypress and Apium for UI, and REST Assured for API testing, improving coverage by 60% using Java, Java Script, Python languages. Designed and executed performance test strategies using JMeter and LoadRunner to simulate up to 1 million transaction loads, reducing latency by 40%. Identified and diagnosed performance bottlenecks by analyzing TPS, hits/sec, response time, memory leaks, and CPU utilization Collaborated with DevOps to monitor production metrics with Dynatrace and New Relic, identifying and resolving bottlenecks pre-release. Conducted code reviews for test scripts and mentored junior automation/performance engineers across multiple scrum teams. Collaborated with developers, DBAs, and network teams to tune SQL queries, optimize JVM parameters, and increase throughput by 38%. Delivered weekly performance dashboards and in-depth analysis reports to business stakeholders and engineering teams using Grafana. Automated performance regression tests in CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins, reducing manual test execution effort by 60%. Collaborated with development teams during sprint planning to define acceptance criteria, integrate unit and functional test coverage early in SDLC. Created POM to store the project data and configured their details using Maven to build the project Optimized the interaction between the application and the Oracle database, ensuring efficient data retrieval and processing. Conduct load testing and performance benchmarking to validate tuning efforts and predict system behavior under various environments as per the business requirement needs. Using libraries in Python like Boto3 connected to Aws S3 buckets and SQS/SNS queues to post the payloads to test the performance of our services. Using Python libraries like Requests, open pyxl created automation testing framework in python for API testing using this framework, we have automated various API's Review and optimize SQL queries to reduce execution time and resource consumption. Collaborate with developers to rewrite and optimize complex queries, stored procedures, and database triggers. Worked with project Management team, for the release of the deliverables (improved efficiency of the release used the sign off documents). Having Excellent Communication skills and effective co-ordination skills with offshore teams. Tools: Java, Python, Visual studio 2019, Visual studio code, Selenium WebDriver, Wire mock, Manual Testing, Load testing, NeoLoad, Load Runner, SQL Server 2012, Cucumber, GIT, SOAP UI, HTML, Java Script, Splunk, New Relic, Grafana, JSON, XML, Jenkin, Maven, JIRA. Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment user interface sthree database sfour hewlett packard microsoft mississippi Colorado Illinois