Narendra Ponolu
Test Automation Specialist
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6+ Years of experience in software testing with strong expertise in Automation (UFT & BDD Cucumber) and Manual Testing and RAG and GenAI. Working experience in domains such as Bank, Insurance and Health Care. Hands-on experience in test case design, Execution, maintenance & Validation against Business requirements.
Hands-on experience in manual test execution against functional and non-functional testing. Proficient in defect tracking and reporting using HP ALM, Jira, and Octane. Proficient in Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, and Re-testing.
Expertise in Automation Testing using HP UFT and BDD Cucumber for regression testing. Working knowledge of AWS and PostgreSQL for test data validation & environment support. Good experience in developing automated test scripts using VBScript.
Good experience writing Scripts by using Descriptive Programming. Hands-on experience in PDF Automation using UFT Micro Focus.
Experience in Data driven, Keyword Driven and Hybrid automation frameworks.
Experience with version control systems such as GitHub and Bitbucket.
Experience with Selenium Automation using BDD Cucumber. Solid understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Defect Life Cycle. Good experience in Agile methodology. Created a metrics dashboard for Octane management.
Implemented Retrieve Augmented
Generation (RAG) pipelines using embeddings and Vector Similarity search to improve response accuracy and Contextual grounding for LLM outputs.
Implemented
GenAI Based Assistants to automate test case generation from jira acceptance Criteria and Optimize regression suites, Improving test coverage, efficiency and release quality. Trained and mentored junior testers in automation best practices, driving a 20% improvement in team productivity. Capable to quickly learn new technologies and adapt to a new environment.
Experience
Test Automation Specialist - Accenture - Hyderabad
(2021-08)
Associate - Cognizant Technology solutions - Chennai
(2019-07 - 2021-08)
Education
Master of Computer Applications - Computer Applications - Osmania University (2011)
