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Pallavi Kukkillaya Uppoor

Senior Automation Engineer / Developer
London

Summary

Proactive Automation Engineer with 12+ years of experience across multiple industry domains recently worked in Fintechs included insurance and B2B lending. Expertise and in-depth knowledge of various programming languages and best practices for development and testing. Solutions-based collaborator well-versed in automated testing methodologies and supervising testing activities.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language

Work History

Senior Automation Engineer

YouLend
London United Kingdom
12.2021 - Current
  • Responsible for end-to-end test automation for UI, AWS signatures, Datadog, and API integrations, HubSpot Integration testing
  • Provided technical support to production teams during critical machine breakdowns, restoring operations with minimal disruption to schedules.
  • Developed custom test automation libraries, enabling easier scripting and increased reusability across projects.

Test Automation Engineer

BNP Paribas Group - CardifPinnacle
02.2021 - 12.2021
  • Develop robust test automation framework following design pattern in Selenium-Java with TestNG for web application, Automate putty using powershell
  • Perform functional and regression on web and mobile devices using browser-stack, SIT gate review, Defect management and Live proving
  • Experience in multiple projects - Claims, Manual rater, Aggregators, Quote&Buy, BAU along with automation for claim and Aggregators.

Test Automation Engineer

Sky Betting & Gaming - OddsChecker
01.2019 - 01.2021
  • Was part of an extremely agile squad managing and owning functional, regression and exploratory testing for International, US and B2B projects including web, mobile
  • Developed and maintain test automation framework using Selenium-Java (in POM) with Cucumber, setup pipeline in Git, configuration of browser-stack, Validate payload(Json) and data (using SQL)
  • Test Management activities in JIRA including Estimation, Planning sprint, reporting
  • Experience in design thinking and business sessions with Product Owners, Designer and Development team

Senior Test Analyst

United Nations - UNFCCC
09.2013 - 09.2015
  • Analyst of BRDs including Uses Cases, user stories, and other functional and non-functional requirements and developed test plan, test estimation, test cases and test data in JIRA
  • Was responsible for test automation for existing regression manual test cases in selenium-java (TestNG), execution and defect reporting for the same.
  • Was involved in Scrum (Agile Methodologies) with planning, reviewing, and retrospectives for every Sprint. Based on Sprint outcome, noted and highlighted areas of improvement for quality.

Software Engineer

Accenture
08.2007 - 08.2012
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance in Telecom and Internal governance projects
  • Developed scalable and maintainable code, ensuring long-term stability of the applications in C# and provided operations support in incidents/bug fixing
  • Develop manual test cases and perform execution of test cases in Quality Center across functional testing, regression testing and user acceptance.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences

Visvesvaraya Technological University
Bangalore India
06.2003 - 01.2007

Skills

Language Proficiency in Java, JS, C#, ASPnet Core, Angular

Expertise in Tools and Frameworks Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Docker, JIRA, Jenkins, Postman, Github & Copilot

Expertise in Agile Product Development and Testing

Release and Test Management

Timeline

Senior Automation Engineer

YouLend
12.2021 - Current

Test Automation Engineer

BNP Paribas Group - CardifPinnacle
02.2021 - 12.2021

Test Automation Engineer

Sky Betting & Gaming - OddsChecker
01.2019 - 01.2021

Senior Test Analyst

United Nations - UNFCCC
09.2013 - 09.2015

Software Engineer

Accenture
08.2007 - 08.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer And Information Sciences

Visvesvaraya Technological University
06.2003 - 01.2007
Pallavi Kukkillaya UppoorSenior Automation Engineer / Developer