RAVI PRAKASH PAGADALA
Aylesbury,UK
Summary
Senior QA Engineer with a 20‑year track record in software support, development, and advanced testing. Specialist in the end‑to‑end verification of Web, Mobile, and ERP systems(SAP/Oracle). Combines deep technical roots in programming with expert‑level automation and manual testing methodologies to minimize risk and accelerate release cycles for enterprise‑level applications.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior QA engineer
Veeva Systems
London, United Kingdom
10.2021 - Current
- Requirements Analysis: Critically appraised business requirements and user stories to identify logic gaps, edge cases, and ambiguities before development commenced.
- Document Review: Conducted technical reviews of Design and Implementation documents, suggesting architectural improvements to enhance system testability and performance.
- Strategic Input: Acted as a quality gatekeeper during the discovery phase to ensure that "Definition of Ready" criteria were strictly met, reducing downstream rework by identifying inconsistencies early.
- Test Strategy & Planning: Authored comprehensive Test Strategies and Test Plans for complex integrations (Web, Mobile, SAP, and Oracle), defining the scope, environment requirements, and toolsets.
- Risk-Based Testing (RBT): Led RBT workshops to categorize features by business impact and failure probability, ensuring optimal resource allocation under tight deadlines.
- Estimation & Peer Review: Provided data-driven test estimations for project roadmaps and spearheaded Peer Reviews of test documentation to ensure 100% requirement coverage and standardisation.
- Jira Governance: Managed the full lifecycle of User Stories, Dev Stories, and QA Tasks within Jira, ensuring clear traceability between requirements and test results.
- Advanced Scripting: Engineered detailed test cases for multi-environment execution, ensuring robust validation across Dev, UAT, and Staging environments.
- Defect Orchestration: Managed the end-to-end defect lifecycle; from initial discovery and raising high-quality bug reports to rigorous retesting and regression validation.
- Automation Feasibility: Analyzed manual regression suites to identify high-value candidates for automation based on ROI and execution frequency.
- Seamless Handover: Facilitated the transition of manual test logic to Automation Engineers, providing detailed functional walkthroughs to ensure script accuracy.
- Script Quality Control: Conducted technical reviews of automation scripts (Selenium/Appium/etc.) to ensure they adhered to coding standards, were non-flaky, and provided meaningful assertions.
Test Lead
Tibco India Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, India
05.2014 - 01.2020
- Designed validation and quality assurance parameters for entire E2E project including web, mobile, reporting and Image Recognition applications.
- Developed accurate and successful automated test scripts by leveraging Appium with Cucumber BDD framework to validate the features of native android mobile.
- Designed test automation framework by leveraging the Selenium WebDriver with Cucumber BDD to validate web applications.
- Collaborated with business analyst for sprint plannings, estimations and sprint schedules.
- Scripted sprint stories with complete details including objectives, acceptance criteria, technical details and test design.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Evaluated results against design and customer standards.
- Identified and tracked defects with JIRA and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
- Developed Restful services to interact with mobile applications when required.
- Implemented the CI/CD practices with Jenkins, GitHub etc.
Test Analyst
Infosys Pvt Ltd
Hyderabad, India
10.2010 - 04.2014
- Completed both progressive and regressive testing scenarios through application of comprehensive testing frameworks encompassing both.
- Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
- Discussed requirements and processes with project managers and developers.
- Integrated test automation into all layers of application stacks to improve product quality.
- Validated production deployment changes, providing reports on discovered issues to product owner.
Software Test Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
Chennai, India
08.2006 - 09.2010
- Designed and developed automation scripts using HP QTP to validate SAP applications.
- Written the test automation scripts to comply with in house developed hybrid automation framework to improve the quality of web applications.
- Identified and tracked defects with HP Quality Centre and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
- Monitored debugging process results and investigated causes of non-conforming software.
- Increased and improved knowledge of testing software and tools by engaging in all available trainings.
Education
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence With Data Analytics
Teesside University
MiddlesbroughMaster of Science - Machine Design in Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
RoorkeeSkills
- Target applications - Web, Android, SAP, ETL Reports
- Automation test design - Cucumber, Page object model, TestNG
- Testing tools/APIs - Selenium WebDriver, RestAssured, Appium, Postman, TIBCO BW, SOAP UI, QTP, QC
- Programming languages - Java, Python
- SDLC models - Agile, Waterfall
- Testing Levels - Unit testing, Integration testing, System testing, UAT
- CI/CD tools - Jenkins, GitHub, Maven, Jira
- Database technologies - Oracle SQL/PLSQL, Postgres, MongoDB
- Data Analytics - Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, JavaScript
- Machine Learning - CNN, NLP, traditional ML algorithms
Certification
- TIBCO Business Works 5 Certified Professional
- Foundation level ISTQB certification in Software Testing
LinkedIn Profile
www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-prakash-pagadala-42383965
Timeline
Senior QA engineer
Veeva Systems
10.2021 - Current
Test Lead
Tibco India Pvt Ltd
05.2014 - 01.2020
Test Analyst
Infosys Pvt Ltd
10.2010 - 04.2014
Software Test Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2006 - 09.2010
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence With Data Analytics
Teesside University
Master of Science - Machine Design in Mechanical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology