Chaya Danappala

Background

About Chaya Danappala

Professional with 13+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, Testing and Application Development at IBM-ISL, MindTree Ltd, Wipro Technologies- Expertise in the areas of End-to-End testing, writing Test plan document, Design and Coding, Functionality/Unit testing/performance testing and deployment of large-scale Software product/projects by following Agile/Iterative/waterfall development process- Experienced in Automation testing working with functional automation testing tools like Rational Functional Test (RFT) similar to Quick Test Pro/Unified Functional Test (QTP/UFT), Selenium framework, Jmeter, link checker, Postman, Advanced Rest client, BrowserStack (Mobile testing and testing on different platform/operating system )etc-Experienced in Set-top box domain (TiVo), Application development/Testing, worked on TiVo set-top box applications (like Video on Demand, Pay per view, Program data, Parental controls, Channel information, Scheduling/Recording information, Guide data. etc)- Experienced in Embedded (Server) domain. Sound Knowledge in Sever Firmware Processor) Testing IBM power Servers (P5/P6/P7/P8)- Experience in building Automation scripts, Functionality testing, System integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Regression testing and Security testing- Well versed in Test execution at various stages of Development and Testing lifecycle and have good exposure to SDLC/STLC, Defect Lifelycle and agile methodologies- Effective technical leadership with proven abilities in working with cross cultural teams across various geographies during the project phase; guiding team members and enabling knowledge sharing among the team. Possesses strong interpersonal and leadership skills.