About

Bharadwaj Pendyala is an accomplished Automation Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the field of software quality assurance. He is currently working as a Senior Quality Engineer at Slack, where he is responsible for accelerating release cycles with faster feedback loops using Cypress, infrastructure automation (AWS and GCP), and ensuring file safe checks across Databases (SQL and NoSQL) and Web Services. Bharadwaj has implemented more than 6 value additions in a span of fewer than 4 months, streamlining business processes such as Health check suite creation, chatbot development, test coverage tool creation for targeting specific functionalities during regression, improving the performance of automation test suite, test data automation, etc. He has also integrated predictive analytics into reporting and test coverage areas for enhancing Risk Mitigation. Bharadwaj has experience across multiple frameworks that followed Hybrid (Keyword Driven+Test Data-Driven), Behavior Driven Approaches. He is proficient in Automation Toolset, including Cypress, Selenium, TestNG, JUnit, Lean FT (UFT Pro), JMeter, RestAssured, and Page Object Model as a Design Pattern. He is also well-versed in programming languages such as Java and JavaScript and has worked with Continuous Integration Tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI, and Github-Actions. Bharadwaj has mentored teams through version controlling practices, coding standards, and design patterns. He has exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Ant, Maven, Linux, HP QC/ALM, and JIRA. Prior to joining Slack, he has worked with companies like Joveo and Huddl.ai, where he was responsible for quality and customer experience of the product suite across interfaces including WebApp, Desktop App, iOS, and Android. Bharadwaj holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree from Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management (GITAM) University, Visakhapatnam. His tech stack includes QA, test, Integration, SQL, AWS, Selenium, CI/CD, Web, Kubernetes, Docker, Javascript, NoSQL, Jenkins, GCP, infra, Java, Software Engineer, AI, SDET, iOS, Mobile, and Backend.