About

Chaithra Mailankody is an IT professional with over 6 years of experience in various functions such as Product Management, Test Strategy, Scrum Master, Quality Assurance, and Test Development. She is currently working as an Associate Product Manager at Progress Chef. Chaithra has a proven track record of collaborating with Product Management, UX, Architects, and Developers for reviewing and providing feedback for epics, stories, and design documents. She has identified design gaps and provided user experience enhancements to be prioritized in upcoming sprints. Chaithra has created a strategy for automating regression test plans, end-to-end test plans, and successfully implemented the same, reducing weekly regression testing effort by 50%. She has also achieved the goal of zero defects on master for a feature implementation by collaborating with architects and developers early and developing an end-to-end test script that could be run by the developer before merging the code. Chaithra has also worked as a Software Developer at IBM, where she developed Protractor/Selenium based UI Automation and Python based API Automation tests. She has also developed scripts for generating test data to be uploaded on test environments for covering test scenarios and performance testing. Additionally, she has created detailed, well-structured test plans and test cases, provided inputs for product documentation and release notes, and managed defects on JIRA with detailed steps and expected outcomes. Chaithra has also worked as a Software Engineer at Zebra Technologies, where she collaborated with development and product owners to understand requirements, wrote test cases, developed test applications using Javascript and Jasmine, and ran the tests. She has experience in test automation using DSL, Selenium, Selendroid/Appium. Chaithra is a published author of the book "Greater than a Tourist Bengaluru". She holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University, Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering. Her tech stack includes product management, test, software engineering, QA, Selenium, Python, UI, SDET, and Javascript. Overall, Chaithra has 9.28 years of relevant experience in the IT industry.