About

Kalikrishna Veeranki is a Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer with over 17 years of experience in software quality assurance architecture. He has a demonstrated history of delivering high-quality commitments and working with Agile Scrum and SAFe teams. Kalikrishna is an expert in various Manual and Automation Testing techniques such as Acceptance testing, Functional testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, System testing, GUI testing, Browser compatibility testing, Performance testing, API testing, Webservice (Graphql, REST, SOAP) testing, Blackbox testing, Whitebox testing, Microservice testing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Keyword driven model, Data-driven model, Hybrid model, and Page Object Model(POM). Kalikrishna is experienced in leading Test Automation teams to develop stable and sustainable automation for backend and web applications involving different tools and technologies such as Java, Selenium, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, Perl, Shell, Batch, Cucumber, Restassured, JSON, XML, SQL, C, Python, JavaScript, JBehave, STAF, Cypress, SoapUI, Postman, and JMeter. He is also skilled in setting and maintaining huge QA test labs and Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps infrastructure using Git, VMWare, ESX server, Docker, Azure cloud, Windows (All), Mac, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, MySQL, Ant, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Hudson, Teamcity, SonarQube, Veracode, CTC++, CodeInsight, and Bitbucket. Kalikrishna is an Engineering professional with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Osmania University. He is experienced in creating Test Automation Framework from scratch, managing Software QA & Automation teams, and mentoring on QA Domain, Automation skills. He has also mentored and led Level 1 Technical Support groups, achieving a continuous improvement of SLAs. Currently, Kalikrishna is working as a Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Apollo 24|7, a startup under Apollo group. He has been instrumental in setting up the Automation and Manual QA teams and mentoring them to support the fast-paced culture. He has created and implemented the Test Strategies and improved the function and nonfunctional Quality of the applications, along with supporting multiple release cycles. He has built the API, Web & Mobile automation testing frameworks and mentored the teams