About

Krishnakanth Uppunutula is an accomplished quality engineering lead with over 11 years of experience in Test Automation and Functional testing. He has a proven track record of delivering test automation frameworks for multiple products and leading teams to increased test automation coverage by 80% in 3 consecutive years. Krishnakanth is a problem solver who uses innovation to find solutions. He implemented an application that gets the test results from Jenkins and posts to different channels like Slack and teams, increasing productivity by 20%. Krishnakanth has led a team of 5 engineers to design and deliver functional and test automation for multiple products, resulting in a “Win as a Team” award. He has experience in implementing Test Automation Frameworks using Java patterns, Selenium WebDriver, Junit, Maven, and REST APIs. Krishnakanth has created and presented Test Strategy Reviews and Integration Test plans for each release. He is also an individual contributor in writing cases, test execution, and defect creation while taking QE lead responsibilities. Krishnakanth has worked closely with dev team, PM, and UX designers to ensure the features are delivered to meet business and quality requirements. He has reproduced customer issues and provided detailed debugging steps to dev team. Krishnakanth has implemented performance scripts and reported results to stakeholders for products using JMeter. He has experience on version control system Git. Krishnakanth has also travelled to California, USA, to lead a team of 4 members to provide KT on Automation framework to quickly onboard the team, automating 50% of regression testcase backlog in 2.5 months of time. Krishnakanth is a trainer for Bootcamps where core product explained with underlying techstack, business usage, implementation to the new joiners to quickly ramp up within BU teams. He has also implemented a Test results Bot for sending notification of automation failures over Slack, saving 10% of time every day for each engineer and it is being used across BU. Krishnakanth has also implemented a PR notifications Bot for sending notification of pending PRs over Slack, saving at least 10-20 minutes of time and reminding of pending PR reviews. Krishnakanth is currently working as a Staff Software QA Engineer at ServiceNow, leading a team of 5 members for automating complex applications using Selenium and Test Cafe. He has also worked as a Sr Quality Engineer and Software Engineer at ServiceNow. Krishnakanth holds a Master of