About

Navya Bailkeri is a highly skilled Lead QA with over 9 years of experience in the software industry. She is passionate about testing and automating complex and data-heavy projects, particularly in the retail domain, including store, online, and pricing platforms. Navya has extensive experience in ETL and API testing, and is proficient in several technologies such as AWS, Datatbricks, Hadoop Spark, and more. Currently, Navya is a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Trifacta, where she is part of the quality team responsible for testing various features of Trifacta deployed in Azure and AWS, GCP and on-prem. She has exposure to testing different computation engines like Databricks, Spark, and different integrations of data-warehouse like Snowflake, Bigquery. Prior to Trifacta, Navya worked as a Senior Consultant, Quality Analyst at Thoughtworks for 3 years and 4 months. She was involved in a project for one of the leading retailers, where she created an API test framework from scratch with pytest. She also addressed performance issues using Gatling, and all the services and applications were hosted in AWS instances. Navya has also written blogs on her experience, which can be found on her LinkedIn profile. Navya's experience also includes working as a Software Engineer at Tesco, where she played a crucial role in both system testing and end-to-end testing of a project that followed an agile methodology. She also worked in the automation team to automate the user interface of the project. Navya holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science from B V Bhoomreddi College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli. Her tech stack includes skills in test, SDET, software engineering, QA, AWS, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, ETL, mobile, Azure, GCP, SQL, Hadoop, CI/CD, Android, iOS, and integration. Navya has relevant experience of 9.45 years and is always eager to take on new challenges.