About

Phalguna Rao Bammidi is an accomplished SDET with over 5 years of experience in the software industry. He is currently serving as the Assistant Vice President of Software Engineering at Wells Fargo, where he is responsible for developing automation frameworks and full-stack Java applications in the Payments domain. Phalguna's software delivery skills include business requirement analysis, user story estimation, scrum team management, software testing delivery, and CI/CD integration. He is also proficient in software testing skills such as SDET, test automation strategy and framework development, web UI automation, database automation, RESTful API automation, performance automation, desktop UI testing, mobile application automation, responsive web automation, and chaos testing. In addition, Phalguna has software development skills in Java full-stack application development, Java Spring Boot, Angular, React JS, SQL, IBM MQ, and JMS. He is well-versed in various tools and tech skills such as Java, Selenium Webdriver, Cucumber, BDD, jUnit, SQL, MariaDB, Apache DRUID, Postman, Swagger, Apache jMeter, Micro Focus UFT, TestNG, Perfecto, Galen, RubyMine, and DBS Wreckon. He also has experience working with Jenkins, NexusIQ, Jira, Micro Focus ALM, Octane, IBM RTC, and Spring Boot. Phalguna started his professional career with a tech company in India, where he worked for a client called Citi Bank in their Retail Banking segment. He was responsible for the successful delivery of an application that handles the Retail Private Label Cards. He later joined Wells Fargo, where he worked in Wholesale Banking segment and was given an opportunity to work on applications used for automatic check payments by wholesale customers of the bank. Phalguna also has experience working with DBS Bank, where he was responsible for handling an application used for Name & Transaction Surveillance of consumer and corporate customers of the bank, providing him with a deep understanding of Legal, Compliance, and Audit segments of the bank. Phalguna holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Mechanical Engineering from RGUKT and a Master of Arts (MA) in Psychology from IGNOU. He is proficient in SDET, Java, SQL, Spring Boot, Spring, UI, Web, Software Engineering, Infra, Selenium, CI/CD, Jenkins, Integration, Mobile, and AngularJS. Phalguna is an expert in professional presentations and data visualizations using