About

Rakesh Kondreddy is an accomplished Group QA Manager with over 8 years of experience in the field of testing and test automation. He has a proven track record of leading QA transformational changes through automation, process streamlining, agile enablement, and governance. Rakesh has experience managing teams of up to 10 resources and handling multiple QA projects simultaneously, all while delivering the highest quality products meeting delivery schedules. Rakesh has worked with well-known brands like Nike, Under Armour, Adidas, Columbia, and Vans as the Group QA Manager at Gulf Marketing Group. He has set measurable and tangible KPI targets and brainstormed with the team to drive successful results and deliverables. Rakesh has created QA strategies for promotion and important customer journeys and prevented 20% of defects in production. He has also managed software vendors in terms of procurement of resources, syncup calls, and invoice releases. In his previous role as Senior Software Test Engineer at Ellucian, Rakesh identified opportunities for innovation and offered new ideas. He took the initiative to experiment with software frameworks and created a generic Automation framework library for Security Testing that was highly configurable for any website. He also automated accessibility testing against WCAG A, AA, AAA and section508 standards using Axe, HTML code sniffer, Protractor, and reported violations pointing the element and quick fixes. Rakesh has spoken at various international conferences, including SQA Days, Technical Agility Conference, Selenium International Conference India, Global Testing Retreat, and Selenium Day. He is a Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Product Owner, and Certified Selenium Professional. Rakesh has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from JNTU. Rakesh's technical expertise includes test, QA, SDET, Selenium, SQL, product management, Salesforce, integration, mobile, web, and research scientist. He is a testing and test automation enthusiast who continuously learns to increase the speed of innovation, which would deliver in incremental cycles. Rakesh has created an accessibility test framework that can speed up manual work from 50 days to 5 minutes and decreased resource cost by 70%. He has also worked on hands-on visual test automation using apply tools Eyes, creating baseline images with various checkpoints of the complete page, visible portion, individual element, region & frame with different match levels of pixel comparison, content, and layout.