About

Santosh Appana is an accomplished Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in Automation Testing and QAOPS. Currently working as a Senior SDET at Cisco Systems, he has expertise in designing testing frameworks, tooling, automation, continuous integration, and deploying testing stacks. He has extensive experience in testing Front-End and Back-End Restful Webservice APIs and is proficient in Python, Java, and JavaScript. Santosh has a great understanding of automating UI using Selenium, Cypress.IO, and Robot Framework and has worked on automating APIs using JMeter, Robot Framework, Python-based framework, and RestAssured. He has hands-on experience in Performance Testing using JMeter and Gatling and has worked in an Agile/DevOps environment to ensure CI/CD. He is also experienced in developing backend APIs using Flask and has knowledge in instrumenting and monitoring products using Prometheus and Grafana. Santosh has worked with cloud services like AWS and GCP and has hands-on experience in setting up CI/CD using Jenkins (Freestyle/Pipeline). He has extensive experience in automating Sanity, Feature, Functional, and Regression testing and has expertise in testing Cloud-Microservice Containerized products. He has also worked on OSS/BSS telecom applications and has experience in testing products in Telecom and IP communication domains (Unified communications). Santosh holds a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Viswanadha Institute of Technology and Management and an Associate's degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Col.D.S.Raju Polytechnic. He is a certified Machine Learning expert from Coursera and has worked with Docker containers and its orchestration tools like Docker Swarm and Kubernetes. He is also a Security Ninja Advanced White Belt in Cisco. In summary, Santosh Appana is a skilled Software Engineer with a diverse range of technical expertise and experience in Automation Testing, QAOPS, and CI/CD. He is a valuable asset to any organization looking to implement efficient testing frameworks and automation processes.