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title: "SHRUTI PANDURANGI - Senior Software Engineer in India | Tal"
description: "Meet SHRUTI PANDURANGI, Senior Software Engineer | SDET Python | Azure Devops CI/CD based in India. AI stack includes claude, openai, and githubcopilot."
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# SHRUTI PANDURANGI on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer \| SDET Python \| Azure Devops CI/CD

## About

With 11 years of experience in QA Engineering, worked as an SDET \(Python\) focused on developing automation frameworks and test platform solutions for containerized execution in CI/CD pipelines\. My background spans manual, automation testing of web, client, server, API, and web services applications across domains like Retail, Banking, and Financial Services\. Presently, I work in DevOps with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, with strong interests in automation, security, scalability, and driving operational efficiency to enhance business continuity\.

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude

openai

githubcopilot

ChatGPT

FLUX

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Finastra, Dec 2017 \- Present · 8 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked as part of the Test Automation COE to enable all Finastra products to adopt the Unified Test Framework \(UTF/Robot Framework\) for automation testing\. The framework supports UI, Client/Server, Web Services, API, Security, and Mobile testing\. Key Responsibilities & Contributions: Single\-handedly led the enhancement of the Unified Test Framework, extending it to handle dependency conflicts and improve scalability\. Analyzed customer requirements and conducted feasibility studies for automation\. Actively participated in sprint planning, scrum meetings, and automation issue resolutions\. Contributed to all UTF releases, ensuring consistent quality and timely delivery\. Developed new features such as baseline comparators \(XML/JSON\) and a one\-click UTF installer\. Resolved issues in REST and SOAP API testing and optimized test execution using parallelization across multiprocessors and servers\. Collaborated with teams to review and stabilize test scripts, improving automation efficiency\. Supported teams in leveraging UTF libraries and incorporating BDD frameworks \(Cucumber/SpecFlow\)\. Assisted teams in setting up CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps\. Maintained source code in Git, executed unit and UAT tests for UTF releases, and contributed to release activities\. Currently working in DevOps, with hands\-on experience in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps for CI/CD\.

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at Finastra, Dec 2014 \- Present · 11 yrs 9 mos, Managed Kubernetes deployments using Helm, Flux CD, and GitOps workflows; automated the upgrade of 100\+ AKS clusters using GitHub Actions; provisioned new AKS clusters with Terraform \(IaC\); developed Python\-based GitHub whitelisting automation to eliminate manual whitelisting of SaaS and cluster IPs\. Managed source control and CI/CD workflows using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, migrating legacy Azure DevOps pipelines and repositories to GitHub Actions\. Built and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for automated test execution\. Designed and implemented Prometheus and Grafana dashboards leveraging the Kubernetes Image Availability Exporter to monitor container image availability, improving cluster observability and enabling pre\-upgrade health validation for AKS environments\. Designed, developed, and maintained scalable Selenium \(Python\) and Playwright automation frameworks and test suites for enterprise banking applications\. Leveraged Python scripting to build an in\-house automation framework with reusable components adopted by 35\+ Finastra product teams\. Worked on a Backstage Proof of Concept to improve developer experience and self\-service capabilities\. Optimized test automation using Python and Poetry, reducing execution time and engineering effort by 50%, while mentoring teams on BDD processes, automation frameworks, and best practices\. Worked on OpenAPI Prism and implemented tools to develop automated test cases using Swagger specification, reducing manual efforts by 50\-80%\. Integrated Microcks for API mocking to accelerate development and testing\.

Quality Assurance Engineer at Misys, Dec 2014 \- Nov 2017 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked in a Integrated Testing projects for Misys products like Fusion Banking Essence, Fusion Banking Corporate Channel, Treasury Optimization and Equation\. Responsibilities: • Involved in test cases review by development team, product management and modified the test cases based on their feedback\. • Responsible for planning, executing and managing the UI automation scripts using UTF • Drafted Test Plan which included testing objectives, testing phases, scenarios and test environment after a thorough analysis of the business rules\. • Performed functional testing to identify various critical points in the application and automated it by using UTF/MTAF • Maintaining the test scripts /project in SVN repository • Created Jenkins Job to run automated tests

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur

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