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MJF Ln Yagnanarayana Dande

Co-Founder

Hyderabad, Telangana, India17 yrs 9 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of experience in quality assurance leadership.
  • Expert in AI and machine learning integration in testing.
  • Proven track record of building high-performing QA teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Quality Assurance Leader with a strong focus on AI integration and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business OwnershipStart-up LeadershipTest AutomationAi-assisted TestingQuality AssuranceDevops IntegrationQuality Engineering

Other Skills

AI-Assisted Test GenerationAI-Assisted Release Readiness checksPerformance TestingTest Infrastructure and Cloud CostsAI/ML AlgorithmsSlackJIRAPyTestTestFloQuality MetricsSeleniumJenkinsDockerKubernetesJMeter

About

Results-driven QA Director with 17 years of experience leading quality assurance initiatives across diverse industries. Proven expertise in integrating AI and machine learning technologies into testing processes, driving automation, and improving product quality. Strong leader with a track record of building high-performing teams, enhancing operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional business outcomes. * AI-Assisted Test Generation (Copilot, AI/ML Algorithms) * AI-Assisted Release Readiness checks * Test Automation (Selenium, Appium, TestNG, PyTest, Cucumber, Robot Framework) and DevOps Integration (CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes) * Test Infrastructure and Cloud Costs - Slack bot with Python backend will keep monitoring the cost trends and usage of resources on GCP * Quality Assurance Strategy Development * Leadership & Team Development * Agile & Scrum Methodologies * Predictive Analytics & Risk Management * Cross-Functional Collaboration * Performance Testing (JMeter) * Cloud-Based QA (AWS, Google Cloud) Vivid blogger at http://qabypassion.blogspot.com. Technical reviews for “TestNG – Beginners guide” and "HP Vertica Essentials" by Packt Publishing. Received most innovate project award in Hackathon 2012 from Komli Media Presented in National Conference on Software Testing - 2013, PESITon Emerging areas of testing. Presented on Lean software testing practiced

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 10 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Dpdpd private limited

Founder

Sep 2025Present · 9 mos

  • Founded DPDPD Private Limited to develop AI-based gamified educational products.
  • Designed innovative solutions to enhance learning accessibility for students, including those in rural areas and with special needs.
  • Collaborated with educators and technologists to ensure product effectiveness and user engagement.
Business OwnershipStart-up Leadership

Greyorange

Associate Director

Jul 2022Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Remote

  • AI-Assisted Test Generation (Copilot, AI/ML Algorithms)
  • SlackBot to use Google gemini to create test Cases in JIRA based on PRD, HLD and story acceptance Criteria and if accepted with the generated test cases on Slack, it will upload them to TestFlo plugin of JIRA.
  • This SlackBot also generates PyTest code for these Test Cases.
  • Evangelised Team to use PostBot (AI Plugin for Postman) for API Testing
  • AI-Assisted Release Readiness checks
  • On Prompt of 'Are we ready to release version x.x
  • SlackBot which check for Requirement Traceability Report from TestFlo Plugin
  • missing commits from Release branch
  • If ready for release generates release notes along with Test Evidence and if not ready will show list of items which are stopping this release
  • Also publishes Daily and Weekly digests of Quality Metrics and Quality Summary Report (QSR)
  • Test Automation (Selenium, Appium, TestNG, PyTest, Cucumber, Robot Framework) and DevOps Integration (CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Evangelised usage of PACT for Component Testing for QA Teams by using PACT Stub Server
  • Reuse of same Test cases for API and UI for System Testing by using Page Object Model and Rest Object Model
  • Daily thrice Smoke Runs
  • Nightly Runs of functional and Performance Runs
  • First Level Triaging of these Runs are done through AI bot by using Kibana Logs
  • Also AI bot plots the trends on Grafana Dashboard
  • Perform System Level testing through real time warehouse simulation using tools like JMeter to send the order waves and anomaly simulator to introduce several conditions which will happen at warehouse.
  • Performance Testing using several load profiles to determine whether there is any KPI degradation build over build.
  • Test Infrastructure and Cloud Costs
  • Slack bot with Python backend will keep monitoring the cost trends and usage of resources on GCP
  • Tracking Team Performance
  • Goals aligned with Company goals - Uptime, MTTR, MTBF, Bug Leak Ratio
AI-Assisted Test GenerationAI-Assisted Release Readiness checksTest AutomationDevOps IntegrationPerformance TestingTest Infrastructure and Cloud Costs+1

Nutanix

2 roles

Senior Software Quality Assurance Manager

Aug 2021Jul 2022 · 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Quality ProcessesQuality MetricsQuality EngineeringQuality Assurance

Lead QA Engineer

Jul 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Nutanix Insights is Predictive Health and Support Automation Service. This is a SaaS service to take Support Experience to the next level for the Customers. This uses telemetry data to the health of the clusters. It enables the auto healing system for customers.
  • I am Staff QA Engineer/QA Lead for this project. Typical work includes collaborating with different stake holders to understand the requirements, writing Test Plans with test strategies, test environment requirements, automation framework design, etc .. Also to evaluate different data generation techniques and tools for generating data for these tests. Also for providing framework to publish quality metrics to QA for the consumption of Program Management Team.
Quality ProcessesQuality MetricsQuality EngineeringQuality Assurance

Optiva inc.

Test Automation Architect

Jan 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos · Remote Work

  • * Performance Tests for Telcom Gaints in India and South Africa
Quality ProcessesQuality MetricsQuality EngineeringQuality Assurance

Upwork

Professional Freelancer

May 2017Dec 2017 · 7 mos

Quality ProcessesQuality MetricsQuality EngineeringQuality Assurance

Mapr technologies

Principal Software QA Engineer

Jun 2016Apr 2017 · 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Quality ProcessesQuality MetricsQuality EngineeringQuality Assurance

Inmobi

Engineering Manager

Aug 2015May 2016 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Test Management System using TestLink and SuiTest (JIRA Add-on), JIRA, Zephyr and Planning items to be part of a Sprint for QA Team
  • 2. Measuring Test Case Coverage per Component using eazyBI Reports, Code Coverage and overall quality of the Product/Release/Sprint
  • 3. Maintaining results of Multi Browser support using Selenium and Saucelabs
  • 4. Quality Summary Report (QSR) and Quality Review with stake holders to make Go/No Go Decision for release
  • 5. Integration of TestLink/Jenkins to upload automated test results into TestLink/YouTrack
  • 6. Story -> Test Case -> Defect Traceability for every project
  • 7. Root Cause Analysis for Production issue and creating strategy to decrease the possibility of happening it
  • 8. Involved in Automation Testing using ROBOT Framework with Selenium API and Python Scripts
  • 9. Developed Test Metrics Project publishing metrics like Defect Leak Ratio, Defect Density, Code Complexity using gmetrics, Code coverage using Cobertura
  • 10. Developed Collective Test Insights Portal (CTIP) - A customised version of Jenkins to publish all the Quality measures of code and Testing,
  • 11. Built a framework using Robot, Selenium library and http-sniffer library to automate AdServing Tests
  • 12. Initiated QA Tech Talks for creating a common platform for Test Team to come up with innovative solutions for day to day problems
  • 13. Acceptance Criteria Driven Development(ACDD) for Scrum(Agile)
Quality ProcessesQuality MetricsQuality EngineeringQuality Assurance

Collective

Principal Engineer

Feb 2014Jul 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Quality ProcessesQuality EngineeringQuality Assurance

Komli media

Lead Software Engineer

Nov 2011Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked as part of Big Data Team for implementing Kafka Project.
  • 1. Developed a Centralized Tool for running all the Automation Test Suites using Jenkins
  • 2. AdServing Test Automation Framework using HtmlUnit, STAF and TestNG
  • Created MaxMind Reverse lookup, SDS Library(Citruleaf)
  • Product : Atom AdExchange
  • Tools: Trac, Test Link, Rally Dev, Selenium, Robot Framework, JMeter, Paros, Cobertura and EMMA
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. Analyzing software requirement specification
  • 2. Understanding test plan and test specification.
  • 3. Involved in preparation of Test Scenarios and Test cases using RallyDev and Test Link Tools.
  • 4. Involved in reviewing of test cases and executed the test Suites.
  • 5. Involved in Manual testing.
  • 6. Involved in Automation Testing using ROBOT Framework with Selenium API and Python Scripts
  • 7. Involved in Load tests using Apache JMeter and EC2 Clients
  • 8. Involved in Security Testing using Paros Tool
Quality Engineering

Mapr technologies

Staff Engineer

Nov 2010Nov 2011 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Product - MapR's distribution of Hadoop
  • Tools Used: TestNG, JIRA
  • Responsibilities:
  • 1. maprfs Test Automation using TestNG
  • Test Automation using TestNg for testing MFS(MapR File System) which is parallel to Apache Hadoop Distributed File System.
  • 2. Look Busy Tool
  • Performance Tests by loading server using look busy tool
  • 3. Involved in writing test cases
  • 4. Manual Testing
Quality Engineering

Symantec

2 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2008Nov 2010 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Software Engineering : Scrum (Agile), Test Driven Development
  • Product : Altiris Deployment Solution
  • Language : Java, Servlets, JSP
  • Major responsibility was to identifying if the restore is a cross hardware restore by injecting different device divers by identifying the devices using driver database. Understood how network boot works with Solaris, Linux and Windows and used it in the product.
Quality Engineering

Automation Engineer

Jan 2007Feb 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Software Engineering : Waterfall Model
  • Product : Fission (XML based Test Automation Framework)
  • Operating Systems : Linux, Solaris, Windows and HP
  • Scripting Languages : Shell, Perl, Python
  • Tools : Selenium
  • Writing keywords / functions/ methods using any standard programming language. This can be taken up by a test automation engineer / developer.
  • Writing legible test cases in a predefined format using XML / Excel utilizing the keywords. This can be taken up by a test engineer.
  • Product : USH (Veritas Universal Shell)
  • Automating Nightly Smoke Sanity Tests.
  • Tracking Code coverage using code coverage tools like EMMA
  • This product provides a shell like interface for sys-admin to manage servers in data-centre in an heterogeneous environment.

Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Technology — Computer Science

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Gayathri English Medium School

SSC

Jan 2000Jan 2001

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