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Venkatesureddy Gajjela

@venkatesureddygajjela

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QA Automation Architect building scalable automation frameworks and enterprise quality strategies across microservices.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead QA automation and CI/CD quality engineering—building microservices-friendly test frameworks, embedding DevSecOps quality gates, and mentoring teams to keep release readiness tight with minimal defect leakage.

I’ve spent 15+ years building scalable test automation frameworks and defining enterprise quality strategies, including leading QA automation at IronMountain and FISGlobalFinTech. At IronMountain, I led a 12-member Quality Engineering team, architected multi-platform automation frameworks from scratch, and drove Shift-Left testing with DDD—automating 4,180+ test cases to reach 91.9% overall coverage.

I’ve also pioneered an AI-powered API Test Automation Agent using GenAI and Playwright, and embedded UI/API suites into DevSecOps quality gates (SAST, DAST, Secret detection) in GitLab CI/CD pipelines. From Docker/Kubernetes-based parallel execution (under 5 minutes) to multi-region release readiness across the US, UK, EU, and APAC, I focus on reliable CI/CD quality and zero high-severity defect leakage.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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QA Automation Architect

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Iron Mountain

Jan 2020 - Present (6 years 7 months)

Led a 12-member Quality Engineering team, defined automation roadmap for 4 enterprise platforms, and fostered Shift-Left testing culture using Domain-Driven Design.

Playwright Selenium GenAI Docker Kubernetes GKE LiteLLM Mistral Ollama DeBERTa Gemini SAST DAST Terraform YAML

Software Test Lead

FIS

Jan 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Directed a 6-member QE team, owning end-to-end automation strategy, effort estimation, and release readiness for critical banking applications.

Java Selenium Jenkins CI CD DevSecOps

Senior QA Engineer

IronMountain

Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Designed end-to-end UI automation frameworks using Selenium, Java, and TestNG to validate core enterprise information storage applications.

Selenium Java TestNG Jenkins CI CD

Software Developer In Test (SDET)

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Jan 2012 - May 2018 (6 years 4 months)

Acted as the primary onsite technical liaison for Fortune 500 clients, including Barclays Bank in
London and Caterpillar in Chicago.
Managed offshore testing teams, defined comprehensive QA strategies, and tracked execution
milestones within dynamic Agile/Scrum environments.
Architected robust UI and API automation frameworks from scratch utilizing the Page Object
Model (POM), Java, Selenium.