# Suresh Dhiddi > Engineering Leader | Investor | Ex-eBay, PayPal Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sureshdhiddi • Lead software engineer with over 15 years of experience on large-scale web, API and service oriented applications. • Can work independently or with teams and being able to multi-task on multiple products and projects. • Excellent planning, problem solving, communication, organizational and leadership skills. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Investor @ ABAzyne Bioscience Inc. Jan 2024 – Present | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada ### Engineering Manager II @ eBay Jan 2020 – Jan 2025 | San Jose, California, United States ### MTS 2 Software Engineer @ eBay Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 ### MTS 1 Software Engineer, QE @ eBay Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA • Lead automation efforts to develop test automation framework for eBay checkout web, REST API and service oriented architecture web services. • Contribute in developing scalable Java based automation frameworks with primary focus on increasing efficiency, re-usability and flexibility, which will be helping a 100+ person QA organization. • Responsible for designing testing strategies and developing comprehensive test plans. • Prioritize test activities and identify creative solutions to blocking issues and problems. • Designed and Implemented state of the art automation framework using Java, TestNG, Selenium Web Driver and YAML, which is very portable, extensible and easy to understand by other engineers. • Developed sandbox, pre-production and live test automation suites for very critical web flows. • Lead and train other QA engineers and support organization in operational and strategic decision-making. • Guide cross-functional QA teams in defining vision for automation frameworks, continuous integration environments setup and test strategies. • Involved in documenting and executing functional, regression, system, accessibility test suites and integration tests with PayPal services/applications. ### MTS 1 Software Engineer, Quality @ PayPal Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA • Lead automation efforts to develop test automation framework for PayPal checkout API, web and service oriented architecture web services. • Lead, mentor and train other QA engineers and support organization in operational and strategic decision making. Prioritize test activities and identify creative solutions to blocking issues and problems. • Guide cross functional QA teams in defining vision for automation frameworks, continuous integration environments setup and test strategies. • Practice Agile Scrum development model for sprint planning, retrospective, sprint review and daily standup meetings. • Develop live test automation suites for very critical API and web flows. • Responsible for designing testing strategies and developing comprehensive test plans. • Participated in hiring decisions, performance reviews for junior QA engineers. • Design, develop and execute nightly automation scripts by using open source technologies Jenkins, Maven, GIT, Selenium WebDriver, Java and Selenium Grid. ### Sr. Software QA Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | San Jose, CA • Designed and developed automation testing framework and test suites in Java, TestNG, Selenium Web Driver, SILK Test and other internal Java-based automation frameworks for API, Web and SOA/Services test cases. • Migrated several hundred Silk test cases to Selenium tests by using open source technologies such as Selenium, TestNG, Java, Maven, GIT, Hudson and Eclipse • Provided assistance to implement and articulate testing strategies, test automation and test engineering technologies. • Participated in the QA release process by developing and validating functional and operational test cases. • Led projects independently and provided technical supervision to other quality engineers. • Work with geographically distributed teams and contribute to the success of the teams. ### Software QA Engineer @ PayPal Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | San Jose, CA • Involved in test planning and developing manual and automated test case. • Responsible for writing SILK automation test cases for PayPal frontend flows. • Reported testing status, milestones and issues to management and other stakeholders related to the assigned projects. • Responsible for testing the implementation to insure accuracy and stability, including both manual testing and automation testing. ### Software QA Engineer @ Radiant Soft Sol Inc Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Worked as a QA consultant for multiple clients such as Hewitt, Acxiom and PayPal. Closely worked with client's project management teams and resolved issues related to QA team. Performed backend testing on MS SQL-Server and Oracle, executed various DDL and DML statement. Created user defined functions that could be conveniently called across various test scripts to extend the capability of SILK Test by avoiding redundant code. ### Software Test Engineer @ Symphony Software Private Ltd Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 Analyzed software requirement documents and business requirement documents to get a better understanding of the system on both technical and business perspectives. Managed test requirements and interacted with System Analysts to develop test scenarios in Test-Director. Conducted functional testing and regression testing for subscriber flow for both GUI and back end. Involved in performing configuration and compatible testing along with QA lead. Performed regression testing after each build using Mercury Interactive WinRunner. ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sdhiddi --- Source: https://flows.cv/sureshdhiddi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sureshdhiddi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01