# Venkata Sai Ram Goli > Senior Software Engineer at LeanTaaS Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/venkatasairamgoli • Extensively worked on testing cloud applications built on Angular 8, Groovy and Java API’s in an agile and scrum environment. • Designed, developed and executed automation test suites using Pytest, Protractor, Cypress, Karate and Selenium frameworks. • Experienced with tools like HP-ALM, JIRA and TFS for test case design, maintenance and execution. • Worked with programming and web technologies like HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, REST, Python and Amazon Web Services. • Proficient in designing and developing Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Metrics. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ LeanTaaS Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Software Engineer, Quality and Release @ LeanTaaS Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer, Quality and Release @ LeanTaaS Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Quality Engineer @ Dodge Data & Analytics Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area • Designed and developed UI automation test suites using AngularJS, TypeScript and Protractor framework. • Designed and developed API automation test suites using the BDD syntax by Cucumber on Karate framework. • Integrated the automation code base with Jenkins for scheduled regression test runs and report generation. • Analysed the automation reports and identified, reported and tracked the defects on Jira. • Collaborated with the development and business teams to prioritize the defects for a fix during the releases. • Worked with Amazon Web Services (AWS), S3 bucket, Firehose and validated the log files for the events triggered from the application with the database records. • Designed the test plan documents for the functional testing of the API’s and UI stories across the releases and discussed them with the Business and Product teams for release scheduling and resource management. • Analyzed and reviewed business requirements and functional design specifications with Developers, Project Managers, and QA Manager. • Created, executed and maintained the test cases on Jira using the Adaptavist plugin with 100% coverage. • Collaborated and supervised offshore QA Analyst teams from India and Canada. Coordinated with the teams for functional, regression and post release sanity testing phases over bi-weekly the releases. • Developed a test strategy for regression testing that improved the team’s productivity and reduced the testing time frame for 2 weeks to 4 days. • Developed an improved process to make defect tracking easier during regression testing and also helped avoid duplicate defects across teams. • Developed the Test and Defect metrics after every release. Conducted review meetings with the Technical and Management teams and helped improve the quality of testing. • Experienced with MongoDB and Oracle databases. • Constantly enhanced the knowledge repository with the testing data and improved testing processes for functional and regression testing. ### Software Quality Engineer @ Dodge Data & Analytics Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area ### Developer Intern @ CrunchPrep Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India • Collaborated on architectural and product decisions, and planned, scoped, designed and implemented features for CrunchPrep’s webapp. • Developed “Challenge a friend” app using HTML, CSS and JavaScript in the vocabulary builder app so that students can compete against each other while they learn words. • Developed automation test suites to perform the end-to-end testing using Selenium WebDriver and enhanced the performance of the web-application by identifying the bugs. ### Software QA Engineer @ Tech Mahindra Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India • 3 years of Industry experience in SDLC and STLC (Manual, Automation and Model Based Testing) with expertise in Test Planning, Test Design, Test Execution and Defect Reporting & Tracking. • Implementing effective, reusable, and maintainable automation test framework to achieve maximum coverage. • Key resource in the development of automation test suites to perform the UI testing using Unified Functional Testing (HP-UFT) and Selenium WebDriver using Java. • Involved as a Project Lead, Functional Test with proficiency in System, Integration, Regression and End-to-End Testing. • Performed continuous integrating with Jenkins to perform regression testing and report generation. • Implemented REST API automation in Java, Rest Assured for high availability cluster project covering 75% of tests. • Worked with the Development teams to track the defects and followed the work flow till bug fixture. • Awarded with Bravo, Pat-On-Back and Star-of-the-Quarter for excellent productive results shown from the Citi Bank Client. • Exposure to Jira, Agile and Scrum environment. ### President @ Make A Difference Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Guntur Area, India • Fellow management, performance appraisal, recruitment, human resource analysis, manages deliverables. • Organized successful recruitment drives for volunteers in Guntur in August 2013 and November 2013, which helped MAD-Guntur grow from a four-member founder team to a 60-volunteer strong organization in 7 months. • Organized various training sessions like process training, syllabus training, etc. for the 60 volunteers who worked for MAD-Guntur chapter. • Conducted a couple of community fundraising activities towards Dream Camp event, a 3 day experimental camp that primarily focuses on helping children build and connect with their dreams, and raised above 8 lakhs for the event. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Cincinnati ### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sairamgoli --- Source: https://flows.cv/venkatasairamgoli JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/venkatasairamgoli/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01