Summary
Harika Banda is a Quality Assurance Consultant IV with a master's in Computer Science from Clemson and over five years of industry experience specializing in banking and financial services. She blends hands-on software development and testing expertise—building POM automation frameworks, API test suites, and SQL-driven data validation—with practical data science skills in EDA, visualization, and PyTorch. At Cognizant she led automation initiatives, data migration reconciliations for Pega upgrades, and served as an SME onboarding new team members, demonstrating strong cross-functional communication and project ownership. Her toolkit spans Java, Python, Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, Tableau/Power BI, and AWS-backed databases, enabling end-to-end delivery from test strategy to data-driven insights. Based in Clemson, SC, she is actively pursuing full-time roles that leverage her dual strengths in software engineering and applied data science. One less obvious strength: she pairs rigorous QA discipline with model-building experience, making her effective at validating both code correctness and data/model integrity.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Clemson University
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, A+, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering, A+ at CMR Institute of Technology,Hyderabad
English