Prasanth Yelchuri is a Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer with over a decade of IT experience and eight years focused on test engineering and automation across retail, digital, order management, and supply chain domains. He has led SDET teams at Best Buy and Accenture, driving API and UI automation, CI/CD pipelines, and migrations to cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) while improving regression coverage and release velocity. Skilled in Java, Selenium, SOAP UI, Postman, Jenkins, Kafka analysis, and IBM Sterling OMS, he bridges product, engineering, and business teams to shape test strategy from design walkthroughs through IPT and production validation. His open-source testing contributions include improving RSpec coverage for the Expertiza peer-review platform, demonstrating hands-on QA across both enterprise and academic projects. Known for design thinking, adaptability, and resilience, he mentors teams and champions pragmatic automation that tangibly enhances customer-facing experiences. Based in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area, he combines deep order-management domain knowledge with cloud and observability tooling (Splunk, Kibana, Grafana) to keep complex retail systems reliable.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Sastra University
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 8 days
Contributions summary:Prasanth primarily contributed to the testing of the Expertiza web application. Their commits focused on adding and modifying RSpec tests for various helper methods within the `review_mapping_helper_spec.rb` file. These tests covered functionality related to team color determination, submission link updates, and review volume calculations, enhancing the test coverage of the application's review and feedback mechanisms.
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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