Pratik Venkatesh
Senior QA Engineer at EXL
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPratik Venkatesh is a Senior QA Engineer and automation leader with 11 years in software quality, specializing in scalable test frameworks for healthcare web applications. At EXL he has driven automation strategy—building modular Page Object Model libraries, wrapping them as reusable gems, and orchestrating nightly Jenkins pipelines across versions while collaborating with distributed teams. He combines deep hands-on testing (functional, regression, integration, API) with DevOps-aware practices like CI, code reviews, and documentation using YARD, improving maintainability and speed of delivery. A CS master’s graduate from California State University, Chico, Pratik also brings legacy middleware and database deployment experience from earlier roles, giving him an unusual blend of automation engineering and infrastructure troubleshooting. He’s equally comfortable mentoring peers and refactoring frameworks to reduce maintenance burden, positioning him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns brittle test suites into reliable, reusable assets.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science & Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at California State University, Chico
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (71)
python10
ruby10
automation-framework10
javascript10
webdriver10
ecosystem10
dotnet10
browser10
browser-automation10
rust10
cucumber10
java10
watir10
selenium10
cucumber-js9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pgundlupetvenkatesh/SeleniumWebDriver_Excercise
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
pgundlupetvenkatesh/Minefield
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
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