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Ramya Richard

Ramya Richard

Automation Architect | Enterprise Integration & Platform Engineering

United States
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Self-motivated and objective driven, with the philosophy that “change is the only constant”.

Enterprise Automation Architect and Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience in Java development, enterprise integrations, platform engineering, quality engineering, technical leadership, and AI-assisted development solutions.

Experience Details

  • 20+ years of experience in software engineering, Java development, enterprise integrations, automation architecture, quality engineering, technical leadership, and business analysis across Healthcare, Retail, Banking, Manufacturing, and E-Commerce domains.

  • Strong software engineering background with extensive experience developing enterprise applications, backend services, REST APIs, integration platforms, automation frameworks, and developer productivity solutions using Java and related technologies.

  • Experienced in designing and implementing enterprise integration solutions connecting business applications, APIs, CI/CD platforms, quality engineering systems, reporting solutions, and third-party services.

  • Hands-on experience with Java, Spring Framework, REST/SOAP services, SQL, Oracle, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Git, and modern software delivery practices.

  • Proven expertise in architecting scalable automation and quality engineering platforms supporting functional, integration, end-to-end, API, and regression testing for large enterprise systems.

  • Extensive experience building centralized engineering solutions including CI/CD pipelines, shared frameworks, developer tools, reporting platforms, dashboards, traceability systems, and enterprise quality governance initiatives.

  • Experience implementing AI-assisted engineering solutions, developer productivity tools, MCP-based integrations, intelligent test generation, requirements analysis, and engineering workflow automation.

  • Strong background in Agile and Waterfall methodologies with experience leading technical initiatives, mentoring teams, conducting architecture reviews, facilitating Agile ceremonies, and driving engineering standards across multiple teams.

  • Experienced Technical Business Analyst and Partner Integration Engineer with proven ability to gather requirements, define acceptance criteria, translate business needs into technical solutions, and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, development teams, and third-party partners.

  • Strong expertise in application lifecycle management including requirements analysis, architecture, development, testing, deployment, production support, maintenance, and continuous improvement.

  • Recognized for strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills, with a track record of delivering enterprise solutions that balance business objectives, customer needs, technical excellence, and operational efficiency.
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Experiences
  • Lead enterprise automation architecture and quality engineering initiatives across multiple healthcare product teams.

    • Designed and implemented centralized engineering platforms integrating Jira, Zephyr, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, reporting systems, and automation frameworks to improve delivery visibility and quality governance.

    • Defined and promoted enterprise quality engineering standards, framework governance, CI/CD best practices, and AI-assisted development adoption across product teams.

    • Built enterprise dashboards and reporting solutions providing real-time quality metrics, automation coverage, test execution status, defect trends, traceability, and build health across multiple product teams.

    • Developed backend integrations using REST APIs to connect Jira, Zephyr, GitHub, reporting platforms, and internal systems, reducing manual processes and improving engineering efficiency.

    • Designed and implemented AI-assisted engineering solutions including MCP-based integrations, intelligent test generation, requirements analysis, test coverage analysis, and engineering productivity workflows.

    • Created reusable automation platform components, shared libraries, templates, and GitHub Actions used by multiple engineering teams to standardize quality engineering practices.

    • Built ChatOps and workflow automation solutions enabling developers to trigger test executions, retrieve quality metrics, and interact with engineering tools directly from development workflows.

    • Led modernization initiatives to migrate teams toward standardized CI/CD pipelines, centralized reporting, automated traceability, and scalable quality engineering practices.

    • Researched and evaluated AI-assisted development technologies including GitHub Copilot, Claude, MCP architectures, agent workflows, and intelligent automation solutions for enterprise adoption.

    Technologies: Java, Spring Framework, REST APIs, GitHub Actions, Docker, Jenkins, Maven, TestNG, Playwright, Selenium, Jira, Zephyr, MCP, GitHub APIs, AI-assisted Engineering Tools, Oracle, CI/CD, Enterprise Integration.
  • Manage multiple QA scrum teams to maintain quality
  • Implement Automation frameworks and new technologies to enhance testing and automation
  • Defect management and team management
  • Design, Architect the automation framework to support dynamic testing, test data dependencies, CI/CID pipelines
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  • Develop Automation framework to test Integrations where data flows through multiple systems
  • Design configuration, functional test and end-to-end flow for systems involving high data management - OHI(Oracle Systems) / ORMB
  • Design, Architect and Create Automation Framework to support Web application with User Interface and Web Services at the Backend
  • Develop Integration tests: - test the components and services involved. - Create mocks for external components- Create Jenkins Pipeline
  • Develop Functional tests:- Test the complete end-to-end functionality including UI and Web Services
  • Help teams design the testing frameworks and provide solutions for data management, automation, technical issues etc
  • Working on POCs for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence
  • Process Automation ideas and Implementations for the Organization using RPA tools : UIPath, Leapwork, PowerAutomate etc
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  • Create automation framework to test backend features
  • Design, script and write automation tests with scenarios to cover all the features in every sprint. Work in parallel with the dev to finish automation.
  • Use Docker to spin up all the required apps and build the project using gradle.
  • Build Integration tests, Acceptance tests and Functional tests.
  • Continuous Integration in Jenkins.
  • Support Business team to generate the data reports using automation.
  • Design, Architect and Build a complete Automation framework for cross platform application including Desktop, tablet and mobiles.
  • Technologies: Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Junit, TestNG, Appium, Java Soap, Spring Rest Template for Rest Services.
  • complete mobile and tablet automation using Java/Selenium and Appium
  • Ipad/Tab automation using Java/Selenium and Appium
  • Provide mechanism for parallel testing, cloud testing and Continuous integration
  • Cloud testing - Using Browser Stack
  • Continuous Integration - Jenkins
  • Parallel Testing - Selenium Grid
  • Performance/Load testing for Web Services using Jmeter
  • Performance testing of a Web Application using JMeter
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  • Developing automation Framework for testing User Interfaces
  • Build the framework to make use of Services (Soap) and Database at the back end. Should include the following global features:
    • Reporting mechanism
    • Loggers and Exception
    • Excel and CSV import/export
    • Search in any UI
    • Filters in any UI
    • Table/Grid sorting
    • Bar and Pie Charts
    • Ajax responses
    • User/accounts maintenance
  • Performance testing mechanism for monitoring the UI/page loading time
  • Continuous integration using Jenkins
  • Architecture for running UI tests in multiple VM wares using multiple operating systems and Browsers
  • Automate all the manual test cases with Selenium and Java
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  • Preparing business requirements documents and converting into stories, estimating points for stories, design for test documents.
  • Build an entire Automation framework project from scratch to test the system.
  • Automate/Code to handle Services and User Interface in parallel
  • Monitor the QA resources for the manual testing and defect management.
  • Analysis and estimate points for the story
  • Test case preparation
  • Automate the tests using Cucumber and Java with Selenium
  • Continuous integration with Jenkins / Sauce labs
  • Support for delivery, Performance tests and Regression
  • Defect Triaging, Coordination and Reporting
  • Created System Testing, UAT test cases as per the requirements.
  • Automating the Restful API services using Cucumber
  • Automating UI screens using Selenium Web driver and Java
  • Customer support for all Production issues
  • Presentations and demos for every Sprint
  • Worked also as a Business Analyst in collecting the requirements from the clients and passing the same to the required teams
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  • Creating an automation project from scratch for multiple projects which involves testing SOAP and REST calls
  • Created independent clients for SOAP which can be re-used in multiple projects
  • Setting up Continuous Integration in Jenkins for all the projects
  • Develop centralized jar to be used across multiple projects like Database calls, log4j, XML/JSON parsers, read/write/copy data, XML/JSON validation, XML/XSD validation etc.
  • Co-ordination with multiple teams and grab information to build a centralized automation framework for REST and SOAP.
  • Technologies: Java, Junit, Cucumber, Selenium, XML, Jenkins, REST, SOAP
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  • Responsible for gather technical and functional requirements from Clients / partners and convert them into stories as a Technical Business Analyst and conduct iteration planning, retrospectives etc
  • Develop the automation framework, convert the functional stories into automated test cases and develop stories as a JAVA Developer for every sprint
  • Continuous Integration using Jenkins
  • UAT and support for Customer queries
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  • Involved in preparing business requirements document and converting into stories.
  • Analyzing the complete requirements and differentiate technical, Support and QA stories.
  • Do a complete analysis for the technical stories, get additional information from partners on the stories and assign to the developer.
  • Complete FTA (Functional Test Automation) for all technical stories before the developer completes the cycle.
  • Managing the release/iteration cycle for every release.
  • Monitor the QA resources for the manual testing and defect management.
  • Managing of day to day defects in the Best Buy Ecommerce Site which involves: Defect Triaging, Defect Coordination, Defect Reporting and Running Daily Defect Scrum Meetings.
  • Creating the automated regression suite in Jenkins servers
  • Customer support for all Production issues
  • Presentations and demos with all the partners for understanding the application.
  • Complete technical and functional support for all the production releases with partners
  • Production deployment support for every release of the project
  • Continuous Integration using Jenkins
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  • JAVA Developer / QA Automation Lead / Technical BA for major E-Commerce Retail product.
  • Develop application and Automate tests which follow agile/scrum methodologies
  • Developing the story and guiding the offshore team with the stories
  • Responsible for the full cycle which involves development, Automation, testing and continuous integration process for the project.
  • Main tasks include: Gathering Requirements, Update Design document, Analysis and estimate the points for the development story, Organizing the spring planning meeting, Coding and Unit testing, Test Case preparation, Automating the test cases using Cucumber/Java, Setting continuous integration test in Jenkins, Support for delivery, Support for Performance testing and regression, Resolve all partner issues after the product goes live, Resolving environment issues and supporting functional/technical issues for the new partners.
  • Supporting the partners in developing/testing the product
  • Performance testing support in helping for the scripting
  • Automating the Restful API services using Cucumber
  • Automating UI screens using Selenium Web driver
  • Programming the whole API testing using groovy, Java, Xstream
  • Complete Partners Integration – Support for all the partners in developing their code for making the XML requests and responses in integrating with the system.
  • Integration with every partners of Commerce product for programming the API in their programming languages.
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  • Analyzing the raw requirements and identifying missing requirements to ensure completeness & consistency.
  • Research on how the solution can be provided.
  • Designing the UI Mockup screens and developing them.
  • Providing the detailed design containing class diagrams and sequence diagrams to the development team using Rational Rose.
  • Developing reusable components and features of the application (such as Two month Calendar, Drag and Drop features, Progress bar, Gadgets etc).
  • Reviewing the work (like source code, documentation) of other developers.
  • Documenting the end-user training material & deployment steps.
  • Gathering the requirements for the Offshore team
  • Helping in all the design and development activities
  • Setting up onsite environment in offshore using Z-token.
  • Setting up onsite environment in client place
  • Preparing documents like architecture document, design document in client place.
  • Ensuring timely delivery to the customer.
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  • Development using JAVA/J2EE technologies and integration with clear case.
  • Maintaining Support from as Lead for the release ODALM 5.2.2 and 5.3.0.
  • POC for Clear Quest Change Management Tool.
  • Application and Database Design for all the release using Rational Rose.
  • Production support of the existing application and generation of reports as per client requirement.
  • Solving the open issues with client meetings
  • Gathering requirements for new ODALM Clear Quest Integration and preparing the prototype and the project Architecture diagrams.
  • Deliverables review before delivering them to customer.
  • Testing the application in various environments like DEV, Functional and User Acceptance environments.
  • Demonstration of application in DEV environment before moving the application for FT and AT environments
  • Coding for development activities.
  • Testing and Maintenance Support.
  • Good performance as per the client’s expectations and also been awarded BOEING ACCOMPLISMENT AWARD by the client.
  • Gathering the requirements for the Offshore team
  • Helping in all the design and development activities
  • Setting up onsite environment in offshore using Z-token.
  • Setting up onsite environment in client place
  • Preparing documents like architecture document, design document in client place.
  • Ensuring timely delivery to the customer.
  • Worked as a team lead and managed a team of 7 members in a waterfall model project
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  • Experienced developer in WIPRO for 9+ years
  • Working as a developer in agile model project
  • Worked as a team lead and managed a team of 7 members in a waterfall model project
  • Experienced in development as well as in testing with automated tools and scripting
  • Worked in other WIPRO internal projects – GSK (Glaxo Smith lime), GM (General Motors).
    Responsibilities include testing and UI development which involves HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Servlets.
Education

Masters in Computer Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

September 2004 to 2008
Master of Computer Technology

Bachelor of Computer Technology

PSG College of Technology

September 2001 to 2004
Computer Technology

Higher Secondary

Bharathi Matriculation

September 2001 to June 2003
Biology, Maths and Chemistry
Skills

AI tools

  • Microsoft Copilot
  • GitHub Copilot
  • Mabl
  • Claude
  • AI-Assisted Development Workflows
  • Prompt Engineering

Technical Experience

  • Programming & Development : • Java • Groovy • SQL / PL-SQL• JavaScript• HTML / JSP / Servlets
    Advanced
  • Backend & Integration : • REST APIs • SOAP Services • Enterprise System Integration • API Testing & Validation • Partner Integration • Data Flow & Service Integration Testing
    Advanced
  • Frameworks & Platforms : • Spring Framework / Spring Boot • TestNG • JUnit • Selenium • Playwright • Cucumber • Appium
    Good
  • DevOps & CI/CD : • GitHub Actions • Jenkins • Maven • Gradle • Docker • CI/CD Pipeline Design
    Good
  • AI & Engineering Productivity : • GitHub Copilot • Microsoft Copilot • MCP (Model Context Protocol) • AI-assisted Development Workflows • Agentic AI Concepts • Prompt Engineering • Test Generation using AI • Requirements Analysis using AI • Engineering Knowledge Automation • Mabl
    Advanced
  • Quality Engineering : • Test Architecture • Automation Framework Design • Functional Testing • Integration Testing • End-to-End Testing • Regression Testing • API Testing • Mobile Testing • Test Data Management • Test Reporting & Analytics
    Expert
  • Developer Tools • Git • Postman • SoapUI • IntelliJ • Eclipse • STS
    Advanced
  • Databases • Oracle • SQL Server • MySQL
    Good
  • Cloud & Infrastructure • Docker • BrowserStack • Sauce Labs • Containerized Test Execution
    Good
  • Methodologies • Agile / Scrum • SDLC • BDD • Waterfall
    Advanced
  • Leadership & Architecture • Enterprise Platform Architecture • Automation Architecture • Technical Leadership • Cross-Team Standards • Developer Enablement • Engineering Governance • Technical Business Analysis • Solution Design
    Advanced

Others

  • Automation Development and Frameworks
    Expert
  • Agile Methodologies
    Advanced
  • Continuous Integration
    Advanced
  • Design and BDD
    Advanced
  • Automation Architectecture
    Advanced
  • Web Services
    Advanced
  • Cloud Testing
    Good
  • Scrum
    Advanced
  • Requirements Analysis
    Good
  • User Acceptance Testing
    Advanced
  • Software Engineering
    Expert
  • Agile Project Management
    Advanced
  • Waterfall
    Advanced

Role

  • Developer
    Advanced
  • Maintenance and Support
    Advanced
  • Customer Facing
    Expert
  • Technical Business Analyst
    Expert
  • Automation Developer
    Expert
  • Team Lead
    Advanced
  • Automation Lead
    Expert
  • Automation Architect
    Advanced
  • Partner Integration Engineer
    Advanced
  • Product Owner
    Advanced
  • DevOps
    Good

Domain

  • HealthCare
    Expert
  • Manufacturing
    Advanced
  • Retail
    Expert
  • Gaming
    Good
  • Education
    Good
  • Banking
    Good
  • Photography
    Good

Languages

  • Telugu
    Advanced
  • Tamil
    Expert
  • Hindi
    Good
  • English
    Advanced
  • Spanish
    Intermediate
Interests

Sports

  • Swimming
  • Zumba

Music

  • Violin
  • Indian Classical Bharatnatyam Dancer
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