Samhitha Vadlamani
Software Development Engineer (Test)
Summary
An SDE (test) with a diverse academic background known for embarking upon new challenges with ease. A quick-learner and delivering the best efforts and results throughout my career. From winning 2nd place in a Data Science competition to having worked for an e-commerce organization, my journey with data kicked off as a challenging yet rewarding one. I'm currently working at a cybersecurity organization aimed towards securing Enterprises. Having interned at Samsung and Nvidia, I gathered strong computational and programming skills and now looking to continue growing as a test engineer and transferring my expertise to the field.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
SDE
Trellix (Former McAfee Enterprise)
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2021 - Current
- Implemented Build Verification Testing using TestNG for Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) products for Business Enterprises.
- Saved 50% of the execution time of BVTs by parallelizing the test process.
- Handled the entire SDL activities for MDR: Developed Threat Models and executed Vulnerability, Black Duck, and Protex scans.
- Responsible for devising JMeter scripts for Performance testing.
- Created functional test plans, and executed exploratory tests using Postman.
- Performed defect tracking & management in JIRA.
- Created support documentation for both customers and the support team for EDR and MDR APIs.
- Effectively worked with cross-teams on testing across various environments and ensured smooth deployments to pre-production and production.
Scrum Master
Trellix (Former McAfee Enterprise)
Bangalore, Karnataka
06.2021 - Current
- Simultaneously managed 2 scrum teams seeing through major projects of EDR and MDR to successful releases from their development stages.
- Prepared and delivered 6 successful demos to the customers and across teams that received impressive customer feedback.
- Spearheaded about 30+ scrum ceremonies: Daily Scrum, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint retrospectives.
- Ensured 100% of scrum activities were tracked and updated.
- Empowered teams to self-organize, grow cross-functionally, and collaborated with other product teams related to project dependencies.
- Helped 5 new team members to effectively ramp up the project during mid-sprints and ensured stable team velocity throughout.
Decision Science Intern
Inspirelabs
Hyderabad, Telangana
09.2020 - 11.2020
- Performed sentiment analysis on Vietnamese chatbot responses with a test accuracy of 98% and our team securing 2nd place in the competition.
Master Thesis Student
Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lunds Universitet
Lund, Skåne län
01.2018 - 05.2019
- Executed ~1 million CPU hours worth of numerical simulations of interacting galaxies on a parallel computing platform.
- Constructed python scripts to process and visualize the resulting data of ~2TB.
Intern
Nvidia Graphics
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2017 - 07.2017
- Successfully integrated Robot Operating System (ROS) onto Nvidia's Drive platforms exclusively with their proprietary graphic libraries.
Intern
Samsung R&D
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2016 - 12.2016
- Developed an optimized code and achieved ~80% SVM classification accuracy of motor imagery movements.
Education
Master of Science - Astrophysics
Lunds Universitet
Sweden 08.2017 - 05.2019
B.E (Hons) - Electronics and Communications
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
India 08.2012 - 07.2017
MSc (Hons) - Physics
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
India 08.2012 - 07.2017
Skills
Automation testing, Security Development Life Cycle, Build verification testing, Performance testing
Postman, Python, TestNG, JMeter, MS Threat Modeling, BlackDuck, Protex
Agile ceremonies, JIRA, Confluence
MATLAB, Linux, LateX, SQL
Awards
- 2nd place in International Competition in Data Science & AI, by ISODS [2020]
- LU-Global scholarship recipient by Lunds Universitet [2017-2019]
- SHE-Inspire scholarship recipient by Government of India [2012-2014]
Timeline
SDE
Trellix (Former McAfee Enterprise)
06.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Trellix (Former McAfee Enterprise)
06.2021 - Current
Decision Science Intern
Inspirelabs
09.2020 - 11.2020
Master Thesis Student
Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lunds Universitet
01.2018 - 05.2019
Master of Science - Astrophysics
Lunds Universitet
08.2017 - 05.2019
Intern
Nvidia Graphics
01.2017 - 07.2017
Intern
Samsung R&D
07.2016 - 12.2016
B.E (Hons) - Electronics and Communications
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
08.2012 - 07.2017
MSc (Hons) - Physics
Birla Institute of Technology And Science
08.2012 - 07.2017