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
undefinedAwards
- 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
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