New York City · Quality engineering · AI

Engineering confidence.
Building what’s next.

I'm Vijay Sekhar Reddy — a software quality engineering leader working at the intersection of automation, cloud data platforms, and practical AI. I turn complex systems into dependable digital experiences.

8+Years in engineering
3Key industry domains
AWSCloud & data platforms
01 / About me

Systems thinker.
Quality builder.

My background spans financial services, banking, and healthcare. I've led test strategy, automation, API validation, performance testing, production readiness, and cloud data quality across cross-functional teams.

Today, I'm especially interested in applying AI to remove repetitive engineering work while keeping humans accountable for reliability, security, and release decisions.

Based in Jersey City, with a New York state of mind: keep moving, keep learning, and build with purpose.

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02 / Experience

Built across complex environments.

2024 — Present

Senior Test Analyst · Cognizant / LPL Financial

Leading quality strategy for customer-facing wealth technology, including regression and automation, release readiness, cross-browser and mobile coverage, data validation, and observability.

2024

Software Engineer · Jefferies / TekSolve IT

Led a cross-functional QA team on cloud data platform validation, covering AWS Glue, streaming, APIs, ETL, database integrity, and CI/CD test integration.

2022 — 2023

Senior Associate · DBS

Led automation and performance testing initiatives using Java, Selenium, Cucumber, JMeter, and LoadRunner; mentored engineers and improved test workflows.

2019 — 2022

Associate Engineer · Wells Fargo

Built and maintained UI automation frameworks, coordinated test planning and UAT, and used reporting dashboards to communicate engineering quality.

2015 — 2019

Associate Engineer · Cognizant / Express Scripts

Established foundations in functional testing, traceability, automation, release validation, and collaborative Agile delivery.

03 / Selected work

Where ideas meet execution.

Public-safe summaries of engineering initiatives and personal experiments. Client details and internal code remain private.

New York skyline at dusk
01 / CLOUD QUALITY

Cloud Landing Zone Migration

Coordinated end-to-end test strategy across data, functional, performance, and automation workstreams for an AWS-based platform migration.

AWSKafkaData QE
Modern architectural geometry
02 / AUTOMATION

API Migration Comparison

Designed a tool concept to compare API behavior between old and new environments across many request combinations and report differences.

APIsAutomation
Abstract urban lights
03 / ENGINEERING TOOLS

Table Impact Analyzer

Explored a developer-facing utility to make database table relationships and downstream impact easier to investigate.

JavaSpring Boot
City subway movement
04 / AI & PRODUCTIVITY

AI-Assisted Testing Tools

Experimenting with AI-enabled workflow helpers for test authoring, element discovery, and engineering productivity.

AIQA
Contemporary city architecture
05 / HACKATHON

Vibe Code Hackathon

Participated in a vibe-coding hackathon, building with Cursor. Project specifics will be added after public review.

CursorVibe coding
Open book and workspace
06 / WRITING

AI Field Notes

Notes and experiments on AI tools, developer workflows, quality engineering, and emerging approaches to building software.

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04 / Learning

Always a student of the craft.

Professional certifications and learning completions as provided; verification links can be added later.

ChatGPT Expert
ChatGPT Deployment Practitioner
OpenAI Consultative Solutions Practitioner
Codex Solutions Practitioner
ChatGPT Solutions Practitioner
OpenAI Technical Practitioner
AI Fluency Framework & Foundations — Certificate of Completion
Claude 101 — Certificate of Completion
05 / Toolkit

Practical skills. Real-world delivery.

ENGINEERING

Automation & APIs

Java · Python · Selenium · TestNG · Cucumber · Playwright · Postman · REST Assured · Appium

CLOUD & DATA

AWS & validation

EC2 · S3 · RDS · Glue · MSK · Lambda · Step Functions · CloudWatch · SQL · Kafka

DELIVERY

Performance & CI/CD

JMeter · LoadRunner · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Bamboo · Git · qTest · Jira · Splunk · Dynatrace

06 / Contact

Let's build something worth trusting.

Interested in quality engineering leadership, cloud platform reliability, automation, or AI-enabled developer tools? I'd love to connect.