Raghavendra Prasad MG is basically an electronics and communication engineer from the University of Mysore and did his MBA from VMU. He is currently working as an automation architect and a QA lead at Riversand Global Technologies. He has been into test automation for more than 8 years. He is an automation tools and automation framework design trainer as well. He has trained at least 500 professionals so far. In his past experience, he worked as a corporate trainer on automation tools and automation framework design.

His previous experiences include Life Technologies (now Thermo Fischer Scientific Company), GT Nexus Software, MphasiS (an HP Company), Thomson-Reuters Inc., Telelogic (now IBM-Rational), Aztecsoft (now Mindtree Consulting Ltd), and many more.

He worked as a freelancer for automation and automation framework implementation.

He implemented various automation frameworks for more than 30 projects, starting from zero level on applications of multiple domains such as, ERP, CRM, ELM, financial domain, automobile, insurance and pension (on legacy systems), healthcare, biotechnology, cloud supply chain platform, and Master Data Management (MDM).

Raghu is especially well known for enabling the manual (or functional) tester towards automation. His experience in this area has become a key point for this book. Raghu has built his own tools on API automation, BI automation, and performance.

Raghu won an award for being the best performer in the keyword test automation framework design and implementation at GTNexus. He also won an Individual Summit award for Data Driven Test Automation Framework design and implementation at MphasiS, an HP Company for GM (General Motors, a supply chain project).

Raghu won an Excellence in Execution award at Telelogic, an IBM Company. He is passionate about test automation. You can reach him at his LinkedIn account, https://in.linkedin.com/pub/raghavendra-prasad-mg/4/538/264.