Aditya Pandey

Experience

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  DuPage Children's Museum

  Jun 2014 - May 2015

  Museum Assistant

  • Collaborated with volunteers and employees to create new displays• Captured photos, designed graphics, and provided tech support for the museum website• Oversaw exhibits and performed repairs to improve customer experience• Supervised visitors of all ages to ensure safety

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  Naperville Public Library

  May 2015 - Aug 2015

  Program Coordinator

  • Coordinated Teen Summer Reading Program• Sorted and managed hundreds of books, DVDs, and other library resources• Assisted library staff with clerical work• Organized the library catalog and database for easier access• Provided customer service to patrons and program participants

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  College of DuPage

  Oct 2016 - Mar 2018

  Natural Areas Assistant

  • Installed, upgraded, and troubleshot applications and services on the office networks and workstations• Maintained program website using HTML, CSS, and JS to ensure a fast, helpful user experience• Oversaw a 42-acre prairie, ecological study area, and wildlife sanctuary• Communicated with customers by answering questions and resolving problems

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  COUNTRY Financial®

  Jun 2020 - now

  • Spearheaded the strategic migration from outdated proprietary software such as UFT to cutting-edge Free and Open Source Software such as Robot Framework, resulting in annual savings exceeding $100,000 in licensing costs and significantly enhancing system performance and security.• Directed comprehensive automated mobile testing initiatives utilizing AWS Mobile Device Farm, expanding the scope and coverage of automated tests, thereby improving mobile application reliability and user experience.• Pioneered a company-wide initiative to transition from manual to automated testing, elevating automation coverage from ~10% to over 80%. This transformation has drastically reduced testing time, minimized defects, accelerated time-to-market, and generated substantial cost savings.• Engineered and maintained critical DevOps utilities to streamline the Agile development workflow, including automated defect and test data synchronization tools, CI/CD quality gates, and real-time application status dashboards, thereby enhancing team productivity and project transparency.• Championed the adoption of industry-leading best practices in test automation, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, which has led to a marked increase in software quality and customer satisfaction.• Mentored and guided junior automation engineers, cultivating a high-performing team adept at leveraging advanced automation techniques to drive project success and deliver exceptional business value. Show less • Integrated AngularJS, Django, and SQL Server in an Agile, full-stack capacity to modernize three internal websites previously using ASP.NET• Redesigned the central commercial forms application used by financial agents in order to expedite data entry and information retrieval using technologies such as HTML/CSS/JS, JSP, and IBM WebSphere• Created a cross-platform Rewards App using Ionic Angular and Spring Boot in order to increase customer satisfaction and retention• Led a team to overhaul and upgrade the CI/CD pipeline for an internal Navigator tool to include automated testing, performance reporting, and status monitoring using tools such as Selenium, JMeter, and Taurus• Developed and executed Python scripts meant to sanitize, reorganize, and validate thousands of database entries in order to ensure data consistency and increase efficiency• Collaborated frequently with home office employees to investigate potential technological areas of improvement, create project requirements, and ensure long-term satisfaction, which led to millions of dollars being saved and DigitaLab winning the 2020 Novarica Impact award Show less

  • Software Developer - Test Automation Lead

    Jan 2021 - now

  • Software Developer

    Jun 2020 - Dec 2020