Published on 27, Apr 2023

Prathap Jonnadula, Accomplished QA Software Engineer

Maintaining outstanding and preeminent industry credentials and a decisive leadership style in fast-paced technological environments, Prathap Jonnadula has been working and innovating the entertainment industry throughout his entire career. His work in quality assurance engineering applies to any organization that tests its applications or software across multiple platforms, giving him a unique skill set and approach to the industry.

Prathap Jonnadula has proficiency and expertise within all stages of the software development life cycle. He is experienced in multiple software environments including, but not limited to:

• Java
• Appium
• Selenium IDE/WebDriver
• Webdriver IO
• Python

In addition to his wide range of knowledge across multiple platforms and softwares, Prathap is a respected, invited speaker at the World Conference Next Generation Testing 2022, India's largest gathering of software testing enthusiasts. 

Currently, Prathap is the lead QA Engineer at Crackle Plus (affiliate of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment (NYSE: CSSE)), a free video streaming service with over 40 million monthly active users. At Crackle Plus, Prathap is developing a mobile device testing lab that houses all of the mobile devices, operating systems, and browsers that testers, QA, developers, and DevOps require for efficient and agile mobile testing to achieve

Prior to his work with Crackle Plus, Prathap was a Senior Software Engineer at AT&T, where he developed test plans, improved performance of the quality assurance team, and introduced agile methodologies and development best practices. 

With a Master of Science, IT & Management from the University of the Potomac, Washington, DC, as well as a Master of Science, Computer Science from Silicon Valley University, San Jose, CA, Prathap shows off his expertise with his several instances of acclaim. Education brought a great deal of opportunity for Prathap. He has his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering from JNTU University. 

Following up on his expertise within the world of education, Prathap Jonnadula has been on the receiving end of many awards, showcasing his talent and leadership skills. He received the Emerging Testing Leader Award from the World Conference Next Generation Testing 2022, showing off his skills as a leader in the software development landscape. In 2017, he received the Spot Award, for Introducing Appium for Mobile Automation, streamlining several mobile processes within  his industry. 

He is a Certified Scaled Agile Practitioner (SAFE 4.0) and a Judge for the National level Paper presentation Competition in lakshya-2K23 Held at Lakki Reddy, Bali, for the Reddy College of Engineering 

With all of these outstanding achievements, Prathap Jonnadula boasts an impressive profile in the software engineering world. As a leader in his industry, he continues to bring about new innovative developments to whichever company or team he works within. 

For more information about Prathap Jonnadula, find him on LinkedIn.