Balamurugan Karthikeyan
Lead Automation Consultant
Bangalore,KA
Summary
Productive Test Automation Engineer with 7+ years helping companies expedite and improve diagnostic tasks through automation. Creates novel testing methods, exceeding generally accepted techniques in both speed and accuracy. Eager to advance test automation technology and business goals through careful iteration and progressive developmental improvements.
Overview
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years of post-secondary education
7
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years of professional experience
Work History
Automation Test Lead
Allstate Solution Pvt Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
10.2019 - Current
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities and reported all findings, including improvement recommendations.
- Reviewed all test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review.
- Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
- Providing timely updates about automation progress to business stakeholders.
- Supporting team of 11 members thereby monitoring and providing automation solutions to team on newly implemented/upcoming features.
- Creating automation test tools to ease out manual testing work.
- Involved in creating pipeline for end-to-end automated solution using Jenkins as part of CICD.
- Involved in automation story creation for all resources and involved in effort estimations.
- Participated in requirement analysis and estimation of user stories and sprint planning.
- Participated in sprint demos of functionalities automated during sprint.
- Published diagnostic findings in reporting literature to inform stakeholders of product performance.
- Maintained extremely low defect detection rate of 1.4% in customer-facing insurance products.
- Participated in bi-weekly test automation code review meetings, providing input on colleagues' coding efforts.
- Designed standardised processes and protocols to continuously improve operational efficiency through positive iteration.
- Met with quality assurance, developers and project managers to assess scope and sequence of project.
- Created both real-time and accelerated testing scenarios for long-term and expedited development schedules.
- Coordinated with offshore development teams, delivering remote lectures on testing techniques, tools and protocols.
- Researched and selected automation tools, prioritizing cost-effective solutions to shorten diagnostic workflows.
- Identified appropriate situations for implementing test automation, accounting for situations where automated testing was counterproductive.
- Defined test strategy for product documentation and diagnostic frameworks.
- Authored monthly automated testing reports, presenting findings to Project Manager for review.
- Monitored emerging test automation frameworks, technologies and best practices for useful developments.
- Completed both progressive and regressive testing scenarios through application of comprehensive testing frameworks encompassing both.
- Designed standardised processes and protocols to continuously improve operational efficiency through positive iteration.
- Updated and maintained project documentation for detailed record-keeping.
- Established company automation methodology, frameworks and tools.
- Completed POC for Mobile Cloud Lab and been awarded “Edison Award”.
- Created end-to-end pipeline with JenkinsFile which triggers pipeline whenever PR's gets merged with release branch then it will execute unit tests, security scans, smoke and regression tests and finally email will be sent to Dev & QA teams about stability of newer build release version.
- On-boarded all functional QC team members into automation space by providing them required knowledge transitions in-order to create mantra “Everyone can do automation” and successfully showed good and healthy progress in automation deliverables.
Senior Automation Engineer
Allstate India Private Limited
Bangalore, Karnataka
04.2018 - 09.2019
- Increased regression suite stability by 94% from 56% by fixing framework and scripting logics wherever required.
- Identified and solved technical issues using variety of diagnostic tools and tactics.
- Performed gap analysis procedures and detailed data reviews to optimize implementation.
- Established best practices and innovative solutions to enhance production rates and output quality.
- Created detailed test cases for use on diverse projects.
- Updated and maintained project documentation for detailed record-keeping.
- Completed automation of functional and regression testing.
- Developed and implemented cost-effective strategies for updating existing applications.
- Maintained, debugged and optimized automation programs.
- Tested, automated and whitelisted software to be used in secure environments.
- Kept on track with deadlines for development cycle times.
- Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes.
- Providing solutions to team to reduce manual efforts in their testing activities by introducing newer solutions/tools developed in-house for QC usage.
- Innovation, implementation and maintenance of tool for validating huge data sets which involves complex data science logics.
- Providing updates about upcoming webinars, conferences to team and driving them to attend it to get good exposure on newer technologies.
- Develop/modify xFramium framework with necessary keywords required.
Senior Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2016 - 03.2018
- Conducted regression testing, analyzed results and submitted observations to development team.
- Effectively interacted with development team regarding software defects and functionality issues, working closely to develop innovative solutions.
- Identified and tracked defects with JIRA and supported developers in resolving problems by completing additional tests.
- Created accurate and efficient test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
- Collaborated with developers and product owners to stay current on product features and intended functionality.
- Reviewed requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Designed and developed automation scripts using open source tools.
- Involved in test script reviews and providing suggestions for modification of test scripts.
- Implemented Jenkins and configured regression execution to trigger automatically from Jenkins and increased test automation efficiency by 80%.
- Involved in providing trainings to other team members.
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
Bangalore, Karnataka
12.2013 - 07.2016
- Reviewed requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Designed testing scenarios for usability testing.
- Monitored debugging process results and investigated causes of non-conforming software.
- Designed and developed automation scripts using open source tools.
- Created accurate and efficient test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
- Authored and maintained well-organized, efficient and successful manual test cases for entire team.
- Wrote and optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing with consistent, thorough approaches.
- Involved in test case reviews and providing suggestions for modification of test cases.
- Running automation scripts in selenium server on multiple machines to provide results faster and increased test efficiency by 80% by automating most possible scenarios.
- Conducted regression testing, analyzed results and submitted observations to development team.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science And Engineering - Computer Science Engineering
S N S College Of Engineering
Coimbatore 08.2008 - 06.2012
Skills
Test script development
undefinedAccomplishments
- Created automation frameworks for web, mobile and API automation needs.
- Created a tool for validating large datasets which involves complex data science logics and designed in such a way that the complete validation for single data set takes very minimal time and been awarded.
- Implemented in-house mobile cloud lab in Arity to reduce the cost for purchasing licenses from external cloud providers (like Perfecto, SauceLab).
- Configured E2E Jenkins Pipeline for many projects to reduce time in release testing activities by getting faster feedback.
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
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Quote
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Timeline
Automation Test Lead
Allstate Solution Pvt Ltd
10.2019 - Current
Senior Automation Engineer
Allstate India Private Limited
04.2018 - 09.2019
Senior Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
08.2016 - 03.2018
Software Engineer
HCL Technologies
12.2013 - 07.2016
Bachelor of Computer Science And Engineering - Computer Science Engineering
S N S College Of Engineering
08.2008 - 06.2012
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