SUNDEEP LAKSHMIPATHI
Summary
ISTQB accredited Software Automation Test Specialist, currently working as Test Lead at IAG New Zealand Ltd leading a team of manual and automation testers. A quality-oriented test professional with around 14 years of overall experience and around 8 years of experience in NZ across various industry verticals viz, Insurance, Retail, telecom and embedded technologies. Manage test delivery of wide range of application technologies like Web, Mobile application, Web Service, Test Automation. Member of leadership team at IAG for Test Automation Special Interest Group providing guidance for test automation practices, tools and standards. Manage test associated risks and advise business stakeholders on mitigation. Thorough experience working in Agile Methodology and SCRUM models. Hands on expertise in successfully creating and on time delivery of Test Plans, Test Strategy, Test Design, Test Execution, Test Reporting and Test Closure for large projects. Comprehensive experience in Automation & Functional testing, Translating business requirements into test artifacts. Experience in developing Backend and Frontend Test automation frameworks ground up. Good knowledge of DevOps – CI/CD. Drive Test automation initiatives and manage delivery of automation. Expertise in selecting, implementing and managing the right test tools for business. Plan and implement process improvement initiatives.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Test Automation Consultant
Southern Cross Healthcare
03.2023 - Current
- Improved client satisfaction by effectively managing multiple areas of testing within the greenfield project.
- Developed innovative strategies for testing, resulting in increased efficiency and growth.
- Streamlined internal processes to enhance team efficiency and improve overall project outcomes.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to successfully deliver comprehensive solutions for clients.
- Built test automation frameworks for UI and APIs for a greenfield project
Test Lead - Automation
IAG New Zealand Ltd
01.2016 - 03.2023
- Leading a team of automation and manual testers responsible for quality delivery of various projects
- Hands-on experience in Functional & Automation testing while simultaneously leading & mentoring the team
- Working on Agile methodology and experienced in leading Agile ceremonies
- Built UI, API and backend test automation frameworks ground up for testing various applications for testing Claims systems
- Developed Java with Cucumber and TestNG Test Automation framework using Java libraries ground up to carryout Automation testing of components involved for backend systems of claims lodgement system
- With the backend application being a complex solution involving various components from different vendors, as a test automation framework architect, researched & analyzed many different approaches, solutions/libraries and integrated them keeping cross-compatibility, scalability, maintainability & ease of use in mind
- Having ownership of test framework, provided guidance for enhancements and maintenance
- Owned Test environments and was responsible for their maintenance and health
- Mentored team members and other testers at IAG with Automation testing, Test processes and Test Methodologies
- Leader of Test Automation Special Interest group helping in guiding teams in choosing tools and test processes across IAG
- Developed various automation solutions where manual effort was proving costly
- Engaged with production support teams to resolve production issues.
- Improved software quality by designing and implementing comprehensive test strategies and plans.
Senior Automation test analyst
Plexure
01.2015
- Designed Web services API integration test automation framework ground up for platform to test web services (REST APIs) that communicate with Mobile app, Mobile SDK, platform and Microsoft Azure cloud platform
- REST APIs based on microservices architecture are tested on NUnit framework built on C#.NET
- Designed DataDriven integration tests using RestSharp library as JSON objects that sends CRUD requests to endpoints over HTTP
- Validated data stored in table, blob storage, SQL server DB on Azure to ensure CRUD requests were successful
- Integrated test framework with CI tool Bamboo using power shell scripts to run nightly builds and also trigger test execution whenever there is a new deployment
- Created mock services wherever necessary using SOAPUI
- Developed test automation framework ground up to test Plexure's web application platform that interacts with mobile SDK and Azure platform
- NUnit based automation framework based on agile BDD was developed following MVC pattern using Specflow, C#.NET & Selenium Webdriver
- Designing scenario based automated tests derived from functional tests to validate functionality of Push Messages, Advertisements, Offers and Loyalty cards
- Participated in sprint planning, grooming, daily standups, retrospective ceremonies
- Research and suggest best practices for automation including roadmap, tools, framework & approach
- Created JMeter scripts to performance test REST APIs & execute them on Blazemeter; analyze the results with guidance from solution architect.
Senior Software Test Analyst
NAVICO Auckland ltd
01.2014
- Designed and implemented validation strategy and enhanced python test automation framework
- Added tests to test automation framework to build regression test suite
- Create soak testing strategies by understanding, proposing & setting up configurations to recreate issues reproducible in production
- Analysis, creation and execution of test plan & test cases for validating s/w applications running on MFD following Agile (Scrum) methodology
- Mentoring team members in their daily activities
- Assisted test manager in coordinating activities.
Sr. Technical Lead - QC
CISCO
01.2008 - 01.2014
- Designed and implemented Test Automation framework in Page Object Model with Selenium-Webdriver using Java/TestNG to perform regression testing of platform that maintained Customer information, Usage statistics, billing information of STB end-users
- Data-driven TestNG framework was developed using Java, Selenium Webdriver for validating the web application that was responsible for maintaining billing information of customers
- Created TestNG tests using Selenium Webdriver with JAVA programming
- Debugging, Code optimization/refactoring to improve efficiency of automation tests
- Created a basic Cucumber based test automation framework to test timesheet application
- Proficiently worked with Technical architects, Development groups, Integration groups & team members during estimation, requirement analysis, risk identification, test case designs, use case analysis, regression area identification & test execution
- Executed acceptance test plan at customer site to ensure requirements coverage is completed with regular interaction with the client
- Carried out primary investigation on bugs to identify the software components causing the issue
- Competently managed a team responsible for various system integration activities including Automation & Manual testing by training, mentoring & handling performance appraisals
- Planned schedules, resources, as well as estimated & identified risks of requirements obtained from Customers
- Key contributing member of the leadership team, engaged in planning deliveries to the customer
- Streamlined software development processes by implementing agile methodologies, resulting in accelerated project completion and enhanced team productivity.
- Strategise, Plan, Design and Execution of Sanity, Regression, Exploratory & Non-functional tests
- Effectively conducted bug triaging with client & geographically dispersed teams.
Skills
- DevOps
- Automation Diagnostics
- Open Source Tracking Tools
- Project Management
Skills And Tools Profile
- Agile (Scrum) methodology
- Java
- TestNG
- Cucumber
- Selenium Webdriver
- Jenkins
- Maven
- C#.NET
- Ruby on Rails
- RestSharp library
- SpecFlow
- SQL
- HTML/CSS
- Git
- Web Services
- NUnit
- SOAPUI
- Fiddler
- Wireshark
- BDD
- Data driven test automation frameworks with Page Object Model
- Atlassian suite – Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, HipChat, and Bamboo
- Performance testing - JMeter
- Microsoft Visual Studio
- Eclipse
- Microsoft SQL server studio
- Rubymine
- Command line tools – PowerShell Script, Windows, Linux
- Guidewire ClaimCenter
Accomplishments
- Advocated and participated in development of a web based automation tool for stability testing. Use of this tool helped in replacing manual effort of routinely launching stability tests & reporting results, effectively saving 20 man hours/week
- Recognized for technical problem-solving. Awarded “Best Individual Contributor” for implementing best testing practices yielding high quality standards of the deliverables
- Created animated tutorials which helped team members understand business concepts easily
Education Summary
- MBA in Marketing
- Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics
- Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Timeline
Test Automation Consultant
Southern Cross Healthcare
03.2023 - Current
Test Lead - Automation
IAG New Zealand Ltd
01.2016 - 03.2023
Senior Automation test analyst
Plexure
01.2015
Senior Software Test Analyst
NAVICO Auckland ltd
01.2014
Sr. Technical Lead - QC
CISCO
01.2008 - 01.2014
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