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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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Automation Library
Automation Frameworks
CI/CD Tools
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Certification
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Harish Swaminathan

Harish Swaminathan

Sydney,Australia

Summary

Dedicated and Detail oriented Test Automation Lead with expertise in designing, implementing, and enhancing automated testing frameworks using specialized skills in Playwright, Selenium , Rest Assured, BDD, CI/CD pipelines integration. Excel in leadership, communication, and problem-solving, ensuring successful project deliveries through effective teamwork and agile methodologies.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Automation Team Lead

WestPac
Sydney, Australia
12.2024 - Current
  • Define project-wide automation strategy aligned with business and technology goals
  • Set the direction for automation tools, frameworks, and practices.
  • Define Shift-left practices testing approaches
  • Design scalable, modular, and maintainable test automation frameworks
  • Evaluate, recommend, and implement automation tools
  • Collaborate with DevOps teams to enable test automation as part of the release cycle.
  • Introduce AI usage for Script design & Result analysis

Test Automation Team Lead

CBA
Sydney, Australia
06.2024 - 11.2024
  • Test Automation Framework enhancements using the Spring Boot-BDD framework and Python-based framework for E2E and process automation.
  • Python-based framework enhancements for E2E, process automation and ETL tests
  • CI/CD enablement using TeamCity.
  • Co-Pilot usage to Auto generate BDD files
  • Design & maintain the dashboards required for Quality metrics.

Test Lead / Assistant Manager

Ernst & Young
Chennai, India
09.2022 - 06.2024
  • Test Automation development for UI & API related cases using Selenium & Rest-Assured libraries
  • Define and enforce the Branching strategy, Code Quality checks, Code coverage for the Automation projects
  • Introduce health sanity checks for various applications
  • CI/CD enablement using Azure DevOps

Software Development Specialist In Test

NTT Data Services
Chennai, India
02.2022 - 07.2022
  • Enhance Selenium TestNG based Web framework
    Improve Coverage, Traceability, Performance by reducing the Overall run time
  • Implement Automation framework best practices.
  • Enhance Mobile Test Automation (Appium & Robot
    framework) to improve coverage

Test Lead(Store Central-NGBO)

TATA Consultancy Services ltd.
Chennai, India
03.2019 - 08.2021
  • Store Back office BAU operation (Includes Test/Resource
    Planning, Estimation, Delivery, Stakeholder Management)
  • Stocktake, Inventory & Routines - SME
  • Owned the End to End Testing for Store Central - IAM,
    Stocktake, Procurement, Routines.
  • Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment enablement using Azure DevOps
  • Service Virtualisation enablement for Store Back Office product - Test Automation scripts
  • System Integration, Data Flow, User scenarios, cross
    functional collaboration for E2E testing
  • Test Automation development across UI,API and Mobile applications.

Test Automation Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services ltd.
Sydney, Chennai, Australia/India
07.2013 - 02.2019
  • Design and Develop Selenium, TestNG based scripts for Store Back Office Product - Browser application
  • Design and Develop Selenium, BDD based scripts for Store Back Office Product - Use Acceptance testing
  • Parallel Execution for QA Automation scripts using Docker
  • Gather and Analyze User Stories & requirements
  • Understand Design, Impact Analysis documents
  • Create & Review Test Scenarios/Cases
  • Test Execution for Designed scenarios in different
    environments

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

SASTRA University
India
05.2013

Skills

  • Framework Design & Architecture
  • Test Automation Strategy & Vision
  • Tool Selection & Evaluation
  • Technical Leadership & Governance
  • CI/CD & DevOps Integration
  • Collaboration & Stakeholder Communication

Languages

  • Java
  • PL/SQL
  • Javascript
  • Typescript
  • Powershell scripting
  • Python

Automation Library

  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • BDD
  • TestNG
  • Extent
  • Rest Assured

Automation Frameworks

  • TDD
  • BDD
  • Hybrid
  • Virtualization ( Service VPro / WireMock )

CI/CD Tools

  • Jenkins
  • Azure DevOps
  • Bamboo
  • TeamCity

Certification

  • UiPath - Advanced Developer Certification
  • TOSCA Certification - AS1 & AS2 TOSCA certified
  • Azure Certification - AZ-104 & AZ-900 certified

Timeline

Test Automation Team Lead

WestPac
12.2024 - Current

Test Automation Team Lead

CBA
06.2024 - 11.2024

Test Lead / Assistant Manager

Ernst & Young
09.2022 - 06.2024

Software Development Specialist In Test

NTT Data Services
02.2022 - 07.2022

Test Lead(Store Central-NGBO)

TATA Consultancy Services ltd.
03.2019 - 08.2021

Test Automation Engineer

TATA Consultancy Services ltd.
07.2013 - 02.2019

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering

SASTRA University

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