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Certified on Playwright Basic&Advanced Level from LamdaTest
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Srinivas Kyatham

Seasoned Test Automation Expert

Summary

Experienced Test Automation Architect, Manager, Specialist, Lead, Consultant, and Business Analyst with a proven track record of nearly two decades in designing, implementing, and optimizing test automation solutions for diverse software projects. Aiming to leverage deep technical expertise and strategic insight to enhance software testing processes for client projects. Committed to delivering high-quality, scalable automation frameworks that streamline testing efforts and expedite time-to-market. Enthusiastic about staying abreast of emerging technologies and methodologies in the field. Ready to contribute expertise and leadership to a forward-thinking organization and make a significant impact in the realm of test automation.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Freelancer

Freelancer
07.2024 - Current
  • Test Automation Consulting: Collaborate with clients to assess their QA processes, design scalable test automation frameworks, and implement customized strategies that enhance testing efficiency and quality.
  • Mentoring: Guide and mentor QA teams in adopting automation tools and best practices, ensuring a seamless transition and empowering teams to maintain robust testing solutions independently.
  • Training: Develop and deliver engaging workshops and training sessions on modern test automation tools and frameworks, tailoring content to meet the skill levels and objectives of diverse teams.
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay updated on industry trends and innovations to provide clients with cutting-edge solutions and methodologies for test automation and quality engineering

Sr Test Architect/Manager

Cognizant Technologies Ltd
05.2022 - 03.2024

Project -1

QSuper, OpenText Migration Target System (Melbourne, Australia)

Client

Australia Retirement Trust (Queensland, Australia)

Role

Test Automation Architect/ DevOps

Duration

Jan 2023 to Mar 2024

Technology

Selenium C#, Spec flow, Selenium Java with Cucumber , Maven , git

Project Description

Open Text is an legacy system merged with QSuper, Target system architectural changes happened according test automation architecture was re-designed according migrations plan was executed for test automation effort accordingly.




Project -2

QE COE – Telstra (Melbourne, Australia)

Client

Telstra, Melbourne, Australia

Role

Test Automation Architect/ DevOps/ Business Analyst

Duration

May 2022 to Dec 2022

Technology

Selenium Web driver, Cucumber-BDD, Maven, TDM,Bamboo and GIT

Project Description

Telstra has QE center of excellency, it has many QE products, these products used by many feature teams, have to study the QE products and need to find out the best way to use it and find out challenges

Project/Technical Manager

Virtusa Consulting & Services Ltd
12.2014 - 04.2022

Project -3

Product and Pricing (Sydney, Australia)

Client

Macquarie Bank Ltd (Sydney, Australia)

Role

Test Automation Architect/Manager

Duration

May 2019 to April 2022

Technology

Pega, Salesforce, SAP-GUI, Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber-BDD, Maven, Bitbucket, Bamboo, AWS/Arturo, Appium Mobile Automation

Project Description

Create a system to monitor/track/record traffic going through an API Gateway to analyses if any data transformation happened within the gateway


Project -4

Multiple Financial Products (Hyderabad, India, USA)

Client

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago USA

Role

Test Automation Manager/Architect

Duration

Dec 2014 to April 2019

Technology

C#, Java, Selenium Web driver, Cucumber-BDD,SpecFlow Rest API, Maven, Murex Testing

Project Description

PSGQA Consists of Different components like, FEC, Deliverables, PS-Tools, EPRS, each component helps to Trading and Clearing System. CME is Trading Organization where we use different application we use to place the Trade, Once the placing the Trade successfully, The Transactions goes to clearing Systems.

Lead Associate - Testing

GAVS Technologies Ltd
05.2014 - 12.2014

Project -5

Wiley Online Library (Chennai, India)

Client

John Wiley, United Kingdom

Role

Test Automation Architect/ Developer

Technology

Java, Selenium-WebDriver, UFT

Project Description

Wiley Online Library features 1500 journals, over 14,000 Online Books, and hundreds of multi-volume reference works, databases, and other resources. See below for a selection recently launched products, with links to full online listings as well as downloadable title/pricing spreadsheets.

Senior Team Lead

Persistent Systems & Solutions Ltd
12.2011 - 04.2014

Project -6

Tivoli Netcool Performance Management (Hyderabad/Kuala Lumper)

Client

IBM, Kuala Lumpur, Malysia

Role

Test Automation Architect/Developer

Duration

Dec 2011 to April 2014

Technology

Selenium WebDriver-Java, Test NG, IBM Clear Quest, Shell Scripts, Linux

Project Description

IBM Tivoli Network Management is a performance management system that allows network operators to report on network performance, identify system problems, plan capacity, and optimize the wireless/wire line network to provide quality to users and growth to user’s business.


Project -7

Telescope – Unicode (Hyderabad, India)

Client

North Plains Company, Toronto, Canada

Role

Test Automation Engineer

Duration

Mar 2010 to Nov 2011

Technology

Selenium UI, Selenium RC

Project Description

Telescope system is Digital Asset Management system. It manages digital assets and the metadata associated with digital assets. It provides users with the ability to store assets with metadata information, and it delivers flexible search capabilities for reusing those assets.


Associate Consultant

Polaris Software Lab Ltd
05.2007 - 02.2010

Project -8

Multiple Financial Products (Hyderabad/Toronto)

Client

Citibank (Toronto, Canada)

Role

Test Automation Developer

Technology

Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, CVS

Project Description

The letter generation process is automatic in CMS. It also has a manual generation interface to handle some exceptional cases. This interface allows users to trigger the letter generation activity manually. The automatic process (batch) runs at scheduled timings in a day

Member Technical Staff

HCL Technologies Ltd
12.2005 - 05.2007

Project -9

Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager. (EFCM) (Chennai, India)

Client

McData, USA

Role

Automation Test Developer

Technology

IBM Rational Functional Tester, Java, CVS

Project Description

The EFCM application is a robust management tool that enables administrators to plan, discover, configure and monitor storage area networks (SANs). EFCM supports Entire Life Cycle of SAN. Use papered pen or a software application to plan the SAN. The SAN Management application establishes contact with many SAN devices, gathers embedded information, and then depicts it in the Physical Map, or topology.

Software Quality Engineer

HTC Global Service Ltd
09.2004 - 12.2005

Project -10

Process Project Management Automation. (PPMA) (Chennai, India)

Client

HTC Global Service Ltd Chennai, India

Role

Software Tester

Technology

Java, Oracle, Linux

Project Description

PPMA is a web-based Process and Project Management Automation product. It helps Organizations to define, maintain, measure and optimize the process. It automates the project management activities from project inception to closure. In essence, PPMA enables the Organizations to operate at deliver at optimum levels.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Maharshi Dayanad University
Haryana, India
04.2001 -

PG Diploma - Computer And Information Sciences

Osmania University
Telangana, India
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Osmania University
Telangana, India
04.2001 -

Skills

    Selenium-WebDriver/Grid

    BDD – Cucumber/Spec flow

    Playwrights/TypeScripts/Python

    AWS/Azure

    Rest Assured

    Java/C#/html/Java Scripts/NodeJS

    JIRA/Agile/SDLC

    Git/GitHub/Bitbucket/CVS

    RFT/UFT/QTP/TDM

    RPT/JMeter

    Rest-Assured/Postman/Soap-UI

    Appium

    Git-Hub Co-Pilot/Applitools

    Pega/SAP/Salesforce

    Banking & Finance

    Retail & Mortgage

    Networking

    Training/Digital Content

    HRMS

    Maven

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

Domains

  • Banking & Finance
  • Retail & Mortgage
  • SAP/Salesforce/Pega
  • Networking
  • Training/Digital Content
  • HRMS

Accomplishments

  • Developed a reusable, modular test automation framework adopted by multiple teams, leading to a 30% reduction in scripting efforts across projects.
  • Trained and mentored a team of 15 QA engineers, transitioning them from manual testing to automation, resulting in a 35% increase in team productivity.
  • Developed multiple reusable tools to automate time-intensive manual processes, significantly reducing effort and improving team productivity and efficiency.
  • Achieved Certification from LamdaTest on Playwright Tool both Basic and Advanced Level
  • Achieved from AWS, "AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate"

Interests

Exploring emerging technologies in automation and AI

Contributing to technical blogs or forums on software quality assurance

Attending tech meetups, hackathons, or industry conferences

Certified on Playwright Basic&Advanced Level from LamdaTest

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Timeline

Freelancer

Freelancer
07.2024 - Current

Sr Test Architect/Manager

Cognizant Technologies Ltd
05.2022 - 03.2024

Project/Technical Manager

Virtusa Consulting & Services Ltd
12.2014 - 04.2022

Lead Associate - Testing

GAVS Technologies Ltd
05.2014 - 12.2014

Senior Team Lead

Persistent Systems & Solutions Ltd
12.2011 - 04.2014

Associate Consultant

Polaris Software Lab Ltd
05.2007 - 02.2010

Member Technical Staff

HCL Technologies Ltd
12.2005 - 05.2007

Software Quality Engineer

HTC Global Service Ltd
09.2004 - 12.2005

Master of Science - Computer Science

Maharshi Dayanad University
04.2001 -

PG Diploma - Computer And Information Sciences

Osmania University
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Osmania University
04.2001 -
Srinivas KyathamSeasoned Test Automation Expert