Charankumar H

Operations Associate

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Expert in architecting robust automation frameworks.
  • Proven track record in CI/CD pipeline development.
  • Significant contributions to fintech quality assurance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Quality Assurance Expert with extensive automation and CI/CD experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test AutomationContinuous Integration And Continuous Delivery (ci/cd)Software DevelopmentQuality Assurance TestingSoftware Quality AssuranceTest Automation Framework

Other Skills

API TestingAdvanced REST ClientAmazon KindleAndroid TestingApplication Programming Interfaces (API)Application TestingAutomationBack-End Web DevelopmentBashBlazemeterBug TrackingCI/CDCode ReviewCommunicationCore Java

About

Staff-level SDET driving automation architecture, CI/CD excellence, and quality-first culture across high-scale fintech platforms — blending hands-on execution with system-level thinking to deliver resilient, fast, and testable software.

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Zeta

Lead SDET

Jan 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

  • Role: Leads the automation efforts that have an impact across all the testing teams at Zeta.
  • 🔹 Architected and led the migration from a brittle Java-Selenium stack to a robust Java + Playwright-based automation framework, slashing framework complexity by 40%, eliminating flakiness from dynamic waits and shadow DOMs, and setting a new standard for test reliability, modularity, and maintainability across the org.
  • 🔹 Built a strong CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions, deprecating legacy Jenkins workflows. This empowered teams with faster feedback loops, shift-left test execution, and simplified infra overhead — aligning quality gates directly into the dev workflow.
  • 🔹 Designed and deployed real-time test visibility via ReportPortal, fully automated with notifications. This replaced stale email reports, cut incident triage time, and gave stakeholders immediate insights into suite health, flake patterns, and release readiness. Above all, the results were centralized across all the orgs.
  • 🔹 Engineered automation for 10+ high-complexity, cross-system user journeys across credit card disputes and finance domains, combining 45+ UI flows with backend validations — accelerating regression cycles by 70% while ensuring critical terminal state coverage and data integrity.
  • 🔹 Mentored and managed QA engineers during org instability, owning execution clarity, automation maturity, and peer enablement end-to-end. Drove functional testing strategies, influencing quality strategy with product, dev, and test leaders alike.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)DevOpsTest AutomationSelenium GridSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Testing+16

Gojek

3 roles

Lead SDET

Promoted

Apr 2023Jan 2024 · 9 mos · On-site

  • Role: Design and Develop tools that have an impact across GoJEK.
  • 🔹 Architected and built QA Dashboard (an in-house tool developed to track the QA metrics for test cases and automation) microservices using Spring Boot & Spring Security, including a scalable Google SSO OAuth2 login/logout system used by 7000+ users—from QA interns to C-level leadership.
  • 🔹 Spearheaded the design of a Selenium Grid test infrastructure, slashing nightly regression execution time by 75% across all web suites, significantly boosting CI/CD efficiency.
  • 🔹 Drove end-to-end quality for the GoClub Loyalty Program, contributing to a 7% increase in customer retention for GoCar, GoRide, GoSend, and GoFood through rigorous functional and integration testing.
  • 🔹 Enabled 5.6 million+ successful GoClub–Tokopedia status matches by elevating the test coverage, automation reliability, and quality validation pipelines.
  • 🔹 Authored robust test strategies, smoke/regression test suites, and automated test cases across API and Web UI—directly contributing to a 17% rise in customer activation on the Gojek platform in 2021.
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Spring SecurityDevOpsSelenium GridSoftware DevelopmentSoftware Testing+22

Senior SDET

May 2022Apr 2023 · 11 mos · On-site

Back-End Web DevelopmentContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality Assurance+29

Senior QA Engineer

Feb 2021May 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceRegression Testing+26

Paytm money

2 roles

Lead QA Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2020Feb 2021 · 10 mos · On-site

  • Role: Lead the payments quality engineering for all the investments made on the Paytm Money app.
  • 🔹 Led end-to-end QA for payments microservices, including SIP and Lumpsum flows, covering NetBanking, UPI, Debit Card, and AutoPay (Mandates) options across multiple AMCs (Asset Management Companies).
  • 🔹 Architected a data-driven API automation framework from scratch, automating over 150 test cases across functional, regression, and integration layers — accelerating hotfix validation, new AMC activations, and gateway redirection releases.
  • 🔹 Owned the migration and regression strategy for AutoPay (Paper Mandates) by integrating new service calls and front-end API triggers — improving payment stability and customer experience.
  • 🔹 Independently tested BillDesk file processing pipelines, ensuring accurate transaction settlements and compliance with SEBI guidelines — authored detailed test strategies and regression plans for critical payment lifecycle components.
  • 🔹 Performed cross-service integration testing with Redis caching and MySQL data validations, using complex queries to validate backend consistency for transactions and refunds.
  • 🔹 Influenced product quality with both backend and frontend feature suggestions, and proactively prepared PRE-PROD test accounts and handcrafted test data to ensure seamless functional test coverage across releases.
Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceRegression TestingDatabases+24

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Jan 2019Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · On-site

Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceRegression TestingDatabases+21

Visa

Senior Software Test Engineer

Sep 2018Jan 2019 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Role: Responsible for testing the transactional flows of payments made by VISA Cards for each Merchant.
  • 🔹 Owned the Dynamic Currency Conversion component for Visa and Mastercard transactions across global merchants.
  • 🔹 Contributed to test planning, functional testing, and maintained a regression suite with 200K+ test cases, executed across release cycles.
Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceRegression TestingDatabases+22

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Associate

Dec 2017Sep 2018 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Role: Responsible for onboarding the digital wallets in the Mobile Payments Platform to provision the credit & debit cards for customers.
  • 🔹 Designed and implemented a REST API test automation framework, enabling functional, regression, and integration testing.
  • 🔹 Validated cloud-based onboarding workflows, merchant subscriptions, and mobile wallet provisioning using SQL, JMeter, and Blazemeter.
  • 🔹 Performed performance testing with dynamic tokenization flows and reported latency, errors, and response trends.
Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceRegression TestingDatabases+22

Makemytrip.com

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer I

Nov 2016Dec 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

  • Role: Responsible for the test engineering of bookings and improved the quality of flights, hotels, and cabs bookings.
  • 🔹 Developed sanity suites for REST APIs and Web UI in a fast-paced Agile environment; automated key flows using Selenium (POM).
  • 🔹 Created comprehensive test strategies and test plans and led integration and UAT efforts for post-sales services.
  • 🔹 Built “DeBu” Jenkins deployment automation tool using Shell scripting, reducing deployment time from 90 to 33 minutes across test environments.
  • 🔹 I owned the end-to-end responsibility of the post-sales services offered to the customers in all kinds of travel bookings.
Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceRegression TestingDatabases+22

Amazon development center, india

Device Associate

Mar 2013Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Chennai Area, India · On-site

  • Role: Responsible for testing the quality of PDF format books converted to Kindle format books (MOP & YJOP).
  • 🔹 Led QA efforts for Kindle apps across multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, Kindle OS) with a focus on functional, globalization, and usability testing.
  • 🔹 Executed manual and automated tests across various test types—including regression, smoke, and system testing.
  • 🔹 Delivered test sign-offs and contributed to high-visibility projects, ensuring the quality of Kindle content in multiple global languages.
Smoke TestingCommunicationDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceRegression TestingDatabases+18

Education

I.F.E.T. College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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