Suman T.

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

14+ years in web application and API development.
Expert in test automation frameworks and quality engineering.
Proven leadership in managing QA teams and initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering expert in E-commerce and SaaS environments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality EngineeringTest StrategyTest AutomationApi Testing

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesCC++Container OrchestrationDistributed SystemsGo (Programming Language)GolangJavaJavaScriptPHPPerlProgrammingProject ManagementSQLSelenium

About

14+ years of experience in developing and designing scalable, robust and reliable web application/apis, test automation frameworks, test suits, perf suits for Web UI, API(REST/Thrift/gRPC-Protobuf etc.) and Backend Workflows components. 4 years of experience in managing multiple QA/SDET teams and leading QE initiative. Driving Process Adherence, Test Planning, Effort estimation, Execution and Test Automation. Experience in hiring and building highly motivated team and flourishing positive team culture. Mentoring and motivating team member to achieve their goals and regular feedback. Guiding team on SDLC process and best testing practices. Domain experience in E-commerce, Ride Hailing, Online Travel, Online Ads, Software Product. Helped my team to setup test infra, perf testing setups from scratch. --------------- Programming Language used : Java Test Automation expertise in WebUI Automation Testing using Selenium RC/WebDriver and API/Backend Jobs automation with custom libraries and clients. Perf. Testing using Jmeter and Getling. Understanding of Big Data Tech. like hadoop, hdfs, kafka, cassendra, spark, flink.

Experience

Okta

Staff Software Engineer Test

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dunzo

Senior Architect - QA

Aug 2022 – Jun 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

I own central tech initiative team for QA. My responsibilities includes (but not limited to)
PoC around different solutions for testing use-cases, showcasing the solutions and getting approval to implement on larger scale.
Solving for testing framework level challenges which includes(but limited to) improving robustness, execution time and flexibility.
Providing feedback on Architectural Solution discussed in Architects forum and PRD/TRD discussions.
Test cases reviews, PR reviews for test case automation and test framework level changes.
Improving over all QA team skillset by organising biweekly knowledge sharing sessions, creating different QA docs, debugging sessions for any complex issue etc.
Recent contribution:
City Resize/Launch/Relaunch test automation.
Production Sanity test automation.
Golang code coverage for Functional test (PoC).
Test Framework level rule based retries of test and test steps.
Test report retention for longer duration in cloud.
Centralised Test Report analytics with auto triage (PoC).

Project ManagementContainer OrchestrationQuality EngineeringTest Strategy

Cloudera

Staff SDET

Feb 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Apache Spark Integration Testing for different Cloudera products release.

Project ManagementTest-Driven DevelopmentContainer OrchestrationQuality EngineeringAPI TestingTest Strategy

Flipkart

2 roles

SDE-3

Mar 2019 – Feb 2020 · 11 mos

Was working with PAAS[Platform As A Service] team.
Lead CI/CD and artifactory tooling team.

Container OrchestrationQuality EngineeringAPI Testing

SDET-3

Sep 2018 – Mar 2019 · 6 mos

Leading Search and M3 test team.
Added tooling and test automation framework which helped in testing and tracking code quality.

Test-Driven DevelopmentContainer OrchestrationQuality EngineeringAPI TestingTest Strategy

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

2 roles

SDET-3

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading testing/test automation initiative of different data processing (stream/batch workflows) and geospatial info(Map) projects.
Worked on test automation of different Web and Http/TCP based backend API project.

Project ManagementContainer OrchestrationQuality EngineeringAPI TestingTest Strategy

SDET-2

May 2015 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Working on various backend projects responsible for Allocation, Billing, Discounts and Offers.
Worked on crucial migration project to migrate Ola Money from Ola Cabs Stack.

Quality Engineering

Komli media

Sr-SDET

Nov 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

API/UI/Data automation testing.
Adserving component testing.

Quality Engineering

Expedia

SDET

Aug 2012 – Apr 2013 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Quality Engineering

Adobe systems

Software Engineer

Mar 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Automate functional/data driven testcases for multilingual projects using Custom made framework based on testNG and selenium.
Maintaining Unit-Testing Framwork for libraries providing Globalization support for software applications.
Help and Learning Web Sites/Forums

Quality Engineering

Mphasis

TSE

Mar 2010 – Mar 2011 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

OpenHPI-My responsibilities as Jr. Developer was to learn how the SAF HPI standards was implemented in OpenHPI and fix bugs raised by customers.
Solaris SNMP-My responsibilities included writing MIBs for various HP storage products for solaris platform.
Storage-Sust :In this my work included to test different storage products of HP mainly NAS and DAS. In this period I got much knowledge about HP servers and storage software and hardware products and learnt how to setup HP servers and maintain it remotely.

Quality Engineering

Freelancer/webdeveloper

FreeLancer/WebDeveloper

Jan 2008 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Haryana

I was working as Freelancer Web Developer for development and maintenance of site on contract basis.My work included from Bidding on Projects, learning technologies to complete project and develop and maintain projects and finally deal in finance with customer.

Quality Engineering