Sundaresan K.

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in software quality assurance.
Proven track record in enhancing automation ROI by 80%.
Expert in building and leading high-performing QA teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Quality Assurance Leader with extensive experience in automation and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementSoftware Quality AssuranceTest AutomationProject ManagementDevopsQuality Assurance

Other Skills

API TestingAgile MethodologiesAgile TestingAndroidBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)Business StrategyCICloud ComputingCucumberDecision-MakingExtemporaneous SpeakingGitGradleJIRAJenkins

About

I am a seasoned software professional with over two decades of hands-on experience in delivering quality products with the right set of tools, frameworks, and processes. I have helped organizations scale by building teams, training, mentoring, and establishing a brand for the QA. I share knowledge speaking in meetups and conferences

Experience

Assembly (joinassembly.com)

2 roles

Sr.Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering ManagementDevOpsSoftware Quality AssuranceProject ManagementSecurityPerformance Management

Director of Engineering

Sep 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DevOpsEngineering ManagementSoftware Quality AssuranceTest Automation Tools

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2 roles

Test Architect

Apr 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Enhanced ROI on automation efforts by up to 80% and improved unit test
coverage across 2.5 million lines of code, underlining expertise in test
automation, strategy, and leadership.
Integrated advanced automation tools into the DevOps pipeline, streamlining
development processes and facilitating cross-team deliverables, showcasing
strong capabilities in agile methodologies and project management.

Quality Assurance Technical Lead

May 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Reduced API validation time by designing and developing an API framework. Brought down 16 hours of daily validations down to 2.
Developed customer data extraction tool and product discovery tool for collaboration across teams.
In-charge of QA delivery for SaaS based Mobile Device Management apps, platform, APIs, VPNs and SDKs
Played a significant role in the IBM acquisition journey, also talent acquisition and retention.
Created a process framework for Mobile Apps testing, performance, security testing, and delivery.
Created Developer Advocacy program by creating training materials, documentation and videos for support executives, third party developers. The outcome was well-received by the developer community.
Improved product knowledge among teams by conducting competitions and sharing sessions.

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Principal Architect

Apr 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Established and led a high-performing SDET organization, driving key initiatives that
resulted in a substantial reduction of functional hotfixes and an 80% automation ROI,
demonstrating exceptional leadership and technical acumen in quality assurance

Maas360 by fiberlink, an ibm company

Lead - QA

Jun 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Seatonindia it pvt ltd.,

Quality Analyst

Sep 2006 – Jun 2011 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Responsible for quality of the internal ERP stafftrack.net that provided workforce automation for large scale warehouses. Automated the builds process, deployment and test-suite using the tools available at that time.

Addr technologies pvt ltd

JBA - Quality Assurance Specialist

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs

Junior business analyst who designed SaaS applications.
Tested a pre-cloud console that formed the cloud strategy for ADDR's Hosting services.

Qsupport technologies pvt ltd

Senior Support Engineer

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr

Was responsible to overview the IT support provided to customers across various network and desktop related technologies online which were relevant at that time.