Ashwin N Murthy — Product Manager

Key Achievements: ✔ Designed & implemented scalable test automation frameworks that improved efficiency and reduced test execution time by 30%. ✔ Achieved 95% test automation coverage for critical product features, significantly enhancing test reliability. ✔ Optimized performance testing strategies, reducing bottlenecks and improving system stability under load. ✔ Reduced time to detect and resolve critical defects by 50%, improving product release cycles. ✔ Championed best practices in test automation through mentorship, knowledge-sharing sessions, and cross-functional collaboration. My Expertise Includes: 🔹 Test Automation Architecture & Framework Development – Building modular, scalable, and maintainable automation solutions. 🔹 Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) – Seamless integration of automated testing in DevOps pipelines. 🔹 Cross-Functional Collaboration – Partnering with development, DevOps, and product teams to enhance quality processes. 🔹 Cloud-Based Testing & Infrastructure – Expertise in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud to implement scalable testing environments. 🔹 AI & ML-Based Test Automation – Leveraging AI-driven automation tools for intelligent test execution, self-healing test scripts, and predictive defect analysis. 🔹 Microservices & API Testing – Expertise in service virtualization, and API test automation using tools like Postman, RestAssured testing frameworks. 🔹 Containerization & Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible to create reproducible and scalable test environments. 🔹 Resiliency & Chaos Engineering – Implementing chaos testing using tools like Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, and resilience patterns to ensure system stability under failure conditions. 🔹 Shift-Left & Shift-Right Testing – Driving early-stage testing (Shift-Left) to prevent defects and observability-driven testing (Shift-Right) using tools like Jacoco, Lombok and etc. 🔹 Mobile & Cross-Browser Testing – Mastery in Appium, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, and cloud-based device farms to ensure flawless mobile and web application testing. 🔹 Observability & Monitoring in Testing – Integration of logs, metrics, and traces into the testing strategy to enhance system reliability and proactive defect detection. 🚀 Passionate about emerging trends in test automation, AI-driven testing, and continuous quality improvement, I am always open to discussing new opportunities, industry insights, and collaborations. Let's connect and build the future of scalable, high-quality software together!

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Test Automation Architect with expertise in scalable software solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 15 yrs

Skills

Test Automation Architecture & Framework Development
Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (ci/cd)
Quality Management

Career Highlights

Achieved 95% test automation coverage for critical features.
Reduced critical defect resolution time by 50%.
Championed best practices in test automation.

Work Experience

QualiTest India

Test Architect (1 yr 1 mo)

Senior Quality Engineer (6 yrs)

Hopscotch

SDET 3 (4 yrs 5 mos)

Unisys India

System Analyst (1 yr 10 mos)

Convergys

System Support Analyst (1 yr 7 mos)

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at Sri Krishna Institute Of Technology

PUC at Seshadripuram Composite PU college

SSLC; PUC at St. Ann’s High school

Ashwin N Murthy

Product Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Achieved 95% test automation coverage for critical features.
Reduced critical defect resolution time by 50%.
Championed best practices in test automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Test Automation Architect with expertise in scalable software solutions.

Contact

ashwin57@live.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Test Automation Architecture & Framework DevelopmentContinuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (ci/cd)Quality Management

Other Skills

Core JavaC#JenkinsMavenCucumberProcess ImprovementITILAzure DevOps ServicesProject LombokTest ManagementTest StrategyTeam LeadershipJMeterPerformance Testingjacoco

About

Experience

Qualitest india

2 roles

Test Architect

Promoted

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Core JavaC#Test Automation Architecture & Framework Development

Senior Quality Engineer

Sep 2014 – Sep 2020 · 6 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

Total IT experience in Quality Assurance in Manual and Automated Testing on Web based applications.
Exposure to all stages of Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and software development methodologies such as Agile, V Model, Waterfall and SCRUM.
Good leadership skills in Test management and have handled a team of 6 in one of the project.
Certified in ISTQB & ITIL foundations.
Experience with resource planning, scope assessment, testing framework, communication plan, reporting metrics template, defect reports, change management, scrum & stand-up meetings.
Expertise working with On-shore team and assigning testing responsibilities and follow up till test completion and reporting the status to Project Manager. Responsible for updating the weekly & quarterly reports.
Experience in working with open source tools Selenium (Selenium IDE, and Selenium Web Driver), Eclipse.
Expertise in manual testing of Restful services.
Experience in working with Frameworks like Keyword Driven, Hybrid driven, and POM framework.
Worked on testing web application that involved HTML, JSON and XML.
Worked very closely with the Devops team in Agile methodology for deploying and building the Automation Scripts in Continuous integration
Worked extensively on Agile Projects and hands on experience in creating task for sprint in Rally and attended Sprint Planning, Scrums, Sprint Review meetings.
Experience in working with Test Management/Bug Tracking tools like Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to track test execution progress and prioritize bug fixes.
Proficient in using test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver/IDE to develop automation testing scripts for web applications.
Knowledge in handling the JSON response from the Web Services request.
Good Analytical and Communication Skills and ability to work independently with minimal supervision and perform as part of a team. Ability to work under competing deadlines.

JenkinsCucumberTest Automation Architecture & Framework DevelopmentQuality Management

Hopscotch

SDET 3

Sep 2020 – Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos · India · Hybrid

Design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable test automation frameworks and infrastructure.
Create automated test suites for functional, regression and performance testing.
Implement best practices for test automation including code reusability, maintainability, and efficiency.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior SDET team members.
Define and execute comprehensive test plans and strategies to ensure product quality.
Conduct root cause analysis of defects and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Implement and enforce quality assurance processes and standards across the development lifecycle.
Evaluate, select, and implement testing tools and technologies to optimize test automation efforts.
Maintain and enhance test environments, including virtualization and containerization solutions.
Integrate automated tests with continuous integration/delivery pipelines for seamless deployment.
Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders to define testing requirements and acceptance criteria.
Conduct retrospectives and post-mortems to analyze past performance and identify areas for optimization.
Participate in release planning and risk assessment activities to ensure timely and high-quality product releases.
Document test plans, test cases, and test results to ensure comprehensive test coverage and traceability.
Create technical documentation and guidelines for test automation frameworks, tools, and processes.

JenkinsMavenTest Automation Architecture & Framework DevelopmentContinuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

Unisys india

System Analyst

Nov 2012 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

Working closely with Quality Assurance Senior Management and Operations Counterparts to manage UI Automation.
Experience with resource planning, scope assessment, testing framework, communication plan, reporting metrics template, defect reports, change management, scrum & stand-up meetings.
Expertise working with On-shore team and assigning testing responsibilities and follow up till test completion and reporting the status to Project Manager. Responsible for updating the weekly & quarterly reports.
Strong experience creating concise and clear reports for distribution and presentation to senior management on a weekly basis. Experience monitoring and tracking implementation plans.
Good Expertise in Schedule jobs via Jenkins (Continuous Delivery) and Continuous Integration for automating the build and deploy processes allowing significant increase in test automation. Monitoring the scheduled jobs.
Good Experience in unit testing/White box testing the code developed by the developers.
Worked extensively on Agile Projects and hands on experience in creating task for sprint in Rally and attended Sprint Planning, Scrums, Sprint Review meetings.
Experience in working with Test Management/Bug Tracking tools like Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to track test execution progress and prioritize bug fixes.
Expertise in Functional, Integration and System testing (software testing).
Proficient in performing different kinds of testing like Smoke, Sanity, Functional, Backend, White Box, Parallel Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing & UAT.