Karthik KK

Co-Founder

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand19 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 19+ years in software automation testing.
  • Founder of ExecuteAutomation with 350,000+ students.
  • Lead consultant designing automation frameworks.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Test Automation Expert in Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Event DrivenApache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)Machine LearningAI AgentsTest AutomationSeleniumManual TestingRegression TestingTestingQTPVisual StudioC#VBScriptHP QTP

About

With over 19+ years of experience in software automation testing, I am a lead test automation consultant at Kiwibank, one of the largest banks in New Zealand. I design and develop automation frameworks for various applications and platforms, using tools and languages such as Selenium, Specflow, C#, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Appium, and more. I am also the founder of ExecuteAutomation, a virtual company that provides online courses and resources for testing community. I have created over 30+ courses on Udemy, with more than 350,000+ students from over 190+ countries. I also run a YouTube channel with over 1100+ videos and 100,000 subscribers, featuring tutorials and tips on automation testing. My goal is to improve automation capabilities and bring ROI and ROE to both employers and employees. My mission and vision is to automate anything that is repeated in testing and make the testers' life easier. I specialize in automation framework design and development, and have domain knowledge in security, networking, HRMS, healthcare, ERP and CRM.

Experience

19 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Asb bank

Software Consultant

Feb 2025Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Auckland, New Zealand · Hybrid

  • Working as Software Consultant for Payments Team. Uplifting Automation and Testing efforts across 6 squads and helping them achieve best possible testing out there.

Kiwibank

Lead Test Automation Consultant

Jun 2021Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Auckland, New Zealand

Westpac

Test Automation Consultant

Jul 2019Jun 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Westpac is an amazing company with a great team and leaders. In my two-year span, I worked here for releases that enable our NZ customers to have a reason to use Westpac online banking website. I tested and automated technologies such as Microservices, UI, API, Database, and a bit of backend core banking services.

Clearpoint

Sr Automation Test Specialist

Jan 2019Feb 2025 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Responsible for designing and developing automation framework with Specflow and Visual Studio in C# for our ASB Open banking pilot feature in NZ

Asb bank

Sr Automation Test Engineer

Jan 2019Jun 2019 · 5 mos · Auckland Metropolitan Area

  • Was contracting with ASB Bank for the role of Sr. Automation Test Engineer. Working NZ's first ever Open Banking pilot project and we successfully launched it as well.
  • Tech stack: Specflow, Selenium, C#, CI/CD

Testproject

YouTube/Udemy Course creator for TestProject

Jul 2018Jun 2019 · 11 mos · Remote

  • Completely understood the concept of TestProject and created much simplified
  • video content for YouTube and as a course in Udemy.

Invenco group limited

Sr Automation Test Engineer

Nov 2017Jan 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  •  Responsible for designing and developing automation framework with Selenium Java and cucumber
  •  Responsible for automation team to create daily scenarios and reporting
  •  Testing complete E2E cloud platform of our product
  •  Working cohesively with the team by creating and sharing knowledge to make everyone on the same page

Udemy

Udemy Trainer and consultant

Apr 2016Present · 10 yrs 1 mo · Remote

  • With Udemy, I am a seasonal trainer for more than 35+ courses for 350,000+ students across 198 countries. It's my passion to give quality training to people who want to learn automation from complete ground up!
  • All my advanced series courses in Udemy are the BEST seller and HIGHEST rated course, which really makes me proud

Medical tracking solutions

Test Automation Architect

Apr 2016Aug 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos · (Remote)

  • Working as an Automation Test Architect in MTS and developed automation framework for our WebSuite as well as Mobile based application for iOS and Android
  • Created automation test framework from the complete ground up and now our automation run for 12+ hours every night spanning 10k steps (don't ask me why it's not parallelized to reduced time, we did not for a reason :))

Sitecore

Sr Technical QA Engineer

Apr 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Worked as Sr, Technical QA Engineer. My roles and responsibilities are to automate applications for our SiteCore services, to name few includes automation of our own APIs, Azure cloud services, Azure cloud storage, Mongo DB and more..
  • I am very happy to get opportunity working with different components of Sitecore, such as
  • # Experience Analytics
  • # Cloud Experience Database (xDB 1.x, 2.x and 3.x)
  • # Marketing foundation
  • # xConnect
  • Which really helped me lot to understand the holistic picture of how beautifully Sitecore is built using advanced technologies (sometimes which are not released to general public yet)

Flextronics

Test Architect

Mar 2014Apr 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Chennai Area

  • Worked as a Software Test Architect here @ Flex. I am designing and architecting frameworks which can be used to test applications for Mobile (Native and Hybrid), Web, Windows and Web services. I worked with BDD with Specflow and Specflow. I also worked with creating lot of tools used for Performance as well as automation testing of applications.

Executeautomation

Founder

Jan 2013Present · 13 yrs 4 mos · Virtually everywhere

  • ExecuteAutomation is a yet to become startup company but has laid all the foundational element to becoming an aspiring company which is virtually available over the internet as a website https://www.executeautomation.com
  • ExecuteAutomations key elements are its video courses and blog articles available over YouTube and Udemy and ExecuteAutomation marketplace
  • Youtube
  • In YouTube, ExecuteAutomation has more than 500+ videos with 35+ playlist and 35,000+ subscribers, marking one of the biggest FREE online resources for testing community
  • Udemy
  • In Udemy, ExecuteAutomation features over 20+ courses with over 100,000+ students enrolled from over 185+ countries, marking one of the fastest students enrolled per instructor ever.
  • Partnership
  • ExecuteAutomation has training partnership with companies such as Testproject, Katalon Studio, and many other small testing tool companies by creating videos and articles about their own tool.

Symantec

Software Automation Engineer

Mar 2012Feb 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Chennai

  • Creating Automation frameworks extensively with Visual Studio 2010/2012 and Selenium. Developing wrapper tools in language like C#, ASP.Net and Java plugins and designing new way to automate different components we have for MSS.

Computers international

Sr. Test Engineer (Automation)

Sep 2009Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Chennai

  • Worked as an Automation Test Engineer in QTP, handing various Automation Task like running Regression test cases, smoke Test, Creating new scripts, creating utilities via C# and ASP.Net etc.
  • Currently automating a Selenium-based automation framework for one of my project. And Researching on developing new improved QTP based Framework for Web Application. Also researching in Visual Studio 2010 test for creating the framework which can overcome some of the major advantages in QTP..

Ivesia solutions

Test Engineer

Apr 2008Sep 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • At Ivesia, we use to test Medical application using Automation testing tool Test Complete, we wrote our own framework to automate the application. With every release we need to write all the new test cases to execute before the product goes live.

First internet systems

Test Engineer

Feb 2007Mar 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo · Chennai

  • Worked as a Test engineer in First Internet System. Since its a product based company I learned a lot about the product and did implementation of product at customer site.

Education

Anna University Chennai

B-TECH — Information Technology

Jan 2002Jan 2006

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