Apr 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Kubernetes & Cloud Infrastructure:
• Led DevOps, Kubernetes, and CI/CD initiatives, improving release cycles by 40% through automation and containerization.
• Designed, deployed, and maintained production-grade Kubernetes clusters (AKS/EKS) with High Availability (HA), RBAC, Pod Security Policies, and resource quotas.
• Implemented end-to-end monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, enabling proactive incident management and faster troubleshooting.
• CI/CD & Deployment Automation:
• Automated deployments using Helm charts, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD, significantly reducing manual intervention and improving deployment reliability.
• Integrated Kubernetes workloads into secure CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent build, test, and release cycles.
• Optimized infrastructure provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, reducing environment setup time by 60%.
• System Reliability & Security:
• Improved system resilience and fault tolerance by implementing auto-scaling (HPA), rolling updates, and canary deployments.
• Strengthened Kubernetes security posture with RBAC, secrets management, and cluster hardening.
• Conducted regular chaos engineering tests to validate disaster recovery and failover readiness.
• Leadership & Collaboration:
• Directed a cross-functional team of developers, DevOps engineers, and QA, ensuring smooth delivery pipelines and stable releases.
• Mentored engineers on Kubernetes best practices, CI/CD automation, and cloud-native development, raising the overall team skill set.
• Partnered with stakeholders to align technical strategy with business goals, ensuring scalability and faster time-to-market.

Jul 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Development & Cloud-Native Leadership:
• Led the design and development of the DELP application with a focus on Kubernetes-based microservices architecture, ensuring scalability, security, and high performance.
• Migrated services into containerized workloads on Kubernetes (AKS/EKS), enabling modularity, auto-scaling, and simplified deployments.
• Defined best practices for cloud-native development, aligning with DevOps and SRE principles.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):
• Implemented SRE practices to improve infrastructure resilience and availability, including HA Kubernetes clusters with RBAC, HPA, and pod disruption budgets.
• Designed automated failover and disaster recovery mechanisms using Kubernetes operators and cloud-native storage solutions.
• Enhanced observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace, enabling proactive issue detection and reduced MTTR.
• DevOps, CI/CD & Automation:
• Built and optimized CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD, automating deployments across Kubernetes clusters.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform & Ansible, ensuring consistency and faster environment setup.
• Developed synthetic monitoring and telemetry dashboards (Splunk, New Relic, Dynatrace) to monitor system health and optimize performance.
• Mentorship & Collaboration:
• Mentored a team of engineers in Kubernetes adoption, CI/CD automation, and SRE practices, improving reliability and delivery speed.
• Conducted regular code and deployment pipeline reviews, enforcing best practices in security, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to align delivery with business priorities and ensure transparency.

Mar 2021 – Jul 2021 · 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · Hybrid

• Project Overview:
• iCargo is an integrated air cargo management solution that supports end-to-end processes for both exports and imports, including goods acceptance, screening, build-up planning, export and import manifest management, and delivery to consignees.
• Automation & Framework Leadership:
• Designed and implemented the automation framework from the ground up using the Page Object Pattern (POP), ensuring maintainability, scalability, and separation of concerns in the testing process.
• Developed comprehensive automation scripts for the key processes in the export and import workflows, significantly improving test coverage and reducing manual testing efforts.
• Integrated test automation within the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring rapid execution of automated tests and providing feedback on the software quality early in the development cycle.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship:
• Mentored a cross-functional team of 7 QA and automation engineers, helping them improve their technical skills and adopt best practices in automation frameworks and testing methodologies.
• Provided guidance and support to team members in troubleshooting issues, optimizing test execution, and achieving quality goals.
• Led the sprint planning process, ensuring the team's workload was balanced and tasks were aligned with project objectives and deadlines.
• Collaboration & Project Management:
• Worked closely with the development team to understand system requirements and identify critical areas for automation, ensuring efficient test coverage for all features.
• Briefed management on project status, test progress, and any potential risks, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivering transparent updates on quality goals.
• Test Automation & Process Optimization:
• Automated critical test cases, covering various aspects of the iCargo export/import processes, which led to significant reduction in regression test cycles.

Nov 2020 – Feb 2021 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Designed the automation framework from the initial phase using Page Object Pattern (POP)
• Mentored An both QA and automation team of 9 members in improving their technical skills and
• Achieving quality goals
• Involved in sprint planning; allocated work to team members based on the project requirement
• Briefed the management on project status

Jan 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Project Overview:
• The DAP product is a comprehensive platform designed for digital publishers, networks, and ad agencies. It streamlines the process of digital advertising, including product development, client interaction, sales, billing, and reporting, offering a fully integrated advertising business management solution.
• Automation Leadership:
• Designed and developed a custom automation framework from scratch, leveraging industry best practices to ensure scalability, maintainability, and reusability across testing efforts.
• Implemented the Page Object Model (POM) and data-driven testing approaches, significantly improving test maintainability and execution speed.
• Designed automation for critical workflows such as advertising product management, client billing, and sales.
• Team Building & Mentorship:
• Built and led the automation team, growing it to 18 members, and instilling a culture of quality and collaboration across the team.
• Mentored and trained team members on automation tools, best practices, and coding standards, ensuring the team consistently delivered high-quality results.
• Process Improvement & Collaboration:
• Worked closely with product and development teams to understand requirements, identify high-priority test cases, and define test strategies aligned with business goals.
• Implemented automation as part of the CI/CD pipeline, enabling faster feedback and continuous testing of the product during each sprint.
• Ensured that test coverage was comprehensive, especially around critical areas like billing accuracy and ad placement functionality, reducing the risk of defects in production.
• Reporting & Continuous Improvement:
• Regularly reported test results and project status to stakeholders, ensuring that quality milestones were met and projects were aligned with business priorities.
• Identified opportunities to optimize test execution time, resulting in faster test cycles and reduced time-to-market for product releases.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Emirates Telecommunication Group Company PJSC, branded trade name Etisalat, is a multinational Emirati based telecommunications services provider, currently operating in 15 countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa
• Responsibilities handled:
• Introduced the Selenium Automation Tool and did POC and designed Framework from the Scratch.
• Written all the Library Reusable Class Like DB Utils,Rest API and Reading and writing the data from the external Files Like Excel,.csv files .
• Designed the mobile application automation framework from scratch using selenium web driver and appium for both Andriod and IOS .
• Providing the Technical Guidance to the team members.
• Script Development using java,TestNG and web driver.
• Triggering the regression suite.
• Analyzing the Failed Scripts.
• Fixing the Failed Scripts
• Liaison with vendors
• Incorporated:
• The Selenium Open Source Customized Framework in Etisalat
• Mobile Application Automation Using Appium with Selenium Web Driver for both IOS and Android Plat-forms
• Monitored the development of the automation scripts in line with the test cases
• Accountable for developing web services (SOAP API) and Rest API automation through JAVA

Jan 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2014 – Dec 2014 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Leading the Automation Team.
• Analyzing the requirements
• Preparing test cases based on requirements
• Assigning the automation tasks and monitoring the assigned tasks.
• Framework Design,
• Script Development using Java and Webdriver.
• Automation test scripts review developed by team members
• Triggering the regression suite.
• Analyzing the Failed Scripts.
• Debugging the failed automation test scripts and applying the fixes to make them executable

Dec 2012 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Performed a role of Senior Automation Test Engineer
• Involved in Frame Work Design
• Automation test scripts development
• Automation test scripts review developed by team members
• Failure Analysis
• Debugging the failed automation test scripts and applying the fixes to make them executable

Feb 2012 – Dec 2012 · 10 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Performed a role of Automation Test Engineer
• Automation test scripts development
• Automation test scripts review developed by team members
• Failure Analysis
• Debugging the failed automation test scripts and applying the fixes to make them executable

Jun 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Started career as a Blackberry Mobile application developer.
• Switched to Automation testing based on the immediate requirement for one of the reputed
• customer UK’s largest hiring platform Jobsite.co.uk which offers jobseekers the chance to search,
• view and apply for over 280,000 live job adverts, in any industry, across the whole of the UK.
• As an automation engineer designed and developed an automation framework from scratch
• Automated all the regression scenarios using Java, Selenium rc, JUnit and Maven.
• Identified the resources that were ready to switch to Automation testing from the Manual and
• and mentored the team