Suryansh Gaur

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 11 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 16+ years of experience in QA leadership.
  • Expertise in cryptography and security testing.
  • Proven track record in automation and process improvement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned QA leader in the Fintech and Security sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

CryptographyQa LeadershipTest AutomationApi TestingSecurity TestingBlockchainQa MethodologiesCloud ComputingDevopsTestingRequirements AnalysisData ManagementQuality AssuranceAutomation

Other Skills

AI automationAWS infrastructureAutomated buildsAutomated software test plansAutomation FrameworkAutomation Framework for API testingAutomation framework designAutomation test scriptsBDD Automation FrameworkCloud StorageContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Core JavaCryptocurrency assets validationData ScienceData driven framework

About

Automated Test Systems | Quality Methodologies | QA Team Leadership • Results-driven QA leader with 16+ years of experience leading high-performing teams and driving automation initiatives. Expertise in data security tests, automation, optimization, process improvement and AI automation using various tools e.g. co-pilot, cursor. Passionate about building and mentoring QA teams, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. • Proven Cryptography experience using Hardware Security Module (HSM - Thales's GP HSM & Marvell's LiquidSecurity) and Key Management Server(KMS - SafeNet KeySecure). Worked on industry leading certifications e.g. NIST(FIPS), CC. • Backed by strong credentials including a computer science degree, ISEB certification, advanced command of various testing suites, agile methodologies and monitoring tools; and cross-platform skills in Windows, Linux and Unix. • Designed and developed test automation frameworks for API testing to increase testing efficiency with Python. • Good exposure of Security testing done using DAST & SAST tools, threat modelling, Vulnerability Assessment. • Validated implementation of industry leading & patented cold wallet system, HD wallets, multisig address & smart contracts to secure cryptocurrency assets using Stellar blockchain ledger. • Fluent expertise with Agile-TDD software development teams and project management using JIRA. • Excellent understanding of DevSecOps pipeline & virtualization technologies e.g. VMWare, AWS, Oracle VirtualBox, SoftLayer. • Working knowledge on SIEM tools e.g. QRadar, Splunk.

Experience

16 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 3 mos
Current Experience

Marvell technology

2 roles

Senior Staff Manager, Security Solutions

Promoted

Feb 2023Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • The product under test(HSM) is a world class security product used by leading fortune 10 cloud providers.
  • Building System Testing team from scratch and building framework to simulate customer deployments at scale and across different dimensions of stress, longevity and resiliency.
  • Leading product functional QA team for cryptographic algorithms and key/HSM management of 24 rockstar engineers across different levels(staff, senior staff & principal).
  • Handling Industry standard Certifications like NIST and CC, identifying tests needed for the coverage and providing required documentation etc.
  • Handling manufacturing tests to ensure secure boot images are not vulnerability prone. Also, taking care of performance tests for throughput & latency and ensuring system resources are equally distributed across customers.
  • Implementing AI automation using tools like github-copilot & cursor.
HSMAI automationCryptographyPerformance testingDocumentationQA Leadership

Principal Engineer, Cloud HSM

Feb 2022Jan 2023 · 11 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Marvell's LiquidSecurity is the most advanced, converged platform for performing key management, encryption, and authentication for payment and general-purpose processing in the cloud.
  • My role is to define test strategy & automation framework design across the LiquidSecurity product line. Implementation via functional, performance(latency & throughput) & system testing.
  • Involves designing framework in a way that can be deployed on all leading cloud vendors to provide cryptographic services and key management services.
  • Involves testing cryptographic operations e.g. encrypt, decrypt, sign, verify for algorithms such as AES, RSA, ECC and management operations e.g. key generation, wrap, unwrap etc. Test management is done through qTest.
Test strategyAutomation framework designFunctional testingPerformance testingTest managementTest Automation+1

Thoughtspot

Senior Member Of Technical Staff, Security

Aug 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • ThoughtSpot empowers everyone to create, consume, and operationalize data-driven insights. Our consumer-grade search and AI technology delivers true self-service analytics that anyone can use, while our developer-friendly platform ThoughtSpot Everywhere makes it easy to build interactive data apps that integrate with your existing cloud ecosystem.
  • Designed and developed BDD Automation Framework for testing api's used in hosting cloud applications.
  • Performed Software Composition Analysis(SCA) using Veracode and configured a pipeline to
  • continuously monitor vulnerabilities in third party software's used within ThoughtSpot code.
  • Performed Dynamic analysis using OWASP ZAP and also created Threat Models using Threagile.
BDD Automation FrameworkSoftware Composition AnalysisDynamic analysisThreat ModelsAPI TestingSecurity Testing

Tokentech research and development india pvt ltd

Principal QA,Security

Sep 2019Jul 2020 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • A FinTech company utilising blockchain technology for the issuance, investing, trading and spending of digital assets.
  • Designed and developed Automation Framework customized for testing server-side applications.
  • Wrote Python scripts and used the Jenkins continuous integration server to perform server-side tests.
  • API Testing using POSTMAN and Performance testing using Gatling.
  • Validating end-to-end cryptocurrency assets e.g. bitcoin, bitcoin SV, LTC, EOS, ETH & BCH for wallet generation, fund transfer, balances using testnet.
  • Ensuring that the HSMs used are producing enough randomness i.e. validating the RnG(Random number Generator)module of HSMs.
  • Technically leading the team of 5 SQA talented engineers, defining KRAs/KPIs for them & managing their appraisals
Automation FrameworkPython scriptsAPI TestingPerformance testingCryptocurrency assets validationTest Automation+1

Thales esecurity

3 roles

Senior Project Lead

Promoted

Jul 2018Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • KMS & HSM
  • Designed and developed Automation Framework customized for testing server-side applications using Python & Pytest.
  • Lead the QE team in developing and implementing best practices to ensure superior quality of class leading product suite of Safenet KeySecure(KMS) and General Purpose Hardware Security Module (GP-HSM).
  • Work closely with Product Management, Development, Support, Sales and Services teams to
  • prioritize assignments and manage risks/issues to ensure successful delivery with high quality.
  • Vulnerability/Threat Analysis (Security Testing): Threat modelling (STRIDE & Attack Trees) and using tools like Qualys, HP Webinspect, NetSparker, testssl, NMAP for DAST & SAST.
  • Side channel analysis for hardware appliances – Timing Analysis, Simple & differential Power Analysis(DPA)
  • Data Science: Identifying areas within product where deep learning can be applied in conjunction with
  • Risk Engine.
  • Performance & Load Testing : Using Python’s twisted framework
  • Technically leading the team of 12 SQA talented engineers, defining KRAs/KPIs for them & managing their appraisals.
Automation FrameworkVulnerability/Threat AnalysisPerformance & Load TestingData ScienceSecurity TestingTest Automation

Technical Lead

Promoted

Oct 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Serve as a key member of software development team(KMS - SafeNet KeySecure) as the lead QA tester, Supervise a 4-member software QA testing team in developing and implementing quality-assurance and quality-control methodologies to ensure compliance with QA standards and feature specifications. Results:
  • Created and executed automated software test plans, cases and scripts to uncover, identify and document software problems and their causes.
  • Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development(TDD) process, which brought QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity.
  • Interpreted and converted manual test cases into automated smoke and regression suites.
  • Designed and developed Automation Framework for API testing + tons of test cases automated.
  • Front end test scenarios to simulate user behavior using Selenium webdriver.
  • Environment : Python, Selenium, Vagrant, Docker, VirtualBox, VMWare, AWS, Softlayer, VMCrypt, vSAN, Qualys, HP Webinspect, NMAP, Jira, gitlab
Automated software test plansTest-driven developmentAutomation Framework for API testingSelenium webdriverTest AutomationQA Methodologies

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2013Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Researched, designed and learned how to deploy, manage and operate AWS infrastructure components such as VPCs, EC2, S3, AMIs
  • Implemented build script to trigger automated builds using Jenkins.
  • Performed all administration, management, configuration, testing and integration tasks related to the Splunk and IBM QRadar.
  • Experience with Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC, Table Data Encryption TDE using 11g and 12c, mysql.
  • Experience with Cloud Storage providers e.g. Dropbox, Google Cloud
  • Created few recipes using Chef for automating VM deployment (Novice)
AWS infrastructureAutomated buildsSplunk administrationCloud StorageCloud ComputingDevOps

Jk technosoft

3 roles

Test Analyst

Jan 2013Sep 2013 · 8 mos

  • Assisted Business Analyst during customer interactions to gather detailed requirements.
  • Analysed HLDs/BRDs to prepare FRS for dev and test teams.
  • Designed and implemented data driven framework using Page Object Model POM, Page factory etc.
  • Environment : Java, Junit, TestNG, HP ALM, Linux, Selenium, RHEL6, Maven
Requirements gatheringData driven frameworkSeleniumTestingRequirements Analysis

Senior Test Engineer

Jan 2012Jan 2013 · 1 yr

  • Managed end-to-end complex data migration, conversion and data modelling
  • Participate in quality management reviews as outlined in the Verification and Validation Overview
  • Defined the migration strategy and plan
  • Environment: MySql 5, Java, RHEL4, DBSolo, BugZilla, RedHat Virtualisation Manager(RHEV 3.0), Ant
Data migrationQuality managementMigration strategyData ManagementQuality Assurance

Test Engineer

Jan 2009Jan 2012 · 3 yrs

  • Store Sales Accounting addresses the business requirement to provide suitable input for the Specsavers business end-of-month accounting procedure. This input consists of monthly summaries of both sales transactions organized by Multi Media Group (MMG) category, and cash declarations organized by tender type.
  • Analysed functional requirement to design User Acceptance Criteria
  • Created automation test scripts using selenium RC with Junit test cases
  • Performed functional, regression & UAT scenarios.
  • Environment: Java, mysql5, RHEL5, Eclipse 3.2, Selenium RC
Functional requirement analysisAutomation test scriptsRegression testingTestingAutomation

Education

APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University

B.Tech — Information Technology

Jan 2004Jan 2008

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