Senior Automation Specialist / Test Manager (external) · Bern

Vishnu Priya Kalyanam

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10 years of experienceBachelor's degreeEnglish (fluent), German (B2)

Senior Automation Specialist with 10 years of experience in programming, test automation and test management. Strong in the development of high-quality software, optimisation of test processes and leading agile teams. Industry experience in finance, postal services, e-commerce, rail, insurance and aviation.

Experience

Nov 2024 – Present · Bern

Senior Automation Specialist / Test Manager (external) — Die Schweizerische Post AG

  • Implement and maintain automation scripts with Robot Framework and Python for front end, back end and APIs in a microservice architecture with Spring Boot.
  • Integrate AI-based test data generation with Python and LLMs to produce realistic, varied and dynamic test data and to significantly increase test efficiency.
  • Optimise the test framework and increase test coverage from 50 percent to 90 percent, thereby increasing software quality and reliability.
  • Develop complex SQL queries for test data creation and realistic replication of production environments.
  • Configure and optimise CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, integrate automated tests and monitoring and run tests in Docker containers to achieve consistent results across all environments.
  • Use Kafka and Splunk to ensure communication between systems and to analyse logs efficiently.
  • Work closely with domain experts and Product Owners to design and implement customer-oriented solutions.
  • Take on on-call support, resolve problems promptly and ensure high user satisfaction.
  • Prioritised a customer requirement.

Jul 2024 – Oct 2024 · Bern

Senior Quality Specialist (external) — Die Mobiliar AG

  • Supported the development and execution of automated tests with Tosca to streamline the test process and improve efficiency.
  • Contributed to the development and maintenance of test automation frameworks, including the integration of best practices to support various types of testing.
  • Developed and implemented automated BPTs to cover critical business processes in order to ensure comprehensive test coverage and alignment with business requirements.
  • Defined test scenarios in collaboration with business analysts and stakeholders and integrated key workflows and use cases into automated scripts.

Feb 2022 – Jun 2024 · Raunheim

IT Test Manager — Lufthansa Industry Solutions GmbH

  • Analysis of customer and project requirements to create detailed test plans, strategies and concepts as well as to formulate effective test cases.
  • Established a seamless workflow that prioritises communication and collaboration for the successful delivery of high-quality software solutions, including building and maintaining solid coordination with key stakeholders: Product Owner, project management, developers and customers, in order to address quality assurance comprehensively.
  • Led the team in setting up a robust framework for automation tests, set priorities for the key scenarios for regression test suites, monitored progress closely, gave timely feedback and addressed challenges to ensure successful automation test initiatives.
  • Testing complex microservices with Ready API and verifying their integration with other services. Executing SQL queries to verify data integrity in the Azure SQL database and debugging the logs printed in the Sherlogs tool in order to determine the cause of the error.
  • Holding weekly discussions with the team to explore and implement ”best practices” aimed at improving testing activities.
  • Participation in agile SAFe events, including iteration planning, iteration review, iteration retrospective, PI planning, system demo and other collaborative sessions, in order to contribute to the seamless execution and continuous improvement of the agile development process.

Apr 2020 – Jan 2022 · Frankfurt

Senior Test Automation Engineer — DB Systel GmbH

  • Conducting thorough smoke, functional, system and regression tests as well as fixing all critical and adversely impacting open bugs before deployment.
  • Identification of the test cases to be automated and development of a Page Object Model automation framework with Java, Selenium WebDriver, Maven and TestNG.
  • Use of Maven for the project build of the WebDriver project and integration with Jenkins in order to carry out automated tests on a nightly basis.
  • Used JMeter to create test scripts for the application flow and individual use cases and to test the web application for various loads on key business scenarios.
  • Creation of test scripts in JMeter to generate large dynamic volumes of test data.

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 · Frankfurt

Test Automation Specialist — beQualified GmbH

  • Creation and maintenance of test cases based on the requirements and participation in agile Scrum activities such as refinement, planning and retrospective.
  • Execution of cross-browser, parallel and cross-platform web tests.
  • Creation and maintenance of test automation scripts for regression tests using the BDD framework and execution of the test suite before each delivery.

Apr 2019 – Dec 2019 · Munich

Software Tester — ByteWorx GmbH

  • Creation of test cases, test data and reusable test scripts for user stories based on the acceptance criteria in each sprint.
  • Execution of functional and regression tests between different modules to determine the data flow.
  • Active communication with the development team and the client with regard to all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), user acceptance tests and defects.
  • Creation and maintenance of automation scripts for regression tests and smoke tests with Selenium WebDriver and the Java programming language.
  • Execution of load tests for web pages and analysis of overall performance under different loads with JMeter.

Mar 2014 – Jun 2017 · India

Software Test Engineer — SysInformation Health Care India Pvt.Ltd

  • Execution of functional, regression, end-to-end, GUI and acceptance tests.
  • Creation of test plans, test cases and test scenarios based on user stories and the design description of the product in order to meet the business requirements and technical specifications.
  • Creation of automation scripts for smoke tests and regression tests for each build with Selenium.

Skills

IT skills

JavaPythonSQLTypeskriptMySQLHTMLCSSReact.JSSelenium WebDriver/GridCucumberPlaywrightCypress

Robotframework

TOSCATestNGBDDTDDRobot FrameworkPage Object ModelModel based testingMavenGradleJenkinsDockerGitJetbrains IntelliJ IDEAVisual Studio CodeEclipseREST/SOAP ServicePostmanReadyAPISwaggerOracle SQL DeveloperAgile-Scrum

REST/SOAP Ser vice, Postman, ReadyAPI, Swagger

JMeterNeoLoadFirstSpiritSherlogsEnterprise ArchitechtKafkaSplunkSAPPgAdminAzure SQL DatabseWaterfallKanbanSafEJIRAHP ALMBugzillaX-Ray

Education

  • 2009 – 2013 Bachelor's degree programme, specialisation – Instrumentation Technology
  • 2017 – 2018 Integration course, language course

Languages

  • English fluent
  • German fluent, B2 level

Certifications

  • ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level.
  • Diploma in Java Technologies.
  • Oracle DB SQL Certified Expert.
  • Deutsch Test für Zuwanderer – B1.

Contact

  • vishnupriyakalyanam
Vishnu Priya Kalyanam · Senior Automation Specialist / Test Manager (external) · Bern

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