Akila Duraiswamy Kanagasabapathy
Fremont,CA
Summary
Innovative Senior Software Engineer skilled at designing rapid and impactful diagnostic and testing frameworks. Designs test plans and procedures and equips and trains newer colleagues. Talented at providing customized and optimized solutions for all automation limitations. Focused on usability , scalability and performance improvements. Willingness to take challenging opportunities to grow continuously. Comfortable overseeing large-scale automation engineering teams or independently coding complex projects.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart-labs
05.2023 - Current
- Leading Automation effort for US, SAMS, CA and MX.
- Provide technical solutions to solve complex testing problems by designing and developing scalable test automation framework.
- Targeting frameworks and solutions that will be used by engineering teams across multiple locations and organizations focusing on productivity, testing, and release. some of the solutions are mock server implementation, Test Rail for test case maintenance, Internationalization testing to reuse test cases written in English for Spanish Language and so on.
- Design and Implemented automation framework from scratch using Playwright, which also support multi-tenant and localization.
- Develop reliable automated CRUD test cases for p1/p2 flows to detect bugs before the release.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design innovative automation solutions.
- Work with product managers, developers to gather requirements and create test plan, test scenarios and test cases
- Run daily standup, sprint planning , retrospective and biweekly sprint demo
- Wear Release master hat and perform production deployment.
Software Engineer III
Walmart-labs
10.2020 - 04.2023
- Architected, designed and implemented Multi-tenancy Support for Test Automation, which enables reuse of test cases and framework for other markets. Also Involved in building Multi-tenant platform for the application.
- Recognizes the automation limitations and designed many solutions to increase the code coverage and stability of the tests.
- Streamlined release testing to increase efficiency and reduce production time.
- Automation Test Implementation to Walmart item setup application, 100% automation coverage for p1/p2 test-cases.
- Code, test and debug programs quickly and efficiently. Conducted several types of functional testing on the applications which reflected on the app quality standards and a better user experience for the end user.
- Conducted thorough code reviews to identify potential areas for improvement, guided the team with proper coding standards to build optimized test cases. Introduced Automation test strategy which improves code optimization, reusability and no more flaky tests.
- Interact with all PM to gather requirements and break down the requirements into small tasks. Analysis Gaps in the regression tests, create tasks and assign to engineers.
- Provided technical guidance to junior developers.
- Implemented automated build and deployment processes to streamline release management procedures.
- Involved in OneOps to Walmart Cloud Native Platform [WCNP] migration.
- Run daily standup, sprint planning , retrospective and internal sprint demo
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Walmart-labs
02.2019 - 09.2020
- Integrated UI and BE tool to provide a solution to perform e2e testing.
- Improved software quality by designing and implementing automated testing framework using Node js, JavaScript and Protractor.
- Adapted quickly to new technologies, implementing them into existing test strategies when applicable.
- Created Common Templates and Utilities using protractor (Java script) to support UI automation across different tracks.
- Closely worked with developers and PM to understand the features and analyze the use cases to automate.
- Identified valid test data to support the test cases.
- Performed data driven testing by executing same test cases with different sets of data.
- Used Allure Framework to auto generate HTML Reporter.
- Responsible to run regression tests across all track and give sign off before release.
- Reviewed PR, tracked the task in Jira and used Git as version control tool.
QE Engineer
Shutterfly
09.2018 - 12.2018
- Developed automation scripts for smoke, sanity, functional and regression test cases using Page Object Model framework, Selenium and java
- Performed cross browser testing using selenium grid
- Performed manual testing on both desktop and mobile web application
- Worked in agile methodology, involved in sprint planning, sprint Demo, daily stand-up call, QE meeting and bug triage
- Tools used: Test Rail, Git, Jira, Selenium, Selenium Grid, JUnit and Maven.
Education
MS in Computer Science -
Northwestern Polytechnic University
Fremont, CAMSc in Mathematics -
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
BSc in Mathematics -
University of Madras
Skills
- Proficient in [Java, Java Script]
- Automation Tools [Playwright, Protractor, Selenium, Mocha, JUnit, Jest, TestNg]
- Tools [Sauce Labs, Git, Jira, CI/CD, Splunk, Maven, Quantum Metrics, Test Rail]
- Excellent coding, testing and debugging
- Team Building
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Software Design and Solutions
- Technical Leadership
- Agile Methodologies Expert
- Problem Solving Mindset
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Accomplishments
- Promoted to senior software engineer
- Exceeds expectations Award
- Bravo Award
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart-labs
05.2023 - Current
Software Engineer III
Walmart-labs
10.2020 - 04.2023
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Walmart-labs
02.2019 - 09.2020
QE Engineer
Shutterfly
09.2018 - 12.2018
MS in Computer Science -
Northwestern Polytechnic University
MSc in Mathematics -
Manonmaniam Sundaranar University
BSc in Mathematics -
University of Madras