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Saravanakumar Sagadevan

Long Grove,IL

Summary

Automation Solution Architect in Test Engineering focused on Technical solutions ,efficiency and speed to market . Solid track record of success with 19 + years experience in Test Automation , Application Development and Non Functional Requirements.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Discover Financial Services, DFS
01.2020 - Current
  • Evaluated existing procedures and tools usage across enterprises to meet changing demands.
  • Provide leadership and guidance to engineering teams
    Identify Application automation feasibility and recommend automation tools
  • Increase automation test coverage and reduce Manual intervention work .
  • Partnering with Engineering leaders to modernize testing methodologies and tooling.
  • Be an change agent and drive a DevOps mindset of CI, CD and full automation within the product development teams.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate all types of testing tools .

Front End Manager

Chamberlain Group
06.2019 - 01.2020
  • Responsible creating, planning and communicating a holistic quality strategy inclusive of testing strategies and tactics, tools, requirements management, test case management, test design, test automation, continuous integration.
  • Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources.
  • Evaluated customer impact risk, reputation risk and regulatory risk.

Technical Solution Architect

Photon Infotech
03.2013 - 06.2019


  • Design and Implemented CI/CD pipeline based test automation jobs
  • Initiated and executed SLA driven Load and Performance Test plans
  • Define Test pyramid and Design automation framework



Client Name /Location :


Walgreens / Chicago ( March 2015 to June 2019)

Bestbuy / Minneapolis ( Jan 2013 to March 2015)


Associate Technical Architect

Infravio Software Technologies
01.2005 - 03.2013
  • Identify technology Matrix-Testing tools and integrate with jenkins
  • Create documentation and review with Technical Architect members
  • Research and keep up to date on testing trends and industry best practices.



Jan 2005 - March 2013


  • UDDI API Developer (2003-2007) - Infravio
  • Selenium Automation Developer ( 2007-2009)- Webmethods
  • Sr Automation Engineer ( 2009-2011) - SoftwareAG
  • Test Automation Architect ( 2011-2013)- Phresco ( https://github.com/photon-labs/phresco/wiki)




Education

Mechanical Engineering

University of Madras
07.2000

Skills

  • Functional Testing : Selenium , Appium ,Jest, Squish , Karate , Rest Assured API,SOAP UI , Postman ,
  • Non Functional Requirements : Jmeter , Artilery,Sitespeed , Lighthouse , JAWS , VOIP
  • Testcase Management : ALM, Zephyr, Xray
  • Project Management : Jira
  • Other Tools :Maven : Gradle,Jenkins , Bamboo,GitHub
  • Vulnerabilities Specialist
  • Accessibility Testing - Level Access
  • Vendor Management

Timeline

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Discover Financial Services, DFS
01.2020 - Current

Front End Manager

Chamberlain Group
06.2019 - 01.2020

Technical Solution Architect

Photon Infotech
03.2013 - 06.2019

Associate Technical Architect

Infravio Software Technologies
01.2005 - 03.2013

Mechanical Engineering

University of Madras
Saravanakumar Sagadevan