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Vinodh Palanisamy

Summary

I am a seasoned quality leader, with over 20 years of experience in Quality Engineering space and 10+ years of providing technical leadership to Test Automation and Performance Engineering teams. I specialize in integrating advanced technologies and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software releases.

I have a demonstrated history of efficiently managing teams, optimizing testing strategies, and delivering top-quality solutions.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal - Performance Engineering & Automation

UKG Inc
05.2016 - 07.2024
  • Defined performance testing strategy and road map suitable for the Agile world.
  • Designed and developed a performance test automation framework for Restful API testing.
  • Worked with product managers and architects to gather nonfunctional test requirements, business use cases, work load, benchmarks and SLA/SLO.
  • Performed capacity planning and performance modeling to create a statistical model of how the load will be applied to the system during the peak hours and busiest days.
  • Extensively used LoadRunner for all heavy load and backend performance testing and Gatling/Scala for RestAPI performance testing.
  • Performed browser level/client-side performance testing using Lighthouse/Puppeteer.
  • Deployed Dynatrace agents on the servers for monitoring and to troubleshoot the performance bottlenecks.
  • Collected data in InfluxDB and integrated metrics with Grafana.
  • Well versed in using tools like Pendo, FarmQuery to collect the real user behavior and workload patterns from production.
  • Implemented shift-left performance engineering process and improved shift-right metrics collections/monitoring.
  • Identified the components & objects creating performance bottlenecks, worked closely with architects to resolve the root cause.

Test Architect / Sr. Advisor

Dell Inc.
Wellesley, MA
12.2012 - 05.2016
  • Led end-to-end testing activities of all new Oracle Health Insurance releases/Patches - Functional, Automation and performance testing.
  • Architected the Test Automation Framework and built & trained the QA team from scratch.
  • Dened test automation and performance test approach and strategy.
  • Built generic automation libraries that can be utilized across the organization.
  • Integrated Test Automation with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Performed Cost Benets Analysis/ROI of Test Automation.
  • Built QA teams in various Organizations by hiring, training, coaching and mentoring QA engineers
  • Mentored and assisted the onboarding team members
  • Worked with product owners to dene the performance benchmarks and SLAs.
  • Managed/Led onshore automation and performance teams (14 engineers).
  • Collaborated with the developers, DBAs, Architects to analyze performance results, troubleshoot issues and recommend improvements to meet performance objectives
  • Used HP ALM, UFT, Service Test, Selenium Java Webdriver, TestNG, SoapUI, Groovy, REST and JSON.

Senior Test Automation Lead

Monster Worldwide Inc.
Maynard, MA
06.2008 - 12.2012
  • Analyzed & consolidated the automation requirements and defined the road map.
  • Assisted in the development of test cases from user stories and requirements documents as well as provided feedback on usability issues.
  • Identified areas of improvement within existing processes by utilizing metrics-driven methodologies.
  • Architected the Test Automation Framework
  • Developed automation scripts, mentored, reviewed and assisted the team with scripting and troubleshooting.
  • Estimated the effort and resources required to complete the automation project and laid out test plans.
  • Actively participated in test readiness review meetings.

Senior Test Engineer

Fidelity Investments, India
04.2005 - 05.2008
  • Developed test automation utilities and methods for UFT tool.
  • Facilitated defect triage meetings with the QA, Product & Development team and appropriately assigned the tasks to the team members for verification and ensured quick & thorough defect closures.
  • Implemented QA process activities in the project for SEI CMM Level 5 certification.

Senior Software Engineer

PeopleSoft Inc, India (ISC)
03.2004 - 03.2005
  • Developed SQL scripts for database validation, created & executed manual and automated tests
  • Created a traceability matrix to map the tests with requirements and the training materials for the new hires.

Test Engineer

Motorola, India
07.2001 - 03.2004
  • Duties included test case creation & execution, logging and verifying defects.
  • Developed & executed automated scripts using Winrunner and developed PL/SQL queries for automation.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Technology

Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT)
05-2001

Skills

  • Performance testing Strategies - GUI, API
  • Performance Testing Tools LoadRunner, Gatling, Lighthouse
  • Performance Monitoring Dynatrace, APM, Pendo, Datadog, Grafana, Splunk
  • Webservice/API - Postman, SoapUI, RestAssured
  • Messaging Queue - RabittMQ
  • Behavior Driven Development Frameworks - Cucumber, SpecFlow
  • Version Control Tools - Git, BitBucket, Rally, Confluence
  • Continuous Integration Tools (CI/CD/DevOps) - Teamcity, Jenkins, GitHub, Bitbucket
  • Quality Metrics (KPIs) - COQ, COPQ, PCE, Defect Density, Test Effectiveness
  • Project Methodologies - Waterfall, Hybrid, Agile, Scrum, Kanban

Timeline

Principal - Performance Engineering & Automation

UKG Inc
05.2016 - 07.2024

Test Architect / Sr. Advisor

Dell Inc.
12.2012 - 05.2016

Senior Test Automation Lead

Monster Worldwide Inc.
06.2008 - 12.2012

Senior Test Engineer

Fidelity Investments, India
04.2005 - 05.2008

Senior Software Engineer

PeopleSoft Inc, India (ISC)
03.2004 - 03.2005

Test Engineer

Motorola, India
07.2001 - 03.2004

Master of Science - Computer Technology

Coimbatore Institute of Technology (CIT)

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