Anand Kamatagi
Bengaluru
Summary
QE Architect with 15 years of experience in Automation, SDLC, System design, Test strategy, Test plan and Test case development Multifaceted experience in test automation framework development of Web apps, Mobile apps, Microservices, performance testing. Continuous integration using Jenkins and maven and debugging complex systems. CKAD Certified Kubernetes Expert. Hands on experience with Kubernetes clusters creation, application deployments and troubleshooting. Technical leadership and mentorship to global QA team of 15 engineers. Experience in vSphere, AWS, and Azure
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior SDET
Vonage
02.2024 - Current
- Improved test automation framework resulting in a 50% reduction in regression testing time and accelerated release cycles by 30%.
- Increased test coverage by 60% through automation, improving early defect detection and reducing post-release defects by 25%.
- Developed and executed comprehensive test plans for complex SIP and VOIP applications.
- Developed and executed performance test scripts using JMeter, leading to a 35-40% reduction in application response time.
- Identified critical bottlenecks through load and stress testing for high-traffic applications, improving overall system performance by 30%.
- Collaborated robust automation framework that validates various micro services running parallel on docker containers.
- Designed and maintained continuous integration pipelines to streamline deployment processes and ensure software reliability.
- Implemented best practices for test case design, resulting in improved defect detection rates during QA phases.
SENIOR MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF
VMware
07.2015 - 12.2023
- Worked as Tech lead for two major products TKG(Tanzu Kubernetes Grid) and VCG(Vmware compatibility Guide) in VMware. (Team size: 7 to 10)
- Automated deployment and management of multiple K8S clusters on vShpere, AWS, and Azure platforms.
- Automated LCM flow of packages like Grafana, Prometheus, Cert-manager, etc on the K8S cluster.
- Contributed towards building the end-to-end system test automation framework using Python for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid(TKG) from scratch and eliminated manual system testing effort.
- Automated complex user workflows like Day 0 and Day1 operations on TKG Kubernetes Clusters.
- Enabled CI-CD process for multiple projects using Jenkins by providing Jenkins as a Service using virtual machines.
- Contributed towards product development, testing, and deployment of services on K8S clusters.
- Developed plug-and-play automation framework that enables developers to write faster automation test cases on UI and API without deeper knowledge of automation tools like Selenium.
- Performance testing of microservices (APIs) including Benchmarking, Load testing, Soak testing, and Crash testing.
- Designed and developed more than 10 microservices using Java Spring Boots.
- Led collaborations with multiple BUs and stakeholders in this Project.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
CA Technologies
04.2012 - 05.2015
- Worked on products like 'Authmnder and 'Riskminder' and got exposure to payment and security domain
- Responsible for complete end to end quality of Authminder and Riskminder projects.
- Performed Installer testing, Upgrade testing on a various combination or OS, Database
- Established automation team of 5 resources
- Automated over 400 test cases for admin configuration
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Cerner Healthcare Solutions
05.2010 - 06.2012
- Worked in Quality excellence team wich was responsible developing automation across different BUs.
- Automated 4 different health care applications.
- Contributed to the automation process as a lead for a team of 4 people.
- Developed an automation framework using Selenium, 2, java 6 and other third party tools.
- Performed gap analysis procedures and detailed data reviews to optimize implementation.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2008
Skills
- Strong coding skills using Java and Python
- Test Strategy and Design
- Modern test automation framework development
- Proficient in scalability and performance testing
- System Testing
- Performance Testing using Jmeter
- CI CD using Jenkins and GitLab
- Docker and Kubernetes
- AWS and Azure fundamentals
- VMware VSphere
- Strong proficiency in microservices
- Linux and shell programming
- Database - MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL, Cassandra and MongoDB
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) October 2023 — October 2025 Issued by Linux Foundation
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) March 2018 — March 2021
Languages
English
Hindi
Kannada
Awards
TKG Torchbearer Award I received this award for driving to quality and customers experience improvements for TKT1.5 and 1.6 releases. I helped surfacing lot of issues that were blockers for our premium customer FedEx., VMware RocStar Award I received this award for successfully on-boarding more than 20 BUs data into a tool called VMware config max https://configmax.esp.vmware.com. This is a very critical tool that helps to trace all and maximum and minimum values of Different configurations of reimburse products. We developed this product from scratch and brought it live into quarters.
Personal Information
Title: QE Architect
Timeline
Senior SDET
Vonage
02.2024 - Current
SENIOR MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF
VMware
07.2015 - 12.2023
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
CA Technologies
04.2012 - 05.2015
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Cerner Healthcare Solutions
05.2010 - 06.2012
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University