Aravind Yamana
Bengaluru
Summary
Senior QA Consultant with 7+ years of experience in performance testing and automation. Expertise in Java, Python, and CI/CD pipelines enhances system reliability and scalability. Proven track record in leading teams to deliver high-quality software solutions aligned with Agile methodologies.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior QA Consultant
Thoughtworks
Banglore
06.2024 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify quality assurance requirements.
- Executed automated and manual testing processes to ensure software quality.
- Performance Testing Specialist with hands-on experience using Gatling (Java), k6, Lighthouse, and Flashlight to assess system scalability, responsiveness, and reliability.
- Skilled in designing and executing performance/load/stress test strategies for Kafka-based event-driven systems, validating message throughput, latency, consumer lag, and resilience under peak load.
- Experienced in Kafka testing across producers, consumers, and topics, ensuring data integrity, fault tolerance, and end-to-end system stability.
- Proficient in monitoring and observability tools – Grafana, Jaeger, and distributed tracing to analyze bottlenecks and improve system performance.
- Strong expertise in Docker & Kubernetes, building scalable and containerized test environments for microservices and messaging systems.
- Exposure to working with MongoDB and Elasticsearch for validating backend data consistency and system performance under load.
- Collaborative in Agile/DevOps teams, ensuring seamless integration of performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd.
London
02.2022 - 03.2024
- actively engaged with clients during the onsite tenure at London to understand their requirements and collaborated with them throughout the testing process to ensure alignment and satisfaction
- Responsible for handling and leading the testing activities of the Smart Stream Reconciliation-TLM Application
- Led teams of 5+ members to manage the QA activities of the application.
- Well aware of Software development lifecycle and testing lifecycles ; Excellent understanding of agile principles and methodologies
- Created accurate and efficient test scripts in selenium webdriver to manage automated testing
- Experience of creating the test automation framework from scratch, well versed with TDD and BDD approaches
- Built in-house automation utilities using Java and Python;Strong expertise in Object oriented programming.
- Created CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins and azure DevOps for regression test cases automation execution
- Strong working experience of version control systems (GIT) And Project management tool such as Maven
- Working experience of cross-browser automation by using Selenium Grid in combination of cloud infrastructure tools like BrowserStack
- Working experience of Power BI paginated reports and Snowflake cloud based database and associated with data analytics teams
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd.
09.2018 - 02.2022
- Worked on python data science libraries to create in house test automation utilities.
- Created and maintained test automation scripts using selenium and Java
- Worked on HP-Leanft and UFT for automation testing .
- Knowledge on mobile test automation using Appium
- Performed Manual and Automation Testing of the application as an agile tester
- Performed ETL testing and also performed REST API testing using Postman,Rest Assured.
- Experience with HP ALM, JIRA, Azure DevOps for test management and agile project management
- Extensive working experience of SQL and Unix shell scripting
- Performed different kinds of testing such as Functionality testing, GUI testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Cross Browser Functionality Testing, Non functional testing, End to end testing
- Well versed with payment messages such as SWIFT, CAMT, PACS, ISO testing
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Kakinada, IndiaSkills
- Java and Python
- TDD and BDD frameworks
- Maven and Git
- Continuous integration with Jenkins and GoCd
- SQL and ETL testing
- Selenium WebDriver and Appium
- REST API testing
- Power BI and Snowflake
- Gatling , K6 , LightHouse and Flashlight
- Kafka and Microservices testing
- Docker and Kubernates
- Grafana and Jaeger
- Mongo DB and elastic search
Certification
ISTQB Foundation Level - CTFL
Languages
- English
- Telugu
Personal Information
Title: Software Development Engineer In Test
Timeline
Senior QA Consultant
Thoughtworks
06.2024 - Current
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd.
02.2022 - 03.2024
Technology Analyst
Infosys Ltd.
09.2018 - 02.2022
Bachelor of Science -
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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