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Arunkarthick A

Arunkarthick A

SDET | SRE | TestOps | Tools Developer
Bangalore

Summary

  • Focused professional with 13 years of experience in SDET, SRE, TestOps & Tools development.
  • Skilled in Python programming and basic knowledge of Shell Scripting, Tcl, HTML and Javascript.
  • Very good knowledge of Kubernetes & Container concepts.
  • Very good experience in PyTest test automation framework & UI/Rest API Automation.
  • Developed Network Devices Simulators for client-server model products.
  • Good knowledge of API Development and handling Webhooks for internal applications.
  • Skilled in all types of testing – Load test, Stress test, Performance Test, Scale test, etc. Worked in Agile Environments – TDD, BDD approaches. Good knowledge of AWS & GCP Cloud services
  • Very good experience in building Monitoring & Logging infrastructure using TIG & EL(F)K stacks.
  • Know well about PagerDuty Oncall tool & Alert management with any monitoring tool

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Staff Software Test Engineer

Calix
Bangalore
7 2023 - Current
  • Responsible for Quality Assurance of Calix Cloud Product
  • Wrote Test Automation framework (base: pytest) to cover UI, REST API, Infra(Kafka, DBs Elasticsearch, Redis, Postgres, Presto, etc. Validations
  • Deployed Test Infra "Grafana, ELK stack, Influxdb, Allure Report Server, Jenkins Server" for Test Automation Runs on on-premise VMs
  • Developed Availability Framework which validates both UI & REST APIs failures using Playwright
  • Built User Friendly Grafana Dashboards for Calix Cloud Applications Observability. Senior VP asked Platform team to refer these grafana dashboards to follow similar layout(Quick Filters, Rows, Repeated Panels) for existing dashboards
  • Mentors 30 employees

Site Reliability Engineer

Rubrik
Bangalore
09.2021 - 07.2023
  • Responsible for Reliability of Rubrik's Product Polaris: Enterprise Data Security & backup system, Kubernetes & SaaS Deployment at GCP
  • Resolved Production incidents during Oncall weeks
  • Proposed cost saving ideas like HPA & implemented them
  • Update Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Login Availability numbers to Stakeholders
  • Played SRE Embed Engineer role for 4 components & responsible for Release quality & Product Readiness for these components

Software engineer III

Cisco Systems
04.2019 - 09.2021
  • Tested Cisco's product DNA Center: Enterprise Network Management System, Kubernetes Deployment, On-Premise Appliance
  • Wrote testplans for Compliance & Network Programmer components new features, Automated UI and REST APIs testcases
  • Developed a simulator called 'PySIM' which simulates network device's telnet server and SNMP server
  • Built Monitoring Architecture for Scale setup using TIG Stack
  • Performed Scale test and publishes the performance numbers
  • Wrote Regular expressions for one Feature Development
  • Won Connected Recognition Award for 5 times

Senior QA engineer

Infoblox
01.2019 - 03.2019
  • Tested Infoblox's product Active Trust Cloud: Enterprise Network Security System, Kubernetes & SaaS Deployment
  • Validated DNS Server level Security functionalities
  • Wrote testplans for new features, Automated UI and REST APIs testcases
  • Contributed framework development team to use advanced PyTest framework concepts

Software qa II engineer

Aruba Networks
01.2015 - 12.2017
  • Tested Aruba Network's product Aruba Central Enterprise Network Management System, SaaS, Kubernetes Deployment, AWS & On-Premise Infrastructure
  • Wrote testplans for new features, Automated UI and REST APIs testcases
  • Supported Simulator(which simulates WebSocket client) Development for scale testing
  • Won Cash prize for one Critical Scale issue

Lead engineer

HCL Technologies (Client: Brocade)
05.2011 - 01.2015
  • Tested Brocade's Network device families NetIron & FastIron
  • Validated BGP, PIMSM, PIMDM, IGMP, IPv6 protocols and some DOS attacks Preventions
  • Automated Network Devices and L2/L3 protocols testcases
  • Won Innovation Award from Client side

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Anna University
Chennai, India
09.2007 - 05.2011

Skills

Python

Certification

Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation

Interests

Client-Server Model, Network Management System, Kubernetes, Containers, Centralized Monitoring, Centralized Logging

Timeline

Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation
01-2023

Site Reliability Engineer

Rubrik
09.2021 - 07.2023

Software engineer III

Cisco Systems
04.2019 - 09.2021

Senior QA engineer

Infoblox
01.2019 - 03.2019

Software qa II engineer

Aruba Networks
01.2015 - 12.2017

Lead engineer

HCL Technologies (Client: Brocade)
05.2011 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science And Engineering

Anna University
09.2007 - 05.2011

Staff Software Test Engineer

Calix
7 2023 - Current

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