Client-Server Model, Network Management System, Kubernetes, Containers, Centralized Monitoring, Centralized Logging
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
Containers
Kubernetes
EFK
Grafana
AWS, GCP
UI Automation – Selenium/Playwright
REST API Development/Automation
Pytest
TCP/IP
Jenkins
Kafka, RabbitMQ
Postgres
Influxdb,Prometheus
Thirrdparty API Automation - Google APIs, Slack APIs
HTML/CSS/Javascript
Pagerduty
DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SSH, Netconf
Sockets & Network LoadBalancers
Certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator, The Linux Foundation
Interests
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