Arvind Patel
Pune
Summary
A seasoned QA automation practitioner having 12+ year of experience, I excel in leading quality engineering efforts and developing cutting-edge test automation strategies/framework. Recognized for mentoring a team of 8 and enhancing test efficiency by 10x through automation, my passion for quality and proactive approach in QA automation strategy/planning have significantly improved customer experience. Skilled in building and maintaining Scalable and result oriented functional and non function test automation, my career is marked by a prestigious Quality Connoisseur award from Autodesk.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Staff Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
11.2022 - Current
- Leading E2E quality engineering effort for RBI
- Spearheaded the design and implementation of a scalable and efficient test automation framework, resulting in a 85% reduction in testing time.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define testing strategies, ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional and non-functional requirements.
- Created test automation POCs with multiple tool and tech and provided details design table
- Designed automation framework from scratch with Python, Robot Framework, Sikuli, Selenium, OpenCV and GCP for complex product use cases
- Build cloud infrastructure to run test on on demand cloud machines and integrated with development CI
- Developed performance test automation framework with K6-browser for complex load and scale scenario.
- Integrated automated testing into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, enhancing the overall release process.
- Mentoring and leading team of 8 manual/automation test engineers
- Conducted regular training sessions for the QA team on test automation best practices, leading to a 30% increase in productivity
- Working closely with product teams for release readiness and QA handoff
- Maintaining Runbook and other test automation self help guide documents
Sr Software Engineer
Autodesk
01.2016 - 06.2022
- Lead E2E QA process for Observability and Data exchange project
- Designed and develop test automation framework for Rest API, Observability pipeline and Web apps
- Developed performance and security test automation
- Monitored app performance based on SLO/SLI and create a weekly report
- Created overall service health report and discuss it with stakeholders
- Mentoring team member and take part of community meetings SDETs)
- Participate cross product team meeting and represented status
- Participate in on call product support and contributed in RCA
- Received Autodesk Quality Connoisseur, Awarded by Autodesk CTO
Sr. QA Engineer
Ness Digital Engineering
01.2013 - 06.2015
- Contributed in use case and test case development for web app
- E2E feature testing for all environment
- Developed test automation scrips for feature functionalities
- Contributed in central qa automation test framework and developed scripts for regression scenarios
- Presented mobile automation POCs for android app
- Implemented mobile automation framework for native Android app
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology - Information Technology
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Satna, India2010
Skills
- Test automation framework development
- Test automation strategy/planning
- Test team management
- Test reporting and Observability
- Selenium, Appium, Runscope, Rest Assured, Playwright
- Robot framework, JUnit, Cucumber, TestNG
- Sikuli, OpenCV
- Jmeter, K6, Locust, Blazemeter
- Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, splunk
- MongoDB
- Java, Python, Java Script, Shell scripting
- Rest-Assured, karate DSL, Runscope
- Performance engineering
- Chaos engineering
- QA process management agile
- Browser stack
- jenkins, gitlab, CI/CD
- Terraform, AWS, GCP, Docker
- Linux, Unix
- SLO/SLI, Availability, Serviceability
- Customer council, On call support
Accomplishments
- Increased engineering productivity by 40%
- Implemented test automation with feature development CI for quick and instant feedback of quality
- Helped to improve application performance and reliability by 60
- Running performance engineering for all possible performance use cases and sharing live statistics
Passions
- Cricket
- Music
Certification
- Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability
- Architecting with AWS
Timeline
Sr. Staff Engineer
Palo Alto Networks
11.2022 - Current
Sr Software Engineer
Autodesk
01.2016 - 06.2022
Sr. QA Engineer
Ness Digital Engineering
01.2013 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology - Information Technology
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
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