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Elavaarrkuzhalee Mohan

Elavaarrkuzhalee Mohan

Senior Software Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

Accomplished and energetic Test Lead with a solid history of Fifteen plus years of experience in automation and testing. Motivated leader with strong organizational and prioritization abilities.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
2009
2009
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
05.2024 - Current

1. Automated Infra support for UDS mode of functional testcases execution

2. Added Infra support for testcases execution on WinPE image with customisation specific to the simplified image when compared to a full OS

3. Took complete ownership of features including Logging and Programmable Updates. Completed quality assurance of the feature including automation

4. Guided a team of 4 members in regression team to run the scripts delivered and debugging failures

5. Completed Azure AI900 Fundamentals Certification

6. Taking part in the complete QA lifecycle of S21F2 chip validation of features i own.

7. Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.

8. Maintained comprehensive documentation of development work, facilitating knowledge sharing among team members.

9. Regularly reviewed peers'' code contributions, offering constructive feedback to enhance overall product quality.

SENIOR STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

GIGAMON
07.2022 - 05.2024
  • Lead a team of 5 members in the complete Functional testing lifecycle and UI automation of the pages tested
  • Restructured existing framework and created libraries for components to enhance reusability across different pages validation in Cypress
  • Key host in conducting bug scrubs with TMOB customer calls
  • Part of Infra team and made enhancements and bug fixes in the existing framework
  • Took quality initiatives in UI testing across the teams in Gigamon
  • Primary ownership in PreCI environment. Received SPOT Award for stabilizing the system which involved lots of efforts across teams including Development and QA
  • Tech Lead in CICD Regression Pipeline team. Primary owner of Embedded QA domain.
  • Played the role of Scrum master for 5 teams in parallel along with my functional QA work for my own interest.
  • Created and Maintained Scrum Boards in addition to active participation in drafting FEP plans along with PO
  • Added infra code change to integrate JACOCO to existing framework. This helped to measure the coverage of existing regression automation

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER II

VIASAT
01.2020 - 06.2022
  • Taking part in maintaining, enhancing the Product Acceptance Test Pipeline in existing Robot framework
  • Added support for testcases execution in Safari to improve Code Coverage (Cross Browser Testing)
  • Explored the feasibility to replace Passenger Electronic Device used for testing with simulators using dockers
  • Developed a Data driven python framework to perform load test using Wicheck tool which can simulate load on WAPS
  • Developed the framework from scratch which can run upto 640 clients and simulate load on the main box and checks for WAPS/Product performance
  • Supported different types of traffic including youtube, ftp upload, ftp download, http page and custom traffic
  • Configured Jenkins to run the developed load test framework on weekly basis
  • Developed Kibana dashboards to monitor the Pipeline metrics

Software Engineer

Symantec
10.2012 - 12.2019
  • Complete ownership for automation testing (Python Framework) of the product - Norton Family Parental Control, Windows Agent
  • Improved automation coverage from 20 to 73% by writing more than 200 testcases and stabilized the runs across 10 OS (Windows 7,8, 8.1, RS4, RS5 - 32, 64 bit) and browser support for IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Edge
  • Investigate customer problems referred by technical support and Norton Family Community Forum
  • Develop from scratch and updated automated test scripts to ensure software quality of Client Library Migrator - Software to migrate TBs of data from NetApp datacenter to AWS environment
  • Automated 160 testcases in Iron Python Framework which reduced the manual effort tremendously on each release cycle of the Client Library Migrator software
  • Developed a Data generator tool in JAVA to generate GBs of data of varied size, folder depth, normal and Unicode characters to check for performance of the Migrator software
  • Enhanced JAVA automation test suite for Basic Acceptance and Extended testcases across 8 OS and three browsers (200 Testcases) for the product - Norton Online Backup Agent
  • Maintained dashboards using SQL Queries
  • Design test plans, scenarios, scripts and procedures
  • Perform manual testing of non-automatable testcases and active participant in all release tasks
  • Played the role of Team Scrum Master

Software Engineer

CISCO
01.2012 - 09.2012
  • Developed release automation tools
  • Defects trend tool - Tool to represent defects count and metrics in the form of graphs for the management to track
  • Performance Monitor tool - Tool to monitor the CPU cycles, Memory usage of test machines and display in graphs
  • Build and Release operations

Software Engineer

DELLEMC
08.2008 - 12.2011
  • Took part in the development of Datacenter Simulation Framework - a Data Center Storage Networking simulation tool, which allows the user to create a SAN Environment including Switches, Arrays and Hosts. Allows the user to create connectivity between the devices and perform testing.
  • Developed tools to automate the process of product installations/testing
  • Oracle critical patch update automation (Awarded for this tool development)
  • Install and upgrade tool - tool developed to automate the process of installation of builds and certify the build

Education

BE - ECE

College of Engineering

Skills

QUALITY ASSURANCE

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Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
05.2024 - Current

SENIOR STAFF SOFTWARE ENGINEER

GIGAMON
07.2022 - 05.2024

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER II

VIASAT
01.2020 - 06.2022

Software Engineer

Symantec
10.2012 - 12.2019

Software Engineer

CISCO
01.2012 - 09.2012

Software Engineer

DELLEMC
08.2008 - 12.2011

BE - ECE

College of Engineering
Elavaarrkuzhalee MohanSenior Software Engineer