Ganesh Sugavanam

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Implemented end-to-end automation for Frontend, API, reducing time to check application sanity by 80%.
• Assisted in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for accelerated delivery while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Supported continuous improvement initiatives, participating in code reviews and providing constructive feedback to developers.
• Streamlined software deployment processes, significantly reducing release times and improving client satisfaction.
• Coordinated with product management to align software development efforts with market demands, ensuring product relevance and user satisfaction.
• Drove initiatives to adopt new technologies, keeping company at forefront of software engineering trends.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Part of BFF (Backend for Frontend) migration team targeted to achieve independent development team evolution.
• Carefully documented technical workflows and knowledge in private wiki to facilitate onboarding of newly hired employees.
• Evaluated function, performance and design compliance of every product against design standards and customer needs.
• Implemented end-to-end automation for 4 brands, reducing test costs by 30%.
• Contributed in developing a common test framework in Specflow which resulted in higher adaption within different teams.
• Led 2 In-sprint automation process improvement projects to help operations meet and exceed quality standards and reduce costs.
• Participated in test automation code review meetings, providing input on coding efforts.
• Built pipelines in Atlassian Bamboo to execute automated tests periodically

Accomplishments:

• Reduced overall testing hours 70% by writing and optimizing automation test scripts (using parallel threads, data tables) in Specflow.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Integrated test automation within all layers of application stacks to improve product quality.
• Developed E2E test packs using Cypress, Jest for modern Javascript applications.
• Developed unit tests using xUnit, Moq frameworks which helped in early bug detection.
• Part of production deployments to monitor application traffic using azure AI.
• Debugged code and located root causes of problems by reviewing configuration files and logs.
• Participated in developing user interfaces with ES6, HTML5, CSS3 and Angular 8.

Business Impacts:

• 30% Faster release to Production - Enabled feature branch testing to independently release developed stories to production.
• 60% run time reduction - Developed a mock layer for third party dependencies using Azure functions with build pipelines and publish to Azure cloud.