Harish Kumar
Sr Engineering Manager SDET/DevOps
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven software test engineering leader with a proven track record of transforming challenges into achievements across various domains. Specializes in test automation, SaaS, cloud convergence, cloud-native apps, DevOps, customer success, SRE, project management, agile methodologies, and operational excellence. Adept at driving teams towards successful outcomes through strategic planning, efficient execution, and effective collaboration. Passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions that exceed customer expectations and drive business growth.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Freelancer- QA & Cloud Deployment
Confidential Client
05.2024 - Current
- Test design and applying best practices for data pipeline validation.
- Guiding the test team on REST Assured Cucumber framework to add tests for new features.
- Improving test framework and preparing documentation.
- Managing EBF release trains.
- Developed customized solutions to address unique needs on deployments
- Agile coaching to lead members.
Sr. Engineering Manager
Informatica
5 2020 - 12.2023
- Lead 25+ engineers and 2 manager team and accomplished more than 10 release cycles with project planning, design, EBF release, guiding SDET team with Agile SaFe principles
- Lead MDM C360, Operational Insights cloud apps automation with Tosca and implemented UI & API test suites of around 5000 tests
- Individually designed Tosca Standard library code base for different product teams
- Achieved 20% effort saving by adding Unit Tests, API tests to the build promo in Continuous Integration
- Implemented Vulnerability CI points and reduced 25~30% bugs in CI Stage & improved CD processes
- Spearhead 15+ size cross geo team of Dev & QA teams for Infra deployments, Observability, EBF roll outs
- Achieved operational costs by 40% in one region by optimizing Infrastructure through sizing tests
- Customized Jira, drove adoption of Agile across the product team.
Engineering Manager in Test
Informatica
04.2016 - 04.2020
- Spearhead Data Validation Cloud native convergence initiatives, micro services evaluation, architecture design, costing, quality process, security , cloud testing strategies, SOC2, GDPR
- Implemented best practices in SDLC, automation utilities, CI/CD for agile deliverables across different test teams and build CoE
- Achieved faster automation for API & UI integrated tests with playwright
- Guided other test teams to adopt for MDM C360
- Successfully Lead QA, Ops, CloudOps, for more than 8 release cycles on AWS, Azure platforms
- Collaborated with cross geo engineering teams to prioritize product features and achieved 15% more delivery efficiency.
- Identified areas of improvement in existing systems, providing recommendations that resulted in significant cost savings over time.
Principal Engineer in Test
Informatica
05.2012 - 04.2016
- Successfully transitioned 3000+tests from an outdated Visual Basic framework to Selenium within a tight three-month timeline
- Optimized a Test Automation Suite from over 36 hours to less than 8 hours by Parallel testing using Browser Stack
- Lead test framework 10+ member team for Selenium, REST, performance testing, vulnerability, accessibility practices
- Developed a quality matrix to track and manage test cases, resulting in improved test coverage by 80% and accuracy.
SDET/Sr. SDET
Informatica
05.2006 - 04.2012
- Design and development of automation framework for INFA ADMIN 8.x, 9.0 Product Installer Management
- Orchestrated the Build automation suite from scratch for IDE (.NET) Metadata Manager 8.5 (Web) using Selenium
- Lead Web Application Test framework design in Silk Test Open Agent for INFA Administrator Console 9.0/9.0.1
- Test automation migration project from Visual Test to Silk Test for Informatica ETL Tool Power Center
- Providing Solutions & Implementation feedback to various test automation team
- Designed i18N automation framework & i18N testing guidelines within Informatica
- Designing and executing simple performance test scripts for INFA Metadata Manager Project through Silk Performer.
Education
MBA - Management Information Systems
Annamalai University
Chidambaram 06.2006 - 08.2008
B.E. In Information Technology - Information Technology
Manonmaniam Sundranar University
Tirunelveli 07.1999 - 05.2002
Diploma in Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Dept of Technical Education Chennai
Chennai 08.1996 - 08.1999
Skills
10 yrs hands-on experience in Test Framework design to release
QA
KPI metrics
Data Governance
End To End Testing
Training Teams on automation, DevOps
SDLC
Agile methodologies
TDD
Cloud Infra Provisioning
SRE Management
critical thinking
Interpersonal and Talent Management
Strong in Communication skills
Coaching
Mentoring
Strategic and problem-solving skills
Continuous Improvement Culture
Believe in Approachability and Adoptability
Selenium
Tosca ,Playwright
Cucumber ,BDD
TestNG
Jenkins
CI/CD
Git
Core Java
RESTAssured
Postman
Bruno
Jmeter
Locust
AWS
Azure DevOps
GCP
Cloud Test practices
Docker Kubernetes
Terraform
Prometheus
Grafana
React
Code Review Tools
Security testing
SecureStat
VeraCode
Informatica ETL Test practices
Data Quality
Jira
Zephyr
Scrum metrics
Certification
Informatica Administrator 8.x,9.x
Timeline
Freelancer- QA & Cloud Deployment
Confidential Client
05.2024 - Current
Engineering Manager in Test
Informatica
04.2016 - 04.2020
Principal Engineer in Test
Informatica
05.2012 - 04.2016
MBA - Management Information Systems
Annamalai University
06.2006 - 08.2008
SDET/Sr. SDET
Informatica
05.2006 - 04.2012
B.E. In Information Technology - Information Technology
Manonmaniam Sundranar University
07.1999 - 05.2002
Diploma in Engineering - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
Dept of Technical Education Chennai
08.1996 - 08.1999
Sr. Engineering Manager
Informatica
5 2020 - 12.2023
Informatica Administrator 8.x,9.x
Informatica Data Quality 9.x
CSTP Level 1
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