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Jeyendran Kathirvel

Chennai
Jeyendran Kathirvel

Summary

As an accomplished Software QA Manager (And Automation Lead, Project Management) with over 15+ years of extensive experience, have successfully overseen all aspects of the development process within one of the largest online payment processing companies, PayPal. Expertise covers a diverse range of technologies and tools, including Cypress, Selenium Automation, Katalon Studio, Appium, Mobile QE and Automation, NemoJS, AWS Cloud Practitioner, WordPress Web Hosting, NodeJS, Rally, Jira, Confluence, Kibana, Hadoop, Slack, PR checks, and Bots.

An AI Automation Explorer is a professional adept at leveraging artificial intelligence technologies to streamline and optimize processes across projects. Expertise lies in designing and implementing AI-driven solutions that enhance productivity, reduce errors, and drive innovation. As stewards of technological advancement, continuously explore emerging AI trends and technologies, applying them creatively to solve real-world challenges and propel organizations towards a future of intelligent automation.

Commitment to innovation and strategic leadership has consistently delivered robust solutions and optimized processes, contributing to the success of high-profile projects.

Bring a wealth of expertise in both manual and automated testing, with a focus on ensuring the highest standards of quality and reliability in software development. With a track record of delivering innovative solutions, implementing best practices, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, Poised to contribute the expertise to drive excellence in software development and lead teams toward achieving their highest potential.

Overview

15
years of professional experience

Work History

Atos Syntel

Senior Consultant - GCM L6 - @Atos Syntel - PayPal
03.2022 - 03.2024

Job overview

  • Lead team of 18 QA engineers in designing, implementing, and executing comprehensive test plans and test cases for software products and also played Individual contributor role to provide automation solutions
  • Develop and implement QA processes and methodologies to ensure high product quality and compliance with industry standards.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams including development, product management, and customer support to identify and prioritize testing requirements.
  • Conduct regular code reviews and collaborate with development teams to address quality issues and improve software design and architecture.
  • Manage automation testing framework and tools to increase efficiency and effectiveness of testing efforts.
  • Analyze test results and provide actionable feedback to stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in product quality.
  • Ensure adherence to project timelines and budget constraints while maintaining high standards of quality.
  • Mentor and coach QA team members to foster culture of learning and professional growth.
  • Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies to minimize disruptions and ensure project success.
  • Facilitate communication and collaboration among cross-functional teams, including developers, QA engineers, designers, and product managers.
  • Conduct regular project status meetings and provide updates to stakeholders on project progress, milestones, and key metrics.
  • 15 years of experience in quality engineering with 12 years in PayPal on Checkout, Payments, Settlement batches, Compliance, Dispute management systems, PEGA and Incentive programs, PayPal reporting, and Partner support for Shopify, Facebook, Gov brands ..
  • Prioritized projects and project tasks depending on key milestones and deadline dates.
  • Analyzed problematic areas to provide recommendations and solutions.
  • Developed custom solutions based on client's strict requirements.
  • Evaluated clients' needs and created plan of action to provide solutions.
  • Exceeded customer requirements with accurate and deliverable solutions.
  • Assessed needs for projects and made proposals to senior executives.
  • Streamlined processes to cut downtime and optimize employee productivity.
  • Troubleshoot issues by understanding issues, diagnosing root causes, and coming up with effective solutions.
  • Organized and analyzed primary and secondary research to understand industry, market, and company trends.
  • Educated staff on organizational mission and goals to help employees achieve success.
  • BOT related reports to client to manage e2e execution
  • Part of tech team as well to automate e2e scenarios for payment side in PayPal.
  • Expertise in multiple quality skills that input to assess e2e projects
  • Expertise player on e2e technology perspective for any projects

Aditi Consulting - PayPal Inc

Test QE Lead
09.2020 - 02.2022

Job overview

  • QE Lead for Paypal Risk-Compliance team, As part of SCM (Simplified Case Management System), Leading team for QE aspects and Lead for product deliverables
  • 12 + years(s) of experience in Quality Engineering with 7.5 years in PayPal on Checkout, Payments, Settlement Batches, Compliance, Dispute Management, PEGA, and Incentive domains
  • Lead and contribute to Automation team to automate compliance features in SeLion framework NemoJS, presently started working on Automation migration to new Cypress framework
  • Expertise in PayPal case management system, Inventory, Case work lifecycle, Search patterns etc
  • Key player to set up PR check for around 6 compliance services and CI/CD pipelines
  • Extensive experience in Functional/System testing, Integration testing, Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • Expertise in REST and SOAP API Designs
  • Part of code review council to estimate and draft testing plan
  • Contribute to UT for Compliance API components
  • Analysis code coverage for UT/FT and provided detailed plan to team to increase coverage aptly
  • Expertise in Splunk and SignalFx and assisting team to ramp-up on product monitoring tools/reports
  • Best writter for QE process in team https://engineering.paypalcorp.com/confluence/display/NOR KOM/QE .

PayPal India

Technical Lead - T24
10.2011 - 04.2020

Job overview

  • PayPal is an electronic commerce (e-commerce) company that facilitates payments between parties through online funds transfers
  • Automation Expertise on SeLion and Nemo JS
  • Expert on Selenium web driver
  • Contributed to the Framework development (SeLion)and implementation for test automation using below tools Selenium+Java+TestNG Framework
  • Expert on framework development & end-user level.Key Contributor in PayPal in-house Automation tools, STF, ePal, Bluefin (Selenium customized)
  • Implemented Automatic Static Code Review Tool (PMD)
  • Experience in UI Web testing, Accessibility testing, Backward Compatibility, Security testing, Mobile device (iOS/ Android/Window phone) testing, Failover Testing, Negative Testing
  • Expertise in Mobile Testing, iOS, and Android emulators
  • Automation Experience on Mobile Devices using Appium or Emulators
  • Exposure to the Load & Performance Testing for assessing the performance
  • Expertise on JMeter
  • Took responsibility and played various critical roles as Push Lead, Project Lead, Quality Engineer, and Developer
  • Had played key roles as PayPal Release Engineering Lead, Project Lead, Scrum Master, and Product Owner
  • Individual Contributor(QE Architect) to design and deliver critical Project
  • Extensive experience in Functional/System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, and User Acceptance testing (UAT)
  • Expertise in REST and SOAP API Designs
  • Experience in multiple software project methodologies like Agile and Waterfall
  • Have experience in agile process and worked as scrum master and delivered user stories successfully by driving scrum team
  • Had top role played in PP projects models like Waterfall Model, V Model, Agile Kanban
  • Played Scrum Master Role and improved IBD, SDR, Velocity for Successful deliverables.

Education

Sri Krishna College of Engineering And Technology, Bharathiar University
Coimbatore, TamilNadu

B.Tech from Information Technology
05.2005

University Overview

Skills

Automation tools:

  • AI Automations tools (testim and applitools)
  • E2E Cypress Automation
  • Selenium TestNG, Cucumber
  • Mobile Automation (Browserstack And Appium)
  • JS Automation (Cypress E2E, CasperJS And NemoJS)
  • IBM Security MaaS360
  • Katalon Studio
  • JMeter

Project Management tools:

  • Jira (Epic and User storyboards, Defect management, Reports)
  • AI Microsoft Copilot
  • AI Amazon CodeWhisperer
  • Jmeter

Test Management tools:

  • TestRail (Test case Management, Test runs and Milestones, Mapping with Automation scripts)
  • Postman API
  • SOAPI UI
  • Jenkins , Maven and GIT (CI and CD pipelines)
  • Confluence, Slack and Sharepoint
  • Katalon TestOps

Programming skills:

  • Java
  • Python
  • Javascript
  • NodeJS
  • GIT
  • SQL
  • Kotlin

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • Bravo Award for OneTeam Behavior, PayPal - Senior Technical Architect, 03/2018
  • Bravo Award for Team Collaboration and Can Do attitude, PayPal - Leadership product development, 08/2017, Thank You Jey for your strong leadership and drive for results in completing the Closed Account initiative for GOPS. Your collaboration and "can do" attitude was greatly appreciated. -Kandi
  • Spot On Award, PayPal - Dispute Management System, 04/2019
  • Shining Star, PayPal - Payouts Engineering - Bangalore, 02/2017
  • Build in the team efficiency - Automated failure analysis report generation which groups the failures against the testcase reducing the manual effort of failure analysis by 50%. And, automation of JIRA Ticket creation for all the failures which helped the management to get a better visibility of the test reports.
  • Proposed the Idea on NLP/Python Automation to convert a manual test case written in a natural language to a Java automation script.
  • Improves the test/team efficiency by bring up the Automatic Static code review tool. Integrated the same with CI/CD job(CI Job)Bring in the One team behavior by implementing the Amigos meeting, which creates Impact in Reduction of BIR count.

Timeline

Senior Consultant - GCM L6 - @Atos Syntel - PayPal
Atos Syntel
03.2022 - 03.2024
Test QE Lead
Aditi Consulting - PayPal Inc
09.2020 - 02.2022
Technical Lead - T24
PayPal India
10.2011 - 04.2020
Sri Krishna College of Engineering And Technology, Bharathiar University
B.Tech from Information Technology

Organizations

Organizations
  • Atos Syntel - Senior Consultant 04/2022 - present
  • Aditi Consulting - PayPal Inc, Tech QE Lead, 09/2020 - 02/2022
  • PayPal Inc, Technical Lead - T24, 10/2011 - 01/2021
  • Ness Technologies (Client : PayPal), Senior Software Engineer - 3, 01/2008 - 10/2011

Conferences Courses

Conferences Courses
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate, Conference/Issuer of the certificate, 04/2005

Hobbies And Interests

Hobbies And Interests
  • Volunteer Work/Community Involvement
  • Blogging
  • Traveling
  • Music
  • Cooking
  • Football
  • Artificial Intelligence

Organizations

Organizations
  • Atos Syntel - Senior Consultant 04/2022 - present
  • Aditi Consulting - PayPal Inc, Tech QE Lead, 09/2020 - 02/2022
  • PayPal Inc, Technical Lead - T24, 10/2011 - 01/2021
  • Ness Technologies (Client : PayPal), Senior Software Engineer - 3, 01/2008 - 10/2011

Conferences Courses

Conferences Courses
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate, Conference/Issuer of the certificate, 04/2005

Hobbies And Interests

Hobbies And Interests
  • Volunteer Work/Community Involvement
  • Blogging
  • Traveling
  • Music
  • Cooking
  • Football
  • Artificial Intelligence

Domain Skills

Domain Skills
  • Payments E2E processing's
  • Credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, autopay, cash, paper cheques, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), Netbanking, mobile payments, UPI & QR codes, POS terminals, and digital wallets.
  • ACH and eCheck payments.
  • Merchant and consumer incentives
  • PayPal payments integrations for major partners Facebook, Shopify, US Gov brands, EFTPOS, Chase redundancy.
  • Partner and Merchant settlements
  • ACH Clearances and Returns
  • E2E Dispute management system
  • Partner and merchant reports
  • Hyperwallet Integrations

Organizations

Organizations
  • Atos Syntel - Senior Consultant 04/2022 - present
  • Aditi Consulting - PayPal Inc, Tech QE Lead, 09/2020 - 02/2022
  • PayPal Inc, Technical Lead - T24, 10/2011 - 01/2021
  • Ness Technologies (Client : PayPal), Senior Software Engineer - 3, 01/2008 - 10/2011

Conferences Courses

Conferences Courses
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate, Conference/Issuer of the certificate, 04/2005

Hobbies And Interests

Hobbies And Interests
  • Volunteer Work/Community Involvement
  • Blogging, Traveling, Music
  • Artificial Intelligence Explorer

Domain Skills

Domain Skills
  • Payments E2E processing's
  • Credit cards, debit cards, prepaid cards, autopay, cash, paper cheques, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), Netbanking, mobile payments, UPI & QR codes, POS terminals, and digital wallets.
  • ACH and eCheck payments.
  • Merchant and consumer incentives
  • PayPal payments integrations for major partners Facebook, Shopify, US Gov brands, EFTPOS, Chase redundancy.
  • Partner and Merchant settlements
  • ACH Clearances and Returns
  • E2E Dispute management system
  • Partner and merchant reports
  • Hyperwallet Integrations

Project Management Skills

Project Management Skills
  • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and project management methodologies
  • Proficient in project planning, scheduling, and resource management
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to effectively manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities
  • Experience with Agile and Scrum methodologies
  • Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira, Trello, and Microsoft Project

Organizations

Organizations
  • Atos Syntel - Senior Consultant 04/2022 - present
  • Aditi Consulting - PayPal Inc, Tech QE Lead, 09/2020 - 02/2022
  • PayPal Inc, Technical Lead - T24, 10/2011 - 01/2021
  • Ness Technologies (Client : PayPal), Senior Software Engineer - 3, 01/2008 - 10/2011

Conferences Courses

Conferences Courses
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate, Conference/Issuer of the certificate, 04/2005

Hobbies And Interests

Hobbies And Interests
  • Volunteer Work/Community Involvement
  • Blogging, Traveling, Music
  • Artificial Intelligence Explorer
Jeyendran Kathirvel