Kashinath N S

Performance, Scale and Resiliency (PSR) :

• Providing performance test solutions to 5 product lines.
• Built team from scratch 0 to 7 member size.
• Built and automated complete lab infra-structure from the scratch across on-prem and cloud.
• Performance monitoring solutions using open source tools like Grafana, Loki, ELK.
• Mentoring andcouching new members in team.

QA & Test Automation team:

• Built Test automation framework from scratch with Python and robot framework.
• Achieved 15 to 85% Automation coverage.
• Reduced Regression Cycles from 4 weeks to 2 weeks.
• Enabled Nightly Automation runs in CI-CD pipline.
• Responsible for all Automating Usecases and Testcases across all AppViewX Products
• Hiring and mentoring SDET engineers in team.
• Enabled Manual Testers with Automation knowledge and achieved In-Sprint Automation.

Simulation Development:

• Providing solutions to simulate various end points and devices across multi vendors to reduce the cost of procurement.
• Providing solutions to simulate multi-vendor simulators with interface to connect with API and SSH at scale of about 10k+ endpoints.

• Developed Containerized automation framework which will address all types of Automation requirements with useful reports and logs.
• Developed Automation code to test performance using JMeter tool and integrated it with Jenkins and Grafana for auto execution and reporting.
• Primary responsibility to deliver Functional and Performance test Automation for all 3 applications.
• Responsible for all QA deliveries (Automation, Functional tests and Performance tests)
• Leading automation and QA team of 6 members.
• Involved in platform development to deploy microservices containers
• CI-CD pipeline maintenance for auto deployments in DEV, TEST, STAGE and PRODUCTION using Jenkins.
• Preparing and presenting feature Demos during sprint reviews.
• Test bed preparation for QA, development, POC’s and Demos

• Involved in platform development to deploy micro services containers in Kubernetes environment.
• Deriving End-to-End Use cases and reviewing with Chief Architects and Product managers.
• Design/Architect test automation framework and develop the new test automation libraries; Tool - Robot Framework, python
• Defining End to End Use cases and test cases across suite of NOM products which involves, Config management, Event monitoring and advance services.
• Develop and maintain the suite level BAT and ART.
• Defining process for developing and margining and publishing results of BAT and ART test execution.
• Providing a solution or resolving various blockers in automating test case across various types like API, UI and CLI
• Reviewing Automation code and providing feedback on various aspects like coding style, optimizing the code and execution time, reusability and pass consistency.
• Attending design reviews for new features. Forecast issues with testability and suggest better user experience.
• Preparing and presenting System Demos of various features developed across scrum teams.
• Enabling team by preparing sustainable test beds for Test Automations on different areas like functional, nonfunctional and scale.
• Assisting Architects and customer success teams on various Demos and POC’s
• Managing IT infrastructure for the entire Team.

Creating simulations for various feature and scale requirements across scrums.

• Responsibility of delivering qualitative/well tested releases.
• Responsible for lab activities like protocols configurations in real network devices and Troubleshooting of the issues in the setup.

· Responsible for Setting up VMware technologies like, VMware virtual machine configuration, VMware HA, Vmotion.

• Test Planning and Strategy – Effort/Test execution rate estimation, Writing variety of Test Plans and Strategy for execution
• Variety of testing: Functional/Regression/Performance & Scale testing on customer deliverables
• Automating UI and CLI test cases in QTP and Expect frameworks.