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Pradeep Arunachalam

Principal QA Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

I am having 8+ years experience in automation and manual testing. Proven expertise in Selenium C# and API testing, complemented by strong leadership in Scrum practices. Recognized for enhancing quality control processes and delivering impactful reporting solutions. Committed to excellence and continuous improvement.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal QA Engineer

First American India - US Based Projects
06.2018 - 11.2023

Technologies Used:

  • Selenium C# with NUnit & Playwright(TDD)
  • Browserstack
  • API Testing
  • JMeter,SOAPUI

Domain: Real Estate & Insurance.

Location: Bangalore


I was working with FAI for almost 5.5 Years. Joined as a senior test engineer. In the team of 30 members my main role was taking care of Applications called myFirstAm, IgniteRE- Properties via both Automation & Manual testing. Got promoted as PQA for the same in a short time and taking care of Scrum meeting, Daily standup's, Iteration Planning and reporting to Onsite team about work status daily. I was the point of contact from the quality control side.

Senior Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies - US & UK Based Projects
07.2012 - 04.2018

Technologies Used:

  • Selenium C# with NUnit
  • SQL
  • Splunk
  • Extend Report

Domain: Health Care & Services, Insurance, Banking, Automotive.

Location: Bangalore,Chennai & Coimbatore.

Senior QA Engineer
GEICO Insurance - Web based application where people apply for
insurance, team of 15 members was taking care of quality control and i was part of automation team using Visual studio C# with selenium. Reporting daily status about the automation coverage and submitting reports to the management. I have made a HTML based custom report which was appreciated by the clients.

Junior QA
Cardinal Health Care - Manual Application Tester & Production support engineer. A supply chain based application called "CSW" which was used by Sales representatives and i was the backend support for the team and taking care of application & Server health status.

Harman International - Manual Infotainment Tester worked on BMW infotainment system.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology
Pilani, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Automation(C#) & Manual Testing

Cross platform testing with BrowserStack

API Testing - Jmeter SOAPUI

Knowledge on Splunk & SQL Basics

Test case design,devlopment & defect tracking

Primary support for weekend deployments

Jenkins CI

Security Testing using OWASP guidelines & Fixing VeraCode Scans

Additional Information

Apart from above mentioned technologies, having knowledge on Security testing, basic SpecFlow implementation, ServiceNow for creating change request, getting approval and following up with the releases.

Timeline

Principal QA Engineer

First American India - US Based Projects
06.2018 - 11.2023

Senior Test Engineer

Wipro Technologies - US & UK Based Projects
07.2012 - 04.2018

Master of Science - Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology
04.2001 -
Pradeep ArunachalamPrincipal QA Engineer