Sathishkumar Hari
Lead Sdet
Chennai
Summary
Lead SDET with 8+ years of experience in SaaS quality engineering, test strategy, and automation at scale. Strong track record of owning release quality for customer-facing applications and APIs through automation frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, and performance testing. Hands-on in building internal quality tools and AI-enabled workflows to accelerate debugging, test generation, and triage. Known for cross-functional leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving measurable improvements in quality and delivery speed.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Lead SDET
Freshworks
Chennai
10.2018 - Current
- Own end-to-end quality strategy for major SaaS features and APIs, ensuring stable and high-confidence releases.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to define test plans, risk coverage, and release criteria.
- Lead test case and automation PR reviews; mentor engineers on test architecture, quality standards, and best practices.
- Improved UI automation framework efficiency and reliability, reducing regression execution overhead.
- Built and scaled Jenkins-based CI pipelines for continuous validation and release quality gates.
- Built a performance testing framework from scratch using Locust (Python) for early bottleneck detection.
- Implemented Docker and AWS-based automation workflows to standardize and speed up execution environments.
- Drive AI-assisted QE practices for faster failure analysis, debugging, and automation productivity.
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant
Chennai
06.2016 - 10.2018
- Delivered manual and automation testing for e-commerce applications across functional and regression cycles.
- Built Java and TestNG automation suites to reduce manual regression effort.
- Enhanced API test automation with JUnit and Rest Assured to improve service-level quality checks.
- Managed requirements and test artifacts using HP ALM and Jira.
Education
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore03.2016
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Vellore Institute of Technology
Vellore 04.2001 -
Skills
Quality Strategy
Test Leadership
Automation Framework Design
UI/API/Integration Testing
Performance Testing
CI/CD Quality Gates
Defect Triage and RCA
Flaky Test Management
Timeline
Lead SDET
Freshworks
10.2018 - Current
Programmer Analyst
Cognizant
06.2016 - 10.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Vellore Institute of Technology
04.2001 -
Master of Computer Applications (MCA) -
Vellore Institute of Technology
Projects And Internal Tools
- RCA Weightage Analysis System, Ruby, Jenkins, Google Sheets, Slack, S3, Built and extended a quality scoring and defect categorization system used for release go/no-go decisions and trend analysis.
- Test Consistency and Stability Tracker, Built workflows to identify flaky and unstable test patterns and improve triage turnaround.
- CI/CD Quality Utilities, Ruby, Groovy, Developed pipeline scripts for release health checks, RCA reporting, and automated quality metrics.
- Performance Test Framework, Locust, Designed and implemented reusable load test framework for scalability validation.
- Framework Optimization, Selenium, Playwright, Improved maintainability, execution speed, and reliability of UI and API automation suites.
- AI-Assisted QE Workflows, Applied agentic AI tooling for test generation, issue analysis, and automation acceleration.
Publications
- Optimal search mechanism using backtracking in cloud environment, IJARCS
- Third-party auditing for secure cloud storage through RSA digital signature, IJARCS
- Effective healthcare management framework in cloud computing environment, IJCCIE