Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Trivia And Other Interests
Technical Certifications
Certification
Other Interests
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SusindraKrishnaa Natarajan

SusindraKrishnaa Natarajan

Coimbatore

Summary

  • Accomplished Software QA Professional with 18 years of experience in the industry, including 5+ years in Software Development.
  • Currently Senior SDET at S&P Global Inc., (Commodity Insights) based in Hyderabad, working as a virtual resource, operating from Coimbatore.
  • Experienced working with top IT companies like Infosys, CSS Corp, Allianz Cornhill Insurance, Verizon Data Services, and Cognizant Technology Solutions for major clients such as Finacle, Aderant Corporation, Allianz, Verizon Wireless, and Dun & Bradstreet.
  • Possess on-site work experience in Norway and the United States, engaging directly with stakeholders.
  • Known for quick and aggressive learning of new technologies and continuous improvement.
  • Proactive and effective contributor dedicated to enhancing team and organizational value.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

S&P Global
11.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for creation of Test Plans, Test Cases and automated test scripts in Playwright, Selenium, Python with frameworks such as pytest.


  • Extensive data validations involving DataBricks and PySpark queries.


  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.


  • Responsible for automation and manual QA validation of datasets in Dev, QA and Prod environments to ensure quality software releases.


  • Involved in the development of Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) using various Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as PowerBI, Superset and Spotfire, connecting to data sources such as Kinetica, Databricks, Clickhouse and Druid

Quality Engineering Specialist

LTI Mindtree
10.2021 - 11.2023

Worked in the Data Science Work Bench (DSWB) project as a QA Specialist Engineer. This was a data normalization and transformation project where in the raw data in JSON format is converted to optimized data in delta format through the Python and PySpark code.


We followed the Agile methodology and I participated in all the Agile ceremonies, also giving presentations and demos during iteration review calls.


Have also mentored the Junior Engineers and have played the role of an interviewer in many recruitment drives.

Team Lead – Quality Assurance

K G Information Services Private Limited (KGiSL)
06.2020 - 11.2021
  • Proactive participation in the daily Scrum and Triage calls and respond to queries and concerns on behalf of the QA team
  • Performing review of testcases for all the points released in the respective Sprints, for both RMS and MoH projects
  • Preparation of Release Reports for both RMS and MoH, on the event of releasing the deliverables
  • Preparation of effort estimations for the Sprint points during Sprint Planning for both RMS and MoH
  • Played the role of a communicator and coordinator between the QA and other functional teams such as Dev and Delivery
  • Active participation in developing automated scripts for MyCare application using Selenium Java

Lead Engineer - Quality Assurance (Automation)

Namecheap Services Private Limited
10.2015 - 07.2019
  • Company Overview: (HQ : Los Angeles, United States)
  • Played the role of a Scrum Master while leading a team of three Software Test Engineers.
  • Played the role of a Senior Automation and Manual Tester
  • Contributed by way of development of automated test cases using Selenium WebDriver C# and by providing effective internal training on Agile/Scrum to the team members, as and when required.
  • Responsible for developing working prototypes as Proof of Concepts for Cross Browser Testing, Test Data Preparation and Report Generation.
  • Acted as a single Point of Contact for Automation QA to Stakeholders in Ukraine
  • (HQ : Los Angeles, United States)

Quality Assurance Lead / Senior Software Test Engineer

Mettler-Toledo Turing Software
12.2012 - 10.2015
  • Company Overview: (A division of Mettler-Toledo, Switzerland)
  • My responsibilities included but not limited to agile development of automation test cases and ensuring quality through product testing, Estimation and Creation of new bugs for the Sprint, Product Review, Version Review.
  • (A division of Mettler-Toledo, Switzerland)

Technology Lead

Infosys Technologies
01.2011 - 07.2012
  • My responsibilities included the development and testing of the Personal Financial Management (PFM) – Dematerialization module and the Service Exposure (SE) modules respectively.
  • In addition to this I was responsible for the mentoring and evaluation of 5 trainee engineers.

Senior Systems Analyst

Cybernet Slash Support (CSS)
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • My responsibilities included serving the Change Requests (CRs) including performing impact analysis, identifying and analyzing the defects and leakages.

Senior Software Engineer

Allianz Cornhill Information Services
07.2007 - 02.2008
  • Company Overview: (A subsidiary of Allianz Cornhill Insurance, United Kingdom)
  • As a Senior Software Engineer, I was involved in the analysis, design and coding phases of the 1st iteration of Snakebyte. This included the development of use-cases across layers such as Presentation, Business Delegate, Service Index, Business and Persistence using JSF, JavaBeans, EJB (Stateless), and JDBC.
  • (A subsidiary of Allianz Cornhill Insurance, United Kingdom)

Senior Software Engineer

Technosoft Global Services
02.2007 - 06.2007
  • My responsibilities included development of the use cases for the Administrate Groups section in the Message Center module and for the Event Transactions section in the Event Management module.

Analyst

Verizon Data Services India
05.2006 - 02.2007
  • Company Overview: (A subsidiary of Verizon Inc., United States)
  • I was instrumental in resolving the production Incident Reports (IRs) of the Billing and Provisioning modules of the BOSI layer.
  • I was a contributor in the design and developmental phases of the portal and a resource person for the ordering module of the SwLD product.
  • (A subsidiary of Verizon Inc., United States)

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2004 - 05.2006
  • As a Programmer Analyst, I was instrumental in developing the coded templates using JSPs and Vignette APIs in Vignette MCM R6 development environment.
  • Also played a role in the preparation of test plans and test cases and performing Unit Testing and Integration Testing.

Education

Master of Business Administration - Operations Management

PSG Institute of Management
Coimbatore
04-2016

Master of Science - Software Engineering

PSG College of Technology
Coimbatore, India
04-2002

Skills

  • Team leadership
  • Automated testing
  • Version control systems
  • Cloud computing
  • Testing and debugging
  • Agile
  • SQL
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Python
  • Selenium
  • Playwright (Synchronized Context)

Accomplishments

  • Recipient of the Best Outgoing Student award in MBA with an overall CGPA of 8.94.
  • School Topper (District 2nd rank) in the Secondary School State Board Examinations with an aggregate of 94%.

Trivia And Other Interests

  • Served two consecutive terms as a member of the Governing Board (Director) of Junior Chamber International (JCI) – Coimbatore Cosmo, which is an international non-profit organization that promotes youth empowerment and community service.
  • An amateur keyboard player with a fascination for instrumental music and a passion for driving cars.

Technical Certifications

  • ISTQB Certified Technical Test Analyst (Advanced), 04/2016
  • ISTQB Certified Professional (Foundation), 03/2013
  • Software Testing – Brainbench Certification, 10/2013
  • Java 2 – Brainbench Certification, 01/2010
  • RDBMS Concepts – Brainbench Certification, 12/2006

Certification

  • Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) from ScrumAlliance on 17th Dec 2021 (Certificate ID: 001294228)
  • ISTQB Certified Technical Test Analyst (Advanced) in April 2016
  • ISTQB Certified Professional (Foundation) in March 2013

Other Interests

  • Served two consecutive terms as a member of the Governing Board (Director) of Junior Chamber International (JCI) – Coimbatore Cosmo, which is an international non-profit organization that promotes youth empowerment and community service.
  • An amateur keyboard player with a fascination for instrumental music.
  • Strong passion for driving cars.


Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)

Timeline

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

S&P Global
11.2023 - Current

Quality Engineering Specialist

LTI Mindtree
10.2021 - 11.2023

Team Lead – Quality Assurance

K G Information Services Private Limited (KGiSL)
06.2020 - 11.2021

Lead Engineer - Quality Assurance (Automation)

Namecheap Services Private Limited
10.2015 - 07.2019

Quality Assurance Lead / Senior Software Test Engineer

Mettler-Toledo Turing Software
12.2012 - 10.2015

Technology Lead

Infosys Technologies
01.2011 - 07.2012

Senior Systems Analyst

Cybernet Slash Support (CSS)
01.2010 - 01.2011

Senior Software Engineer

Allianz Cornhill Information Services
07.2007 - 02.2008

Senior Software Engineer

Technosoft Global Services
02.2007 - 06.2007

Analyst

Verizon Data Services India
05.2006 - 02.2007

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2004 - 05.2006

Master of Business Administration - Operations Management

PSG Institute of Management

Master of Science - Software Engineering

PSG College of Technology
SusindraKrishnaa Natarajan