Venugopal Paramasivam
Chennai
Summary
A software test automation professional with 13 years of experience driving quality through comprehensive involvement in tool selection, framework development, and automation scripting. Architected innovative solutions leveraging AI, resulting in enhanced productivity and efficiency. Focused on integrating CI/CD across business verticals to optimise testing processes.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Test Automation Architect
Renault Group
Chennai
11.2017 - Current
- Architect and developer for a scriptless UI/api test automation framework named INSTAQA based on selenium webdriver which resulted in 33% effort saving.
- Architect and developer for playwright-smart-utils, cypress-smart-utils, selenium-smart-utils which is reusable a reusable wrapper specifically for UI elements resulted in improved productivity by 40% and it has potential to dynamic test data generation
- introduced a spec-driven testing approach using AI to automate functional test case generation
- In the spec driven approach created multiple ai agents to update/create regression automation using copilot
- created an AI agent to streamline conversion of existing Cypress scripts to Playwright
- leveraged AI in quality engineering to develop innovative testing solutions
- Strong knowledge in LLM and used efficiently in the Software Testing Life Cycle
- Strong knowledge in all web automation frameworks Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and API testing
- Exhibited strong knowledge of XPath generation for efficient web automation.
- Conducted multiple sessions on best practices in automation and BDD Gherkin scenario writing.
- Enabled CI/CD integration in AWS/GCP across business verticals.
- led an initiative across all the verticals new way of testing approach which includes E2E automation, where how can arrest the production bugs earlier
- Strong knowledge in Java, Typescript
- Architect and developer couple of MCP servers qe-jira-mcp and qe-browser-mcp used to fasten the testing/automation scripting activity with copilot integration.
Senior Consultant
Pantheon India Pvt Ltd
Chennai
10.2016 - 08.2017
- Deployed as a vendor for Renault Group
Automation Test Engineer
GSR Business Services Private Limited
Chennai
04.2015 - 08.2016
- Developed automation framework and created executed test scripts to enhance testing processes.
- Participated in Agile sprints, contributing to planning, execution, and review phases for timely feedback.
- Designed and wrote test automation scripts for testing new or existing software using specialised tools and frameworks.
- Analysed test results, documented defects, and reported issues to relevant stakeholders for remediation.
Test Engineer
Hurix Systems Private Limited
Chennai
05.2013 - 04.2015
- Created and executed automation test scripts to validate software functionality.
Education
MBA -
Roever Institute of management
Perambalur05-2012
BE - Computer Science Engineering
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan college of engineering and technology
Mahapalipuram, Chennai05-2010
Skills
- Selenium
- Cypress
- Playwright
- Java
- Typescript
- Javascript
- Maven
- GIT
- BDD
- Cucumber
- CI/CD setup
- AI implementation
- Jira
- Xray
Languages
Tamil
English
Hobbies and Interests
- Cricket
- Movies
Custom Section
- Spot Award and GM Award, Renault Nissan Technology and Business Center India pvt ltd, 2016-10-01
- Star Performer award, GSR Business Services Private Limited, 2015-04-01
- Star of the month, Hurix Systems Private Limited, 2013-05-01
Certification
- ISTQB Certified
Timeline
Test Automation Architect
Renault Group
11.2017 - Current
Senior Consultant
Pantheon India Pvt Ltd
10.2016 - 08.2017
Automation Test Engineer
GSR Business Services Private Limited
04.2015 - 08.2016
Test Engineer
Hurix Systems Private Limited
05.2013 - 04.2015
MBA -
Roever Institute of management
BE - Computer Science Engineering
Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan college of engineering and technology