Vinodh R. Email & Phone Number

United States

Working with Health and Life Science R&D. My core responsibilities: Technological Transition:• Successfully converted Spring Boot services to Typescript, enhancing API capabilities using the Playwright tool.• Updated the framework to align with modern development practices, ensuring improved efficiency and maintainability.Collaborative Problem Solving:• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to comprehend project requirements and deliver effective solutions, fostering a collaborative work environment.Global Technical Support:• Provided technical support to the Beijing team, addressing challenges and conducting thorough code reviews to maintain code quality and consistency.Pipeline Management:• Led efforts in managing pipelines for multiple applications, ensuring seamless integration and deployment processes for enhanced workflow efficiency.

United States

Worked as an Automation Technical Lead at Futures, Prime Lobs - Markets Group. My core responsibilities: Strategic Automation Implementation:• Spearheaded the development and implementation of the Automation Strategy for 2022, aligning initiatives with organizational goals and driving efficiency improvements.Agile Leadership and Task Management:• Functioned as the Automation Lead, overseeing the creation and management of an agile Scrum board.• Assigned tasks to the team, monitored progress, and provided guidance to address challenges, ensuring alignment with the defined automation strategy for 2022.Containerization Expertise:• Implemented Configuration Management and containerization for Test and App using RedHat Openshift Containerization Platform, facilitating parallel execution and scalability.Code Quality Enhancement:• Applied Jacoco for Code Coverage across Java-based applications, enhancing quality metrics for specific Line of Business (LOB) projects.Utility Development for Reporting:• Developed utilities in Java and Python to update reports on the dashboard for Java-based frameworks and ETP Studio tool, catering to Fix and Fidessa Messaging Protocols.Proof of Concept Integration:• Integrated the automation framework in Openshift Code Ready Workspace (CRW) as a Proof of Concept, demonstrating its viability and scalability.Innovative Automation Solutions:• Explored Helm Charts and the Go language for implementing Openshift Operators, leveraging automation frameworks, dashboards, and reporting as operators.Monitoring and Analysis Proficiency:• Monitored logs using Kibana and conducted API call analysis using Jagger monitoring tools, ensuring the robustness and reliability of the automation infrastructure.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Worked at H&W (Health & Welfare) – Record Keeping division. Enhanced Data Validation Logic:• Extended the existing Spring framework by integrating Joinery (Dataframe) to optimize data validation logic, improving accuracy and efficiency.Database Management Expertise:• Established a PostgreSQL database in an Ubuntu VM, meticulously creating schemas and tables with constraints for the test bed. This initiative significantly contributed to streamlined test data management within the framework.Jenkins Configuration and Job Management:• Set up Jenkins servers in Ubuntu VMs for non-production environments and effectively managed Jenkins jobs across teams, ensuring seamless continuous integration and deployment.Test Reporting Enhancement:• Expanded the test HTML report and collaborated with the team to refine test results, enhancing the visibility and interpretability of test outcomes.Comprehensive Test Coverage Analysis:• Collaborated with stakeholders to collect data and created comprehensive test coverage for regression suites using Tableau and XMind, ensuring thorough assessment and validation.Data Management Utility Creation:• Developed a Python-based executable for bulk data updates in PostgreSQL DB, providing the team with a utility for uploading baseline test data efficiently.Vault Secret Integration and Framework Migration:• Successfully migrated the existing Spring framework to support Vault Secret Integration, leveraging the springvault-core library for enhanced security and data protection.Strategic Automation Leadership:• Contributed to the creation of an automation strategy, actively engaging in strategic initiatives with supervisors and collaborating with teams on project deliverables and assessments, particularly in the brokerage domain application project.

Irving, Texas

Test Architecture Leadership:• As a Test Architect, I collaborated extensively with cross-functional teams including the product team, strategic team, and tools team, fostering synergy across various product lines. I actively engage with other test architects, implementing a Maturity Model to elevate testing practices and enhance team skills, particularly focusing on API automation.Strategic Collaboration and Leadership:• I contributed to strategic initiatives by collaborating with leaders, bringing a strategic vision to the testing domain. My role involves leveraging Python-based solutions with the Robot Framework to propose and implement robust automation solutions encompassing API, UI, and Mobile testing.

Cary,North Carolina

Worked in an Automation team, R&D Department, Initial period have updated and maintained distributed automation framework using Jython 2.7 to support UI/REST API/Mobile testing/AWS module testing. Later used Robot(Keyword Driven) Framework, Python 3.6 to build the test suites forUI/REST API/Mobile Native apps testing (Android/IOS).• UI Test: Created automation tests using selenium webdriver and established selenium grid (hub/node) to run multiple browsers in different remote machine to handle multiple projects. Also provisioned to support saucelab for multiple browser version and device support.• REST API Test: Created automation tests for REST API calls (POST, PUT, GET, DELETE) for the entire functionality and orchestrated each call to integrate the end to end functionalities. • Mobile Test: Created automation tests for Mobile android apps using Appium. Appium server iscreated in a separate node to connect the selenium grid (hub). The test chooses the specific hub to run the mobile tests. It supports both Android/iOS devices. For iOS devices have used XCUITest driver to work with XCODE.• Cloud (AWS): Created automation health tests for AWS components like EC2, CodeDeploy, Auto scaling group using “boto3” library. Have used EC2, S3, ASG, ELB components and still exploring other components via trainings.All the above testing is running via Jenkins to perform daily build test runs by Lev1, Lev2, and Lev3. • CI/CD: Have experience on Continuous Integration (CI) and good knowledge on Continuous Delivery (CD).Leveraged my technical expertise in DevOps tool sets.• Learning & Research: Understanding Machine Learning, IoT, Deep Learning & AI technologies and think through automation in those spaces.• Team Activity: ✓ As a mentor for SAS interns by teaching automation framework, REST API automation and Mobile Automation. ✓ Knowledge Transition to team, related to my work (REST API Email Automation , Mobile Automation)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

1) Worked in Credit Suisse (Banking & Financial) Account.2) Handled automation projects across product lines.3) Provided automation solutions (Conventional and Non-Conventional) with architecture design and development (Selenium, Java, Python). 4) Explored DevOps - Automation Solutions to support Dev,Operation & QA support in CI fashion (Jenkins/TeamCity).5) Implemented DevQA model to support SDET.6) Leveraged open sources tools, frameworks and utilities in various projects (TestNG,ReportNG,Maven).7) Explored "Protractor"​ framework for AngularJS application and have created POC.8) Explored "Cucumber-JVM"​, "JBehave" - Agile Engineering Practices and created POC.Additional Responsibilities: 1) Managed 10 member team across locations (Raleigh, NY).2) Involved in Account engagement activities.3) Technology Specialist for CS .

Chennai

1) Worked in ACOE Delivery Enablement, focusing on IP creation and enabling automation projects teams across verticals. 2) Resolved various technical challenges in different automation tools w/ different languages.3) Supported Automation proposals across vertical.4) Projected & Presented Automation Capabilities to various clients during client visits.5) Designed & Developed "Script less Automation” framework with selenium using Eclipse RCP. It has been demoed to leadership team.6) Closely worked with Cognizant Academy to create course materials and conducted training to European Associates/Internal Associates.

Chennai Area, India

1) Have strong experience in Automation Testing and Project Management Activities. Experienced in handling US clients and 2 times onsite deputations in various roles. 2) Automation Architect to designed automation framework and consulted automation projects across domains.3) Lead more than 2 projects simultaneously and involved in project delivery.4) Implemented TCOE from the scratch at the client end and built the offshore team. 5) Presented various strategy to clients and fine-tuned the team and built a strong relationship with them to make sure all the new upcoming projects will be handled by TCS.6) Created proposals for automation projects(Mobile Testing or Any new test tool).7) Experienced in Project Management to implement the new metrics with help of 6 sigma approach or statistical approach.8) Created reusable components using C#.net and published across TCS.9) Continuous learned new concepts/technology/process for the improvement of projects and team.

Chennai Area, India

As a project lead handled 10 member team (automation/manual) in offshore. Involved in project management activities and identified the project which is a candidate for automation and preparing the proposal for those project and sharing with the clients. Implemented new metrics for manual & automation projects and filled the gaps between manual & automation projects.

During this period i was in onsite (minneapolis) and handled 10 member team(manual/automation) in offshore.

As an automation test lead handled 2 to 3 member team and automated various technology projects in the Bank of America & Wolters Kluwer clients. As an automation consultant, i've identified the projects which are suited for automation. Expertize in QTP tool and conducted training to the associates.

Started with my career as a manual tester & I've worked in development (C/C++) for a while and moved in to automation testing using QTP/Winrunner.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Marketing, 1St Class

Distance Education

Mca, Computer Science, 1St Class

Mahendra Engineering College (2000 - 2003)

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemistry, 1St Class