Varun kumar Gurusamy Gurunathan

Varun kumar gurusamy gurunathan

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  • About me

    Senior Automation / QA Engineer | Selenium | Cypress | Java | JavaScript | Playwright | Cucumber | Rest Assured | ISTQB certified | Scale Agile certified |

  • Education

    • Vellore institute of technology

      2012 - 2016
      Master of science - ms
    • Bharathiar university

      -
      Bachelor's degree biotechnology
  • Experience

    • Wipro

      Jun 2012 - Nov 2018

      Project: Lowe’s is a retail platform where more than 10K end users transact daily across the US. I was leading a team of 5 in testing the POS application used in the stores. Automated 2k+ regression and smoke test cases.Created automation scripts using Selenium, testNG, Cucumber to test features like sale, returns, coupons, discounts and other varied transactions. Reduced manual testing efforts by 75% and saved time and costs of receipts by 35%. Created integration test suites using Selenium, TestNG, Rest assured for the integration between the POS and Sterling. Involved in multiple strategic meetings to develop frameworks and in business calls to analyze functional requirements with the stakeholders. Mentored and provided guidance for outsourcing QA Team in India and US. Show less Project: Target is a general merchandiser retailer platform in the US. As a test analyst I worked in a Scrum Team of 15 members and led a QA team of 6 in regression testing. Tested UI API of POS platform. Designed and executed test cases, created defects, test plans, root cause analysis and requirement gathering.Took part in UAT with the client and supported in execution and environment setup and data setup. Enhanced testing of coupons, discounts and Black Friday promotion with different payment methods.Identified and tracked 500+ product defects through manual testing inJIRA. Retained ownership as defects passed through various stages of identification/reporting, investigation, resolution, validation, and release to customers.Tech used: HP- ALM | JIRA | Smoke testing | Sanity Testing | Regression Testing | Manual testing | UAT | Scanner testing | Scrum | SQL. Show less Project: Target is a general merchandiser retailer platform in the US. As a test analyst I worked in a Scrum Team of 15 members and led a QA team of 6 in regression testing. Tested UI API of POS platform. Designed and executed test cases, created defects, test plans, root cause analysis and requirement gathering.Took part in UAT with the client and supported in execution and environment setup and data setup. Enhanced testing of coupons, discounts and Black Friday promotion with different payment methods.Identified and tracked 500+ product defects through manual testing inJIRA. Retained ownership as defects passed through various stages of identification/reporting, investigation, resolution, validation, and release to customers.Tech used: HP- ALM | JIRA | Smoke testing | Sanity Testing | Regression Testing | Manual testing | UAT | Scanner testing | Scrum | SQL. Show less

      • Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

        Oct 2017 - Nov 2018
      • Senior Development Engineer in Test

        May 2016 - Oct 2017
      • Senior Test Analyst

        Jun 2012 - Apr 2016
    • Expeditors

      Dec 2018 - now
      Senior test automation engineer

      Project: Expeditors International is a US logistics company based in Seattle that provides a supply chain platform for over 1k+ clients including Fortune 500 companies like Target. I am part of a Scrum team of 10, and responsible for the complete UI/API automation testing with over 20+ features that contribute to the migration and enhancement of the platform by using Cypress, Javascript, Selenium, Java, Cucumber, Spring Boot framework and Rest assured. I have been reducing 65% of manual effort during testing in regression, smoke and sanity testing carried out during each release. Carried out testing different devices like mobile, tablets and self checkouts. Created testing frameworks from scratch. Reduced the defect slippage in production by early sprint automation by 90%. I set up environment using inmemory DB to carry out testing in local machines. Designed a CI/CD framework using Docker, Jenkins and Gitlab for parallel cross-browser testing with the ThreadLocal concept which in turn reduced manual intervention, generating reports and share with stakeholders. Used to be the Scrum Master for a period of 2 years and leading the team. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Istqb

      Uk& irelaand testing board
      May 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • Scaled scrum master certified (ssmc)

      Scaled agile (safe®)
      Feb 2019
    • Introduction to programming using python

      Sololearn
      Jun 2019
      View certificate certificate
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Varun kumar Gurusamy Gurunathan
      Best New Joinee Wipro - Retail Chennai Dec 2013 For my dedication in the project and to the Client Target
    • Awarded to Varun kumar Gurusamy Gurunathan
      Young Sensation Standard Bank of South Africa Dec 2012 For my performance and innovation in the team