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Arunprasad Sundharam

Charlotte,NC

Summary

Arunprasad Sundharam is a computer science graduate with 17+ Years of IT work experience and plays the role of QA Automation and Performance Test Architect in Mphasis Limited. Prior to the current Employment, he worked for Top India based MNCs like Infosys Limited and Cognizant Technology Solutions. In addition to being a PMP (Project Management Professional) certified professional, he has good experience in managing agile and predictive projects with co-located and distributed teams. With his sound programming skills and exposure to a stack of tools, he has developed expertise in design and implementation of end to end behaviour driven (BDD) and TDD (Test Driven) test automation, and performance testing architecture for enterprise applications to cater the business needs of reputed companies in financial services, insurance and healthcare domains. He has played the role of Performance and Test Automation Architect on a number of project assignments in USA and has solid experience in customer interactions and building customer relations to help the growth of the business and organization. He is also a certified AWS-Cloud Practitioner. He has practitioner level knowledge in machine learning and has experience in presenting research paper on Machine learning in international conference.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Test Architect

Mphasis Limited
06.2021 - Current
  • Participate in business development meetings and define the functional requirements for the application.
  • Review and finalize functional QA Automation test plans based on the system requirements defined as part of requirements gathering.
  • Design the Behaviour driven (BDD) Automation based on the requirements of the System under test.
  • Represent the QA team and coordinate the testing effort required in the various phases of testing life cycle like test planning, test script preparation, test execution and reporting, defect management, preparing sign off reports.
  • Coordinate with development and environment support teams to complete the setup of the test environment, testing tools and required test data before the actual functional QA testing can commence.
  • Report to relevant project stakeholders in prior if foresee any delays due to issues or dependencies.
  • Ensure the testing activity in the project is complying with agile process standards and the quality of the deliverables meet the expectations of the client.
  • Approve/Deny Production Install of the application builds based on the test results.
  • Ensure proper adherence of defect management in the project and defects are tracked to closure.
  • Report the productivity metrics related to testing activity. Identify areas of improvement, design and implement process to continuously improve the efficiency and productivity of the team.

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Limited
09.2012 - 06.2021
  • Participate in business development meetings and define the functional and non functional requirements for the application.
  • Review and finalize functional QA and performance test plans based on the system requirements defined as part of requirements gathering.
  • Design the Behaviour driven (BDD) Automation and Performance test framework based on the requirements of the System under test.
  • Represent the QA team (functional automation and performance testing) and coordinate the testing effort required in the various phases of testing life cycle like test planning, test script preparation, test execution and reporting, identifying performance bottlenecks, defect management, preparing sign off reports.
  • Coordinate with development and environment support teams to complete the setup of the test environment, testing tools and required test data before the actual functional QA/performance testing can commence.
  • Report to relevant project stakeholders in prior if foresee any delays due to issues or dependencies.
  • Ensure the testing activity in the project is complying with agile process standards and the quality of the deliverables meet the expectations of the client.
  • Approve/Deny Production Install of the application builds based on the test results.
  • Ensure proper adherence of defect management in the project and defects are tracked to closure.
  • Report the productivity metrics related to testing activity. Identify areas of improvement, design and implement process to continuously improve the efficiency and productivity of the team.

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2007 - 08.2012
  • Understand the non functional requirements and raise clarifications with relevant stakeholders if needed.
  • Understand the performance test plan and follow up with the relevant stakeholders for clarifications.
  • Coordinate with development and environment support teams to complete the setup of the testing tools and test data.
  • Create performance tests scripts with proper script standards and performance test scenarios.
  • Execute performance tests as planned and adhere to schedule.
  • Prepare performance test results and incorporate review comments given by the performance test leads before sending the test results to the onshore leads.
  • Create defects for application performance issues and track it to closure.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

East Carolina University
Greenville, North Carolina
12.2021

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Kumaraguru College of Technology
Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
04.2007

Skills

  • Domain : Health Care, Financial Services, Insurance
  • Programming Languages : Java, Python, Javascript
  • Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
  • Performance Test Tools : HP-Load Runner, Jmeter, Akamai-Soasta Cloud Test
  • Test Automation Tools : Selenium, RestAssured, TestNG, Cucumber, Appium, Browserstack, Cypress, Pytest, Behave
  • Performance Monitoring Tools : HP-Sitescope, IBM-Memory and GC Analyzer, Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
  • Cloud : Amazon Web Services
  • Other Tools : Jenkins, Jira, Jacoco, Github, Bitbucket, Postman, Fiddler
  • Database : Postgres, Oracle, MS-SQL, MySQL
  • Operating System : WindowsXP, Ubuntu Linux

Accomplishments

  • Presented my below research paper on machine learning in SEDE 2021 conference. https://easychair.org/publications/paper/52lN
  • Participated and made vital contributions in developing one of the Infosys Patented solution- IMPT (Infosys Microservices Performance Testing) solution.
  • Completed Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
  • Certified with AWS-Cloud Practitioner certification
  • Certified in HP AIS -LoadRunner (V11).
  • Completed ISTQB- Foundation Level Certification.

Certification

  • Presented research paper on machine learning in SEDE 2021 conference.
  • Completed Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
  • Certified with AWS-Cloud Practitioner certification.
  • Certified in HP AIS -LoadRunner (V11).
  • Completed ISTQB- Foundation Level Certification.
  • Recipient of various performance awards in Infosys and CTS notably Tech Champ Award given by Infosys and Testing Star Award given by Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Passport And Work Visa Details

  • Passport No : N8516175,
  • Passport issued by Country : India
  • Work Visa : Currently working in USA under H1B-WorkPermit (With Approved I140)

Additional Details - Linkedin Profile

  • https://www.linkedin.com/in/arunprasad-sundharam-669862169/

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 06/14/85
  • Gender: Male
  • Nationality: Indian
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Place of Origin : Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India
  • Place of Residency : Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Languages

Hindi
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
Tamil
Native or Bilingual
Malayalam
Native or Bilingual
French
Elementary

Timeline

Test Architect

Mphasis Limited
06.2021 - Current

Technical Test Lead

Infosys Limited
09.2012 - 06.2021

Associate

Cognizant Technology Solutions
11.2007 - 08.2012

Master of Science - Computer Science

East Carolina University

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical

Kumaraguru College of Technology

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