NAWINCUMAR SAMINATHAN
Cumming
Summary
With over 20 years of experience in quality engineering and assurance, I offer a strong strategic vision and a proven track record of delivering results. Throughout my career, I have excelled in customer relationship management and people management, showcasing my ability to inspire, mentor, and lead geographically dispersed teams. As an effective hands-on leader, I deeply understand business and technology, enabling me to drive success in diverse environments. My expertise lies in Banking/Financial applications and Quality Engineering services, with a solid background in Waterfall and Agile Test Methodologies. Additionally, I have skills in project management activities such as resource capacity management, status reporting, invoicing, budgeting, and control.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Lead Consultant Quality Practice
GPC NAPA Autoparts
09.2024 - Current
- Migration from Legacy to Micro services Architecture hosted in Cloud(GCP).
- Review and Audit current Automation Framework(Playwright & Karate).
- Performed gap analysis and provided plans based off of identified recommendations.
- Worked closely with RTE to Develop program schedules and monitored milestones, managing production releases on timely completion.
- Build End to End strategy involving multiple teams and vendors to contribute towards the Initiative to enforce Quality deliverables.
- Handled and delivered projects working with different vendors which involves offshore - onsite coordination.
- Prioritized projects and project tasks depending upon key milestones and deadline dates.
- Contributed working on Analytical tools like Fullstory, Glassbox(user experience analysis by capturing and replaying full user sessions) and Monitoring systems like New Relic(Performance Monitoring).
Senior Manager - Quality Engineering
Equifax Inc
05.2020 - 09.2024
- Managed large-scale projects and introduced new systems, tools, and processes to achieve challenging objectives.
- Transformation from On-prem(Mainframe) to GCP
- Successfully managed budgets and allocated resources to maximize productivity and profitability.
- Leveraged data and analytics to make informed decisions and drive business improvements.
- Provide the right recommendations to the customer and internal stakeholders
- Create safe environment to fail fast, learn fast and improvise.
- Led, orchestrate and motivate off-shore teams to drive business results
- Establishing Quality practice & process across the tribes.
- Process helped teams to release 5-6 products to Production every 2 days.
- Part of QE Guild - Improvising process to better quality results.
- Working with cross-functional agile engineering teams learning how to move towards continuous testing & deployment
- Involved in Setting up Automation Framework to validate the API & UI Automation using Selenium & Rest Assured.
Technical QA Manager - Projects
Cognizant Technologies
01.2015 - 05.2020
- Involved in Setting up Automation Framework to validate the API's using Selenium & Rest Assured
- Set up the Jenkins Pipeline and configured the Automation test suite to the pipeline
- Expertise in pushing the changes through GitHub
- Working closely with LEVVEL(Zelle Implementation Partner) in understanding the Requirements
- Part of Tasking, Grooming and Estimation along with time-boxed Stand up meeting
- Worked on User Stories every sprint in getting deliverables
- Validated all the service calls through SOAP UI, Postman
- Worked on Postman to hit the end point to ensure services are up in running
- Performed performance validation through Jmeter & Webload
- Expertise in monitoring logs through Dynatrace, Splunk, Traceview and New relic
- Proficient in setting up Test data using Json/Xml
- Led cross-functional project teams to ensure successful execution and completion of projects within timelines and budgets resulting in a 95% client satisfaction rate
Technical Test Lead/ Project Manager
Infosys Technology
05.2012 - 12.2014
Sr. QA Project Lead
Oracle Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 05.2012
Sr. QA Engineer
Trimble Information Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2006 - 05.2008
Software Engineer
Verizon Data Services
07.2004 - 10.2006
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics
University of Madras
06-2004
Skills
- Delivery & Result Oriented
- Transformation & Cloud Specialist
- Team leadership & development
- Leadership Stakeholder Management
- Strategic planning
- Process Improvisation
- Internal Stakeholder Communication
- Championed Transformation Projects
- Mentoring & Leading teams
- Manage Budgets Vendor Management
- Forecasting and reporting
- Functional & Automation Testing
Domain Expertise:
- Retail
- Banking
- Auction
- Telecom
- Credit Scores & Data
Accomplishments
- Test Automation Tools: Cypress, JavaScript, Selenium utilizing Java, WebDriverIO, IntelliJ IDE, Eclipse-TestNG-Maven-SVN/GIT, Appium-UI Automator2, Rest Assured, Sauce labs, LambdaTest, Device Connect, Android Studio, Cucumber, Playwright, Karate.
- Performance Testing: JMeter, Webload
- Service Testing: SOAP UI, POSTMAN, SOAP, REST(JSON).
- Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Android, iOS
- Test Management Tools: HP Application Lifecycle Management, HP Agile Manager, CA Agile Central/Rally, Jenkins, GitHub, Git, Microsoft SharePoint, Confluence, JIRA
Visa & Immigration Details:
Valid H1B till 05/27 & I-140 Approved.
Certification
- Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist Certified.
- ITIL v4 Certified Professional
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) - Scrum Alliance.
- Certified GCP in AWS Fundamental Professional.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) - Scrum Alliance.
- Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- Advanced ISTQB Certified Professional.
- ISTQB Foundation Software Certificate.
- Software Testing Certification from Expert Rating
Languages
English
Full Professional
Tamil
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Lead Consultant Quality Practice
GPC NAPA Autoparts
09.2024 - Current
Senior Manager - Quality Engineering
Equifax Inc
05.2020 - 09.2024
Technical QA Manager - Projects
Cognizant Technologies
01.2015 - 05.2020
Technical Test Lead/ Project Manager
Infosys Technology
05.2012 - 12.2014
Sr. QA Project Lead
Oracle Pvt Ltd
11.2010 - 05.2012
Sr. QA Engineer
Trimble Information Technologies Pvt Ltd
11.2006 - 05.2008
Software Engineer
Verizon Data Services
07.2004 - 10.2006
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical & Electronics
University of Madras
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