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Ilakkuvan Parangusamy

Technical Manager - SDET

Summary

A highly accomplished SDET Technical Manager at HCL Technologies UK Limited with 19 years of extensive experience in software test automation and manual testing. Renowned for delivering innovative solutions and achieving exceptional client satisfaction, collaborating with stakeholders to meet project goals and drive business success. Worked in Investment Banking, KYC, IRS Trading, Cards and Payments, Healthcare, CRM, Retail, and Patent Litigation domains.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Technical Manager

HCL Technologies UK Limited
07.2024 - Current

Deutsche Bank group:

The IRS Trader Desktop system facilitates interest rate swaps, FRQs and RFMs negotiations, supporting various instrument types of trading. The current system delivers live pricing with near-zero latency also which provides comprehensive pricing suggestions through an DB internal pricing system with market risk insights and risk analysis tables to streamline the trading process which is a crucial in executing the trade.

Technical Stack: Google Cloud Platform, Java, Vert.x, Infinispan, React, Playwright Cucumber BDD.


  • A Playwright POC with UI mocks has been developed and won approval for implementation.
  • E2E flow, and all the user flow scenarios, have been automated using the Playwright framework.
  • Mocker has been developed to mimic third-party systems such as Tradeweb, and it has achieved end-to-end test automation coverage.
  • Preparation and review of test scenarios with business users, ensuring coverage.
  • Conduct PR review and merge BDD code into the test automation repository's master branch.
  • Analyzing the application issues along with business, and supporting the dev team to fix these issues as soon as possible.
  • As scrum team members, we follow the scrum process and ensure that each Jira ticket has completed all the phases.
  • Cucumber and BDD approach training and leadership for all IT department members.

Senior SDET Engineer

Deutsche Bank Group
05.2020 - 07.2024

Deutsche Bank's KYC (Know Your Customer) process compliance system improved banking customer onboarding and offboarding system efficiency. Client Life Cycle management system


Technical Stack: Java Sprint Boot, Angular, Microsoft Fabric cloud platform, SerenityBDD, Cypress


  • Sprint planning, followed by Three Amigos sessions with the product owner and respective team members.
  • Using the Mockito mock services (API test automation) framework.
  • Automation BDD code pull request (PR) review, and merge into the master build.
  • Publishing the Test Execution Report (TER) for each sprint release, BDD test evidence and cross-functional evidence.
    BDD automation coverage demonstration to the product owner and businesses in each sprint.
  • Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs creation for regression and smoke testing, ensuring all scenarios are added to existing jobs.
  • The successful integration of the Playwright BDD framework with parallel execution in the dbSIR application has significantly reduced the regression testing cycle, time, and effort.
  • Defining testing best practices and automation techniques to share with the team in the QA CoP meeting.
  • Managed offshore QA team, providing solutions to their technical issues and problem-solving.
  • The Playwright Cucumber BDD framework was successfully implemented in three crucial, major business verticals, and it has been considered a value addition to the customer in HCL.

Test Automation Team Lead

ARM Holdings
02.2018 - 04.2020

ARM – Open API project delivers list of API to its core API and delivery team. Delivery team collects API requirements from their existing business clients also from arm product & software service teams / live production support team and all of api requirements and it's details maintained Arm confluence page, where Open-API team collects API requirements during quarterly PI planning meeting, also transforms requirements into user-stories and open api team picks user stories based on priority and delivers to corresponding IT team.

Technical stack: Java, Mulesoft, RestAssured

  • Test plan and strategy preparation for test automation.
  • A Rest-Assured API test automation BDD framework has been built from scratch.
    All the microservices test scenarios have been automated using Rest-Assured.
  • All 110 open APIs were automated successfully.
  • Jenkins CI/CD pipeline job configuration for API automation scripts has been completed.
  • Contributed to customer value-addition processes through participation in the hackathon.
  • Functional knowledge transfer was provided to the GUI testing team and a review of their test scenarios.
  • Documented and exported API test data, including JSON input used during testing.
  • Documented root causes of defects during RCA meetings, and prepared checklists as part of the defect leakage prevention process.

Automation Test Lead

GE Healthcare
07.2017 - 01.2018

GE: CARESCAPE Gateway is one of GE's innovative healthcare systems, which collects all the attached devices' data, and provides advanced clinical workflows and an efficient monitoring system.
Comprehending the functionalities of all hardware associated with the healthcare system, including advanced simulators and GE ECG devices, which are essential for simulating real-time hospital environments.

Technical Stack: Java, Python, SerenityBDD


  • Significantly improved them with robust failure recovery mechanisms using the Selenium and Serenity BDD frameworks.
  • Complex business functionalities and flows are automated, which identified critical issues in the UAT environment.
  • Configured Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs to execute test scripts and generate PDF reports in compliance with GE reporting standards.
  • BDD automation identified several major data issues and server configuration issue which are not detected during manual testing.

Automation Test Lead

Cisco
03.2015 - 02.2017

• Cisco owned TEA model automation framework understanding and framework standards.
• Automation effort planning and tasks allocation in Rally.
• Project management recurring meetings participation.
• Generic scrum tasks creation in rally tool and keep updating ETA details in task board.
• Defect logging and participation with defect triage meeting
• Test automation script development to scrum and Jenkins job execution.
• Test Scripts review and failure analysis and resolving scripting issues if any.
• Automation guidance and Automation Code review to team member's scripts.
• High level test scenario preparation and requirement/user story traceability matrix update.
• Clarification to customer's queries or support team's query clarification and incidents assignment.

QA Automation Analyst

Coles Supermarket
07.2013 - 03.2014

Coles' warehouse management system (Lettus 8.0) integrates well with all internal systems, and provides efficient logistics, and strategic collaboration with suppliers, to ensure seamless inventory management between distribution centers.

  • Identifying the scope of automation and submitting a proof of concept using Coles Standard QTP Framework.
  • Preparing a test automation plan, coordinating with an offshore team, and allocating tasks.
  • Application test data setup for continuous and uninterrupted test execution using the QTP test automation tool.
  • Integrating with Cole's in-house management tool and building an execution scheduler for Quality Centre.
  • Our team resolved QTP scripting issues and application flow changes well before the planned delivery date.
  • PDF reports and their data validation represent a significant milestone in the QTP test automation project team.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Applications - MCA

Bharathidasan University
Tamil Nadu, India
07.2001 - 05.2004

Skills

Training and mentoring

Playwright - Cucumber BDD - TypeScript

Cypress - Cucumber BDD - TypeScript

Selenium - Java

RestAssured - Java

Jmeter

Python

GitHub

Jenkins

Accomplishments

• HCL – Value creation award for successful Playwright Cucumber BDD implementation in Deutsche Bank group.

• Spot Award for Cypress PoC initiative in Deutsche Bank – London 2022.

• HCL – Tex academy awards for Top rated Selenium and UFT mentor India 2019.

• Clients appreciation for Huge volume of PDF reports data validation in Coles – Melbourne

• Successful completion of challenging Mainframe functionalities UFT Test Automation much appreciated by Amex Client and 200% of billing amount offered by Amex.

• Polaris ‘smart' award for UFT Automation and for successful POC which helped to own new business with RBS.

• CSC accolades for automation coverage and for more stable automation suite.





Certification

Google Cloud - Introduction to Generative AI

Experience Summary

HCL Technologies UK Limited, London - EC3V 0XL
Position: Systems Analyst (Oct 2020 – Till Date).


HCL Technologies, Bangalore - 105
Position: Senior Technical Lead (March 2015 – Oct 2020).


Hinduja Tech, Chennai - 32
Position: Lead (July 2013 – March 2015)


Polaris Financial Technologies Ltd, Chennai - 06
Position: Senior Project Lead (Jan 2011 – June 2013)


Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt Ltd, Chennai - 45
Position: Senior Test Engineer- Team Lead (Nov 2009 – Jan 2011)


Atos Syntel Ltd, Chennai-15
Position: Analyst Programmer (Feb 2007 – Nov 2009)


Cybage Software Pvt Ltd, Pune - 06
Position: QA Engineer (Dec 2005 – Feb 2007)

Timeline

AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials (Business)

11-2024

Technical Manager

HCL Technologies UK Limited
07.2024 - Current

Google Cloud - Introduction to Generative AI

06-2024

Senior SDET Engineer

Deutsche Bank Group
05.2020 - 07.2024

Test Automation Team Lead

ARM Holdings
02.2018 - 04.2020

Automation Test Lead

GE Healthcare
07.2017 - 01.2018

Automation Test Lead

Cisco
03.2015 - 02.2017

QA Automation Analyst

Coles Supermarket
07.2013 - 03.2014

Master of Science - Computer Applications - MCA

Bharathidasan University
07.2001 - 05.2004
Ilakkuvan ParangusamyTechnical Manager - SDET