Ravi Kammily
Milton Keynes
Summary
A seasoned Data Automation Analyst with a proven track record at Convex, I excel in leveraging automation testing and CI/CD pipelines to enhance efficiency and system reliability. My leadership in optimizing QA cycles and implementing cloud automation showcases my technical prowess and strategic thinking, significantly improving project delivery timelines.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Automation Analyst
Convex
09.2023 - Current
- Defined the Automation Test Strategy for submissions, slips, endorsements, LRSOVs workflows conducted automation POCs and implemented them in DAM and backend applications BAU testing
- Process Optimization & Risk Mitigation: Automated policy placements, underwriting submissions, and document validation, improving efficiency and reducing errors
- Data-Driven Testing: Developed Cypress automation frameworks to enhance system reliability, ensuring faster processing times
- Placing Platform Limited (PPL) Automation: Ensured seamless data flow between insurers, reinsurers, and brokers while maintaining Lloyd’s and London Market compliance
- Stakeholder-Specific Data Contracts Testing: Implemented AWS Glue Schema validation for structured data exchange in insurance data pipelines
- MFT (Managed File Transfer): Automated secure file exchange workflows, ensuring compliance with regulatory data-sharing requirements
- Datadog Dashboard Monitoring & Alerting: Integrated Datadog monitoring to track key insurance workflows, detect anomalies, and trigger real-time alerts for underwriting, policy processing, and regulatory compliance
- AWS & Snowflake: Automated data ingestion, query validation, and analytics workflows for risk assessment
- Databricks & Qlik: Ensured data integrity and visualization accuracy, enabling better decision-making
- AWS Glue Schema Testing: Designed schema validation frameworks to maintain compliance in data contracts across insurers, brokers, and reinsurers
- Cypress Automation & Data Validation: Built Cypress automation frameworks for insurance & reinsurance workflows
- Expertise in Selenium WebDriver, Appium, RestAssured, SpecFlow, Cucumber BDD
- CI/CD & Cloud Automation: Designed CI/CD pipelines for Functional & Performance testing using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS, with real-time monitoring via Kibana dashboards
- Performance & Monitoring: Skilled in Datadog for system health monitoring and real-time alerting
Lead SDET
Gallagher
10.2022 - 09.2023
- Defined the Automation Test Strategy, conducted automation POCs and implemented them in B&F, IA and backend applications BAU testing
- Mentor and Lead the QA team to optimise QA cycles and testing timelines by enhancing test automation; thereby reducing the Release timelines
- Forward Plan the release windows and cycles
- Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
- Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations
- Coordinate release content and effort based on the new features, bug fixes and improvements
- Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes
- Developed automated functional regression tests, utilising Cypress, Mocha as well as covering all of the performance, security, accessibility and compatibility requirements with appropriate use of manual and automated tooling
- Coaching, mentoring and training other team members in relevant aspects of testing including Testing within the Agile development process, Understanding and implementing a test strategy
- Integrated the Page Object Model driven framework into Browserstack for Browser compatibility testing
- Performed Accessibility testing to ensure application meets WCAG standards
- Producing performance Test Reports and analyzing the key performance indicators with the Tech Leads and Technical Architects
- Creation and execution of load, stress and Stability scripts/scenarios for Routing API and Composite UI Apps using JMeter
- Involved in product backlog review, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective planning sessions
- Maintained the Regression Test Automation Suite, Re-factoring the Automation Scripts, gather test data, and document test results to support the rigorous testing of the application through all test phases
- Identify and investigate test failures by debugging the logs and verifying the database
- Execution of automated testing and capture of new scripts identified from key business processes and regression test scripts including any validation checks where required
- Validate and demonstrate the developed scripts, to the technical experts involved, in order to achieve a signoff, before being added to the automated test suite
- Produced Test Reports and Quality gate documentation for promoting the build
- Identify and investigate test failures
- Produce estimates for time and effort required to script each process
- Liaise with members of other departments in the preparation and execution of tests
- Logged and chased the defect fixes in Jira
Sr SDET
CanadaLife
12.2020 - 10.2022
- Involved in product backlog review, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective planning sessions
- Maintained the Regression Test Automation Suite, Re-factoring the Automation Scripts, gather test data, and document test results to support the rigorous testing of the application through all test phases
- Creation/Maintenance of Healthcheck, Regression, E2E pipeline jobs for the environments in scope
- Identify and investigate test failures by debugging the logs and verifying the database
- Execution of automated testing and capture of new scripts identified from key business processes and regression test scripts including any validation checks where required
- Validate and demonstrate the developed scripts, to the technical experts involved, in order to achieve a signoff, before being added to the automated test suite
- Produced Test Reports and Quality gate documentation for promoting the build
- Identify and investigate test failures
- Produce estimates for time and effort required to script each process
- Liaise with members of other departments in the preparation and execution of tests
- Logged and chased the defect fixes in Jira
SDET
ESFA
02.2020 - 09.2020
- Developed automated functional regression tests, utilising Specflow/Selenium/C#/NUnit as well as covering all of the performance, security, accessibility and compatibility requirements with appropriate use of manual and automated tooling
- Creation and execution of load, stress and Stability scripts/scenarios for Routing API and Composite UI Apps using Jmeter
- Involved in product backlog review, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective planning sessions
- Maintained the Regression Test Automation Suite, Re-factoring the Automation Scripts, gather test data, and document test results to support the rigorous testing of the application through all test phases
- Identify and investigate test failures by debugging the logs and verifying the database
- Execution of automated testing and capture of new scripts identified from key business processes and regression test scripts including any validation checks where required
- Tested the run-time governance, routing, auditing and transformation of messages from XML to JSON and vice versa calling a specific schema bundle
- Execution of automated testing and capture of new scripts identified from key business processes and regression test scripts including any validation checks where required
Automation Lead
Santander
09.2017 - 02.2020
- Developed cucumber feature files covering all the user journeys and maintained the page objects and respective context files
- Integrated the automation regression suite and performance tests with the Release orchestration pipeline as a post deployment action
- Conducting daily and weekly team Meetings (Daily & weekly stand up for progress update)
- Involved in product backlog review, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective planning sessions
- Execution of automated testing and capture of new scripts identified from key business processes and regression test scripts including any validation checks where required
- Validate and demonstrate the developed scripts, to the technical experts involved, in order to achieve a signoff, before being added to the automated test suite
- Creation and execution of load, stress and Stability benchmarking scripts/scenarios for Vegas Restful webservices using Jmeter
- Built Automation and Jmeter pipelines to trigger as a post build/deployment action from Jenkins
- Liaise with members of extended teams in the preparation and execution of tests
- Produced Test Reports and Quality gate documentation for promoting the build
QA Manager
American Express
10.2015 - 09.2017
- Responsible for E2E Test and Defect management of the loyalty earn platform
- Created/Maintained separate Git repository for automation with development and master branches
- Involved in product backlog review, sprint planning and retrospective planning sessions
- Maintained the Regression Test Automation Suite, Re-factoring the Automation Scripts, gather test data, and document test results to support the rigorous testing of the application through all test phases
- Execution of automated testing and capture of new scripts identified from key business processes and regression test scripts including any validation checks where required
Senior QA
NHS Trust
01.2015 - 08.2015
Sr Test Analyst
Capgemini
03.2014 - 12.2014
Test Automation Lead
Fujitsu Telecommunications
09.2012 - 03.2014
Test Specialist
ATOS
03.2011 - 09.2012
SIT Sr.Test Analyst
Simplyhealth
04.2010 - 01.2011
Test Analyst
Mastek ltd
10.2006 - 02.2010
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Don Bosco
Vijayawada04-2005
Skills
- Automation testing
- Data validation
- CI/CD pipelines
- Performance testing
- Risk assessment
- Cloud automation
Timeline
Data Automation Analyst
Convex
09.2023 - Current
Lead SDET
Gallagher
10.2022 - 09.2023
Sr SDET
CanadaLife
12.2020 - 10.2022
SDET
ESFA
02.2020 - 09.2020
Automation Lead
Santander
09.2017 - 02.2020
QA Manager
American Express
10.2015 - 09.2017
Senior QA
NHS Trust
01.2015 - 08.2015
Sr Test Analyst
Capgemini
03.2014 - 12.2014
Test Automation Lead
Fujitsu Telecommunications
09.2012 - 03.2014
Test Specialist
ATOS
03.2011 - 09.2012
SIT Sr.Test Analyst
Simplyhealth
04.2010 - 01.2011
Test Analyst
Mastek ltd
10.2006 - 02.2010
Master of Science - Computer Science
Don Bosco
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