United States

QA Engineer

Data Engineering

Program Management

Project Management

AI/ML Engineering

Lingarasu Kittusamy

Quality Engineering Lead

Usability Testing

Twitter writing

Public Speaking

Qualitative research

Communication

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

AI/ML

Content creation

Database management

LinkedIn writing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Postman

GitHub

Jira

Adobe After Effects

GitLab

Jenkins

Selenium

PostgreSQL

ChatGPT

Confluence

Glassdoor

REST API

WordPress

Canva

Miro

Python

SurveyMonkey

Blog writing

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

* Lead the design, development, and maintenance of advanced automation frameworks using Playwright with JavaScript.
    * Integrate tools like Jest or Mocha for unit and integration testing, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and seamless CI/CD integration with tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
    * Utilize Postman and Newman for creating, executing, and automating complex API test suites.
    * Implement API mocking and contract testing using tools like Pact to ensure robust and reliable API interactions.
    * Use SQL drivers and ORMs (e.g., Sequelize) to connect to billing databases, execute complex queries, and validate data integrity.
    * Implement data-driven testing strategies to ensure the accuracy and consistency of data across various test scenarios.
    * Mentor junior SDETs and QA engineers, providing guidance on best practices, code reviews, and test strategies.
    * Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and DevOps, to ensure high-quality deliverables and alignment with business goals.
    * Continuously analyze test results and metrics, using tools like Allure or TestRail for reporting and visualization.
    * Drive initiatives for process improvements, such as implementing shift-left testing practices and enhancing test automation coverage.

•	Managed end to end testing activities upstream and downstream data flow.
•	Strategized testing activities for new features based on the archives of earlier upgrades (PEGA 7.3 (On-premises) to PEGA 8 (SIT Cloud)).
•	Effectively used the test management tool Tricentis qTest for test case preparation, execution, defects creation, monitoring and tracking them till closure.
•	Requirement gathering on new feature addition on the existing e-Comm desktop/mobile sites.
•	Creating production priority tickets in Jira/Azure DevOps and tracking them till closure.
•	Performing API testing using Postman and construct automation test suite using REST-Assured.
•	Handling sales orders, admin configurations using Magento e-commerce platform.
•	Build Smoke/Regression automation test suite using Selenium Webdriver with Core Java integrating BDD framework (Cucumber), Maven, TestNG and Jenkins for CI/CD implementation.
•	Fetching data from Postgres database, using pgAdmin as a web-based GUI tool to interact with SQL queries.

•	Validation of impacted CSSBs, I&E units, EDI loads, EDI processes, report validation and DB validation.
•	Performed data comparison testing between QNXT 4.8 and QNXT 5.2.
•	Involved in tools creation using Excel macros to reduce manual effort.
•	Fetched data using SQL queries and used it for comparison testing.
•	Analyzed automation feasibility and participated in automation estimation calls.
•	Customized CRAFT framework developed UFT/Selenium test scripts for complete regression of the product and integrated UFT/Selenium with Perfecto for testing the applications on Android/IOS mobile browsers.
•	Effectively used BDD framework using Cucumber, Maven build tool, and TestNG for reporting test results.
•	Involved in test environment setup, preparation of Weekly status reports and HTML test automation reports.
•	Actively involved in preparation of test scenarios and identification of test data (Dot Net to HPX (PEGA)).
•	Consistently delivered high-quality intake and production defect analysis to client managers helped them in decision making & approve budgets for project implementation.
•	Prepared test cases for the planned user stories and get it reviewed with Product Owner.
•	Participated in Sprint planning, elaboration, retrospective, and closure meetings and defined team’s velocity in Rally.
•	Developed automation test scripts using Microfocus UFT tool to achieve validation readiness and performed validation execution in various lower regions through Microfocus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
•	Participated in the constant improvement of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery practices and Test Automation.

•	Developed QTP test scripts using Hybrid framework (Keyword driven and Data driven) for Member portal, Provider portal and File Exchange Services.
•	Involved in debugging, enhancing and maintenance of test scripts.
•	Isolated bugs, help developers reproduce bugs, and ensure that bugs are fixed, retested, and closed.
•	Developed and maintained documentation of the build/release process.
•	Mentored offshore team and transitioned application knowledge to the new team members.

Lingarasu Kittusamy🇺🇸