Aarthy Selvamani

• Led a high-performing, distributed team of full-stack engineers across remote and hybrid environments, delivering search and data intelligence platfrom for a workflow management product.
• Oversaw full-stack initiatives leveraging React, Node.js, Python, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, while managing infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Drove talent development, coaching team members through regular 1:1s, resulting in two promotions, and leading the hiring and onboarding of two engineers who enhanced team capabilities in React and cloud-native technologies.
• Built and optimized processes to align engineering execution with product vision and strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure roadmap alignment, and delivery excellence.
• Improved developer experience and reliability by leading the team in creating SLOs and SLIs using Datadog, significantly increasing service uptime and observability.
• Modernized CI/CD workflows by orchestrating the migration to a GitOps-based deployment process using ArgoCD, improving release automation, and reducing deployment errors.
• Drove long-term technical planning, managing technical debt, and architecture decisions to ensure scalable, maintainable systems.
• Partnered with product teams to evaluate and onboard vendors for A/B testing infrastructure, enabling product-led growth (PLG) experiments that boosted user engagement and conversions.
• Championed a culture of mentorship and learning, guiding engineers on best practices in frontend architecture, data-driven decision-making, and platform scalability.

• Led bi-weekly releases for over 1,000 instances, ensuring high availability and low latency across four zones for the Digital Advertising Platform.
• Managed 24/7 on-call support for a high-throughput system, processing 4 million requests per second, proactively minimizing downtime.
• Designed and maintained a distributed system leveraging Java, Spring, Kafka, gRPC, and Kubernetes, seamlessly integrating with large-scale analytical platforms like Hadoop.
• Optimized CI/CD pipelines using Bazel and Jenkins on AWS, improving deployment efficiency and system reliability.
• Architected and scaled large-scale distributed systems to sustain 4 million requests per second, with a 20 ms response time, enhancing overall performance and resilience.

• Leading technical solution design and implementation for large scale cloud based applications, crossfunctional automation frameworks with well-balanced coverage across UI, micro services and database using Java.

• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining coding standards and processes to ensure code quality and code coverage using Corbertura.

• Work closely with end user experience in simulating Customer Environments to enhance gap analysis and identify extreme corner case issues.

• Effectively collaborate with back end engineering and devops for their test automation needs.

• Responsible for managing the Software Quality Assurance team for ecommerce web application, for planning and executing the integration/system/functional testing phases of software product development.
• Architected and prototyped the test automation frameworks for REST API's using JAX-RS library.
• Extensively used Hibernate concepts such as inheritance, object relation mapping and connection management.
• Setup SonarQube with CI system to enhance code quality across applications.

• Worked directly with software developers, business analysts and product managers in requirements analysis, defect troubleshooting and problem diagnosis and took the lead role in providing the overall testing effort estimates, resource utilization and risks associated on an elearning web/mobile application.
• Designed and developed automated test scripts, using Page objects pattern in Selenium Webdriver with maven and TestNG.
• Designed and implemented REST API automation using RestAssured Framework.
• Managed tools, performed maintenance and troubleshooting of build/deployment systems running in AWS using Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Setup security testing in the CI pipeline using Veracode plugin to perform static analysis.
• Participated in code reviews and code remediation using source control tools like Atlassian Stash.
• Acted as mentor to other junior QA's and offshore resources to get ramped up with the projects and testing methodologies.
• Worked on preparing monthly defects and automation coverage metrics for risk assessment towards products.
• Implemented migration of all test cases from excel to TestLink test cases management tool.

• Developed test plans and executed functional, regression, and system-level tests for SPTS wafer processing systems utilizing .NET Framework, MFC, and Win32.
• Configured and maintained test environments for defect detection and verification, created automated batch scripts for performance load simulation, and maintained QA databases with SQL queries.
• Managed daily builds using Automated Build Studio, debugged build failures, created merging branches, and performed major product upgrades using InstallShield, including support for SQL Server 2008.