Aravind Palakkurussi

• Test Lead with 13+ years of experience in automation and manual testing of large scale, business critical, security and ecommerce application.
• Spearheaded migration to automated testing frameworks; reduced manual test effort by 40% and 10% reduction in turnaround time to run regression tests in Q1 2024.
• Implemented higher levels of test and code coverage; resulted in 5% decrease in production incidents and improved customer adoption by 10% in H1 2023.
• Co-ordination involving onsite and offshore delivery management and team collaboration.
• Open and clear communicator with good multitasking skills, organized nature and attention to detail.

• Certified in SCJP.
• Certified Tester from ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board).

• Client : Apple Inc, 01/01/13 - Present

Analyze BRD and FRD documents, Test planning and estimations, Collaboration with different stakeholders and attend Scrum meetings., Ownership for the automation setup, devops deployment and maintenance of QA environment., Actively participated in regression failure analysis and test kitchens and bug reporting., Rest API Automation framework development using Rest Assured / Java Http Client and TestNG., Web UI automation in Selenium / Java in accordance with data driven approach., Successfully lead multiple teams i.e. new 3-member team during migration of test cases from Hunter (Internal framework) to TestNG before the decommission deadline and existing high performing testing team of 5 members., Setup Code coverage using Jacoco and Static Analysis using Sonar., As active member of COE team, helped in reviewing the test automation scripts along with test plan., Resolving complex technical and functional issues faced by team during any stage of automation and Testing., Defect Management and Metrics Reporting postproduction Release along with postmortem report creation.

• Client : Apple Inc, 01/01/10 - 12/31/12

Understanding the Business requirement and writing the functional test plan., Knowledge Management by documenting and sharing own learning from multiple modules of the project, seeking information and leveraging knowledge from other projects to drive better re-use and higher effort productivity., Feature testing and Performance testing., Executing test cases, test script and track the status., Timely response to priority requests from production. Able to handle multiple items in parallel.