NITHIYAPRIYA RAMARAJ
Burlington,ON
Summary
Results-driven QA Lead and Test Architect with 13+ years of experience leading end-to-end quality strategies, automation frameworks, and release governance for large-scale microservice platforms. Proven expertise in standardizing shift-left quality practices across SAFe Agile environments,
mentoring engineering teams, and establishing automated CI/CD validation gates. Pioneer in deploying AI-driven testing innovations, including multi-agent test impact analysis and automated failure triage using knowledge graphs. Adept at partnering with cross-functional development, infrastructure, and product stakeholders to mitigate release risks, manage functional & non-functional testing, and ensure zero-downtime software delivery.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Developer
Ericsson Canada Inc
Mississauga, Ontario
03.2022 - Current
- AI Multi-Agent Systems: Architected an AI multi-agent system analyzing code diffs to selectively trigger impacted Karate and Robot Framework tests across ISSU, regression, and performance pipelines.
- AI Failure Analysis: Built automated failure-analysis pipelines using Amazon Kiro and knowledge graphs to speed regression triage, alongside driving self-healing UI initiatives.
- Migration & Shift-Left Automation: Championed shift-left automation across SAFe release trains, migrating microservice suites from Karate to Robot Framework and establishing Playwright standards for UI automation.
- Performance Testing: Validated microservice performance boundaries and stability limits using custom JMeter production traffic simulations.
- Release Validation & Management: Direct end-to-end release testing—including ISSU, rollback, performance, stability, geo-redundancy, and dimensioning validation.
- CI/CD Security Workflows: Engineered CI/CD pipelines embedding automated ISSU validation runs, regression suites, and vulnerability scanning.
- Quality Sign-Offs: Present Quality assessment report including cross-functional test infrastructure versions and deliver executive governance assets, release notes, and post-deployment summaries to the stakeholder for successful General Availability (GA) quality sign-offs
- Product Backlog Ownership: Own and prioritize the product backlog, defining BRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria aligned with commercial roadmaps.
- Risk & Impact Assessment: Execute upfront impact assessments with cross-functional partners to identify delivery risks, technical constraints, and operational dependencies earlier in the release.
- Telemetry & Feedback: Translate live customer telemetry and usage feedback into targeted backlog enhancements for ISSU workflows, licensing, and certificate management.
- Infrastructure Sizing: Partnered with platform leads on cluster capacity sizing and infrastructure budgeting to support projected production demand.
- Go/No-Go Governance: Lead release readiness reviews, go/no-go gates, and emergency patch deliveries across engineering, infrastructure, QA, and business teams.
Senior Verification / Verification Engineer
Ericsson India Private Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
11.2014 - 12.2021
- Agile Team Leadership: Guided a 5-member verification engineering team, managing onboarding, sprint delivery, and technical quality standards.
- Scrum Master & Stakeholders: Acted as Scrum Master across sprint rituals while presenting platform roadmaps, security models, and API integrations to enterprise customers.
- System Integration: Tested end-to-end billing and subscriber onboarding journeys across Ericsson Catalog Manager and Ericsson Billing System.
- Cloud Environments: Managed containerized verification clusters on Kubernetes using Helm charts.
- High-Throughput Testing: Executed large-scale JMeter and SOAP performance suites to confirm high-throughput transaction stability.
- IAM Architecture: Built and verified Keycloak IAM solutions backed by PostgreSQL for centralized RBAC, authentication, and authorization.
- Identity Federation & Compliance: Configured ADFS federation via Keycloak SSO, verified ForgeRock components (OpenAM, OpenDJ), and enforced GDPR compliance policies.
- Vulnerability Auditing: Audited vulnerabilities and platform security posture using Nessus,Tenable, and OWASP ZAP.
Test Analyst
Indium Software India Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
06.2013 - 10.2014
- Test Execution & Defect Tracking: Engineered and executed structured manual test suites, logging and verifying defect resolutions in HP ALM in direct coordination with engineering teams.
Education
Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Agni College of Technology
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India06-2012
Skills
- Test Automation Frameworks: Karate (BDD/TDD), Robot Framework, Playwright, Cucumber & TestNG
- Test Methodologies & Lifecycle: Functional (API Testing and UI) & Non-Functional Testing (In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSU), Rollback, Performance and Stability)
- AI & Testing Innovation: Amazon Kiro, Microsoft Copilot, Multi-Agent AI Test Systems, Knowledge Graphs for Failure Analysis & Self-Healing UI Automation
- Agile, Governance & Project Management: SAFe, Scrum & Kanban, Release Governance (GA Sign-Offs, Go/No-Go Gates), JIRA, Confluence, Coda, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Team Foundation Server (TFS) & HP ALM
- CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, Docker, Kubernetes & Helm
- Performance & Security Testing: JMeter, SOAP UI, OWASP ZAP, Defensics, Tenable, Nessus, CIS-CAT, NMap, Kube-bench & Kubesec
- Languages & Scripting: Python & Shell Scripting
Timeline
Software Developer
Ericsson Canada Inc
03.2022 - Current
Senior Verification / Verification Engineer
Ericsson India Private Limited
11.2014 - 12.2021
Test Analyst
Indium Software India Limited
06.2013 - 10.2014
Bachelor in Engineering - Electronics And Communication
Agni College of Technology