Sujith Somasundaran
Eindhoven
Summary
Results-driven Senior Test Engineer with 12+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and Automation Testing across Energy, Healthcare, Semiconductor, and Infotainment industries. Proficient in embedding automation into development processes, focusing on CI/CD, resilient test automation, and selecting the right tools and infrastructure. Skilled in mentoring teams, implementing quality best practices, and ensuring testing is integral to the development cycle. Constantly seeks to learn new automation technologies, enhance testing tools, and drive efficiency. Demonstrates strong ability to align technical solutions with business needs and strategic quality goals. Also interested in exploring AI and machine learning applications in automation. Enjoys hobbies such as badminton, cricket, photography, and travel.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Automation Engineer
MARS via Capgemini Engineering
10.2024 - Current
- Setting up quality gates and embedding quality process in the development cycle with a focus on shift left testing to enhance early defect detection and software reliability
- Developed a UI automation framework to test the application workflows
- Developed a test automation library to reduce the amount of code needed to write automated tests
- Discussed requirements and processes with project managers and developers.
- Developed test plans, test cases, and test scripts for manual and automated testing
- Support for Native app testing on IOS and Android
Senior Tester
Eneco via Capgemini Engineering
03.2023 - 10.2024
- Spearheaded the testing of a virtual power plant system to manage assets in real-time, ensuring robust backend service testing in an agile environment
- Testing of mission-critical, high-availability software (VPP software)
- Automated end-to-end backend tests, boosting testing efficiency and enabling weekly production releases
- Expanded automation to UI testing using Playwright + TypeScript, improving test coverage and application quality
- Automated performance testing with JMeter, enhancing system performance assessment under varying conditions
- Defined test strategies for new features, collaborating with product owners to prioritize tasks and create a QA backlog aligned with business goals
- Coordinated chain testing across teams to ensure seamless feature integration and system functionality
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Philips Medical Systems NL BV
12.2021 - 01.2023
- Developed and maintained a robust automation framework to streamline system testing and improve efficiency of Philips IGT Systems
- Created and executed unit tests with mocking classes to validate keyword functionality
- Automated test cases, thus reducing system test cycles from 3 months to 1 month
- Executed automated test scripts on real IGT systems, adhering to system requirements and functionality
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies, including PI planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives
- Focused on enhancing automation consistency and refining testing frameworks
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Symplr
10.2019 - 11.2021
- Infrastructure Automation: Automated Azure infrastructure setup, including VMs, SQL servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, and application deployments. With this automation we could onboard a new client/customer within a few minutes with all the necessary infrastructure setup for the customer to start functioning and all of this happening with a single click deployment.
- Quality Assurance: Designed test plans, feature verification documents, and automated user workflow scenarios
- Production Monitoring: Monitored production logs, analyzed alerts, and reported findings to Product Owners (POs) and architects
- Developer Collaboration: Partnered with developers on field defects, replicated issues, validated fixes, and created verification reports before production releases
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
GE Healthcare
07.2019 - 10.2019
- Quality Assurance: Designed test plans, feature verification documents, and automated user workflow scenarios
- Apart from the regular tasks I was also responsible for monitoring the production system logs and analyzing the alerts and reporting the same to the PO's and architects
Senior Software Engineer
Siemens Technology and Services Pvt Ltd
03.2016 - 07.2019
- At Siemens I was working as a Scrum master and a test automation engineer for audiology division responsible for facilitating the team with scrum activities and maintenance of the automation framework
- I was also responsible for creation of a new automation framework as the existing framework was tool dependent
- Added new tests to the regression suite
- Developed a tool/application that automatically reads through the logs and thus helps in analyzing the regression tests and in reducing the overall time for test run analysis by 70%
Automation Engineer
HP
09.2015 - 03.2016
- At HP Inc I was working as a test automation engineer for HP printer's product responsible for requirement gathering and writing the test cases for user stores, creating automated scripts for regression tests
- I was also responsible for maintaining the automation code by removing the technical debts, publishing the weekly test reports to the stakeholders and also supporting the manual test teams with their testing activities on an intermittent basis
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
12.2012 - 09.2015
- Collaborated on requirement gathering, test case design, and sample-based testing to validate image processing algorithms
- Debugged hardware issues with client support
- I was responsible for migrating the test automation by creating new automation framework and migrating the existing test scripts into BDD framework using SpecFlow
- I have developed automated test scripts for BAT, Functional and Regression tests
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
NSS College of Engineering
India07.2012
Skills
- Technical: BDD, Test planning, Azure DevOps, test strategy, acceptance testing, API testing, code review, end-to-end testing, exploratory testing, integration testing, regression testing, smoke testing, system testing, stress testing ,microservices architecture
- Soft Skills: Good Communication, stakeholder management, good management skills, strong drive for innovation
- Tools: Jenkins, Postman, Ranorex, Swagger, JMeter
- Version Control: Git, TFS
- Programming languages: C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Powershell,
- Frameworks: SpecFlow, Nunit Test framework, Microsoft MS Test , Selenium, Playwright, ROBOT framework
- Platforms: Microsoft Azure
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
- ISTQB Certified Tester
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Data Science Foundation (IABAC)
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Senior Automation Engineer
MARS via Capgemini Engineering
10.2024 - Current
Senior Tester
Eneco via Capgemini Engineering
03.2023 - 10.2024
Senior Test Automation Engineer
Philips Medical Systems NL BV
12.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Symplr
10.2019 - 11.2021
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
GE Healthcare
07.2019 - 10.2019
Senior Software Engineer
Siemens Technology and Services Pvt Ltd
03.2016 - 07.2019
Automation Engineer
HP
09.2015 - 03.2016
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services Pvt Ltd
12.2012 - 09.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Electronics and Communication Engineering
NSS College of Engineering
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