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Gopalakrishnan

Senior Automation Engineer

10+ years of experience building reliable test automation frameworks, improving quality systems, and working closely with engineering teams to ship better software. Specialized in scalable automation architecture and quality engineering at scale.

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What I Do

Framework Architecture

Designing and maintaining scalable UI and API automation frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines for continuous quality feedback.

Quality Strategy

Reducing flaky tests, improving signal-to-noise in large automation suites, and establishing quality gates for production releases.

Developer Collaboration

Partnering with developers to shift quality left, integrate testing into development workflow, and build quality into the product.

Internal Tooling

Building internal QA tools to improve tester productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and provide real-time quality insights.

Impact & Results

Measurable improvements delivered across organizations

65%

Reduction in Production Incidents

3×

Faster Regression Execution

95%

Test Automation Coverage

Experience

Senior Automation Engineer

Enterprise Tech Corp

2020 - Present

Leading test automation strategy and framework development for a multi-product SaaS platform serving 500K+ users.

Architected microservices testing strategy reducing deployment time by 40%
Built unified automation framework adopted by 5 engineering teams
Established quality gates that reduced production incidents by 65%

QA Automation Lead

FinTech Solutions

2017 - 2020

Managed automation infrastructure for payment processing systems handling $2B+ annual transactions.

Implemented end-to-end API testing suite with 95% coverage
Reduced regression time from 8 hours to 45 minutes
Mentored 4 junior QA engineers on automation best practices

Automation Engineer

Digital Innovation Labs

2014 - 2017

Developed automation solutions for web and mobile applications across multiple client projects.

Created reusable test automation library used across 10+ projects
Integrated automated testing into CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins
Achieved 80% test automation coverage for critical workflows

Featured Projects

Selection of automation frameworks and tools I've built

Scalable UI Automation Framework

Enterprise-grade Playwright framework with advanced features including auto-healing selectors, parallel execution, and comprehensive reporting.

PlaywrightTypeScriptDockerJenkins
Used by 50+ QA engineers
10K+ test cases
99.5% reliability

API Testing Framework

Modular REST API testing solution with contract testing, performance validation, and automated documentation generation.

JavaREST AssuredTestNGAllure
95% API coverage
3-second avg response
Auto-generated docs

QA Dashboard & Analytics

Real-time test execution dashboard with ML-powered failure analysis and predictive quality metrics.

PythonReactPostgreSQLGrafana
Real-time insights
ML predictions
Custom alerts

Test Data Management Tool

Internal tool for generating, managing, and cleaning test data across multiple environments with API integration.

PythonFastAPIMongoDBDocker
90% time saved
Multi-env support
Self-service portal

Technical Skills

Frameworks & Tools

PlaywrightSeleniumCypressREST AssuredPostmanJMeter

Languages

JavaTypeScriptPythonJavaScriptSQLBash

CI/CD & DevOps

JenkinsGitLab CIGitHub ActionsDockerKubernetesAWS

Methodologies

TDDBDDAgile/ScrumShift-Left TestingRisk-Based Testing

Let's Work Together

Interested in collaborating or learning more about my experience? I'm always open to discussing quality engineering challenges and opportunities.

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