About

Guru Kiran Bangalore Venkatesh is an experienced Lead Quality Assurance professional with over 16 years of experience in the field of software testing and automation. He is currently working as an SDET at Snapchat, where he specializes in testing and providing automation solutions for frontend applications, backend applications, and microservices. Guru Kiran has a proven track record of leading teams of up to 10 QA professionals for over 5 years, working with in-house, remote, and distributed teams. He is skilled in strategizing independent pools of QA for various small agile teams with strong communication skills, ability to self-manage, promote testing, and continuously improve based on consistent feedback cycles. He has extensive experience in creating test frameworks for frontend applications using WebDriver/Selenium 1.0, 2.0, 3.0.*, test runner, test suites, test infrastructure, and reporting to assert frontend and test responsive websites on different breakpoints. He is also skilled in integrating these frameworks into a Selenium grid in a Docker container on AWS and integrating them into Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD. Guru Kiran is an expert in providing consultation on TDD, BDD, and all aspects of automation for web projects, back office/microservices projects, as well as implementation. He is capable of rapidly deploying and customizing tests and test suites for business and development teams' needs and integrating them with existing CI solutions. He has worked on various software development methodologies and has been practicing Agile for over 8 years now. His technical skills include Java, Perl, Python, Javascript/Nodejs, Shell Scripts, VB script, expect/TCL, cucumber jvm, CSS, HTML, SCM tools such as GIT, ade, SVN, maven, SCME, clear-case, exploratory testing, integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), accessibility testing, scripting, planning, management, Context-Driven Testing, contract-based testing, mobile testing, Native app testing, etc. Guru Kiran has worked with companies like made.com and Oracle in the past, where he played a significant role in test automation solution architecture and Sr. Member Technical Staff, respectively. He has a BE degree in Biotechnology from B.M.S. College of Engineering and has completed his schooling from Seshadripuram. Overall, Guru Kiran is a highly skilled and experienced professional with expertise in software testing and automation, team management, and consultation.