About

Kiran Sk is an experienced SDET Lead with a passion for automation and a vast array of technical skills. With over 10 years of relevant experience, Kiran has worked on various aspects of testing, both manual and automation, across web, mobile, and backend platforms. Kiran's expertise lies in creating and designing automated tests and automation frameworks for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. Kiran is an expert in web, Android, iOS app, web services, and backend automation framework designing and developing automated suites for various testing efforts and needs. Kiran's proficiency in Java, Python, Katalon Studio, Selenium, Appium, Docker, Restful Web Services, TestNG, Pytest, Sauce Labs, BrowAutoIT, Cucumber, Robotium, Sahi, JMETER, Continuous Integration (Jenkins, CodeShip), API Automation Testing using SoapUI, Retrofit, POSTMAN, RestAssured, and WebDriver makes him a valuable asset to any team. Kiran has hands-on experience in developing automation scripts and outlining data-driven, method-driven, hybrid, Java-TestNG, Python-Pytest, behavior-driven, and keyword-driven automation frameworks in IOS, Android, and desktop web application platforms. Kiran has designed Restful Web Services Automation Suite for E-commerce, Edtech, and Media domains from scratch. Currently working as a Senior Software Development Engineer Test 2 Lead at Akamai, Kiran has previously held the position of Senior 2 Software Development Engineer in Test and Senior Software Development Engineer Test at the same company. Kiran has worked on automating client-end libraries on a cross-platform automation framework using Appium, Python, Pytest, and Katalon Studio. Kiran has also developed an automation framework using Python-PyTest to validate client-side beacon logs. Kiran's education history includes a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University. Kiran is a skilled software engineer with expertise in web, Python, SDET, Java, CI/CD, backend, integration, mobile, Selenium, iOS, Jenkins, Docker, UI, SQL, MSSQL, Kafka, and frontend. Kiran is always looking to develop new skills and gain experience in the automation domain.