About

Pavankumar N. is a Senior Software Engineer in Test with over 9 years of experience in IoT Automation Testing. He has expertise in User Requirement Analysis, Functional Specifications, Use Cases, Business Requirements, and Business Rules to prepare Test Schedules and Identify Test Requirements. Pavankumar is an expert in using Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) by writing Gherkin language using cucumber tool, developed Scenarios, Scenario outlines, features, and Step definitions, and generating the cucumber reports. He has extensive knowledge of fluent wait, explicit wait in webdriver, and has experimented and implemented selenium API to create custom locators, custom web elements. Pavankumar has experience in handling clients from the USA and Canada and is good at problem-solving and data structures. He possesses good analytical and communication skills and the ability to work independently and with a team. Pavankumar has experience in automating API with Rest Assured, manually with Postman, and has performed Database/Backend testing by writing complex SQL Queries for data validation and integrity. He is good at writing complex Joins and has knowledge in SQL/Mysql. Pavankumar has experience with parallel & remote execution using selenium grid on docker containers. He has experience in DevOps, installing, configuring, and integrating Automation scripts on Continuous Integration tools (CI/CD) like Jenkins for nightly test suite execution and working on knowledge on testing and configuring Amazon Web services (AWS). Pavankumar has created and maintained fully automated CI/CD pipelines for Automation testing using Docker and Jenkins. In his current role as a Senior Software Engineer in Test at Tenable, Pavankumar is responsible for designing and developing a framework with a combination of POM, Factory Pattern, and Interpreter pattern to construct Python code with Java. He has also deployed and debugged the docker and Kubernetes builds of the application to test the simplex and high availability. Prior to Tenable, Pavankumar worked as a Senior Test Engineer at Nokia and Wipro, where he has worked on developing a framework which interprets java code into python scripts to handle the backend automation based on interpreter design pattern over POM and BDD. He has also created BDD features using selenium cucumber BDD framework for ReactJS and AngularJS applications, and deployed the docker and Kubernetes builds of the application to test the simplex and high availability. Pavankumar has experience in developing scripts to automate remote machines and k8s with python paramiko. Pavankumar