About

Sarath Krishnan is a highly experienced Lead QA with over 13 years of experience in Test Automation. He has managed QA teams for complex projects with direct stakeholder management and has a strong hands-on experience on functional and non-functional testing of web and mobile applications. Sarath is an advocate of Test Automation, CI/CD, TDD, Shift Left Testing, and Test Pyramid. He is proficient in JIRA/Confluence and has played the Iteration Manager/Scrum master role as well. Sarath has worked on a variety of projects with different tools/tech stack across multiple domains. Currently, Sarath is working at Thoughtworks as a Senior Quality Assurance Consultant. He is delivering quality software with a laser focus on Test Automation, Shift Left, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), and Test pyramid. Sarath has implemented multiple Test Automation Solutions for UI and API/ Microservices using Java, Selenium, Rest Assured, Cucumber, WebDriver IO, and TypeScript. He has also worked on build/release tools and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, Build Kite, Git lab, and GoCD. Sarath has successfully defined Test Plan/Strategy, path to production, and deployment strategy for multiple clients. He has also done Agile enablement and test automation consultation for clients/delivery teams. In the past, Sarath has worked as a QA Automation Lead at McFadyen Digital and as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Flipkart. At McFadyen Digital, he worked as a Test Automation Architect and QA Lead for multiple US-based e-commerce clients. At Flipkart, he designed, executed, and signed-off the features for PayZippy(Payment Gateway), Flipkart Offer Zone, Revamped Home Page. Sarath has also worked as a Release & Deployment Manager (Deploying Flipkart website and apps to production) and worked on upgrading existing automation framework built on java, webdriver, and testNG. Sarath holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from Amrita University. He is ISTQB Certified Test Manager and has relevant experience of 14.11 years. Sarath is eager to take up Test Architect/ QA Manager role. He has a tech stack that includes test, qa, SDET, CI/CD, Selenium, Java, Jenkins, UI, Senior Software Engineer, Integration, Microservices, Mobile, TypeScript, Web, AWS, Software Engineer, Spark, Big Data, and