About

Shanmuga Kesavan is a Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Systems with over 12 years of experience in the field. He is a QA Manager and an Innovation champion with expertise in Selenium, Appium, Java, TestNG, Page Object Model, Mobile/Web/API/DB testing, Perfecto/SauceLabs, ISTQB, Agile, Machine Learning, and Python. He has worked in various domains including Banking, Capital Markets, and Healthcare. Currently, Shanmuga works at DXC Technology as a Product Test Professional. His responsibilities include Regression Testing of Mobile App, developing and maintaining QA Automation Scripts using Appium, Perfecto, Selenium WebDriver with TestNG, framework design (Page Object Model, Hybrid/Keyword driven approach), code review, GitHub (Branching & Merging), and executing 400 Android, iOS scripts every Sprint. He also helps the QA Manager in the annual and mid-year Appraisal process, Maas360 Device Compliance, Recruitment activities, Timesheets, Leave Tracking, and gathering QA Metrics to prepare monthly Governance Report. He reports daily/cycle wise status to Leads/Managers. In the past, Shanmuga has worked at EPAM Systems as a Senior Software Engineer and at Cognizant as a Programmer Analyst. At Cognizant, he was responsible for Smoke, System testing, Integration testing, Regression testing, Sanity Browser compatibility testing, and offshore User Acceptance testing. He also implemented ADPART, an in-house Test creation tool for generating test cases. Shanmuga holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Programming, Specific Applications from Bharathiyar University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Dharmamurthi Rao Bahadur Calavala Cunnan Chetty's Hindu College. Shanmuga's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, test, qa, Selenium, Mobile, ML, Web, Java, Python, and iOS. He has achieved various accomplishments in his career, including delivering consistently yielding Client Satisfaction, thereby getting approval to increase Resource count from 3 to 6 within a year (gained 3 new modules), implementing BrowserStack (a third party tool), which greatly helped in Browser & OS compatibility testing, and reducing Script execution time by 25%.