Kumaraswamy Posa

About Kumaraswamy Posa

Lead Automation Test Engineer / QA Automation Lead with 15 years of experience in…

Experience

1. Lead Software Test Automation Engineer

   EPAM Systems

   Nov 2011 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Architected enterprise-grade, modular Web UI automation platforms using Selenium (C#), SpecFlow, and NUnit with layered design, page-object/Screenplay patterns, parallel execution, and cross-browser scalability to enable reliable, maintainable BDD at scale.• Designed desktop automation architecture for complex Windows estates leveraging FlaUI, SpecFlow, TestStack White, and UFT, standardizing control discovery, synchronization, and environment abstraction to optimize stability across diverse tech stacks.• Defined API automation strategy and reusable contract-testing libraries with HttpClient (C#) and RestSharp, incorporating schema validation, idempotent test data strategies, and shift-left pipelines for early defect detection.• Led Quality Engineering assessments across teams, establishing target-state test architectures, governance models, and roadmaps; institute coding standards, design reviews, and quality gates aligned to delivery KPIs.• Operationalized metrics-driven quality engineering by defining leading/lagging indicators (coverage, mutation score, flakiness, MTTR), building dashboards, and instituting remediation workflows to continuously improve signal quality.• Directed RFP/RFI solutioning for QA/Automation, producing reference architectures, capacity models, and effort/cost estimates; influenced tooling selections and multi-year transformation plans.• Engineered CI/CD-first test orchestration with Jenkins and TeamCity, implementing pipeline-as-code, test impact analysis, environment provisioning, and gated merges to achieve fast, reliable feedback cycles.• Established Git branching and release strategies (e.g, trunk-based with short-lived branches), enforced code review policies, and introduced static analysis/test health checks to protect framework integrity at scale.