Mahesh Kulkarni

About Mahesh Kulkarni

Reliable, Trustworthy, Solution Oriented professional with 15+ years of experience in Architecting, Leading and Managing QA Automation and Functional teams to make successful releases for UI, API, DB, Data Pipeline and Process Automation projects for SaaS based products.• Proven skills in the areas of Technical Leadership, Planning and Execution, Customer Management, Stakeholder Management, Team Management, Defect and QA Process Management• Proven skills in Design, Architecture and Development of Test Automation Frameworks, using Data Driven Framework, Hybrid Framework, Page Object Model, Modular Framework approaches.• Automated and maintained large amount of test suites and gained stakeholders confidence by providing consistent test execution results.• Built QA and Automation teams from scratch and enabled teams to make defect free releases.• Hands on experience executing the Agile Ceremonies - Backlog refinement with PM, Sprint planning, Execute and monitor the Sprint through Daily Scrum, Scrum of Scrum (SoS), Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospective etc.• Proficient in Core Java, Python, Selenium, TestNG, Maven, Docker containers, Jenkins, GIT, Rest Assured [Rest API], PyTest, Shell, Splunk, Jira, TestRail, MySQL, AWS DynamoDB [NoSQL Database], S3, EC2 and other tools.• Very good experience working on Python PyTest Framework and Robot Framework for UI and API Automation• Hands on experience in Benchmarking and Performance Testing using Jmeter Scripting, Setup and Execution.• Expertise in building open-source tools and utilities to save cost for the team and organization.• Hands on experience in working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure for day-to-day activities for SaaS platform such as EC2 instances, Lambda, AMIs, DynamoDB, S3, AWS JDK Client etc.• Experience in working in Startup Environment and Product Organizations (10+ years in product org)with Enterprise Products, BMC Remedy, Devices, Contact Center and Energy (Electricity usage and cost reduction) domains.

Experience

1. Project Manager Ibm (India) Software Labs

   IBM

   Jul 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Joined IBM through the acquisition of Prescinto by the IBM. Continuing my roles & responsibilities of Managing QA & Automation Team and Release Management. Along with the Project Management I am also being hands on in building Automation Frameworks and Test Cases for Process Automation and Onboarding Automation. It\'s been quite challenging yet fulfilling opportunity.

Education

• Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal

  Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

• Basaveshwara College of Engineering, Bagalkot

  B.E, Information Science and Engineering

Skills

• Test Cases
• Android
• Mobile Communications
• Java
• Mobile Technology
• Agile Methodologies
• Telecom Domain Testing
• Handsets
• Xml
• Test Automation
• Mobile Applications
• Mobile Devices
• Requirements Analysis
• Testing