Senior Software Testing & Engineering Leader (SRE/Performance)
Resume:
Harish Kumar Movilla
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SUMMARY:
20+ years of experience in Software Testing, Functional Automation, Site Reliability Engineering, Performance Engineering, Performance Testing, API Testing, Technical Program Management, Project Management, Scrum Master, Business Analysis, Service Line Delivery Management, Leadership roles
Played key role in building TCoE(Testing Centre of Excellence) for multiple orgs on basis of customer aas well as to enterprise. Involved in setting up strategic direction for multiple programs.Built small, medium and large teams ranging from 5-50+ people on program/s.
Engaged stakeholders to understand objectives, vision and supported their vision by establishing the metrics, delivering pattern based solutions, being part of Technical Review Board and Steering committee to approve the solutions and take it to multiple projects for its implementation successful and brought them together in CI/CD Platform.
Adept at analyzing Software Development & Quality Engineering requirements using Process Alignment, Setting Process Standards, Designing Automation Frameworks – Page Object Model, Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven Development Frameworks, Agile – Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and iterative methodologies, V-model, Waterfall, Spiral Development Methodologies
Extensive expertise designing Test Automation Frameworks, Libraries, Solutions for Cloud Technologies, On-prem Technologies across Event-driven Architecture, Micro-Service Architecture, Monolithic architecture, Microsoft Tech stack
Proficient in design, implement and maintain automation frameworks across technologies covering Mainframes, COTS Service Layer, Web Services, Application Interfaces, WPF, .NET, C#, MVC, Web UI, Mobile Platforms
Experienced in handling Database related Batch Jobs, Dtaa Migration between channels in different Data Standards covering but not limited to XML, JSON, Dat files, Collections.
Strong scripting skills in Java, Javascript, C#, PowerShell, Python, VB and SQL for automation and remediation tasks.
Experienced in monitoring Enterprise infrastructure health and promoting automation to identify bottle necks, fine tuning configurations, Code Instrumentation, analysis of packet loss, CRC errors, DISK I/O Bottlenecks, CPU Throttling, High ping times, routing, TCP Timeouts, Connection drops, Slow HTTPS Connections, Slow Payloads, High CPU, High response times, DB Locks, CPU Spikes
Hands-on experience in designing CI/CD Pipelines, managing test environments, Defect Mangement Process set-up for enterprise Applications functional & Performance Testing, Engineering
Proficient in building resilience frameworks at enterprise level for Performance Testing, robust Level 9 Automation frameworks for Functional Testing efforts
Extensive knowledge of cloud services, integrating security solutions into cloud environments.
Skilled in documenting enterprise Test Strategy, Test plan, User stories, Task definition and other processes using tools like Jira, Azure dotnet Dashboards, CA Rally, IBM Rational DOORS/ELM also experienced in managing without big tool chain with open-source toolset like Bugzilla and other Microsoft Tools and Slack and Share point
Experience Desinging Robotic Process Automation(RPA) solutions for different business usecases, workflows across enterprise using UIPath RPA, Gen AI Solutions, Open source solutions
Experienced in answering Request For Proposal(RFP/RFQ) based on the client needs. Enabling on-demand teams to deliver, mapping RACI Matrix, Stakeholder alignment, prepared quotes for large-scale automation, Cloud Migration, Digital Transformation, Gen AI Impementation
Defined KPIs for Performance Engineering, Test Automation, Release stability. Established QA Governance frameworks ensuring 100% traceability between requirements and testcases for E2E solutions
Led Multi-Million Dollar transformation programs with cross-functional global teams delivering automation, cloud migration and digital modernization initiatives. Managed budgets, risks and stakeholders at enterrise scale while ensuirng measurable improvements in cost, schedule and performance KPIs
Experience in designing, implementing, and managing automated security solutions for endpoint protection.
Operating Systems:
MS Windows all versions, Mac OSX, Unix, Linux (Ubuntu)
Testops Tools & Technologies:
Selenium, TestComplete, WinAPPDriver, UIPath, Team City, ADO.NET, Microsoft UI Test Automation Appium, TestNG, Maven, Selenium-Grid, junit, nunit, Selenium Grid, Tosca,Playwright, UFT, QTest, Ranorex, SeeTest, Cypress JavaScript, Java, C#, Python, ReadyAPI, Eclipse, Jenkins – CI, Bamboo, Xpath, Jira, Postman, Git, SVN, GitHub, BitBucket, ALM, ExtentReports, Allure reports, Rest assured, BDD, Cucumber, JMeter, Neoload, AWS Cloud Management console, cloud watch, Kubenetes, Docker, Tapsium, Loadrunner, Stormrunner
Languages:
Java, VB, Javascript, Python, HTML5, SQL, C, JavaScript, XML, CSS, JSON
Database:
Oracle, MS Access, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Adaptive Sybase, Mongo DB, Redis
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Client: Verizon, USA Mar 2024–Jan 2025 & Jun 2025 – Oct 2025
Role: Senior Test Automation Architect/IT Techical Pogram Manager
Responsibilities:
• Identifying business requirements to conduct chaos engineering, Functional Automation – Web & Desktop, Mobile test automation for multiple applications, projects and programs including ACTs & PCTs
Delivered Testing Centre of Excellence operations to Verizon for PlatformTesting by proposing the response to Request for Proposal(RFP), supporting on-demand needs across Different business groups like VCG(Consumer Group), VBG(Business Group), NS- Network Systemsfor both functional automation, infrastructure-performance Engineering and performance automation teams.
• Proposing solution design and implement to handle Quality control activities, and engineering activities
• Driving Proof of Concept and spearheading the deliverables from technical standpoint for Test Automation covering web, Desktop, mobile and other interfaces, Gen AI model proposals
• Planning and designing Business Requirements, Technical and functional requirements of the SUT
• Identified and recommended Work Load Analysis Model Document
• Functional & Performance Test Strategy Definition
• Setting up the test environment including ALM Tools(JIRA, QTest, Team City), Automation Tools(Selenium, Tosca, TestComplete) and managing Test Execution Agents(Selenium Grid, Test Execute, DEX), CI CD Server, Version Management(Gitlab, GitHub, Azure Repos) and Reporting utilities(Allure, MSTest) and managing them for multiple projects.
Designed the Functional, Performance Test Suites based on Customer Requirements
• Generating scripts(Selenium, TestComplete, Tosca NUnit, Junit, Microsoft UI Automation, WinAPP Driver) and creating test data using tools(SQL Server, JSON, Mongo db, XML Technologies, Excel, CSV).
• Planning the Implementation and Execution.
• Analyzing Logs and reports.
• Part of handling release sign-off decisions, environment readiness checks
• Perform Testing activities on cloud environment
• Identifying bottlenecks and providing recommendations for systems part of Enterprise architecture
• Result Book for consecutive run
• Generating the final Report to ensure the deliverables.
• Built Predictive data models for large data
• Played key role in migrating different consumer applications from BAU to NSA Architecture
Client: United Airlines, USA Feb 2025 – Jun 2025
Role: Senior Test Automation Architect/IT Techical Pogram Manager
Responsibilities:
• Identifying business requirements to conduct Functional Automation, Mobile test automation for Starlink program
• Design end to end automation for systems ranging from Passenger Manifest, to flight Management to Billing and onboarding process.
• Involved in designing the QE Efforts for e2e integrations, functional testing and performance testing efforts for free United WI-FI for MP members & other airlines Frequent flyer programs
• Driving Proof of Concept and spearheading the deliverables from technical standpoint for Test Automation covering web, mobile and other interfaces, Gen AI model proposals
• Planning and designing Business Requirements, Technical and functional requirements of the SUT
• Identified and recommended Work Load Analysis Model Document
• Functional & Performance Test planning, analysis & Implementation
• Setting up the test environment.
• Generating scripts and creating test data.
• Designed the Functional, Performance Test Suites based on Customer Requirements
• Planning the Implementation and Execution.
• Analyzing Logs and reports.
• Part of handling release sign-off decisions, environment readiness checks
• Perform Testing activities across multiple environments covering Dev, Integration, Preprod and production testing
• Identifying bottlenecks and providing recommendations for systems part of Enterprise architecture
• Result Book for consecutive run
• Generating the final Report to ensure the deliverables.
• Built Predictive data models for Passenger preferences on GAM Ads
Client: Verizon Wireless, India Nov 2021 – Mar 2024
Role: Senior Test Automation Architect/IT Techical Pogram Manager
Responsibilities:
Identifying business requirements to conduct chaos engineering, Functional Automation – Web & Desktop, Mobile test automation for multiple applications, projects and programs including ACTs & PCTs
• Proposing solution design and implement to handle Quality control activities, and engineering activities
• Driving Proof of Concept and spearheading the deliverables from technical standpoint for Test Automation covering web, Desktop, mobile and other interfaces, Gen AI model proposals
Delivered Testing Centre of Excellence operations to Verizon for PlatformTesting by proposing the response to Request for Proposal(RFP), supporting on-demand needs across Different business groups like VCG(Consumer Group), VBG(Business Group), NS- Network Systemsfor both functional automation, infrastructure-performance Engineering and performance automation teams.
• Planning and designing Business Requirements, Technical and functional requirements of the SUT
• Identified and recommended Work Load Analysis Model Document
• Functional & Performance Test Strategy Definition
• Setting up the test environment including ALM Tools(JIRA, QTest, Team City), Automation Tools(Selenium, Tosca, TestComplete) and managing Test Execution Agents(Selenium Grid, Test Execute, DEX), CI CD Server, Version Management(Gitlab, GitHub, Azure Repos) and Reporting utilities(Allure, MSTest) and managing them for multiple projects.
Designed the Functional, Performance Test Suites based on Customer Requirements
• Generating scripts(Selenium, TestComplete, Tosca NUnit, Junit, Microsoft UI Automation, WinAPP Driver) and creating test data using tools(SQL Server, JSON, Mongo db, XML Technologies, Excel, CSV).
• Planning the Implementation and Execution.
• Analyzing Logs and reports.
• Part of handling release sign-off decisions, environment readiness checks
• Perform Testing activities on cloud environment
• Identifying bottlenecks and providing recommendations for systems part of Enterprise architecture
• Result Book for consecutive run
• Generating the final Report to ensure the deliverables.
• Built Predictive data models for large data
• Played key role in migrating different consumer applications from BAU to NSA Architecture
Client: Chubb Nov 2020 – Nov 2021
Role: Senior Test Automation Architect
Responsibilities:
Requirement gathering, analysis and identification of the objectives, scope, coverage of test automation including both functional and non-functional (spread across Performance Engineering/Testing, Functional Testing and other Quality goals).
Alignment of Shift Left Implementation Strategy, Test Strategy with multiple teams spread across Client’s Middleware & external systems connected to Product Workbench, Policy Management System, Claim Management System covering Backend systems, Middleware technologies like Guidewire, API, Web services, Customer Experience, Transactional systems which are hosted on cloud technologies both Monolithic & Service Oriented Architecture, Data Transfer technologies JSON, XML, Domain & Business Objects, System Testing teams responsible for Functional and non-functional requirement evaluation.
Identifying the risks associated with process of implementation, Data availability, Environment Availability, Requirement clarification, Team structure and other internal activities and propose best practices to implement mitigation plan with an acceptance from stakeholders of current engagement.
Understanding the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as-is and identifying the gaps and align the stakeholders with latest metrics including code coverage, defect leakage, coverage metrics per multiple product needs.
Liaising between Business technical teams with hands on technical implementation while understanding the business priorities
Work closely with Scrum master, product owners, Product Dev Team, Solution Architects, Database Architects to understand the end user needs perspective and support changing goals by participating in Sprint Planning & grooming calls and align the testing team operations in line to changing scope and requirements
Design the Automation Frameworks, end-to-end pipelines for Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) to support testing across End to End systems supporting business operations involving but not limited to Customer Experience, Billing Support Systems, Order management Systems, Product grid wall, product catalog, Pega Intelligent Services from different external sources, Digital Tag analytics and other important metrics
Support key stakeholders of program/project/organization to help make right decisions to optimize the lead time required to fix the issues before they are slipped to next environment by reducing the cost of operations. Helped Tetrasoft build TCoE for Chubb program.
Built Automation Solutions required to support Keyword driven execution for different product lines covering Home Insurance, Property insurance, Life Insurance and others
Involved in generating the Execution Summary Report for identified builds covering regression, new development builds to support Quality gateway decisions for release of a feature to Product teams who qualify to test the identified features
Involved in Defect triaging decisions to support release cycles
Proposed End to end Dashboard project to cover the Quality Engineering metrics around System Availability, Data Availability, Coverage and other important KPIs
Performed proof of concept using various tools and technologies for functional test automation, performance testing/Engineering and Deployment workflows of the builds to multiple environments including Development, Testing, Preproduction and production environments
Worked with key stakeholders of the project, program to design the Data management solutions to support the technical proof of evaluation using SQL DB, and integration tools to access the data from multiple sources
Advising the best practices to identify the solutions and preparation of execution summary reports to transfer the solutions for implementation phase, maintenance phase with an in-depth analysis completed
Implemented Process Automation solutions, effective Data Management
Assessed the virtual memory footprints, heap size allocation per JVM and identifying the target instances required to conduct the chaos Engineering, Performance Engineering under different load, volume and infrastructure conditions ranging from single user benchmarking to 1000+ concurrent sessions effective handling via multiple availability zones
Identifying the static & dynamic vulnerabilities using open-source top 10 OWASP principles as the minimum passing criteria along with other techniques on special script instrumentation to trigger vulnerabilities
Have implemented the shift-left approach for certifying different services and their availability, functionality, reliability, scalability across multiple product lines of Insurance solutions
Designed the Integration Testing, System testing, Regression and User Acceptance testing solutions and integrated them well with a common database dealing with the test data inputs
Implemented the Automation frameworks for supporting Product Workbench, other product line Implementations
Designed the libraries in the solutions to support data retrieval based on most common and identified scenarios by streaming the data sources and filtering the situational need.
Implemented Performance Testing Solutions with multiple toolsets including JMeter and other internal solutions to trigger loads to measure the response times and traffic routing across different availability Zones.
Designed & Implemented CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins One View with multiple tool chain for Functional Automation, Development, Unit Testing, Integration testing, System Testing and non functional testing including performance testing
Involved in identifying the team including hiring and firing decisions to support the operations across IT Infrastructure needs of our clients, internal projects
Worked closely with stakeholders of customer experience, production, preproduction tickets to triage them to support the release life cycle
Provided estimates, Designed Work break down structure, inputs for Sprint Planning, Grooming, Scrum Teams
Lead IT Solutions for Quality Engineering divisions and keep team members informed of any new technology and process.
Lead and monitor all customer implementation deliverables including installation, configuration, and testing of Web UI – based applications, Desktop, Service Implementations, SOA Migrations, Mobile Based Apps.
Perform Datacenter Migration and Tech Refresh to help adopting new technologies.
Prepare Executive Summary Report to support release sign-offs for product releases
Participate in Defect Triaging meetings to estimate involved team’s performance review
Develop required Documentation to implement approach for implementation including –Quality Engineering, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Epics, User story & Tasks.
Capacity planning, SLA Benchmark testing to address organization IT demand.
Perform API Testing, Unit Testing, System & User Acceptance, Regression testing for multiple environments on IT equipment. o Conducting Integration & System Testing activities during promotion of code deployment from Dev to QA to Pre-production and Production environments
Ensuring Service Level Agreements (SLA) are met by each micro service in terms of response times, availability & Scalability Document technical approach for the Automation Frameworks, covering Web UI, Mobile, Analytics Key Events to validate and keep it for future reference for other team members
Prepare IT Operations and project progress reports and share with Client and Tetrasoft management on weekly basis
Generate Capacity and trend report to share with Client.
Identify the Service availability as required for Product Workbench to work seamlessly and report to appropriate teams and get their resolutions seen in identified Service Level Agreements(SLA).
Ensure all the IT equipment is under monitoring, and the process of equipment health check and incident reporting is automated.
Analyze and implement right set of tools for Site Reliability Engineering across important workflows, mocked services and API Components, cover their monitoring and reporting.
Part of handling release sign-off decisions, environment readiness checks
Perform Testing activities on cloud environment
Identifying bottlenecks and providing recommendations for systems part of Enterprise architecture
Result Book for consecutive run
Generating the final Report to ensure the deliverables.
Client: National Bank of Bahrain(NBB), The Group Securities, Oman Insurance Corporation Jun 2020 – Nov 2020
Role: Performance Engineering Architect
Responsibilities:
Developed and implemented Performance Engineering & Testing strategies across for different middle east clients covering Banking, Insurance & Stock exchange across Middle East Region.
Conducted detailed requirements analysis to define the scope and objectives for both non-functional testing, including performance, system, and user acceptance testing.
Involved in Business discussions to finalize Scope, answer Request for proposals, providing implementation approach. • Involved in Capacity Planning, bench marking, Load, Stress Testing exercises
Involved in setting up the cloud infrastructure to support Performance testing exercises using tools like LoadRunner, Storm Runner & JMeter.
Designed the End-to-end Dashboard from several product lines which is aligned to deliver multiple insurance products inline to business needs from Availability, Reliability, Performance and scalability perspectives of Quality Engineering.
Engineered and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using tools like Git, Jenkins, BlazeMeter, JMeter, Loadrunner, Neoload, Microfocus ALM, integrating non-functional tests for quality gates.
Developed and maintained automation frameworks to handle infrastructure changes on Server side approach to support multiple product lines, including home, property, and life insurance.
Identified performance bottlenecks and coordinated with Technical, Dev, Business teams to discuss and implement resolutions by using monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Perfmon, nmon, wireshark, kibana log management tools, Splunk, cloud monitoring tools like cloudwatch and other APM tools
Designed and built scalable Performance Testing solutions using tools to simulate various load conditions, measuring system response times and traffic routing across availability zones.
Designed API Coverage & Availability Dashboard using Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Dashboards on cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
Assessed key performance indicators (KPIs) and identified gaps in metrics such as CPU Utilization, Memory IO, Network, Process level attributes, processor and Disk IOs.
Analyzed virtual memory footprints and heap size allocations for JVMs to support Performance Engineering tests across different target IT Infrastructure for multiple end clients.
Developed and implemented process automation solutions and effective data management strategies to optimize operations.
Proposed and developed end-to-end dashboards to track critical Quality Engineering metrics, including system availability and data coverage.
Monitored different Enterprise architectures like Monolithic(Simple applications interacting with enterprise registered apps), Micro-services, n-tier architecture, 3-tier architecture & client-server architecture using Enterprise APM Toolset.
Requirement gathering, analysis and identification of the objectives, scope, coverage of test automation for non-functional (spread across Performance Engineering/Testing goals)
Liaised between technical teams and business stakeholders, translating business priorities into technical tasks and providing project leadership.
Collaborated with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Developers, Database Architects and Solution Architects in sprint planning and grooming sessions to align testing with evolving requirements.
Participated in defect triaging and provided estimates for work breakdown structures to support release cycles.
Prepared and presented executive summary reports on activity signoffs(performance testing & Engineering) and project progress to both internal management and clients.
Client: Colruyt Group Sep 2019 – May2020
Role: Test Automation Architect
Responsibilities:
Contributed towards Quality Engineering covering Mainframes, Oracle Database, Batch Jobs, Services, Web UI, Desktop, Mobile applications & Test Data Management
Part of requirements analysis, test design and execution activities.
Have been a key responsible for setting up strategic direction for Testing service centre operations across multiple programs.
Part of a team to identify patterns to support Automation frameworks
Involved in Test Strategy, Test Plan and Implementation plans
Involved in Key strategic decisions to deliver the solutions by participating in Technical Review Board.
Involved in Load, Stress Testing exercises to support the scalability of multiple systems along with Performance teams using LoadRunner, JMeter
Involved in designing the Automation frameworks and libraries
Involved in Requirement gathering, analysis and automation
Liaised between technical teams and stakeholders.
Participated in defect triaging meetings and worked towards defect resolutions.
Provided test summary reports to management and stakeholders.
Developed and implemented Performance Engineering & Testing strategies across for different product teams.
Conducted detailed requirements analysis to define the scope and objectives for both non-functional testing, including performance, system, and user acceptance testing.
Client: Teranet Jan 2019 – Sep 2019
Role: Test Automation Architect
Responsibilities:
Developed and implemented Quality Engineering for multiple clients of Cigniti Technologies Enterprise Network covering Database, Batch Jobs, Services, Web UI, Mobile applications & Test Data Management
Conducted detailed requirements analysis to define the scope and objectives for Functional Testing, Performance testing Covering Unit Modules, Integration, system – Load, Stress & Scalability, and user acceptance testing.
Engineered and re-engineered multiple test automation frameworks to support the case of migrating bulk number of testcases (~6000 Testcases) from Test Complete to Selenium to adapt the tool chain on Open-Source Technologies
Built Test Strategy, Test Plan and Implementation plans for multiple projects
Involved in Key strategic decisions to deliver the solutions by participating in Technical Review Board, Initial phases of implementation, Execution – Regression, Smoke testing, sanity testing & User Acceptance Testing(UAT).
Involved in Business discussions to finalize Scope, answer business needs, providing implementation approach.
Involved in defining the coding standards, peer review using Git,, Gerrit and Jenkins to handle Test Ops
Involved in Load, Stress Testing exercises to support the scalability of multiple systems along with Performance teams using JMeter
Designed the Automation frameworks and implemented libraries to enable coverage across End-to-end business operations
Engineered and implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using tools like Git, Jenkins, BlazeMeter, JMeter, Loadrunner, Microfocus ALM, integrating non-functional tests for quality gates.
Re-engineered Automation frameworks to optimize the robustness of scripts by identifying opportunities to maintain the frameworks in line to Cigniti Standards
Developed and maintained automation frameworks to handle infrastructure changes on Server side approach to support multiple product lines for Teranet, CA to support Writs Operations across multiple civil lines, Public Land records, Real Estate operations
Identified performance bottlenecks and coordinated with Technical, Dev, Business teams to discuss and implement resolutions by using enterprise monitoring tools and infrastructure
Designed and built scalable Automation Testing solutions using tools to support Behavior driven development(BDD) implementation approach using Serenity, Cucumber, JBehave, Git, Gerrit & Jenkins Server, agenets
Designed Functional Coverage & Availability Dashboard for multiple domains on nginx server monitoring the lab agents, execution stats and availability of the agents and their health status
Assessed key performance indicators (KPIs) and identified gaps in metrics such as CPU Utilization, Memory IO, Network, Process level attributes, processor and Disk IOs.
Analyzed virtual memory footprints and heap size allocations for JVMs to support Performance Engineering tests across different target IT Infrastructure for multiple end clients.
Developed and implemented process automation solutions and effective data management strategies to optimize operations.
Proposed and developed end-to-end dashboards to track critical Quality Engineering metrics, including system availability and data coverage.
Monitored Enterprise SOA for multiple systems sharing the entities.
Built and managed Model based entities to support multiple operations and maintained their data sources from a centralized systems to share their availability which optimized multiple implementations
Conducted Proof of Concepts to support open source implementation inline to the standards of existing solutions.
Requirement gathering, analysis and identification of the objectives, scope, coverage of test automation for non-functional (spread across Performance Engineering/Testing goals)
Liaised between technical teams and business stakeholders, translating business priorities into technical tasks and providing project leadership.
Part of Daily, Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly status calls to highlight the project status against set standards and progress. Also highlight the risks involved in the timelines to let our customers make informed decisions.
Collaborated with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Developers, Database Architects and Solution Architects in sprint planning and grooming sessions to align testing with evolving requirements.
Participated in defect triaging and provided estimates for work breakdown structures to support release cycles.
Prepared and presented executive summary reports on activity signoffs (performance testing & Engineering) and project progress to both internal management and clients.
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