About

Karthik Taduvai is an experienced Lead SDET at Freshworks with over 10 years of relevant experience in the field. He is an expert in developing automation frameworks and executing test automation for web applications and REST APIs using Selenium WebDriver, Rest Assured, and Java. Karthik is well-versed in continuous integration, TestNG framework, Cucumber, SQL, REST API automation, and web services automation. He is also proficient in using tools like Jenkins, Maven, Git, Sonarqube, NCover, Kibana, and Sumologic to measure and maintain code quality and coverage. Karthik has worked on multiple challenging projects that have honed his skills and zeal for problem-solving. He has a proven track record of improving the reliability of test scripts, increasing the test automation code coverage, and reducing the time for root cause analysis. He is always looking for new challenges to tackle and welcomes anyone who needs his assistance. In his previous role at Planful, Karthik was responsible for designing and implementing test automation frameworks using Selenium WebDriver and Rest Assured. He improved the reliability of test scripts, increased the test automation code coverage, and introduced a mechanism to correlate test script logs and application logs for quick identification of failures. He also built Kibana dashboards for monitoring the usage stats of automation execution VMs and test environment VMs. Before joining Planful, Karthik worked as an SDET at Nous Infosystems, where he was responsible for setting up UI Test Automation Frameworks with Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber. He executed test automation suites, managed defects, and trained new joiners in the team on test automation and Selenium WebDriver. Karthik holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from JNTU. He is proficient in SDET, test, software engineering, Selenium, web, Java, SQL, UI, CI/CD, Jenkins, and integration.