About

Sundaresan Krishnaswami is a highly skilled Test Architect, Test Strategist, Mentor, and Speaker with over a decade of hands-on experience in delivering quality products using the right set of tools, processes, and frameworks. Currently serving as a Test Architect at IBM, he is a key contributor to Productivity Engineering at IBM ISL. Sundaresan has helped organizations scale by building teams, training, mentoring, and establishing a brand for the QA. He has a proven track record of reducing functional hotfixes by 90% in less than a year of joining, achieving 80% automation ROI by better coverage, usage, and integrating with CI/CD, and improving customer KPIs by 15% YOY. In his past role as the Principal QA Architect at Coviam, he led and set up the SDET organization's charter, mission, training program, process, and metrics. He was in charge of quality for Blibli E-commerce Indonesia and mobile applications and grew the organization from a 2 member QA to 80 SDETs at the time of leaving. He also trained over 40 interns to address the SDET skills-gap and built good brand recall for Coviam among the testing community through several initiatives. Sundaresan has designed, co-developed, and rolled out automation frameworks, dashboards for web, API, and mobile automation coverage and usage. He has delivered e-commerce components built on a Microservices architecture using REST APIs and event-driven backbone. He has also built excellent cross-geographical relationships and trained the Indonesian team on Testing, API automation, communication skills, and more. In his previous role as Quality Assurance Technical Lead at IBM, Sundaresan reduced API validation time by designing and developing an API framework, developed customer data extraction tool and product discovery tool for collaboration across teams, and was in charge of QA delivery for SaaS based Mobile Device Management apps, platform, APIs, VPNs, and SDKs. He also played a significant role in the IBM acquisition journey, talent acquisition, and retention. Sundaresan is a Senior Software Engineer with relevant experience of 22.53 years. His tech stack includes test, qa, mobile, SDET, CI/CD, Microservices, and web. He is a seasoned testing professional who has helped organizations achieve their goals by delivering quality products and building strong teams.