Kumaravel Jayakumar
Member Of Technical Staff at PayPal
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKumaravel Jayakumar is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years of experience building scalable platform, infrastructure, and domain components while oscillating between hands-on IC work and technical leadership. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at PayPal, he designs and architects high-performance systems, champions code quality, and mentors teams while remaining an active coder. He brings broad polyglot skills—Java, JavaScript, C++, .NET, PHP—and deep experience with Spring, React/Angular, Node.js, and common application servers and databases. Kumaravel has contributed to notable open-source projects used in mobile and web test automation (ios-driver, SeLion) and improved simulator and SDK robustness for real-world test environments. He’s known for building extensible, portable components and tooling that enforce codecraft standards, and for pitching in during critical delivery moments. Based in Chennai, he pairs a pragmatic, learn-and-unlearn mindset with a track record of shipping reliable, production-grade software.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, First Class, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, First Class at Bharathiar University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (20)
paypal10
ios10
webdriver10
selenium10
testng10
testing10
selenium-ide10
java10
javas10
php10
ui-automation10
xml10
appium10
selendroid10
ios-simulator10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
paypal/SeLion
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
Enabling Test Automation in Java
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kumaravel's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the testing capabilities of the SeLion framework, specifically for mobile automation. They added new features and configuration options for testing on iOS and Selendroid, including session timeouts and emulator start timeouts. They modified existing code to incorporate these new testing parameters, validate them, and integrate them with the grid's local server components. Additionally, they added and modified test cases to validate the implemented features.
iosselenium-gridtesting-toolsselenium-javatest-automation
ios-driver/ios-driver
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Selenium server to test native, hybrid and web apps on IOS. Join us on IRC #ios-driver on freenode
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 25 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kumaravel primarily contributed to the iOS-Driver project by modifying the simulator settings and related utilities. Their work focused on handling the iOS simulator's state, particularly when erasing content and settings, including addressing issues related to the simulator's boot state and shutdown procedures. They also fixed an issue in the application crash monitor and improved the Safari app compatibility. These changes are directly related to ensuring the proper functioning and stability of the iOS testing environment.
freenodeappiumweb-appsselenium-webdriverselenium-server
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