Srikanth V
Engineering IC at e6data
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSrikanth V is a seasoned application developer with 13 years of experience building webapps, services, CLIs and testing tools across .NET, Ruby, Go and JavaScript. He spent over a decade as a hands-on consultant and architect at ThoughtWorks and now contributes as an individual contributor at e6data, favoring clean, simple solutions and Agile practices. A core contributor to open-source test automation projects Gauge and Taiko, he has deep practical experience improving test frameworks (including Go-level changes in Gauge and extending Taiko’s selectors and examples). He champions Continuous Delivery, Trunk Based Development, Configuration as Code and Infrastructure as Code, treating DevOps as culture rather than a role. Comfortable across the stack, he combines automation, QA engineering and occasional infrastructure work to accelerate reliable delivery. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a generalist’s curiosity and a bias for pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBE, Electronics and Communication, BE, Electronics and Communication at Dharmsinh Desai University
Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil
Github Skills (13)
behavior-driven-development10
automation10
nodejs10
javascript10
automations10
go10
testkit10
mstest10
ui-testing10
teste10
test-automation10
testing10
automation-testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
getgauge/gauge
Sep 2014 - Sep 2022
Light weight cross-platform test automation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:84 reviews, 351 commits, 240 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Srikanth focused on enhancing the Gauge test automation framework. Their contributions included introducing a `copyFrom` method for steps and concepts, involving changes in the Go code related to specifications. They also added support for fetching arguments within steps, as well as addressing scenarios involving cross-line steps. These changes suggest the user was involved in adding new features and refining the inner workings of the testing framework.
acceptance-testinggolanglight-weighttest-automationlight
getgauge/taiko
Sep 2018 - Feb 2022
A node.js library for testing modern web applications
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 47 commits, 81 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Srikanth primarily focused on adding and modifying example tests for the `taiko` library, a tool for testing web applications. They added examples for file download, file upload, iframes, dropdowns, dynamic loading, and basic auth scenarios. Furthermore, they made changes related to screencast functionality, and refactored tests to use promises and await for improved reliability. They also added support for contenteditable selectors, demonstrating a focus on expanding the testing capabilities of the `taiko` tool.
web-applicationsjs-libraryheadless-chromiumnode-jstesting
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