# Amuthan Sakthivel

> Problem Solver | Tech Youtuber | Appium Conf 2024 Speaker

Location: Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/amuthan

Test Lead & Manager 

Testing Mini Bytes - Website
https://www.testingminibytes.com/

Testing Mini Bytes - Creator - Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6PTXUHb6j4Oxf0ccdRI11A

Telegram group - https://t.me/+cJX1FmzfntJhMTg9

Udemy Instructor - https://www.udemy.com/course/java-sdet-essentials

Skills:
Selenium | Appium | Selenide | Rest Assured | See test | SOAPUI | Postman | AWS | EC2 | ECR | S3 | ELK | Docker | Kubernetes | TestNG | Java | Design Patterns | Groovy | Cucumber | Jenkins | Maven | JIRA | ALM | Browser Stack | Lambdatest | Manual Testing | Continuous Deployments | GitHub Actions | Typescript | Sourcegraph | Selenoid | Unit testing | Axios | React | Springboot | Playwright | Cypress |


Open source Frameworks contributed to the community:
 https://github.com/amuthansakthivel/

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ FINRA
Jan 2025 – Present | Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States

### Lead developer | Team Manager @ FINRA
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | United States

### Tech Youtuber @ Testing Mini Bytes
Jan 2020 – Present
Helping and mentoring SDET via my youtube channel - Testing Mini Bytes. Uploaded more than 300 videos related to testing, automation, selenide, devops.

### Senior Software Engineer TestOps & DevX @ Clipboard Health
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Ashburn, Virginia, United States
Clipboard Health is a fast-growing YCombinator funded startup which uses technologies and provide a marketplace for the right Health care professionals to find their right Health care facilities and vice versa.

1. Working as part of TestOps and DevX(Developer Experience Team) to build tools and capabilities to ease the life of Software Engineers in the organisation
2. Increased the number of releases in our high traffic backend monorepo from 1/week to 70+/week by introducing Trunk based development, BORS, several process improvements, documentation and communication.
3. Implemented CI and CD for the monorepo with required checks like unit tests, integration tests, few E2E UI automated tests and Automated API tests.
4. Introduced static code analysis for multiple projects using sonarqube and integrated it as part of the pipeline
5. Wrote several service (integration) tests in typescript for our backend applications.
6. Built and implemented automated tests as required check for several microservices.
7. Created ui, mobile and api automated frameworks,tests, tooling, and pipelines in Github Actions.
8. Used sourcegraph's batch changes to perform changes into 100's of microservices at the same time.
9. Built the take home test, evaluation criteria for the SDET hiring at CBH
10. Wrote Engineering blogs about Selenide, Clean coding with Lambdas for interacting with MongoDB for the organisation.

### Test Automation Engineer @ DHL IT Services
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Chennai Area, India
1. To work on both manual and automation testing.
2. Parsing requirements, preparing test strategy and test plans.
3. Perform test execution on dev environment.
4. Report, track bugs to closure.
5. Participate in defect triaging.
6. Raising risks and foreseeing issues.
7. Development of automation test suite with Axe - UFT tool.
8. Development of mobile automation test suite with Appium.
9. Automation of webservices using Rest Assured - Java.
10. Creating frameworks and contributing to the test community within and outside the organization.
11. Conducting sessions on advanced topics like Docker, Devops ,Jenkins, Selenoid, AWS for testers within the organization.
12. To effectively participate in meeting and suggest best tools for automation across the company.
13. To train people on automation tools , technologies , practices and stack.

### Associate @ Cognizant
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Sydney, Australia
1. Worked closely with client in Client Location - Australia for testing critical application functionality.
2. Performed Automation using Selenium to automate a huge ecommerce application end to end.
3. Performed integration of appium scripts to run on seetest cloud parallely across 10 devices at a time to achieve shift left and devices compatibility testing.
4. Automation of webservices using soapui and groovy was really helpful when the front end is not yet completely ready to test.

### Programmer Analyst @ Cognizant
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Chennai Area, India
1. Work with the development team to analyze mapping documents created by Business Analyst and convert the documents to test scripts, document defects and drive them to closure. Well experienced in
2. Managing Multiple priorities with strict dead line.
3. Started to learn automation and try to implement it in the project.
4. Learned Java, Selenium, Appium and SoapUI

### Programmer analyst trainee @ Cognizant
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Chennai Area, India
1. Tested e-commerce application, customer portals including the back end operations for an retail business giant in Australia.
2. Have tested native app in both android and ios devices. Have done most of the device compatibility, usability testing.
3. Manual testing of ecommerce website, native android and ios mobile app and webservices.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering
Velammal Engineering College
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amuthan-sakthivel
- Website: https://www.testingminibytes.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29