# Kavitha Palanisamy

> Principal Software Development Engineer in Test

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kavithapalanisamy

•	Experienced Software Development Test Engineer with over 16 years of experience  
•	Experience in performance analysis and testing distributed big data processing components
•	Experience in setting up Application Metrics dashboards using tools such as elastic-search, Kibana and Grafana 
•	Experience in modern big data technologies and tools 
•	Experience in stream processing with Apache Storm
•	Experience in data aggregation and search using Elastic Search 	
•	Experience with RabbitMQ as a messaging tool 
•	Working knowledge in microservices development and architecture 
•	Experience in Sprig Boot and Docker in the context of micro-services development 
•	Experience in distributed No-SQL databases – Cassandra and MongoDb
•	Experience in identifying performance bottlenecks in distributed modern applications
•	Experience and interest in Fraud Detection, Brand protection, and anti-piracy, Healthcare and insurance domains 
•	Experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex backend components 
•	Experience in building modern API test framework with Java/TestNg
•	Familiar with Mesos and Marathon as cluster management and container orchestration tools, respectively
•	Experience working in cloud(AWS) as well as data center settings 
•	Experience in object oriented design and test driven development 
•	Experience working in fast-paced agile, startup-like environments

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Development Engineer Test @ ServiceNow
Jan 2021 – Present

### Principal Software Development Engineer Test @ OpSec Security
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021

### Staff Software Development Engineer Test @ MarkMonitor part of Thomson Reuters
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018

### QA Test Lead @ Blue Shield of California
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### QA Lead @ Cognizant Technology Solutions
Jan 2005 – Jan 2015

### QA Analyst @ MetLife - Cognizant
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Mathematics
Bharathiar University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kavitha-palanisamy-8aba9669

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Last updated: 2026-04-12