Kalaivani Chellamuthu
About Kalaivani Chellamuthu
Kalaivani Chellamuthu is a Senior Automation Engineer at TELUS in Vancouver, with extensive experience in QA automation and performance testing.
Current Role at TELUS
Kalaivani Chellamuthu serves as a Senior Automation Engineer at TELUS in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her responsibilities include developing automated test scripts from manual test cases, especially for regression testing. She reviews Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD) to create test plans and formulate test strategies. She is proficient in utilizing Jenkins for continuous integration and deployment systems and conducts API testing using the Postman tool.
Previous Experience as QA Automation Engineer at Gyft
From 2015 to 2017, Kalaivani Chellamuthu worked at Gyft, a First Data company, as a Software QA Automation Engineer in Mountain View, CA. During this period, she honed her skills in performance testing using JMeter, alongside writing and maintaining test automation for web applications using the Nightwatch tool written in JavaScript. Her experience included working with both Android and Apple mobile applications.
Earlier Roles in Quality Assurance
Kalaivani Chellamuthu has a diverse background in Quality Assurance, having worked at several companies in various capacities. From 2013 to 2015, she was a QA Engineer at Inadco, Inc. in Palo Alto, CA. This followed brief stints in 2013 as a Junior QA Engineer at both Amperea Inc. and BEAM Inc. in San Jose, CA, where she accumulated experience in writing complex MySQL queries and applying defect-centric thinking to software testing.
Educational Background
Kalaivani Chellamuthu holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Madurai Kamaraj University, where she studied from 2003 to 2005. Prior to that, she completed her high school education in Computer Science at N.S.M.P.V.S Higher Secondary School, from 1998 to 2000. Her educational foundation has equipped her with a strong understanding of RDBMS, including writing queries using all four types of joins, creating tables, and adding constraints.
Technical Skills and Expertise
Kalaivani Chellamuthu possesses extensive technical skills, including performance testing with JMeter, mobile application testing on Android and Apple platforms, and writing automation scripts using JavaScript-based tools like Nightwatch. She has practical experience with MySQL, Jenkins for continuous integration, and API testing using Postman. Additionally, she is familiar with Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, Hive, and HBase, further enhancing her capabilities as an Automation Engineer.