Nilotpal Dutta Baruah
Senior SDET | CKA Certified | Test Automation, PyTest, BDD| Cloud-Native, CI/CD | AWS
About
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test with 6 years of experience in test automation, CI/CD, and cloud-native platforms. Proven expertise in designing scalable Pytest-based automation frameworks, delivering significant reductions in regression execution time. Strong background in AWS, Kubernetes, and platform engineering, with hands-on experience supporting production systems and a growing focus on reliability and SRE practices.
Work Experience
Senior SDET
Highlights
- Automated regression testing for multiple features using the Pytest framework, reducing manual effort and cutting regression testing time by 60%.
- Led the transition of the existing automation suite to BDD, collaborating with the core team to improve maintainability and readability.
- Setting up and maintaining the automation pipelines in Jenkins.
- Integration of ReportPortal (an open-source web-based automation dashboard) with the automation framework
- Implemented an AI tool using AWS Bedrock and S3, that analyses the automation test results and categorises failed tests into different buckets
- Developed an AWS resource monitoring system using Boto3 and AWS Lambda, optimizing resource utilization and reducing cloud costs.
- Spearheaded TAS platform support as part of the TAS V-team, ensuring seamless deployment and troubleshooting.
- Managed product certification across all supported Kubernetes (Raw K8s, EKS, OCP etc.) and containerized platforms (Docker, Podman etc.).
Intrado
Noida, India
Part of the HouseCalls Pro team which provides patient engagement solutions for health systems, hospitals, and medical practices through automated workflows.
February 2021 – February 2022
Software QA Engineer
Highlights
- Preparation of the testbed by deploying the Kubernetes stack
- Functional testing of the web portal
- Automation of the RESTful APIs
- Creation and reviewing of the test scenarios
A10 Networks India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, India
Part of Cloud team which manages K8s based cloud controller which provides management and analytics for A10's portfolio application services.
September 2019 – January 2021
Software QA Engineer
Highlights
- Functional testing of the analytics stack which is developed on Elastic search, Kafka streams, Siddhi rule engine and Zookeeper.
- Performance testing of the controller to determine its behaviour under maximum load
- Preparation and maintenance of the testbed on KVM and bare-metal
- Testing the same in Cloud services
- Worked on automation of test-cases with Python
- Testing the inbuilt Disaster Recovery features of the controller
Contact
House No-5, Bylane-12, Ganesh Mandir Path, New Guwahati Tiniali
Guwahati 781020
+91 9435770323
Education
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2014 2018
Assam Engineering College
Bachelor of Engineering
Electronics and Telecommunication
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2012 2014
Maharishi Vidya Mandir Sr. Secondary School
Higher Secondary under CBSE
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2002 2012
Maharishi Vidya Mandir Sr. Secondary School
High School Under CBSE
Skills
Python
pytest
BDD
AWS
EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, Lambda
Kubernetes
CKA Certified
EKS
RedHat OCP