Pragadeesh Sekar

Test Automation and DevOps Engineer

Focused on test automation, CI/CD workflows, infrastructure enablement, and release quality across desktop applications, cloud environments, and platform systems.

  • Automation Architecture
  • CI/CD Pipelines
  • Release Confidence
  • Kubernetes Workflows
  • Infrastructure Enablement
  • Quality Strategy
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About

Engineering Focus

What I bring

  • Automation frameworks that teams can extend instead of fight.
  • Delivery workflows that reduce release risk and debugging time.
  • Practical quality engineering across desktop apps, APIs, and platform environments.

How I work

  • Start with failure patterns, not tool selection.
  • Keep execution visible through pipelines, reporting, and repeatable environments.
  • Prefer maintainable test systems over one-off automation wins.
Impact

Impact Areas

Automation Systems

Building test frameworks and execution models that support regression coverage, suite organization, and long-term maintainability.

Platform Delivery

Improving Jenkins and cloud-native delivery flows so environments, deployments, and validation steps are easier to trust.

Team Enablement

Documenting workflows, clarifying execution standards, and helping teams adopt better automation practices without adding process drag.

Experience

Career Snapshot

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  • Worked across product companies and services teams in automation, QA, DevOps, and release engineering roles.
  • Experience spans desktop application testing, API automation, infrastructure provisioning, and Kubernetes-based environments.
  • Background includes Logitech, MediaKind, Cisco, Viasat, Nokia / Velocix, and HCL Technologies.
Logitech

Lead Software Test Engineer - Automation

Sept 2022 - Present
  • Frontend and backend automation of desktop applications using a Pytest framework.
  • Evaluating automation coverage for new product and feature integrations.
  • Troubleshooting issues in existing automation setups and documenting process changes.
MediaKind

Senior Technical Lead - Automation

May 2021 - Sept 2022
  • Built test automation in Pytest and maintained the supporting test infrastructure.
  • Created Jenkins CI jobs with declarative pipeline-as-code practices.
  • Automated sanity environment setup with Terraform in GCP and Azure.
Cisco Systems

Software Engineer

July 2019 - May 2021
  • Brought up all-in-one and multi-node Kubernetes clusters on Cisco UCS ESXi environments.
  • Implemented UI automation with Protractor and API automation with PyATS and Python.
  • Maintained Jenkins automation and developed Ansible scripts for customer-specific needs.
Earlier Roles

Viasat, Nokia / Velocix, HCL Technologies

2011 - 2019
  • Worked on Ansible-based automation for satellite stream-split verification.
  • Built automation with Python Behave, maintained Jenkins pipelines, and fixed Python module issues.
  • Created test plans, debugged customer issues, and turned manual validation into automated coverage.
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