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Renjith Tharakath

@renjiththarakath

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I build AI-driven QA automation, performance engineering, and CI/CD quality platforms for cloud-native products.

India

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to lead QA architecture, AI-driven automation, performance engineering, and CI/CD quality initiatives for cloud-native products while mentoring teams and improving end-to-end product quality.

At N-able, I drive QA automation and test strategy for Adlumin, a cloud-native SIEM/XDR platform, building CI-ready ingestion testing with LocalStack, OpenSearch, S3, Kaniko, Playwright, PyTest, AWS, and K6.

Previously at Cisco, I led automation for an IoT SaaS platform managing 160M+ devices, mentored QA teams, built Python, JavaScript, and Playwright frameworks, and improved validation coverage and ROI by 96%. Across 17+ years, I've delivered quality architecture, performance engineering, and automation platforms for analytics, healthcare, telecom, cybersecurity, and IoT products.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff QE / Architect

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N-able

Jan 2026 - Present (8 months)

Drive QA automation and test strategy for a cloud-native SIEM/XDR security platform, mentoring a distributed team of 8 engineers. Designed a local integration-test framework and architected a plugin-based mock server to accelerate test onboarding.

LocalStack OpenSearch S3 Kaniko Jenkins Playwright Pytest AWS Jira Xray Cursor

Software QA Engineer

Cisco Systems

Nov 2019 - Oct 2025 (5 years 11 months)

Led QA automation for a SaaS platform managing 160M+ devices, mentoring a team of 10 engineers. Built automation frameworks using Python, JavaScript, and Playwright, and implemented performance testing practices with JMeter and monitoring tools.

Python Pytest JavaScript Vitest Playwright Jenkins JMeter Prometheus Grafana Docker Kubernetes Flask Kafka MongoDB

Principal Software Engineer

Numerify Software

Aug 2016 - Sep 2019 (3 years 1 month)

Defined QA automation strategy for a SaaS BI Analytics platform and built an end-to-end automation framework covering ETL, backend, and UI validation. Integrated performance testing into CI/CD pipelines and reduced validation time by ~40%.

Jenkins JMeter Cloudwatch ETL Backend

Senior QA Engineer

Thomson Reuters

Aug 2012 - Aug 2016 (4 years)

Designed and maintained QA frameworks for a Content Search platform. Migrated performance testing from Silk Performer to JMeter, saving ~$50K annually, and automated functional and regression test suites with JUnit.

JMeter Junit J2EE MySQL Elasticsearch Kibana API Testing

Senior Test Engineer

Infinite Computer Solutions

Feb 2008 - Jul 2012 (4 years 5 months)

Planned and executed end-to-end performance requirements for healthcare and finance clients using LoadRunner, JMeter, and Load UI. Built a SOAPUI-based automation framework for REST web services and created Selenium UI automation scripts.

LoadRunner JMeter SoapUI REST Selenium Cognos