Amarnath Verma

• Led and engineered multiple org-wide platforms to elevate Developer Productivity and Observability across 30+ teams.
• Built Hotstar Central, a centralized developer portal integrating onboarding, CI/CD, documentation, and diagnostics.
• Designed Single-Click Bootstrap Tooling, enabling developers to spin up microservices with boilerplate code, health endpoints, and telemetry hooks - cutting setup time by over 70%.
• Created Hotstar-in-a-Box, allowing developers to simulate full-stack environments locally.
• Developed a PR Quality Automation Tool to: Automatically annotate PRs with code coverage changes and linter checks, Reduce review time and promote org-wide clean code practices.
• Led Hotstar's Observability Platform Modernization: Migrated from vmagent to OpenTelemetry Collector, creating a unified pipeline for metrics, logs, and traces, Standardized trace context propagation and instrumentation across services, Introduced YAML-based alert definitions with auto-publishing to Last9 AlertManager, improving signal quality.
• Collaborated with SRE, Infra, and DevOps teams to reduce MTTR and improve platform reliability.
• Tech Stack: Java, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry Collector, Last9, GitHub Actions, Terraform

Automation Engineer – Developer Tooling & Data Validation

Lodgiq India Pvt Ltd — April 2017 – June 2018

• Designed and led the Daily Board system to monitor daily ingestion for hotel data, detect anomalies/missing entries, and send automated status reports to executives and stakeholders.
• Built and maintained robust automation frameworks using Selenium + Python for API, web, and mobile test coverage.
• Collaborated with product and engineering leadership to define quality automation strategy.
• Led initiatives that reduced manual QA cycles and ensured data reliability across key pipelines.
• Stack: Python, Selenium, Postman, MongoDB, Jenkins

• Led QA for Babajob website and Android apps with an emphasis on automation-first testing.
• Built a Selenium + Java framework using Page Object Model.
• Automated regression and functional test suites for APIs and front-end.
• Released beta versions to Play Store and monitored post-release stability.

• QA owner for food delivery app across Android, iOS, and Web.
• Introduced Appium-based test automation and traceability mapping.
• Worked on PRD reviews and test planning in agile sprints.

• Delivered QA automation and manual test cycles for 15+ mobile/web apps including Cricbuzz and EMC Mobile.
• Owned QA for entire SDLC - from test strategy to automation delivery.
• Tools Used: Selenium, Xcode, DDMS, Appium, Jira, Basecamp