Dinesh Kumar Mani
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience in developing scalable SaaS solutions for Financial and Telecom Services. Specializes in software development, quality engineering, CI/CD, and automation frameworks, driving enhanced release speed and reliability in Agile environments. Led cross-functional teams to improve delivery velocity and product quality while reducing costs.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Engineering Manager QA
Sapiens Technologies (1982) Pvt. Ltd
Bengaluru
06.2024 - Current
- Manage and lead the QA lifecycle for SaaS-based insurance products across Life and Pension (L&P), Property and Casualty (P&C), and Reinsurance (RI), ensuring quality and compliance for the DataSuite R&D team.
- Define and execute Functional and Non-Functional test strategies and KPIs in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Expertise in Development, Test Automation, Performance, Volume, Scalability, and Availability testing for DataSuite product portals (UI and API), and Database performance tuning for Medallion Layer (ODS, DWH, and DataMart) for SQL Server and Databricks.
- Manage a 20+ member cross-functional QA team, driving daily progress, resolving blockers, and ensuring timely QA deliverables for quarterly product releases.
- Designed and developed scalable UI and RESTful APIs for competency management and SaaS enablement, leveraging a coding assistant to accelerate development and improve code quality.
- Built an end-to-end GenAI solution using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to automate BRD analysis, enable requirement understanding, generate change-aware test cases, and support code generation, and production deployment.
- Oversee manual and automated testing for UI (Playwright), API (RestAssured), and ETL (ODS to DataMart) using QaAutos (in-house tool built) and support Power BI report validation, resulting in 40% faster validations through the ETL automation tool and a 25% cost reduction.
- Conduct automation and test case reviews to maintain high standards in ETL and QA Autos implementations.
- Lead performance testing with JMeter and Dynatrace for UI/API, and optimize database operations using SSMS by tuning queries, analyzing plans, identifying missing indexes, and recommending partitioning for large datasets and Kafka, while driving shift-left performance engineering in the SDLC.
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and bottleneck identification across the Application, Middleware, Database, and Infra Layers.
- Established Performance Testing COE and standardized best practices across teams.
- Provided AI/ML model testing and validation support for Insurance Sales use cases, ensuring model accuracy, reliability, and business alignment.
- Benchmark production infrastructure (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network) across clients to drive 15–20% cost savings by analyzing the data volume processed with the infrastructure provided.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Policy Administration Core System, DevOps, Product Owners, Release Managers, and Technical Writers, for monthly and quarterly releases; contribute to release notes and walkthroughs for the DataSuite Delivery team, improving coordination by 15%.
- Participate in strategic discussions with the CTIO and Finance on roadmap planning, budgeting, and cost sizing, and track the progress through JIRA from initiatives to stories, reviewing the same with senior management.
- Automation practices using Playwright, reducing regression time by 50% and manual testing effort by 30%, and establishing CI/CD using Azure DevOps.
- Establish and track KPIs to monitor QA health and delivery efficiency across global teams.
- Lead team development through performance reviews, goal setting, mentoring, and upskilling.
- Support presales by crafting QA proposals, responding to RFPs, and demonstrating 20–30% QA-driven cost optimizations.
- Maintain strong client relationships, and deliver quality insights through QA dashboards and NFR metrics.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and executive reporting skills.
Principal Software Engineer (Senior Manager)
Fidelity Business Service India
Bengaluru
10.2014 - 06.2024
- Collaborated with Business, Finance, Actuaries, Risk, Sales, and Compliance stakeholders to support the development and release of 80+ annuities and insurance products across enterprise platforms.
- Led and mentored the engineers, overseeing performance management, skill development, and career progression while aligning people initiatives with business objectives.
- Owned end-to-end development and quality engineering for 80+ applications, covering UI, API, ETL, performance, chaos engineering, monitoring, and accessibility testing.
- Architected and implemented 100% automation coverage for UI and API applications using Cypress, Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit, and Rest Assured.
- Integrated accessibility automation, API performance testing (MOX/Rushhour), web tracing (Catchpoint), and chaos testing using Gremlin / Chaos Mesh.
- Drove platform engineering adoption across 10+ Agile squads, partnering with Chapter Leads to improve development and quality processes.
- Established enterprise-aligned testing standards and modernized test tech stacks to drive continuous improvement in quality processes.
- Implemented Test Data Management (TDM) practices, including data masking and secure data provisioning to ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements.
- Defined and automated End-to-End test scenarios for multiple product and fund launches; served as SME for Annuities and Insurance domain and technology.
- Performed extensive ETL and data validation testing on Oracle Policy Insurance Administration (OIPA) and ODS systems, validating 900+ batch jobs, 150+ feeds, and 100+ PowerBI/OBIEE reports using Informatica.
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, enabling automated build, deployment, and execution of application and test automation suites.
- Led TDD adoption, conducted requirement reviews, UX/design validations, and enforced coding best practices through code reviews.
- Analyzed End-to-End failures using Splunk, Datadog, Informatica logs, and Control-M, performing maturity assessments and EOL/security compliance checks.
- Participated in Agile/Scrum ceremonies to enhance test coverage and maintain compliance.
Senior Software Engineer
Virtusa Consulting Services Private Limited
Bengaluru
11.2013 - 10.2014
- Worked as an Automation ETL Tester for Data Warehousing projects.
- Reviewed Business requirements, Design documents & done detailed analysis required for the project and attended the design walkthrough with Designers and developers.
- Understood various components of EDW and preparing the test scenario document, Peer reviews the test design and getting sign off from the E2E designer for all 110 source systems.
- Validated the manual test cases in EDW components for both Source and Target systems and reported the bugs in Test Management tool HP Quality Center 10.0.
- Created the presentation of New Functionalities and providing the information to entire team and Customers on for every release.
- Created and Executed the Environment for Automation testing for validating the MINUS queries using VBSCRIPT for validating all 110 source and target systems and developed and executed the Automation scripts for Regression scenarios for ETL and OBI Dashboards (both Standard and Ad-hoc Reporting).
- Ensured that automated regression testing is running & completing successfully.
- Coordinated with team members and make sure that test deliverables adhering to the time lines, status reporting to management, and escalating the issues.
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra Limited
Bengaluru
07.2010 - 10.2013
- Worked as a Manual and Automation tester for CRM and Order provisioning systems.
- Tested integration of various systems around 70+ applications for both BSS and OSS.
- Reviewed business requirements and design documents, conducted detailed analysis for the project, and prepared high-level test scenario documents.
- Prepared low-level steps for High level Scenarios, QTP scripts and uploading the same in HP Quality Center 10.0 and executed the critical bug fixes and coordinated with developers in releases of bug fixes meeting tight time line till closure.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Vel Tech Engineering College
Chennai05.2009
Higher Education - Maths and Biology
Saraswathi Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Salem, TamilNadu05.2005
Skills
- Programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python
- UI automation: Playwright, Cypress
- Cloud computing: AWS, Azure
- Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, and prompt engineering
- AI-assisted development: GitHub Copilot
- OpenAI API / LangChain
- Performance testing: JMeter
- API automation: RestAssured
- Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Continuous deployment: Udeploy, Jenkins
- Data visualization: Power BI, Hyperion
- ETL tools: Informatica, Talend
- Database management: Oracle, Snowflake, MySQL
- Application monitoring: Dynatrace, Splunk
- Version control: GitHub, BitBucket
- Test Management: Zephyr, X-Ray
- User Monitoring: Catchpoint
- Chaos Engineering: Gremlin
- Accessibility testing
Certifications
Feb 2021- AWS Certified Developer Associate
Sep 2022- SnowPro Core Certification
Mar 2011- ISTQB Certification
Business Domains
Insurance:
- Life & Pensions - Annuity, Life Insurance, Term-Insurance
- Property & Casualty Insurance
- Re-Insurance
- Mutual Funds
Telecommunication:
- OSS
- BSS
Products Worked:
- OIPA- Oracle Insurance Product Administration
- Sapiens CoreSuite
- Sapiens IDIT
- Sapiens Re-Insurance
Timeline
Engineering Manager QA
Sapiens Technologies (1982) Pvt. Ltd
06.2024 - Current
Principal Software Engineer (Senior Manager)
Fidelity Business Service India
10.2014 - 06.2024
Senior Software Engineer
Virtusa Consulting Services Private Limited
11.2013 - 10.2014
Technical Associate
Tech Mahindra Limited
07.2010 - 10.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Vel Tech Engineering College
Higher Education - Maths and Biology
Saraswathi Matriculation Higher Secondary School