S KIRAN KUMAR
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Over 12+ years of experience in managing high-performing QA teams (manual, automation, performance, and SDET), defining scalable test strategies, and implementing modern QA frameworks and tooling across web, mobile, API, and cloud platforms. Adept at aligning QA objectives with business goals, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Director QA
Nium
03.2025 - Current
- Define the long-term quality vision aligned with business goals.
- Develop and drive the QA strategy across products, platforms, and services.
- Define and implement scalable QA processes, standards, and best practices.
- Guide the adoption of automation frameworks and shift-left testing practices.
- Use customer feedback, support tickets, and analytics to guide quality improvement.
- Reported issues to higher management with great detail.
Principle SDET
Nium
06.2022 - Current
- Handling the complete QA for card issuance program (Backend API)
- Managing Automation framework.
- Clear visibility into quality metrics for leadership.
Sr QA
Gojek
02.2021 - 05.2022
- Handling the QA team and working as a IC for the deliverables.
- Active contributor in automation framework enhancement.
- Working closely with product manager and developer to understand product requirements and design.
- Creating test strategy to identify missing and complex test case scenarios. Document and mentor
- QA engineers in the use of the testing framework
- performing performance testing for backend api's
- using jmeter and Locust, Gatling tool.
- Cretated test automation dashboard.
Lead SDET
Paytm Money
12.2018 - Current
- Handling complete QA process of the new feature from design till the product is live
- Integration of Automation framework to jenkins and scheduling daily run
- Handling team, assigning the task as per priority
- Publishing test report and coordinating with product/project stakeholder
- Solely Developed the automation framework to automate API, WEB and Mobile app
Sr. Automation
Operative Media
07.2016 - 12.2018
- Converting manual test cases to automation scripts
- Framework development for UI and Api
- Drive test automation to ensure repeatable tests are always automated and continue to look for opportunities to further reduce the test cycle time during the release
QA SDET
Happiest Minds Technologies
10.2013 - 06.2016
- Converting manual test cases to automation scripts
- Handling complete automation from offshore
- Handling the complete QA for card service and card processor (Backend API')
- Automating the regression backlog
- Training manual QA for automation
- Handling the QA team and working as a IC for the deliverables
- Active contributor in automation framework enhancement
- Working closely with product manager and developer to understand product requirements and design
- Creating test strategy to identify missing and complex test case scenarios
- Document and mentor QA engineers in the use of the testing framework performing performance testing for backend api's using jmeter and Locust, Gatling tool
- Created test automation dashboard
Education
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY -
BPUT
01.2011
Skills
- Core Java
- Selenium
- Appium
- Rest Assured
- Jenkins
- Kafka
- AWS
- SVN
- Github
- Kibana
- GrayLog
- Jira
- Maven
- Gradle
- Springboot
- Postman
- Docker
- CI/CD pipeline
- Data structures
- ELK
- TestNg
- Ok Http
- Jackson
- Redis
- MySQL
- Mongo
- Solr
- Elastic Search
Timeline
Director QA
Nium
03.2025 - Current
Principle SDET
Nium
06.2022 - Current
Sr QA
Gojek
02.2021 - 05.2022
Lead SDET
Paytm Money
12.2018 - Current
Sr. Automation
Operative Media
07.2016 - 12.2018
QA SDET
Happiest Minds Technologies
10.2013 - 06.2016
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY -
BPUT
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