KUNDAN KUMAR — QA Manager
I’m a Test Engineering Leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience across functional, automation, load, and performance testing. I'm currently focused on helping engineering teams build and scale smarter with AI, infrastructure, and modern DevOps practices. I specialise in: - AI testing and LLM performance benchmarking - Developer productivity and infrastructure automation - Building test strategies that scale across fast-moving teams - Coaching engineers to grow beyond "just testing" As a guest author on the official AWS blog, I’ve shared practical solutions like reducing test execution time from over 3 hours to under 3 minutes using AWS Lambda, S3, and DynamoDB. 🛠️ Selected Wins ⚡ Saved $12,800 per year in CI/CD costs with a custom pipeline setup 🧪 Cut performance scripting time by 50% with a hybrid automation framework 🚀 Migrated Jenkins to CircleCI. Led cross-team effort, stakeholder management, negotiation, and rollout 📉 Improved automation success rate through Test Data as a Service (TDaaS) 🔒 Set up security and compliance pipelines and unit test generators for Django 🧠 Built POCs and transitioned them to team ownership 🤖 Tech & Tools I Work With: Infra and DevOps: AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, CloudWatch), Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker, GitHub Actions, RabbitMQ Automation: Python, Selenium, Behave, Pytest, Locust, Gatling CI/CD and Testing: Test strategy, test planning, performance testing, cross-browser testing, developer productivity 🌱 What Drives Me I love solving tough engineering problems, whether it's breaking flaky automation, accelerating CI pipelines, or testing AI agents. I’m also passionate about mentoring, helping people grow, and making teams more effective. Let’s build smarter systems and grow together.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Test Engineering Leader with expertise in AI and DevOps within the SaaS industry.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 13 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Software Testing
Career Highlights
- 13+ years of experience in test engineering.
- Expert in AI testing and performance benchmarking.
- Proven track record of reducing CI/CD costs significantly.
Work Experience
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Education
Bachelor's degree at Annamalai University