Pavankumar K. — Software Engineer

I am a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with 13 years of experience designing automation frameworks, developer tooling, large-scale test infrastructure, and reliability systems for global, distributed, Tier-1 services at Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel. My expertise spans automation architecture, microservices testing, CI/CD pipelines, fault-injection frameworks, non-functional testing, API validation, AI/ML-driven test generation, and building internal tools that significantly reduce developer toil and accelerate release velocity. At Amazon, I built platforms and tools that: ✅ Reduced test authoring effort by ~90% through AI-driven automation ✅ Increased coverage to 95% across complex workflows ✅ Automated multi-region deployments with >90% pipeline coverage ✅ Reduced incident detection time ~70% with real-time observability systems ✅ Improved authentication migration reliability with 0 downtime and 80% less operational load I’ve led initiatives across automation strategy, reliability engineering, code quality, test feasibility, and cross-service integration. I also mentor SDETs/SDEs, contribute to org-wide tooling, and serve as Amazon Bar Riser in Training with 70+ technical interviews conducted. My background also includes service engineering at Microsoft and deep platform validation experience at Intel, where I built high-performance automation systems reducing validation cycles from days to hours. My strengths: • Automation Framework Design (UI/UX, API, Microservices, Model-driven automation) • Infrastructure & Tooling (Dashboards, Metrics Systems, Config Stores, Code Generation Tools) • Distributed Systems Quality (Canary, Gameday, Failure Mode, Load/Perf, Reliability) • AWS | Python | Java | C# | C++ | Playwright | Selenium | Appium | PyTest | TestNG • Leadership, mentorship, and org-level quality ownership I solve complex quality problems by building scalable tools, frameworks, and automation platforms that move engineering organizations forward. SDET, Senior SDET, Software Development Engineer in Test, Automation Architect, Automation Framework, Tools Engineer, Test Infrastructure, QA Automation, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Microservices Testing, API Automation, Distributed Systems Quality, AWS, CI/CD Pipelines, Reliability Engineering, Non-Functional Testing, ML Automation, Code Generation Tools, Test Strategy, Benchmarking, Canary Testing, Failure Mode Testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Automation Engineer with expertise in AI-driven testing and quality engineering.

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Experience: 14 yrs 3 mos

Skills

Automation Framework Design
Test Infrastructure
Test Automation
Software Development
Quality Engineering

Career Highlights

Reduced test authoring effort by ~90% through AI-driven automation.
Achieved 95% coverage across complex workflows.
Mentored over 70 engineers and conducted technical interviews.

Work Experience

Amazon

Software Development Engineer II (5 mos)

Software Development Engineer in Test II (1 yr 4 mos)

Software Development Engineer-II (5 mos)

Software Development Engineer-II in Test (5 yrs 1 mo)

Software Development Engineer-II in Test (1 yr 11 mos)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Software Development Engineer II (4 mos)

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)

Software Development Engineer in Test (9 mos)

Intel Corporation

Software Engineer(Job Grade:6 Promoted) (3 yrs 10 mos)

Graduate Technical Intern (8 mos)

Education

Master’s Degree at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Master of Technology - MTech at Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor's Degree at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Intermediate at Nalanda Jr college

High School at Sri Kakuleswara Zilla Parishat High School (SK ZPH )

Pavankumar K.

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India14 yrs 3 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Reduced test authoring effort by ~90% through AI-driven automation.
Achieved 95% coverage across complex workflows.
Mentored over 70 engineers and conducted technical interviews.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Automation Engineer with expertise in AI-driven testing and quality engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Automation Framework DesignTest InfrastructureTest AutomationSoftware DevelopmentQuality Engineering

Other Skills

Genrative ai tools developmentAgentsPlaywritingToolsSDETStrands agentsAgentic automationGenerative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Development ToolsMachine Learning for Test OptimizationAutomatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG)AutomationDesign PatternsCommunication

About

Experience

14 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

5 roles

Software Development Engineer II

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Software Development Engineer in Test II

Sep 2024 – Jan 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Designed and delivered AI-driven test automation systems reducing test creation effort ~90% and increasing coverage 95%.
Built end-to-end automation frameworks for Tier-1 services, improving detection of critical failures.
Developed pipeline observability tools (Kinesis, DynamoDB) reducing incident detection 70%.
Achieved >90% pipeline stage automation for multi-region deployments.
Built locator-independent UI automation and reusable service-validation libraries.
Developed non-functional test frameworks: canary, failure mode, gameday, load, security injection.
Mentored SDETs/SDEs and conducted 70+ technical interviews; Bar Riser in Training.
Earned 11 internal awards for innovation, reliability engineering, and tool development.

Genrative ai tools developmentAgentsPlaywritingToolsSDETStrands agents+8

Software Development Engineer-II

Dec 2023 – May 2024 · 5 mos · On-site

Software Development Engineer-II in Test

Apr 2019 – May 2024 · 5 yrs 1 mo · On-site

> Design and development of scalable automation applications for mobile and desktop devices in accordance with the principles of software engineering.
> Development of an automation framework from scratch using test design patterns both for back-end based automation (microservices) and front-end based automation (UI/UX).
> Automation based on locator code independence.
> Development of code generation tools for test automation.
> Development of Tier I services automation frameworks, including non-functional and functional components.
> Assisting and mentoring junior engineers within an organization, for example, SDETs and QAEs.

AutomationDesign PatternsCommunicationMobile TestingSeleniumData Structures+12

Software Development Engineer-II in Test

Apr 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · On-site

> Developed UI automation framework within two weeks that automatically generates code when locators are provided.
> Automated some of the key pathways for reducing time to market from several days to minutes.
> Developed an automated platform for building, testing, and releasing software.
> Framework development for exception flows and parity checkers.
> Implemented a testing framework for automated testing in all countries where search services are used by internal as well as external parties.
> Encouraged the adoption of best practices in terms of code health, testing, and maintainability.

Design PatternsCommunicationSeleniumJavaDependency InjectionComputer Science+5

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Development Engineer II

May 2024 – Sep 2024 · 4 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

May 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos · India · On-site

Built CRM features including Omnichannel, CIF, and Unified Service Desk.
Delivered full LinkedIn–Dynamics 365 integration with automation and CI/CD.
Improved CRM web performance by 50%.
Winner & Runner-up — Microsoft AI Worldwide One-Week Hackathon (Innovation Productivity).

Front-end DevelopmentDesign PatternsSeleniumJavaDependency InjectionMicrosoft Dynamics CRM+1

Software Development Engineer in Test

Jul 2016 – Apr 2017 · 9 mos · India · On-site

Designed automation frameworks for BIOS, ACPI, power/thermal systems; reduced validation cycle 75%+.
Built tooling that executed 1000+ tests in ~2 minutes through optimized algorithms.
Automated battery life analyzer and validation flows (6 days → 2 days).
Winner — Intel WiDi Security Hackathon.

C++AutomationDesign PatternsSeleniumJavaQuality Engineering+8

Intel corporation

2 roles

Software Engineer(Job Grade:6 Promoted)

Sep 2012 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 10 mos · India · On-site

𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 (𝗽𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿, 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁) 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Provided creative solutions to resolve customer issues on DPTF, such as architectural design changes and workarounds that went beyond the responsibilities of the customer.
>Participated in the quality validation of DPTF 7.0 and delivered high quality deliverables within a short period of time with a rapid ramp up. Provide high-quality results with no customer escapes by maintaining high quality standards.
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
>Automated the development of the BLA tool and reduced validation cycle time from 6 days to 2 days for TAT & BLA across multiple platforms and operating systems.
>Designed and developed the architecture of the Platform tools test application. As part of the project, I developed a C++ application utilizing a white box test approach, as well as Python scripts for the purpose of testing thermal analysis and battery life analyzer tools regardless of the operating system.
𝗕𝗜𝗢𝗦 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗖 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
>Designed and developed the simulation to perform ACPI and UEFI bios validation for coverage improvement and developed an architecture for the BIOS Automation API to increase re-use and abstraction across both hardware and software.
>An automated framework for BIOS automation as well as fault tolerance framework development has been developed with a new grammar specification for automation.

Design PatternsCommunicationJavaQuality EngineeringDependency InjectionComputer Science+3

Graduate Technical Intern

Sep 2011 – May 2012 · 8 mos · India · On-site

> Developed and implemented a workload container that performs performance analysis for registered workloads.
> Developed a C++ tool that captures the workload behavior in a matter of seconds. Specifically, this tool is used to analyze workload patterns, to optimize power consumption, and to analyze workload performance independent of the architecture.
> Parameterized scripts for parsing, plotting, and running workloads.
> Utilized a pin tool called snapcim to enhance performance (a tool that finds regions of computed data that are in memory).
> Development of a technology for capturing the performance-KVM and resource usage information for a workload. The goal is to develop a model that can be used to schedule workloads on the cloud stack.

Design PatternsComputer Science