Vinay Balepur

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in IT industry.
Expert in QA and DevOps integration.
Proven track record in team building and leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS QA and DevOps leader with extensive experience in automation and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceAgile TestingContinuous Integration (ci)

Other Skills

TerraformProject ManagementTechnical DirectionScrumTest StrategyTest PlanningProduct LeadershipGitDocker ProductsUnixCore JavaSelenium WebDriverAppiumJenkinsTestNG

About

A practicing Q-Ops leader who combines QA and DevOps skills to deliver high-quality software for millions of customers. I have more than 10 years of experience in the IT industry, working with various technologies and methodologies, such as Java, Selenium, Appium, Rest assured, Jenkins, CI-CD, AWS, and Agile. I have built and grown the QA team from scratch, hiring and mentoring talented engineers, and fostering a learning culture. I have also collaborated with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external, to communicate and align the project goals and expectations. I am passionate about systems, architecture, and performance analysis, and I am always eager to learn new tools and techniques to enhance my Q-Ops capabilities.

Experience

15 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 9 mos

Current Experience

Bt group

Engineering Manager QA

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

As a QA Engineering Manager, I lead the the quality strategy for multiple engineering teams, ensuring every release meets high standards of reliability, performance, and user experience. My role combines technical depth with people leadership—I guide QA engineers, drive automation initiatives, streamline testing processes, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. I collaborate closely with product, development, and release teams to shape testable requirements, reduce defect leakage, and deliver stable, on‑schedule releases. With a focus on scalable automation, data-driven quality metrics, and strong cross-functional communication I have enabled my teams to scale and perform at their best

TerraformProject ManagementTechnical DirectionScrumTest StrategyTest Planning+26

Viacom 18 media privatelimited

Manager

Nov 2023 – Sep 2024 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Rakuten

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos

UnixTest PlanningProduct LeadershipGitContinuous Integration (CI)Scrum+4

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

As an engineering manager in QA, I am responsible in building the QA team by hiring awesome talent. I was also involved in technical discussions in various projects solving technical challenges. A full stack test engineer driving Web, API and mobile app automation. Proficient in Performance testing and identifying performance bottle necks in the application.

UnixTest PlanningProduct LeadershipGitScrumAgile Testing+3

Tech lead

Nov 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo

As a Tech lead I am responsible for automation of many components which includes Web, Mobile and APIs. Helping the team to achieve success in all the automation endeavors and picking up new challenges one at a time.

Test PlanningProduct LeadershipGitContinuous Integration (CI)ScrumAgile Testing+2