Pavankumar K.

About Pavankumar K.

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 loadI’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 ownershipI 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.

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer Ii

   Amazon

   Jan 2026 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• Nalanda Jr college

  Intermediate, MPC

  2004 — 2006

• Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

  Master’s Degree, Data science in Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  2016 — 2018

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor's Degree, Information Technology

  2006 — 2010

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science and engineering

  2010 — 2012

• Sri Kakuleswara Zilla Parishat High School (SK ZPH )

  High School, SSC

  2004