Vinay Karumuri

About Vinay Karumuri

Staff Software Engineer in Test (SDET) with 15+ years of experience driving quality engineering strategy across complex, large-scale systems. I partner closely with engineering leadership, product, and platform teams to embed quality as a first-class engineering discipline—not a phase at the end of development.I specialize in designing and scaling test automation platforms, establishing quality standards across teams, and unblocking delivery by improving CI/CD reliability, test signal-to-noise ratio, and release confidence. My work consistently focuses on reducing risk, accelerating time-to-market, and enabling teams to ship safely at scale.As a senior technical leader, I: • Influence architecture and design decisions through a quality and reliability lens • Mentor and up-level SDETs and engineers on automation, testability, and shift-left practices • Lead cross-team initiatives to modernize automation using Playwright, API-first testing, and cloud-native tooling • Leverage AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to improve engineering productivity and test effectivenessI thrive in environments that value ownership, technical excellence, and collaboration, and I’m particularly motivated by solving ambiguous problems where quality, scale, and speed must coexist.Technical Leadership & ExpertiseAutomation & Quality Platforms • UI Automation: Playwright, Selenium WebDriver (Java), Selenium Grid • API Automation: Rest-Assured, Postman • Framework Architecture: Page Object Model, Data-Driven & Scalable Framework Design • Test Frameworks: TestNG, JUnit, PytestProgramming & Engineering • Java, Python, C#, JavaScript • Strong focus on testability, clean abstractions, and maintainable codeDevOps, CI/CD & Cloud • CI/CD Enablement: Jenkins, GoCD, Maven, Gradle, Ant • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher • Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure (AKS)AI-Accelerated Engineering • GitHub Copilot, Cursor for rapid test development, refactoring, and debuggingQuality Practices & Domains • Functional, Integration, System, Regression & Performance Testing • White Box & Black Box Testing • Mobile Testing: Android & iOS • Test Management & Visibility: Jira, Rally, X ray

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer, Test

   BlackLine

   Mar 2022 — Present · Austin, TX, US

Education

• Godavari Institute of Engineering & Technology (GIET),NH-5,Chaitanya nagar,Velaguvanda,Rajahmundry

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computers Science & Engineering

  2005 — 2009

• Gautham Junior College, Vijayawada

  Intermediate, MPC

  2003 — 2005

• Good Samaritan High School, Hyderabad

  SSC