Vinay Balepur

About Vinay Balepur

From Biology to Technology. Having completed my Master in Molecular biology I took a leap of faith to IT and have not looked back ever since. I have developed a passion for technology and have been on a learning path from the day one. I started off as a manual QA and transitioned into automation testing, performance engineering and devops. Today, I’m a full‑stack QA specialist combining automation, performance engineering, and DevOps to build scalable, reliable, and efficient quality systems Technical Stack Automation - Playwrigth, Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, TestNG, Chai, Mocha, Cucumber Performance Testing - Jmeter, Gatling Devops - AWS, Kubernetes, Docker Impact driven Achievements* Engineered large‑scale data migration through automation I have leveraged automation beyond testing by building a UI‑driven automation framework to migrate over 50 lakh customer records from a monolith to a microservices system—despite the absence of APIs. This custom solution enabled us to complete the entire migration in under 7 days* Built a high‑scale, cost‑efficient performance testing platform Designed a performance test strategy to scale our systems beyond 2M requests/minute by building a highly scalable Kubernetes‑based distributed Gatling setup—using only the community edition. This custom architecture delivered enterprise‑grade distributed load testing while reducing costs from to under $500* Delivered an AI‑powered API mocking and data‑protection solution Built API mocking service using AI reducing testing efforts by 60%. An API formatter tool was also added to this service, ensuring sensitive data of the organization was not posted to online formatters.Mentoring and leadership* Built the QA team from scratch, scaling from 1 to 30 member strong team comprising of interns, juniors, mid level and associate manager* Created structured learning paths and regular knowledge-sharing sessions that elevated core QA competencies across the team.* Supported team members with tailored career roadmaps, helping them transition into senior QA roles and take ownership of key customer-facing modules.* Coached junior engineers on goal-setting and performance habits, enabling measurable growth in confidence and ownership.Feel free to connect with me for Quality strategies, shift left testing, building high performance teams

Experience

1. Engineering Manager Qa

   BT Group

   Sep 2024 — Present

   I lead the Quality Strategy for various teams across engineering teams, driving scalable automation, streamlined test processes, and data‑driven quality metrics. By partnering closely with product and development teams, I shape testable requirements, reduce defect leakage, and enable predictable, high‑quality releases. I coach QA engineers, foster continuous improvement, and strengthen cross‑functional collaboration to help teams deliver reliable, user‑focused software at scale * Directed QA strategy and delivery for six squads, leading a 22-member QA team spread across global locations * Owned QA strategy for critical releases, enabling a one-month reduction in time-to- market with zero critical production issues * Built a API mocking service with Copilot in Javascript and deployed in AWS for wider consumption * Increased automation test coverage by 40%, elevating the team’s ranking from 9th to 3rd place

Education

• International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

  Advanced Certificate Program In Devops , Devops

• Bangalore University

  Master’s Degree, Molecular Biology

  2006 — 2008

• SSMRV

  Bachelor’s Degree, Biotechnology

  2003 — 2006