SDET | Automation Engineer | Open Source Contributor
📍 Hyderabad, India
📧 manojkumarsalugu@gmail.com
🔗 LinkedIn

I’m a Quality Engineering professional with 7+ years of experience in end-to-end test strategy, test automation, and scalable QA architecture. I specialize in building robust frameworks for API, web, and mobile apps, and have contributed to QA transformation at multiple product companies and startups.

• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
• Frameworks: Cypress, Playwright, WebDriverIO, Selenium, Appium, Jest, SuperTest, PactumJS
• API Testing: Postman, REST, GraphQL, PactumJS
• Test Strategies: BDD, TDD, data-driven testing
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Tools & Services: GitHub Actions, BrowserStack, LambdaTest, Jenkins, Applitools

May 2020 – Oct 2023 | Hyderabad

• Worked full-time as an SDET for CAW Studios
• Delivered QA automation for clients like Interakt.ai and Acceldata
• Mentored QA interns into full-time SDE/SDET roles
• Conducted internal trainings on Cypress, Playwright, and QA best practices
• Authored reusable automation libraries and documentation

May 2020 – Feb 2023

• Led the end-to-end QA lifecycle from test planning to deployment readiness
• Focused on API validation and system-level integration testing
• Used Cypress and Postman to automate regression and smoke suites

Mar 2023 – Oct 2023

• Built scalable Cypress frameworks with TypeScript
• Automated data quality tests for pipelines and ETL validations
• Supported Execution Framework validations for parallel data processing

Oct 2023 – Present

• Implemented BDD-style test suites for APIs, SDKs, and UI using PactumJS, WebDriverIO, and Appium
• Created control plan test suites for:
  • Source-to-destination transformations
  • Alerts, onboarding workflows, data privacy
• Architected tests for data plans (streaming, reverse ETL, incremental sync, etc.)

• Validated services deployed in Kubernetes across environments
• Investigated issues by:
  • Accessing pods via kubectl exec
  • Reading pod and service logs via kubectl logs
  • Exploring deployment logs to trace issues
  • Connecting to staging/production DBs for data inspection
• Supported infra reliability through deep system observability

I build structured automation pipelines with layered test execution strategies:

• Smoke tests for quick validation on every commit
• Regression tests post-merge and pre-release
• End-to-end tests triggered via GitHub Actions for PRs and nightly runs

• GitHub Actions: CI/CD pipelines for UI and API test suites
• BrowserStack / LambdaTest: Cross-browser testing on real devices
• Watch-Ops (Custom K8s Listener):
  • Deployed as a pod in K8s cluster
  • Listens to deployments across namespaces
  • Notifies relevant Slack channels
  • Triggers post-deployment automated UI/API tests

• 🔧 PactumJS – Contributed utility functions and custom matchers for robust API contract testing
• 📊 Testbeats – Added support for JUnit split-reporting and Slack integration for publishing test reports

Sathyabama University
B.E. in Mechanical Engineering (2012–2016)

I’m open to discussing QA architecture, open-source projects, or automation consulting.
Feel free to email me or connect on LinkedIn.