QA Test Lead
United States
INTERNATIONAL OUTSTANDING INNOVATION AWARD
Lingaraj Kothokatta is a seasoned Quality Engineering and Test Automation professional with over ten years of experience delivering reliable, scalable, and high-quality software solutions across cloud-native, SaaS, and enterprise platforms. His expertise spans API, UI, ETL, and performance testing, with a strong focus on building robust automation frameworks that support continuous integration and continuous delivery. He has extensive hands-on experience using Python, JavaScript, Java, and Ruby, and has successfully implemented automation solutions with tools such as Pytest, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework, and ReadyAPI to ensure functional accuracy, data integrity, and system resilience. Throughout his career, Lingaraj has contributed to critical projects in domains including healthcare, finance, media, and cloud infrastructure. In leadership roles at organizations such as Guild Mortgage, Medtronic, NetApp, and Verimatrix, he has driven automation strategies for high-availability platforms, integrated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to improve release confidence and reduce time to market. His work with cloud technologies, particularly AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3, RDS, Step Functions, and CloudFormation, has enabled the creation of scalable testing environments aligned with modern DevOps practices. Lingaraj has also demonstrated strong capabilities in data and ETL testing, working with Snowflake and relational databases to validate complex data pipelines and ensure accuracy across source and target systems. His contributions extend beyond industry practice into academic research, where he has authored peer-reviewed publications on cross-platform automation strategies and resilient CI/CD pipelines for modern SaaS and OTT workloads in internationally recognized journals. These publications reflect his commitment to advancing knowledge at the intersection of software quality, automation, and cloud engineering. He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and multiple professional certifications, including AWS Cloud Practitioner and AWS Solutions Architect Associate. Known for his technical depth, leadership, and mentorship, Lingaraj Kothokatta continues to contribute meaningfully to the global software engineering and quality assurance community through innovation, research, and professional excellence.