Testing the Stream: A Deep Dive into QA & Release Engineering | Pramod Kumar | Ask Me Anything
Streaming platforms operate in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment where quality, reliability, and seamless user experience are non-negotiable. Ensuring smooth playback, handling high traffic surges, and maintaining low latency present unique challenges that require robust testing and release strategies. This session will explore the fundamentals of testing live and on-demand content, scaling automation, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring stability across diverse devices and network conditions. From adaptive bitrate testing to performance monitoring, we’ll uncover the key elements that keep streaming platforms running flawlessly.
Beyond automation, test and release engineering plays a crucial role in optimizing workflows, improving test efficiency, and ensuring continuous delivery at scale. We’ll discuss best practices for real-time bug tracking, AI-driven quality checks, and strategies for seamless releases without service disruptions. Whether you’re a tester, SDET, or release engineer, this session will equip you with insights and strategies to navigate evolving challenges in the streaming industry and maintain exceptional streaming experiences.
About Pramod Kumar:
With over 13 years of experience in testing and ensuring quality across mobile and web applications, Pramod is a seasoned and certified AVP - SDET at FanCode, a leading sports streaming platform by DreamSports. His mission is to deliver flawless, secure, and high-performing products to millions of sports fans across India and beyond.
At FanCode, he has successfully built and led teams for test automation, exploratory testing, and production support. He has streamlined the release process by introducing structured defect tracking and establishing an efficient on-call process.
He played a key role in leading FanCode's automation journey - shifting from UI tests to contract testing, dramatically reducing regression test execution time from hours to minutes, and enabling continuous delivery through automated deployment pipelines. He has also conducted load testing with Locust, ensuring systems can handle up to 2000 orders per minute.
His expertise spans e-commerce and security, and he is proficient in tools and technologies like Selenium, Java, C#, Python, TestNG, JUnit, Fastlane, Jenkins, Crashlytics, and Slack.
Connect with Pramod on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pramodkumar1515/
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