Karuna Lingham

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About Karuna Lingham

I’m a Senior QA Engineer with 11+ years of experience ensuring the delivery of high-quality web, mobile, and enterprise applications. I specialize in building scalable QA strategies, automation frameworks, and CI/CD integrations that accelerate releases while reducing defects. My expertise spans manual, automation, API, performance, and exploratory testing, with a strong focus on improving user experience and product reliability. Over the years, I’ve led the design and execution of comprehensive test strategies across distributed teams, ensuring seamless collaboration with developers, product managers, and stakeholders. At Speechify, I’ve built and scaled a QA function from the ground up, reducing release defects by 30%, cutting manual regression time by 40%, and embedding automation into CI/CD pipelines to enable faster, more confident releases. I’m passionate about mentoring QA teams, driving process improvements, and exploring new testing tools and AI-driven QA innovations to continuously raise the quality bar. Specialties: QA Leadership • Test Strategy • Test Automation (Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Cucumber) • Performance Testing (JMeter, LoadRunner) • API Testing (Postman, Swagger) • CI/CD (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI) • Agile/Scrum