I am Narakala Dheera j Muni, a Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chennai, India, with 3 years of experience delivering reliable UI and API automation for product teams. I’ve delivered measurable impact: 36% increase in automation coverage, 60% reduction in manual regression, and 50% faster CI validation. I’m strong in Playwright, REST Assured, CI/CD optimization, and release-quality ownership. I’ve collaborated to resolve UI defects, mentored junior SDETs, and led secure testing practices, including integrating SAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI pipelines for early vulnerability detection.

Narakala Dheera j Muni

I am Narakala Dheera j Muni, a Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chennai, India, with 3 years of experience delivering reliable UI and API automation for product teams. I’ve delivered measurable impact: 36% increase in automation coverage, 60% reduction in manual regression, and 50% faster CI validation. I’m strong in Playwright, REST Assured, CI/CD optimization, and release-quality ownership. I’ve collaborated to resolve UI defects, mentored junior SDETs, and led secure testing practices, including integrating SAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI pipelines for early vulnerability detection.

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I am Narakala Dheera j Muni, a Software Development Engineer in Test based in Chennai, India, with 3 years of experience delivering reliable UI and API automation for product teams.

I’ve delivered measurable impact: 36% increase in automation coverage, 60% reduction in manual regression, and 50% faster CI validation. I’m strong in Playwright, REST Assured, CI/CD optimization, and release-quality ownership. I’ve collaborated to resolve UI defects, mentored junior SDETs, and led secure testing practices, including integrating SAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI pipelines for early vulnerability detection.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert

Work Experience

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET II) at Comcast
April 1, 2025 - Present
Owned end-to-end automation for product features, enabling confident release sign-offs. Reduced CI test execution and validation time by 50% through Jenkins and Docker optimization. Integrated SAST, SCA, and secrets scanning into CI, improving early vulnerability detection by 30%. Automated UI and API regression using Playwright and REST Assured. Debugged and resolved 8+ critical UI defects through frontend analysis and collaboration. Mentored junior SDETs and reviewed automation code to improve framework stability.
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET I) at Comcast
July 1, 2023 - March 31, 2025
Increased UI automation coverage by 36%, reducing manual regression effort by 60%. Developed 25+ API automation tests, improving defect detection by 45%. Led migration from Selenium (Java) to Playwright (TypeScript), improving speed and reliability. Validated backend data using SQL, identifying 10+ data integrity issues. Integrated Allure reporting into CI for faster failure triage and visibility.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering at Sathyabama University
January 1, 2019 - January 1, 2023

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment