As a Strategic Lead and Associate Director at S&P Global Ratings Technology, Souri is on a mission to help understand the nuances of software quality assurance, automation in context of DevOps practices, leading content applications, QA transformation, building high performing, multi-disciplinary teams, delivering testing for complex technology-driven business, and technology transformations.

He has over 14 years of experience in architecting solutions, developing software, and managing software development projects. This experience enables him to provide valuable insights on processes aimed at improving software quality via the management of technical debt, integrated test, and continuous automated test techniques.

Souri also takes pride in developing and motivating his team, while continually reviewing testing strategies to optimize results for the business. He is an evangelist who loves solving challenges with strategies, and applies Agile and DevOps techniques for testing while implementing an “automation first” approach, and also driving the change to a more Agile DevOps approach by focusing on automation, performance testing and how this can be moved further to the left in the development life cycle.

VinayKumar is Core Author of one of the internal automation framework which is widely used by across the rating technology organization. He is mainly working on the Automation enablement part, open sourcing automation framework and tool development part. He also focusing on AIML in Automation; currently, he is looking at “Smart Flow,” an AI-based Automation Execution, that will help teams detect early product failures