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description: "Meet Kiran Kumar K, Staff Engineer @Conviva | Ex-Dish Network Technologies| OTT, Video Streaming | Video/App Analytics | Automation | Python | SQL | Postman | API | Playwright | Selenium | Git | CI/CD | AI Observability based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes antigravity, codex, and curs..."
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# Kiran Kumar K on Tal

## Headline

Staff Engineer @Conviva \| Ex\-Dish Network Technologies\| OTT, Video Streaming \| Video/App Analytics \| Automation \| Python \| SQL \| Postman \| API \| Playwright \| Selenium \| Git \| CI/CD \| AI Observability

## About

Staff Engineer with 11\+ years of experience in OTT video streaming, multimedia analytics, and quality engineering — currently at Conviva as part of the Data Sensor Team\. I specialise in end\-to\-end quality ownership across streaming analytics, telemetry validation, and observability systems at millions\-of\-events scale\. My work spans video QoE validation, AI agent telemetry, session replay, visual activation, and dynamic ad insertion — across Web, Mobile, Smart TVs, UWP, Apple TV, and Comcast streaming devices\. What I bring to the table: Test strategy, release ownership, and go/no\-go decisions for large\-scale streaming products SDK/API automation frameworks \(Python, JavaScript, Playwright, Selenium, Appium\) — reduced manual effort by \~65% AI\-assisted QA workflows — validating AI agent telemetry, SSE events, and prompt\-level tracking Built internal engineering tools: CTP Viewer Plugin, Cohort Replay Payload Viewer, Network\-layer Schema Validation Proxy DAI validation \(SSAI/CSAI\) across HLS, DASH, and multi\-platform environments Platforms: Web · Mobile \(Android, iOS\) · Smart TVs \(Samsung, LG, Android TV\) · UWP \(Xbox, Windows, PlayStation\) · Apple TV · Comcast · Roku · Fire TV Products I've worked on: Conviva · Sling TV · Star Sports · Hotstar · Voot · Zee5 · Tata Sky · Ditto TV · Hungama Music Tools & Stack: Conviva Pulse & Touchstone · Kibana · New Relic · Adobe Analytics · Charles Proxy · Wireshark · FFmpeg · GCS · ClickHouse · JIRA · LaunchDarkly Portfolio: https://keyrunkumark\.github\.io

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Staff Engineer at Conviva, Feb 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 7 mos, India, Ensured accuracy and reliability of real\-time analytics and telemetry pipelines across app performance, user interactions, and backend systems\. Led QA efforts for the Data Sensor Team, driving test strategy, release quality, cross\-functional validation, and end\-to\-end ownership of quality initiatives across streaming analytics and observability platforms\. Mentored QA engineers, coordinated cross\-team validation activities, and improved overall productivity, release confidence, and quality standards\. Reduced production issue leakage and accelerated root cause analysis using real\-time analytics, observability, and monitoring platforms\. Built SDK/API\-based automation frameworks across multiple platforms, reducing manual validation effort by \~65\-70% using JavaScript, Python, and C\-based integrations\. Built internal engineering tools including: Conviva CTP Viewer Plugin \(JS\) for compressed payload decoding and real\-time telemetry analysis\. Cohort Replay Payload Viewer for session replay, screenshot extraction, and DOM\-level debugging from raw GCS payloads, Network\-layer Schema Validation Proxy Tool for telemetry/event validation across Android and iOS platforms\. Validated AI agent telemetry pipelines, including sensor builds and prompt\-level tracking using SSE events, ensuring accurate observability of AI\-driven interactions\. Owned Visual Activation and Session Replay workflows, ensuring accurate event mapping, user journey tracking, and session reconstruction\. Led end\-to\-end validation of Remote Configuration systems, including config fetch, caching, fallback logic, and instant updates\. Ensured reliability of telemetry ingestion and storage systems, including event/session replay workflows using GCS and ClickHouse\. Drove player analytics and video QoE validation across AV Player, Exo Player, Roku, Brightcove, and Web players, including heartbeat tracking, buffering analysis, playback failures, and DAI \(SSAI/CSAI\) event validation\.

Senior Software Test Engineer at Prime Focus Technologies, Aug 2020 \- Feb 2021 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Live & VOD Streaming: Validated playback across live and VOD workflows—frame accuracy, multi\-bitrate streaming, markers, segment transitions, subtitles, and adaptive bitrate delivery\. CLEAR Platform: Tested Adobe Premiere Pro integrated workflows and CLEAR Player features including frame\-level navigation, clip creation, and mark\-in/mark\-out operations\. Media Processing: Performed FFmpeg\-based validation for transcoding pipelines and content integrity; identified defects to improve playback quality and streaming reliability\.

Senior Engineer \- Software Quality at DISH Network Technologies, Nov 2017 \- Aug 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore, Multi\-Platform OTT: Led end\-to\-end testing across Smart TVs, Mobile, Web, Roku, and Xbox for a large\-scale US OTT streaming product\. Release Ownership: Owned release validation, go/no\-go decisions, risk assessments, and quality gates before production deployments\. Team Leadership: Led distributed QA teams—task planning, mentoring, build certification, and cross\-platform validation across release cycles\. DAI & Streaming: Executed HLS/DASH and Dynamic Ad Insertion \(SSAI/CSAI\) validation; built monitoring dashboards for playback failures and platform health\. Production Learning: Analyzed production issues and incorporated findings into regression strategies to reduce recurring defects\.

Software Test Engineer at Tata Elxsi, May 2015 \- Nov 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, OTT Portfolio: Validated Star Sports, Hotstar, Voot, Zee, Tata Sky, Ditto TV, and Hungama Music across mobile and web—live/VOD playback and ad integrations\. Live Event Operations: Monitored high\-traffic sports events \(IPL, ICC World Cup, Pro Kabaddi\) and triaged streaming issues with development and client teams\. Automation & Performance: Developed Selenium regression suites; conducted CPU, memory, and battery profiling using device diagnostics tools\. DAI Validation: Validated Dynamic Ad Insertion workflows across devices, platforms, and network conditions\.

Software Test Engineer at Test Yantra, May 2015 \- Jun 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, HKBK Group of Institutions

Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University

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