Headline

HEAD OF QA | QA DIRECTOR | QUALITY ENGINEERING LEADER | AI QA AUTOMATION

About

Quality Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience driving QA transformation, automation strategy, and engineering excellence across enterprise technology environments. Proven track record of leading and mentoring large QA and SDET teams, defining quality engineering roadmaps, establishing scalable automation frameworks, and implementing modern QA practices across web, API, cloud, and distributed systems. Expertise in building automation ecosystems using Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Python, Java, API automation, BDD, and CI/CD, with extensive experience across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps, and GitLab. Strong focus on Shift-Left Quality Engineering, continuous testing, cloud-native test automation, and improving delivery efficiency through scalable engineering practices. Passionate about leveraging Generative AI and LLM technologies to transform software testing, including AI-powered QA dashboards, intelligent test scenario generation, BDD automation, test maturity assessment, and low-code/no-code testing solutions using OpenAI APIs, AWS Bedrock, and Claude. Recognized for delivering innovative QA solutions and leading teams through automation and AI-driven quality transformation.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior SDET Manager at NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH LIMITED, Oct 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, - Lead and mentor 18 automation engineers across three projects, owning QA delivery, engineering standards, and team development. - Own QA strategy, roadmap, and quality outcomes across multiple projects, driving automation adoption and continuous improvement. - Architected and delivered a Python BehaveX BDD automation framework from scratch for browser extension testing. - Drove development of a QA TestLab dashboard using Streamlit, integrating GenAI, Antropic Claude Opus 4.5, OpenAI API capabilities for intelligent test monitoring and support. - Led AI-driven test automation initiatives using AWS Bedrock and LLMs to generate test scenarios and BDD feature files, enabling a low-code/no-code approach to E2E automation. - Drove development of an AI-powered QA dashboard using React and Kiro, integrating GitLab CI/CD for automated E2E test execution across TestLab devices.

Cloud Test Architect at TietoEVRY, May 2023 - Oct 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bangalore Urban, - Led and mentored 12+ automation engineers within the QA Center of Excellence (CoE team), driving technical standards and automation best practices. - Owned QA automation initiatives across Selenium, Cypress, WebDriverIO, RestAssured, ReadyAPI, and GenAI projects. - Architected and delivered an AI-based Test Maturity Model application aligned with TMMi using Python and OpenAI API, winning 1st Prize at Tech Utsav 2024. - Drove cloud testing and QA process improvements, increasing engineering efficiency by 20% and reducing average defect detection time from 2 days to 12 hours. - Established a Shift-Left testing strategy integrated with CI/CD, reducing regression issues during production releases.

Test Architect at Western Alliance Bank, Jul 2022 - Mar 2023 · 9 mos, Noida, Client: Western Alliance Bank Company: Brick Red Systems Roles & Responsibilities: - Led and developed/mentoring a team of 14 members teams across various projects and verticals Developed Cypress (Javascript / Typescript) + BDD Cucumber from scratch, Selenium C# for UI. - Architected and delivered an automation framework from scratch using Cypress for UI web automation testing, leading to a 50% decrease in manual testing efforts and a 30% improvement in test coverage. - Owned quality gates and release sign-off process and providing green signal for production release and automated the pipeline using code coverage tools like Sonar Qube. - Implemented a Shift-Left testing approach with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, reducing regression issues by 40% during production shipping

Quality Assurance Manager at BrickRed Systems, Jul 2022 - Mar 2023 · 9 mos, Managing and mentoring 18 members teams across various projects and verticals. Developed Cypress (Javascript / Typescript) + BDD Cucumber from scratch, Selenium C# for UI. Designed and implemented an automation framework from scratch using Cypress for UI web automation testing, leading to a 50% decrease in manual testing efforts and a 30% improvement in test coverage. Involved in PR approval process and providing green signal for production release and automated the pipeline using code coverage tools like Sonar Qube. Implemented a Shift-Left testing approach with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipeline, reducing regression issues by 40% during production shipping.

Senior Quality Assurance Manager at Medlife International Pvt. Ltd, Mar 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 11 mos, - Trained and mentored team of 25 members and was involved in building QA team - Streamlined QA process by providing Technical Leadership and Quality Leadership Management Managed open-source tools to implement the best solution for automation - Performed E2E automation using containerised orchestration system in AWS (ECS/EKS) for less maintenance and faster test results without any setup for CI build pipeline - Performed E2E testing using Kubernetes in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services) using Azure - Created docker images using Azure DevOps for faster deployment and reliability using continuous build option. - Involved in implementation of CI / CD for functional & integration for regression test suites - Provided People Management skills in Team Mentoring (Planning, controlling, monitoring, motivating), accountable for product deliverables for each sprint - Introduced new tools to reduce resource time/cost

Education

PG Diploma, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Middlesex University

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Velammal Engineering College