Headline

Director - Quality Engineering @ BlackLine | Leadership | Innovation - with and without AI.

About

As the Director of Quality Engineering since January 2021, I contribute to delivering robust and reliable engineering solutions, leveraging expertise in engineering management, creativity, and innovation. My work focuses on optimizing processes and implementing advanced tools, such as AI ecosystems like Claude and Vertex, to streamline tasks and enhance team efficiency. With over three years at BlackLine and prior leadership roles in quality assurance, my mission is to drive impactful solutions that address both internal and external customer challenges. I am passionate about fostering collaboration within engineering teams and enabling innovation in quality engineering practices to deliver meaningful results.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude

cursor

gemini

github copilot

claudecode

Work experience

Director - Quality Engineering at BlackLine, Sep 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Managing team of 40+ as Director – Quality & Performance engineering, reporting to VP & CEO of companies for 10 years. • 16+ years of experience with product and automation engineering – SAAS and On-Prem. • Built a QE ecosystem to serve Engineering team as a customer. • Heading AI/ML & tool and productivity team – built and rolled out ML based products. • Leveraging AI to build optimization in SLDC processes. • Leading introduction and expansion of AI in the team – driving metrices • Delivering high-quality software with advanced metrics, traceability, code coverage, test gap analysis, quality gates, and test impact. • Worked with tools like – Odin, Claude, Gemini , SeaLights, codeless test automation. • Promoter for shift left – driving the initiative at Engineering level. • Runs a global team – have presence in UK, US and Poland. Seasoned visitor to U.S for customer engagement and procuring new projects

Director - QA at BrandMuscle, Mar 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

QA Manager at BrandMuscle, May 2018 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore, • Led multiple product initiatives for Quality Engineering (QE) and development, enhancing overall product quality. • Designed and built two microservices for the mothership product, expanding functionality and performance. • Collaborated with the DevOps team to establish a robust CI/CD release cycle, streamlining deployment processes. • Optimized database scripts for report synchronization, driving innovation in data management practices.

QA Lead at BrandMuscle, Jan 2017 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos, • Led a team of 8 SDETs in performance and automation testing for two SaaS products. • Introduced JMeter to establish performance benchmarks, enhancing testing efficiency. • Built an automation pipeline from scratch, streamlining testing processes and improving product quality. Brandmuscle was manual testing driven company, I introduced automation framework using Selenium, Katalon, Jmeter and Browserstack.

Founding Team - Head of QE and Ops (Acquired) at Zulu.Social, Oct 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I spearheaded quality assurance and client onboarding at Zulu.Social, significantly enhancing product reliability and user satisfaction. • Drove initiatives to deliver stable products, fostering strong client relationships. • Transitioned from quality engineering leadership to influencing product architecture, showcasing versatility. • Cultivated skills in quality assurance, client management, and product development in a dynamic startup setting.

Senior Software Engineer at Amadeus Labs, Oct 2013 - Sep 2015 · 2 yrs, Project: (Amadeus software labs) Title : Inventory- SQA Role : Senior Test Engineer Tenure : October 2013 to Present Team Size : 10 Domain : Travel Environment : Linux Technical Tools : HP ALM, Jira Description: Inventory being a major part of travel domain had many components to support. Responsibilities: Acts as an Individual Contributor(IC). Automated almost 1500 test cases using QTP & Selenium. Was responsible for created framework in Linux for a new project.

Senior Test Enginner at Siemens Technology India, Aug 2012 - Sep 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Title : RDP-MIG(runtime-Migration) Role : SW Test Engineer Tenure : August 2012 to Present Team Size : 10 Domain : Industry Environment : HMI ,PLC ,Sensor ,Actuator Technical Tools : ARTS+, TMS, Clear Case, Test Complete Description: Wincc being a legacy project is now being migrated to the new platform. WinCC in the TIA Portal is the software for all HMI applications ranging from the simplest operation solutions with Basic Panels to SCADA applications on PC-based multi-user systems. Responsibilities: Acts as an Individual Contributor(IC). Executes and update test cases related to my module. Perform Functionality/Adhoc testing for my module.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University