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# Rahul Tiwari on Tal

## Headline

Senior Engineering Lead \| Engineering Delivery Leadership \| SaaS Platforms \| Cloud & DevOps \| Distributed Teams

## About

Strategic Engineering Leader with 15 years of experience building high\-performing, autonomous SDET and QA organizations\. Focused on driving continuous delivery pipelines, automated release governance, and quality infrastructure transformation for multi\-tenant SaaS and cloud ecosystems\. A metrics\-driven leader who bridges technical execution with business strategy—utilizing DORA frameworks to systematically eliminate delivery bottlenecks, accelerate deployment velocity, and lower defect escape rates\. Passionate about leveraging cutting\-edge architectures and Agentic AI/Large Action Models to build scalable, resilient systems\. Core Focus Areas: Engineering Governance: DORA Metrics, Risk Mitigation, Business OKR Alignment, Shift\-Left Engineering People Leadership: Cross\-functional Team Scaling, Upskilling & Continuous Learning Frameworks, In\-house Capability Building Technical Ecosystems: AWS \(IoT Core, State Machines, Cloud\-Native Frameworks\), CI/CD Automation \(GitLab, GitHub Actions\), Microservices Architecture, MQTT Protocols, Edge Device Virtualization

## Location

Pune Division

## Work experience

Senior Engineering Lead at Hilti Technology Solutions India, Dec 2021 \- Present · 4 yrs 8 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Role Focus: Oversee engineering delivery, release governance, and automated deployment pipelines for the ON\!Track SaaS platform\. Cross\-Functional Collaboration: Partner with distributed Scrum teams, team leads, and product stakeholders to drive delivery alignment and quality standards across a 35\+ engineer organization\. Delivery Optimization: Modernized rollout strategies using feature flagging and zero\-downtime pipelines, contributing to a 50% improvement in deployment velocity\. Quality & Metrics: Championed operational health and fact\-based release readiness via DORA metrics, contributing to a \~70% reduction in net bug inflow\. Operations: Actively manage incident response war\-rooms for critical production issues, driving root\-cause analysis \(RCA\) and long\-term preventive fixes\.

Technical Lead, SDET at Ridecell, Sep 2019 \- Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, People & Team Leadership: Led and grew an engineering team of up to 8 members, managing the full people lifecycle, career growth paths, and establishing an internal Continuous Learning Framework\. Technical Ownership: Handled technical ownership of the automation architecture for a white\-labeled ridesharing platform\. Process Efficiency: Spearheaded engineering initiatives that increased release frequency and improved release throughput by 40%\. Quality Engineering: Reduced escaped defects by 25% through the implementation of on\-demand test data frameworks, peer reviews, and automated quality gates\. Strategic Alignment: Partnered closely with Product Management on roadmap planning, backlog prioritization, and defining release\-ready criteria\.

Principal Software Engineer in Test at PayU, Apr 2017 \- Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Core Scope: Directed quality engineering for plug\-and\-play SDKs, checkout systems, subscription billing, and core payment gateway integrations\. Scale: Ensured the reliability and stability of high\-volume payment flows handling over 1M transactions monthly, supporting 15,000\+ merchants\. Product Optimization: Collaboration with Product Management led to proactive transaction\-detail enhancements within PayU Assist, successfully reducing transaction drop\-offs by 4–5%\. Test Architecture: Accelerated release readiness by \~33% and reduced production defects in critical payment flows by 10% through the development of reusable test suites\.

Sr\. Quality Analyst at Citrus Payment Solutions Pvt\. Ltd, Apr 2016 \- Mar 2017 · 1 yr, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Senior Software Engineer at NIIT Technologies Limited, Jul 2011 \- Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos, Noida

Sofware Engineer Trainee at NIIT Technologies Limited, Jan 2011 \- Jun 2011 · 6 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

## Education

Master of Computer Applications \(M\.C\.A\.\), Computer Science, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology

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