Headline

Director – Quality Engineering | QA Strategy & Test Automation | AI-Driven Quality | Agile & Digital Transformation | Building Future-Ready Engineering Teams

About

Turning Challenges into Celebrations – that’s what drives me at work. Quality Engineering leader with 17+ years of experience driving QA and test automation transformations across high-complexity domains like healthcare, imaging, banking/financial services, telecom and enterprise SaaS. I specialize in architecting automation-first strategies, enabling continuous delivery, and embedding quality throughout the software lifecycle. With a strong belief in data-driven decision-making and AI augmentation, I’m passionate about evolving QA from reactive testing to proactive quality intelligence. From integrating AI/ML for smarter test selection and defect prediction to using analytics for risk-based testing, I help teams reduce cycle time, improve reliability, and accelerate innovation. Unique Value Proposition (USP): - Building and scaling global QE teams that thrive in Agile & DevOps environments - Driving shift-left and continuous testing with CI/CD pipelines - Championing AI-assisted QA for test impact analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive quality - Leading transformation initiatives that foster engineering excellence and delivery confidence I strongly believe that the future of quality lies at the intersection of automation, intelligence, and culture. Let’s connect if you’re leading or aspiring to lead QA innovation in your organization.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

codex

github copilot

Work experience

Director of Quality Engineering & Innovation at Sutherland, Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager - QA & Test Automation at Sutherland, Jan 2018 - Jul 2025 · 7 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As an Engineering Manager in QA & Test Automation, I lead high-performing, cross-functional teams focused on delivering scalable and resilient quality engineering solutions. Built automation-first cultures—enabling early bug detection, reducing manual effort, and accelerating release cycles. Provided strategic and hands-on leadership in designing test architectures that support CI/CD pipelines, shift-left testing, and continuous quality. Key Achievements & Focus Areas: - Built and scaled globally distributed QA automation teams with a strong culture of ownership and innovation - Led test automation transformations in complex, legacy healthcare platforms, enabling 85% automation of manual test suites thereby achieving 70%+ reduction in release cycle times - Designed and implemented robust test automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright & Postman - Integrated QA into CI/CD ecosystems using Jenkins, GitLab CI and Dockerized test environments - Championed quality metrics, risk-based testing, test data strategy, and traceability to ensure complete and effective coverage - Mentored and upskilled engineers through coaching, 1:1s, and career development planning.

Lead Automation Architect at Sutherland, Oct 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, • Lead the teams in building the automation test suite for a highly-complex, legacy imaging-enterprise application. • Lead the development, maintenance and execution of an automation framework using selenium webdriver, white, C# and behavioral driven development(BDD) approach. • Responsible for sprint, story and task management. Playing the role of scrum master. • Responsible for collaboration with Dev and QA teams in all aspect of the automation development process right from requirement gathering phase. • Documented and defined QA automation processes. • Requirement gathering, bridging the gap between different stake holders. • Responsible for development of end to end automation framework and delivery of automated tests. • Responsible for hiring the talent and ramping up the team.

Senior Test Automation Engineer at SDL plc, Feb 2014 - Apr 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangaon, West Bengal, India, • Responsible for coming up with ideas to create Test Automation Framework for the Silverlight and HTML5 based web applications using Ranorex and C#. • Involved in automation feasibility study, identifying right candidates for automation, writing the, key functions. • Worked in Agile Scrum development model. • Involved in story pointing for the project/planned release. • Setting up Jenkins Environment for Automation Runs. • Setting of multiple machines for overnight execution of automated tests using Jenkins • Developing new automation scripts.

Senior QA Engineer at Ness Technologies, Feb 2012 - Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Preparing Automation Feasibility reports and presenting it to Clients and Management. • Developed a new automation framework from scratch for automating the regression suite of a web work flow application using QTP and vbscript. • Developed a backend automation framework using VB script and powershell script for API's functional testing. • Involved in documenting Automation process. • Raising Incidents & Defects on Quality Centre. • Knowledge Transfer & Training to team mates enabling them to use automation scripts. • Prepare Reference Document to maintain and run script for future enhancement.

Project Engineer at WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES, Aug 2009 - Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Pune Area, India; Bengaluru Area, India, • Worked with like British Telecom and Credit Suisse Bank. • Analyzed and enhanced the existing framework. • Added functions and test scripts to automation framework for a Mainframe application using VBScript. • Added functions and test scripts to hybrid automation framework using QTP and VBScript to automate an online portal for a telecom client. • Responsible for Automating Test Cases for Functional & Regression testing for the Maintenance & Major releases. • Developing Macros and Utilities that helps other manual and components teams in reducing their time and efforts for testing. • Provided support to team for technical issues.

Lecturer at KNGD Modi Engineering College, Aug 2008 - Jun 2009 · 11 mos, India, • Worked as a teacher/lecturer in a reputed engineering college. • Responsible for conducting theoretical as well as practical classes for engineering students on subjects like Telemetry & Data Transmission, Principles of Communication. • Also worked as an external examiner with the board and was responsible for conducting practical exams of students from other colleges.

Education

CSM, Scrum Alliance

ISTQB