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# Rohit Gupta on Tal

## 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

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