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Engineering @ Media.net | ex-InMobi, Wynk, Snapdeal

About

Passionate and results-driven Staff Engineering Manager with 12+ years of experience leading large-scale quality engineering initiatives across mobile and backend platforms. Currently heading the end-to-end QA charter at InMobi, managing a high-performing team of 11 engineers. I specialize in building scalable automation frameworks (frontend and backend), driving performance and reliability improvements, and aligning test strategy with product and business goals. I've led key initiatives resulting in: 60% YoY reduction in crashes/ANRs and improved app stability 3× faster release cycles via automation and release process optimization 10M+ device activations through preloads across global partners Adept at driving innovation through AI-based testing, setting up performance benchmarks (CPU, memory, battery, latency), and scaling test automation frameworks adopted org-wide. I bring a strong mix of technical depth (Java, Appium, Selenium, JMeter, Firebase, CI/CD), team mentorship, Agile/Scrum leadership, and stakeholder collaboration across product, design, and business teams. I thrive in environments that demand quality ownership, continuous improvement, and scalable engineering practices—and I’m always exploring ways to empower my team and improve engineering excellence.

Location

Bengaluru

Work experience

Senior Manager at Media.net, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Bangalore Urban, Heading the QA charter for a portfolio of 16+ Android launcher apps, built the QA organization, automation strategy, and release governance from the ground up. - Streamlined the entire QA function: team onboarding, competency development, and clear role definitions — fostering a quality-first culture built on ownership, documentation, and best practices. - Architected a scalable, modular automation framework from scratch covering Android app and API automation, enabling faster, more confident platform releases. - Designed a streamlined release model standardizing QA workflows (test planning, test-case documentation, execution, sign-off criteria), reducing ambiguity and significantly boosting stakeholder confidence. - Revamped QA review and test execution processes, achieving ~90% reduction in post-release production bugs; Monkey Runner suites cut post-release crash/ANR discoveries by 30%. - Introduced QA KPIs (defect leakage, automation coverage, release stability) and bug dashboards—driving a data-driven culture, resolving top recurring issues, and increasing engineering velocity. - Designed a CI/CD automation blueprint with DevOps, enabling nightly and on-demand automation runs—now fully functional. - Implemented a layered mentoring program tied to KPIs, creating clear career paths and continuous upskilling across the team. - Established cross-functional quality gates, cross-team test-case/build reviews, and business sign-off for new app launches — eliminating last-minute unknowns through collective decision-making. - Driving AI-powered QA Agent initiatives to accelerate test-case creation and debugging, including a UI-automation agent detecting UI issues across device/OS variations.

Staff Engineering Manager at InMobi, Jan 2023 - Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, - Driving critical backend and frontend automation tracks, including test automation, Firebase config optimization, and crash/ANR reduction, App startup time improvements, backend latency improvements significantly improving app stability and execution velocity. - Introduced performance benchmarking for Android apps (CPU/memory/battery/load), leading to 40% reduction in app startup time and improved end-user experience. - Streamlined release processes and improved build predictability for Telco partners by eliminating low-quality builds, enhancing stability, and ensuring timely deliveries—resulting in a 3x faster release cycle and improved partner trust. - Represented the engineering function in external partner calls, ensuring timely resolution of tech queries and build quality issues - Driving app AI initiatives, hygiene calendar actionable, GTM of business-critical features. - Built and nurtured a positive team culture by resolving conflicts, setting clear expectations for underperformers, and mentoring new hires across QA, BE, and Android domains. - Initiated and established group-level process improvements, architecture discussions and contributed to internal knowledge sharing, enhancing engineering excellence and stakeholder visibility.

Associate Engineering Manager at InMobi, Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, Lead a team of 7 engineers, and played an instrumental role from the QA side in onboarding 3 new customers, resulting in 10M device activations with the 1Weather app preloaded. This significantly boosted revenue for the 1Weather business and improved DRR. • Achieved over 90% test automation coverage for backend APIs, enabling faster, scalable, and more reliable releases. On the android side, we achieved 50% regression test automation and helped us in releasing high quality builds faster. • Owned end-to-end performance benchmarking for the Android app, building custom automation scripts to measure CPU usage, battery impact, memory utilization, and cold start time—now actively used by the frontend QE team • Mentored junior QA engineers on tools like Charles Proxy, Profiler, and performance testing, while also assisting with framework enhancements and peer reviews. • Actively contributed to defining the automation roadmap through regular sync-ups with engineering leadership • Independently led QA ownership for multiple projects 1Weather, Swish news and folders app ensuring quality coverage across all critical systems.

SDE-III at InMobi, Jul 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked as an individual contributor and played an instrumental role from the QA side by building automation test frameworks from scratch for both frontend and backend. These frameworks were later extended to other projects within InMobi and Glance. Also introduced performance testing setups and supporting frameworks to ensure system scalability and stability under high load.

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Wynk Limited, Jun 2019 - Oct 2019 · 5 mos, Gurgaon, India, * Experience in creating various type of the automation framework i.e. BDD using Cucumber, Test and Data driven frameworks * Hands on experience on Appium automation tool for both Android and iOS mobile applications. * Hands on experience on Selenium Webdriver and Grid. Have utilised the same for mobile application testing using Appium. * Have created a framework using UIAutomator and Espresso to test the Android application * Hands on experience in Performance Testing with JMeter of Webservices(SOAP & REST) , API and Web Applications. * Have done the setup of ATC(Augmented Traffic Controller) for controlled environment in Automation TestLab. * Having good working experience on different type of DBs i.e. Mongo, Cassandra, MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle. * Having good working knowledge of Agile Methodology and am currently following the same * Experience on Test Management Tool and Bug tracking tool: JIRA, Rally, TestLink * Knowledge Acquisition and team building * Leading a team, Test Planning and Estimation * Resource Forecasting and Planning * Unit Testing, debugging, Integration testing, Black box testing, Performance testing * Technical Skills : -- Languages : Java , Android(basic) -- Appium, Selenium Webdriver, Selenium Grid, Espresso, UIAutomator and JMeter -- Jenkin and Git -- NDCG for Search

Principal Software Engineer at Wynk Limited, Jun 2018 - May 2019 · 1 yr, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Senior Software Engineer at Wynk Limited, Jul 2016 - May 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Software Development Engineer in Test at Snapdeal, Dec 2015 - Jun 2016 · 7 mos, Gurgaon, India, • Analyzed various tools for test management, test automation and performance testing and provide the best possible solution based on requirements. • Worked with Java to use Selenium-WebDriver API library to write automation scripting. • Used Eclipse to debug Java code and utilize Maven as project builder with internal Maven Dependency repository. • Used Oracle for database testing and run SQL statement from Eclipse • Locating elements using- XPath, CSS, Class, Name. • Created Page Factory Model framework. • Used Selenium Grid, Desired Capabilities, Remote Web Driver for distributing the execution in different machines, platforms and browsers. • Used Maven to configure the dependencies and to run framework. • Used GIT as repository and version control. .

Quality Engineer at Tavant Technologies, Sep 2014 - Nov 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos, Noida Area, India, • Designed a BDD automation framework from scratch. • Create Reusable components for the framework. • Create feature files for behavior driven testing. • Directly communicate issues and enhancement to the client via daily Call and Chat • Writing the automation script for various Test scenarios for different platforms in order to cover 100% business requirements • Peer review of code written by team member. • Script execution, debugging the Scripts, result evaluation and defect reporting to both manual team and Client as well • Preparation of weekly and monthly status reports. • Preparation of knowledge based and informational documents for future training of the new resources.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, JSS Academy of Technical Education, Noida