Quality Engineering Leader | SDET Manager | Test Architect
I build quality systems for high-scale product engineering.
I lead SDET teams, define automation strategy, and turn release risk into measurable engineering systems for cloud-native distributed platforms. My work spans test architecture, governance, people leadership, and GenAI-assisted quality workflows.
Impact Snapshot
Outcome-first quality engineering.
The work I value most is visible in release confidence, faster feedback, lower operating cost, and teams that grow stronger while the system gets more complex.
Manager Scorecard
Quality metrics worth making visible.
Beyond automation coverage, I manage quality through operating metrics that show whether releases are getting safer, faster, and easier to support.
Measure validation effort saved through PRD reviews, design reviews, API contracts, integration coverage, and early risk modeling.
Track time saved in impact analysis, test design, RCA preparation, release notes, and repeatable quality workflows.
Monitor rollback rate, change-failure rate, blocker escapes, and release readiness signals across high-risk services.
Trend P0/P1 incidents, support escalations, post-release defects, and recurring RCA themes quarter over quarter.
Measure test environment uptime, data readiness, rerun waste, dependency health, and infrastructure cost per validation cycle.
Track flaky failures, quarantine aging, rerun percentage, ownership SLA, and trust in automated quality gates.
Expertise
Where I create leverage.
I operate at the intersection of engineering management, system architecture, delivery governance, and hands-on automation craft.
QE Leadership
People management, mentoring, hiring, onboarding, career growth reviews, appraisals, calibration, stakeholder alignment, and release readiness.
Test Architecture
Automation strategy, API automation, integration tests, service-level tests, contract validation, regression governance, mock-based testing, framework design, RCA, and performance testing.
Distributed Systems Quality
Backend quality strategy for microservices, distributed systems, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, Kafka, event-driven flows, cloud-native services, observability, and production readiness.
GenAI-Assisted Engineering
AI-assisted test generation, release impact analysis, RCA acceleration, quality workflow automation, agentic validation patterns, LangChain, LangGraph, Copilot, MCP, and n8n.
Technical Toolkit
Languages & APIs
Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, REST, gRPC, GraphQL
Automation & Quality
API automation, integration automation, microservices testing, distributed systems validation, Playwright, Selenium, Serenity BDD, Cucumber, JMeter, SLTs, RCA
Platforms
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD, observability-led release governance
GenAI
Claude, Copilot, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, n8n, AI-assisted test generation
Experience
Leadership across product engineering environments.
From hands-on automation to managing quality strategy across engineering PODs, my career has stayed close to one goal: make product delivery faster, safer, and easier to reason about.
Swiggy Limited
Manager - Software Development Engineer in Test
- Manage the quality charter for Instamart supply chain and the Swiggy Driver ecosystem, owning quality strategy, delivery planning, roadmap alignment, release readiness, and stakeholder communication.
- Own people management across mentoring, hiring, onboarding, career growth, and calibration while building predictable quality rituals across teams.
- Drive quality governance through QA sprint ceremonies, PRD reviews, PR/design reviews, coverage tracking, TRMs, on-call reviews, and impact-focused reporting.
- Increased API integration coverage to 90%+ and sustained 100% regression success rate by strengthening integration coverage and eliminating flaky failures.
- Increased QA execution speed through shift-left testing practices and AI-agent-assisted workflows, accelerating delivery while preserving strong quality gates.
- Reduced AWS and ephemeral environment cost by 40%, reduced hardware needs by 75%, and improved release governance across canary readiness, RCA themes, and production readiness.
Samsung Electronics India Private Limited
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
- Led JMeter performance testing during flagship launches, improving tenant stability and preventing performance issues during high-traffic events.
- Designed a tenant-agnostic Java API Integration Framework and built Node.js test services with mocks to accelerate validation across global tenants.
Softcrylic Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
Senior Test Automation Engineer
- Automated critical workflows using Serenity BDD and Cucumber, introducing reusable utilities and modular components to reduce maintenance effort and speed onboarding.
Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd
Programmer - I
- Developed Selenium-Java automation suites for critical workflows, strengthening regression coverage and supporting disciplined release validation for US client stakeholders.
Education & Recognition
A learning path that now meets AI-native quality work.
Current graduate study in AI and ML complements practical leadership in automation, distributed systems, and GenAI-assisted quality workflows.
Education
- M.Tech - Artificial Intelligence & Machine LearningBirla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani | Expected May 2027
- M.C.A - Computer ScienceBharathiar University, Coimbatore | May 2017
- B.C.A - Computer ScienceVLB Janakiammal College of Arts & Science | May 2014
Awards & Recognition
- Swiggy Certified ManagerLeadership certification
- 1x Swiggstar AwardRecognition for high-impact contributions
- 4x Swiggy Most Valuable PersonConsistent cross-functional impact
- 2x Samsung Creative Intelligence AwardInnovation recognition