Ankit Agarwal

Quality Engineering Leader with 20+ years of software testing and delivery experience, including 16+ years with Aristocrat Technologies. Lead QE across 3 enterprise products within an integrated product ecosystem, directly managing 14 engineers in India while providing functional leadership to distributed QE teams in the US. Strong expertise in QE strategy, quality governance, release management, automation, risk management and continuous quality improvement.

Proven track record of measurable QE transformation, including Agentic AI-powered QA engineering, AI-assisted test automation, intelligent workflow orchestration, release quality improvement and environment provisioning.

Quality Engineering Leader at Aristocrat Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. (2010-02 – Present)

Lead Quality Engineering for 3 enterprise products within an integrated product ecosystem, owning quality strategy, release planning, execution governance, risk assessment and release readiness. Directly manage 14 QE engineers in India and provide functional/release leadership to QE team members in the US. Lead hiring and interviewing, performance reviews, promotion and compensation discussions, mentoring and team development.

Manage up to 2 major product releases annually, along with parallel Maintenance Releases (MRs) and field-issue validation requiring rapid quality assessment, defect analysis and regression coverage. Drive test automation strategy and adoption, achieving approximately 70% automation coverage across the relevant testing scope. Led a structured quality improvement initiative that reduced the release defect target from 35 to 5 over three years (~86% improvement).

Drive QE governance through KPIs/OKRs, quality metrics, risk-based testing, defect analysis, release readiness reviews and continuous improvement; provide executive/stakeholder reporting and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture and global stakeholders. Manage functional, integration, API, regression, compatibility, performance, deployment and upgrade testing across complex enterprise environments. Own QE estimation, headcount and capacity planning, annual planning and delivery forecasting for projects and releases; support hiring and staffing decisions aligned with product and engineering priorities.

Software Test Engineer at PT PureTesting Software Pvt. Ltd. (2005-11 – 2010-01)

Worked on various testing and quality engineering projects as a Software Test Engineer, including legacy system modernization, promotional offers management systems, enterprise banking solutions, and portal compatibility testing.

• Aug 2008-Jan 2010 | Aristocrat Technologies as Client - Legacy CMS Modernization: Started the CMS migration from VB6/SQL Server 2000 to C#/.NET/SQL Server 2008 while Aristocrat was a PureTesting client; continued the same program after joining Aristocrat on 01 Feb 2010.
• Sept 2007 – July 2008 | BluRoute Inc., UK as Client – Promotional Offers Management System: Performed functional and performance testing for a web-based ASP.NET application managing targeted promotional offers for consumers. Responsible for test case design, execution, defect tracking, OpenSTA-based performance testing, and coordination with development teams for quality delivery.

Environment: ASP.NET, Oracle 9i/10g, Windows 2000 Server, OpenSTA

• July 2006 – Aug 2007 | Neptune Software PLC as Client – Supernova Universal Banking Solution: Worked on testing and quality engineering activities for Neptune's enterprise banking platform, covering functional, performance, load, stress, scalability, and automation testing for a Java/J2EE-based core banking application.
• Nov 2005 – June 2006 | Zansys.com as Client – IBM WebSphere Portal Compatibility Testing: Performed compatibility testing

BTech Computer Science