Debashish Pradhan

Senior QA Consultant with 17+ years of corporate IT experience specializing in enterprise Quality Assurance for Supply Chain and Transportation Management solutions. Offers 8+ years of Manhattan TMS expertise spanning both product engineering and customer implementation consulting across Manhattan SCPP and Manhattan Active TMS. Experienced in implementation, migration, requirements validation, SIT, UAT, Go-Live, Hypercare and production stabilization.

Known for dependable delivery, attention to detail, stakeholder collaboration, mentoring and calm execution under demanding project timelines.

Lead Consultant at SupplyA2Z (2022-06 – Present)

Bench since Mar 2026 following successful completion of the Michaels engagement on 28-Feb-2026.

Lead QA at Michaels (2025-02 – 2026-02)

• Led a 6-member QA team (4 Functional QA, 1 Performance QA and self) for an accelerated 10-month Manhattan Active TMS implementation.
• Served as the primary QA liaison with customer business teams, Manhattan Associates consultants and implementation partners throughout the project lifecycle.
• Planned and coordinated ~1,500 QA scenarios spanning functional validation, integrations, enhancements and end-to-end transportation workflows.
• Validated 10 integrations, 8 custom enhancements and workflows across 7 distribution centers.
• Supported business-led UAT involving 30–35 users executing 310 UAT scenarios independently.
• Mentored two QA engineers new to Manhattan Active TMS and published daily QA dashboards, defect trends and release-readiness metrics.
• Adjusted working hours for most of the project to maximize India–US collaboration during implementation and Go-Live.
• Supported Go-Live, one month of production stabilization and one month of Hypercare/business-user enablement.

QA Consultant at Floor & Decor (2022-06 – 2025-01)

• Supported migration and implementation from Manhattan SCPP to Manhattan Active TMS.
• Validated migration of users, master data, configurations and transportation workflows.
• Validated 7–8 enterprise integrations and ~40 custom enhancements.
• Contributed to release readiness within a 40-member implementation support organization.

Senior Consultant at Infographic Solutions (2020-02 – 2022-05)

• Worked on website development and QA assignments for web applications.
• Performed functional testing, issue validation and release support in Agile teams.

Founder / Proprietor at Founder / Proprietor – Electrical Contracting Business (2017-04 – 2020-01)

• Established and managed an electrical contracting business specializing in Transmission & Distribution works in Odisha.
• Executed projects under SAUBHAGYA rural electrification and OPTCL.
• Managed customer engagement, procurement, contractor coordination and project execution.

Senior QA Engineer at SAP SuccessFactors (2011-12 – 2017-03)

• Selected for the newly established Platinum Team to validate customer-specific enhancements across the global SuccessFactors HCM platform.
• Led a team of 5 QA engineers while supporting quarterly SaaS releases for global customers.
• Worked across Performance & Goals, Employee Central, Recruiting, Compensation and Succession modules.
• Worked in Agile/Scrum using JIRA and TestLink.

Senior QA Analyst at Manhattan Associates (2007-05 – 2011-11)

• Member of the ASP Team, an early SaaS initiative validating customer-specific workflows for hosted Manhattan TMS deployments.
• Supported annual SaaS platform releases and customer enhancements.
• Used SQL Developer, StarTeam and PuTTY for validation and defect analysis.
• Built deep Manhattan TMS product expertise that later supported enterprise consulting assignments.

Test Engineer at Infosys (2005-08 – 2007-04)

• Built a strong foundation in enterprise QA, SDLC/STLC, functional, integration and regression testing.

B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering – National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela (2005)