Mallikarjun Ganigi

Engineering Manager with 15 years of experience leading Development, QA, SDET, automation and performance engineering teams for large-scale, distributed systems. Proven expertise in defining and executing end-to-end quality strategies, covering functional, automation, performance, reliability and non-functional testing. Strong background in building scalable test automation frameworks for UI and backend.

Champion of shift-left testing, testability, and quality ownership, influencing design and architecture decisions early in the SDLC. Successfully managed CI-CD, Defects management and resolution, DevOps, Kubernetes(K8S) infrastructure. Strong ability to recruit, mentor, and retain top engineering talent to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Engineering Manager - RSA Security

(2021-10 - 2025-03)

• Led a team of 15 engineers across multiple scrum teams, driving the end-to-end execution of complex feature development, packaging, testing, and delivery for SIEM and NDR solutions.
• Extensively worked on reducing defect leakage, test flakiness, and release risk through data-driven quality metrics and automation at scale.
• Implemented & Transformed legacy CI-CD pipelines, saved 60% on Opex & execution time.
• Improved patch release timelines and response to customer escalations by modernizing DevOps pipelines and adopting shift-left engineering practices to boost development efficiency.
• Engaged in architectural planning sessions to strengthen use-case completeness and eliminate late-stage design revisions, delivering 30% engineering cost savings.
• Initiative to enhance the automation coverage for the product suite and implemented ECLA.
• Experienced in monitoring quality metrics like MTTD, MTTR, SLA, SLI and SLO.
• Supported critical customer issues and escalations in parallel, implementing ECLA.
• Established secure SDLC practices by integrating SAST, DAST, and IAST tools into build and release pipelines.
• Teamed with Sales and Professional Services to provide impactful demonstrations of key use cases, leading to increased customer utilization and expanded deployments.

Technical Lead - Standard Chartered GBS

(2020-10 - 2021-10)

• Align QA goals with product roadmap, engineering OKRs, and release plans.
• Review automation architecture, code quality, and test coverage metrics. Promote API-first testing, and service virtualization.
• Balance speed vs quality in fast-paced Agile environments.
• Experienced in establishing performance baselines, SLAs/SLOs, capacity planning, and bottleneck analysis across microservices and cloud platforms
• Led performance engineering to support peak TPS loads, horizontal scaling, backpressure handling, and auto-scaling.
• Conducted RCAs, post-mortems, and implemented durable fixes for production incidents across card & payment flows.
• Facilitated daily stand-ups and operational routines, driving team alignment, progress tracking, and timely resolution of technical blockers.

Senior Software Engineer - DELL EMC / RSA Security

(2017-12 - 2020-10)

• Individual QA, Responsible for Gathering Requirements, conducting Risk assessment and Mitigation plans.
• Involved in backlog grooming, sprint planning and served as Scrum Master.
• Preparation of Test Plans, scripts creation, Execution, Results and bottleneck Analysis.
• Performed Load, Stress, Endurance, Failover and spike tests.
• Developed Automation frameworks from scratch for API and UI Testing
• Experience in logs, Network, Endpoint, Cloud Security, Cyber Security, UEBA, system PSR.
• Reduced defects rate by 30% and enhanced automation coverage by 40%.
• Component PSR and debugging.
• Benchmarking on physical, VMs, ESX, Cloud (AWS, Azure)
• Good in analyzing Customer Issues and arranging RCA (ECLA)

Various Roles as Quality Engineering Leader, Performance Test Lead and Project Lead - Dell EMC / RSA Security / IBM / FIS

(2010-12 - 2020-12)

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronic and Communications - BEC Bagalkot | VTU Belagavi Karnataka (2009)