Suman Pradhan

Accomplished Quality Engineering leader offering 22 Years of progressive experience driving enterprise quality transformation, AI-enabled engineering, automation strategy, and governance across Retail, BFSI, FinTech, Cybersecurity, SaaS, and ERP domains. Proven expertise in building Quality Engineering organizations, accelerating enterprise maturity through scalable governance and operating models. Extensive experience in driving AI-enabled Quality Engineering, modernizing enterprise validation through intelligent automation and innovation.

Advanced knowledge in architecting enterprise automation, integrating DevSecOps, cloud validation, and continuous engineering practices. Demonstrating excellence in advising executive leadership, aligning quality strategy with measurable business and technology objectives. Championing initiatives in developing high-performing teams, strengthening organizational capability through mentoring and strategic transformation.

QA Director at Logile India (2025-11 – 2026-04)

• CoE Leadership: Established enterprise QA Centre of Excellence implementing governance, operating models, dashboards, and standardized quality practices.
• Capability Building: Recruited and mentored a 20-member Quality Engineering team through structured competency development programs.
• AI Transformation: Implemented MCP Server and Playwright, achieving 85%+ automation coverage across six enterprise product modules.
• Engineering Automation: Embedded intelligent quality gates within CI/CD pipelines, reducing regression execution time by ~60% consistently.
• Business Assurance: Achieved zero P1 defects through predictive quality governance, release readiness, and executive risk reviews.
• Retail Innovation: Designed in-store device validation strategy, strengthening deployment reliability across enterprise retail environments.

Senior Test Engineering Manager at Verite India (Client: Cisco) (2020-12 – 2025-05)

• Platform Engineering: Architected cloud-native Quality Engineering platform supporting scalable Cisco collaboration product validation capabilities.
• Continuous Delivery: Integrated Jenkins and GitHub Actions, enabling automated verification across enterprise CI/CD delivery pipelines.
• Framework Modernization: Standardized Selenium and Appium automation while eliminating enterprise testing tool duplication.
• Operational Stability: Delivered zero critical production incidents through proactive engineering controls and continuous quality validation.
• Technology Advisory: Guided engineering organizations adopting scalable automation architecture, engineering standards, and modern testing practices.
• Strategic Partnership: Collaborated with executive stakeholders aligning quality investments with technology roadmap and business objectives.

Senior QA Consultant at iSpace Inc. (2018-04 – 2020-03)

• Program Leadership: Directed 30+ onshore and offshore engineers delivering enterprise retail transformation initiatives successfully.
• CoE Implementation: Established standardized Quality Assurance practices strengthening governance, execution consistency & delivery maturity.
• Delivery Excellence: Achieved zero critical go-live defects while completing strategic retail programs ahead of planned schedules.
• Automation Engineering: Developed custom automation framework, increasing enterprise test coverage by 40% across critical business applications.
• Execution Optimization: Reduced regression cycles by 25% through scalable automation architecture and streamlined testing workflows.
• Integrated Validation: Embedded security and performance testing within CI/CD, reducing post-release vulnerabilities by 15% consistently.

Senior QA Architect at SAP Labs India (2013-02 – 2018-02)

• Solution Architecture: Defined Quality Engineering architecture supporting Enterprise Cloud and Learning Management platform modernization initiatives.
• Delivery Governance: Achieved 95% on-time project delivery through structured planning, engineering governance, and execution discipline.
• Automation Architecture: Engineered enterprise automation frameworks, reducing manual testing effort by 35% while improving execution stability.
• Agile Excellence: Embedded sprint-level quality checkpoints, maintaining zero critical go-live defects across enterprise product releases.
• Technology Leadership: Advised engineering teams on automation architecture, scalable validation strategies, and technology adoption decisions.
• Engineering Collaboration: Unified architects, developers, and product teams delivering reliable enterprise software through aligned execution.

QA Tech Lead at McAfee Software India Pvt. Ltd. (2008-10 – 2013-02)

Senior QA Software Engineer at Ness Digital Engineering / Ness Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (2006-09 – 2008-10)

Senior Quality Assurance Tester at Yodlee Infotech Pvt. Ltd. (2004-06 – 2006-09)

Master of Computer Applications in MCA – Utkal University

Bachelor of Science in Physics – Utkal University