Abhinanda Das
@abhinandadas
Principal QA Engineer building risk-based test governance and automation strategies.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Quality Engineering Lead with 15+ years of experience across hands-on automation, team leadership, and quality strategy. I currently lead a team of 5 QA engineers and SDETs at Dell Technologies, with de facto ownership of test governance, release readiness decisions, and quality KPI reporting across 4+ Agile delivery teams.
I define and execute test strategy using risk-based testing and shift-left practices, embed quality across the SDLC, and drive measurable outcomes like 35% reduction in production defect leakage, 56% faster regression cycles, and 80% reduction in manual reporting overhead. I also build automation frameworks from the ground up, including leading adoption of Playwright and REST Assured, and accelerate delivery with tooling and AI-assisted development (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf).
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led a team of 5 QA engineers and SDETs and owned test governance and release readiness decisions across 4+ Agile delivery teams. Defined QA governance and test strategy, drove automation stack adoption (Playwright, REST Assured), and delivered improvements in regression time and defect leakage.
Aligned QA milestones and test planning with Agile delivery OKRs and owned a large suite of automated tests. Improved regression efficiency and production defect outcomes through defect triaging/RCA and collaborated with DevOps to stabilize CI/CD pipelines.
Mentored junior engineers in automation best practices and automated Windows-based enterprise workflows. Partnered with development and support teams to resolve defects and built domain expertise in financial and enterprise systems to inform quality governance decisions.
Built and maintained regression coverage for a healthcare domain product and automated a regression suite to reduce manual effort and accelerate release cycles. Created traceability matrices for requirements coverage and supported continuous delivery by maintaining automation suite stability.
Worked with BFSI clients to identify and resolve critical bugs and delivered .NET-based automation testing. Served as SDET in an Agile healthcare project using Coded UI and medical device testing to reduce manual effort, and built automation scripts across enterprise portfolios.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies
Diploma in Business Management, Business Management
Grade: 65%
Completed a Diploma in Business Management from NMIMS with 65% in 2021.
Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Gorakhpur
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering
Grade: 72%
Earned a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University (Gorakhpur) with 72% in 2005.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
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