Arunaditya Bagchi
@arunadityabagchi
Senior Quality Engineering Manager driving QA transformation, automation, and GenAI-enabled testing.
What I'm looking for
I am a results-driven Senior Quality Engineering Manager with 16+ years building and scaling high-performing QA organizations for Fortune 500 clients and multi-million-dollar programs. I have led global teams of 30+ engineers, established QA Centers of Excellence, and delivered measurable improvements such as 40% reduction in regression cycles, 25% faster release velocity, and sustained 95%+ release readiness.
My expertise spans test automation strategy (Selenium, TestNG, BDD), CI/CD integration, SAFe and Agile at scale, and introducing GenAI/AI-assisted testing to reduce test design effort by 20%. I am passionate about mentoring SDETs and QA managers, implementing governance and KPIs, and bridging engineering and product leadership to enable reliable, faster releases.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Manage QA governance and delivery for multi-million-dollar Capital Markets programs, leading global teams of 30+ engineers and achieving 95%+ release readiness while reducing regression cycles 40% and improving release velocity 25%.
Led QA delivery and automation strategy for Capital Markets and enterprise applications, cutting manual testing effort ~50% and reducing production defect leakage 25–30% via risk-based testing and scalable automation frameworks.
Technical Lead, Verification & Validation
IGATE
Mar 2014 - Dec 2015 (1 year 9 months)
Led verification and validation for enterprise applications, improving defect detection rates by 20% and managing test planning, execution, and quality sign-offs for critical releases.
Designed and maintained 300+ manual and automated test cases for financial applications, reducing deployment defects by 20% and cutting script creation time by 40% through reusable automation modules.
Software Engineer
UST Global
Jul 2008 - Oct 2010 (2 years 3 months)
Performed manual and automated testing for mainframe applications using JCL and COBOL, improving system efficiency by 15% through detailed test plans and performance bottleneck identification.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
West Bengal University of Technology
Master of Computer Applications, Computer Software and Media Applications
2004 - 2007
Completed a Master of Computer Applications focusing on computer software and media applications from June 2004 to June 2007.
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College
Bachelor's Degree, Physics
2001 - 2004
Completed a Bachelor's degree in Physics from 2001 to 2004.
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