Mohan Gummadi

About Mohan Gummadi

Strategic and results-driven Senior Quality Executive with 23+ years of experience building and leading high-performing global QA organizations across enterprise platforms and complex product ecosystems. Proven success in defining enterprise QA vision, establishing Centers of Excellence, scaling automation practices, and driving quality transformation initiatives aligned with business strategy.Expert in building automation-first testing cultures, implementing modern QA methodologies (Shift-Left, DevSecOps, Continuous Testing), and leveraging AI-driven quality engineering practices. Strong executive presence with experience reporting to C-level leadership and managing global distributed teams.

Experience

1. Senior Director Quality Assurance

   Verisk

   Apr 2025 — Present · Jersey City, NJ, US

   Enterprise leader responsible for Quality Engineering strategy across advanced analytics and fraud detection platforms serving global enterprise clients.Enterprise Transformation Leadership:1. Defined and executed enterprise Quality Engineering vision aligned with corporate technology modernization initiatives.2. Transitioned traditional QA model into scalable Quality Engineering function embedded within DevOps ecosystem.3.Built 3-year transformation roadmap focusing on automation expansion, AI-based testing, and continuous quality monitoring.4. Positioned Quality as a measurable contributor to revenue protection and client trust.Business & Operational Impact:1.Reduced customer-impacting defects by 50% year-over-year.2. Implemented predictive defect analytics improving early risk detection by 40%.3. Standardized quality gates across CI/CD pipelines increasing deployment reliability to 99.9%.4. Reduced release cycle time by 35% while maintaining compliance and security rigor.5. Improved MTTR by implementing proactive production quality telemetry and monitoring frameworks.Organizational & Financial Leadership:1. Lead globally distributed teams (US + offshore) across automation, performance, and security disciplines.2. Redesigned QA operating model improving productivity by 25%.3. Optimized vendor portfolio delivering 20% cost efficiency without impacting delivery quality.4. Built leadership succession bench and performance-based career framework.

Education

• Harvard Business School

  Experienced Leader Program, Organizational Leadership

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech, Electronics and Communications

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Regression Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• Regression
• Bdd
• End User Training
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Dir
• Test Planning
• Hp Qtp
• Agile Testing
• Test Automation
• Loadrunner
• Jira
• UI Testing
• Quality Assurance
• System Testing
• C++
• Qc
• Qtp
• Functional Testing
• Winrunner
• C
• Shell Scripting
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Black Box Testing
• Api Testing
• Test Estimation
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Automation
• Selenium Webdriver
• Test Execution
• Hp Quality Center
• User Acceptance Testing
• Integration Testing
• Vbscript
• Jmeter
• Performance Testing
• Compatibility Testing
• Test Strategy