Mohan Bachu

About Mohan Bachu

Authoritative Quality Engineering Leader with 25+ years of experience in Practice Management, Product Management, Test Management, Test Automation, Project Management, Technical Management, People Management, Data Test Automation, Middleware and Client Management with specialization in Technical Architecture and GenAIMulti-cloud certified and Cloud Advisor for hardening governed cloud and migrating applications to cloud/building cloud native applications.Deep Expertise in setting up QECoE and transforming existing QE organizations.Experience in infrastructure, middleware, data, application and test automation engineering.Leading team of experienced solution architects and building talent for QE Built and structured Testing practices, programs and project teams to ensure maximum performance to achieve objectives and goals Preparation of charter, success criteria and value proposition for the programsWell versed in Project/Test Planning, WBS, Estimations, SchedulingLeading Global Testing teamsExperience in delivering results with start up teams in agile methodologies and traditional water fall models with adaptive engineering practices.Expert in preparation and review of design documents, project/test plans, approach/strategy, estimations, Practice Management- Identify and set up vision for the organization aligned to overall goals, Build and structure teams to achieve the vision by including innovation as component.Automation - Assessment of landscape to understand technical debt and provide solution to start automation in engagement.Client Management - Understand and manage client expectations. Manage client relationshipProduct Management - Set up product objectives, metrics & KPI and drive teams to achieve the sameTeam Management - Attract, Hire and retain talent. Develop team with diverse experience and backgrounds. Set up with clear roles and responsibilities to achieve departmental goals and helping in reaching career aspirationsProject Management: Develop project plans, schedule, estimation and manage risks & issuesSpecialties: Product Management, Test Automation, Automation Architecture, Technical Management, Project Management, Client Management, Delivery Management and People ManagementVendor and Partner Manager - Identify right vendors and partners. Build and Manage relationships. Develop GTM strategies.

Experience

1. Director of Ai Quality Engineering

   Quest Diagnostics

   Aug 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Key Responsibilities • Develop QE strategy and goals aligned to overall IT goals• Identify required skills/competences and build the team• Conduct QE assessment to identify current state and developed plan to achieve goals• Pioneer to Introduce Cloud, GenAI and Agentic AI in Quality Engineering organization.• Participate and drive Organization wide initiative – Hackathon, Early Career Program, Recruitment and team engagement events.• Manage vendor and full-time employees. Also manage tool vendor relationships.• Define and drive to develop role based QE dashboard to track KPIs• Attract, hire and retain talentAccomplishments• Performed assessment to identify current state of QE organization in people, process and technology areas and identified solutions to address the gaps. Prepare Quality Engineering organization to start AI journey• Defined QE CoE model and catalogue of offerings with Agentic AI solutions.• Defined operating model between core and delivery organization aligned to SDLC• Defined plan to consolidate multiple automation and test management tools into single enterprise test automation framework, execution environment and test management tool to reduce tool footprint, hardware and overall maintenance cost.• Stay current and remediate vulnerabilities in QE systems• Ideated and developed solutions to implement synthetic data generation using AI/ML.• Clear ownership of actives and outcomes tied to QE organization goals.• Developed QE persona solution for GenAI and Agentic AI

Education

• Osmania University

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

  1989 — 1995

Skills

• Quality Assurance
• Test Planning
• People Management
• Sdlc
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Qtp
• Performance Testing
• Test Strategy
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Manage Client Expectations
• Hp Quality Center
• Quality Center
• Agile Methodologies
• Cmmi
• Crm
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Testing
• Delivery Management
• Integration Testing
• Test Automation
• Project Management
• Regression Testing
• Program Management
• Software Quality Assurance