Pranit Lad

About Pranit Lad

I lead quality engineering at scale — building the systems, teams, and frameworks that keep large financial platforms reliable and regulatorily sound. Currently AVP – IT Quality Manager at Citi, I\'ve spent the last four years transforming QA delivery across complex, distributed programmes spanning India and the US. I lead a team of 14+ engineers, own end-to-end SDLC coverage (ST · SIT · E2E · UAT), and have driven measurable outcomes: an AI-powered data chatbot I built reduced test data identification effort by 90%. That\'s the kind of work I\'m most energised by — applying technology to solve quality problems at the root, not just at the surface. My technical foundation is solid: Selenium, Java, Cucumber (BDD), TestNG, Jenkins, Git, Maven — I\'ve built automation frameworks from scratch and integrated them into CI/CD pipelines that keep regression cycles fast. On the domain side, 14 years in BFSI — across Citi, Cognizant, and Wipro — means I understand the regulatory, data, and performance pressures that make financial software uniquely challenging to test. Outside the tools and frameworks, I\'m known for stakeholder management that actually works: translating test metrics into decisions that executive leadership can act on, and bridging the gap between engineering velocity and business risk appetite. Recognised with Citi\'s Platinum Award (2023) and Silver Awards (2022 & 2024). M.Tech in Software Engineering, BITS Pilani. Open to senior QA leadership roles — QA Manager, Test Manager, Head of Quality Engineering — across BFSI, fintech, and tech-driven enterprises in India.

Experience

1. Assistant Vice President

   Citi

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Led and scaled a cross-functional testing team delivering both manual and automation testing across Margin Lending releases in an Agile SDLC environment• Defined end-to-end testing scope per release cycle in close collaboration with Business Analysts and Development teams, ensuring full traceability from requirements to test execution• Authored comprehensive test plans, effort estimations, and daily status reports; managed QA sign-off gates for all production release changes• Drove QA process improvements and standardisation across teams, reducing release risk and improving overall delivery quality• Managed stakeholder expectations and reported test progress and quality metrics to senior leadership

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Software Engineering

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's degree, Information Technology

Skills

• Hp Qtp
• Regression Testing
• Hp Quicktest Professional (Qtp)
• Pl/Sql
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Qtp
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Defect Tracking
• Hp Quality Center
• Unix
• Manual Testing
• Test Automation
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Test Planning
• Sdlc
• Test Cases
• Databases
• Functional Testing