Pravin Napuri
A visionary leader focused on achieving excellence in product quality, customer satisfaction, and team performance. Proven expertise in AI driven efficiency, automation and implementing best practices.
- Role
- Senior Director Quality Assurance at 1Kosmos
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Pravin Napuri
Strategic and results-driven Director of Quality Engineering with 20+ years of leadership in SaaS, Cloud, and Enterprise QA transformation. Proven record of scaling global QA organizations, embedding AI-driven automation, and aligning quality with business outcomes. Adept at influencing C-level stakeholders and achieving measurable impact including 50%+ defect reduction, 25% faster releases, and 30%+ test coverage improvements.Industry experiences span Cybersecurity, Telecom, Finance, Healthcare, Government, and Big Tech within ISO-9001 and CMMI-compliant environments. Recognized for building high-performing global teams, ensuring compliance, and aligning product quality with business growth.Core Competencies• Quality Engineering Leadership & Strategy, Product & Release Quality Governance• SaaS / Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Docker)• Test Automation (Playwright, Selenium, Ranorex, Postman, Jenkins, TestNG, BrowserStack)• Testing and Collaboration Tools (Jira, TestRail, Bugzilla, GitHub, Bitbucket, ALM, Wireshark)• Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD, ATDD• ISO-9001, CMMI, JITC, FedRAMP Compliance• Executive Stakeholder Engagement & Customer Advocacy• Budgeting, Vendor Management, Offshore/Onshore Team Scaling
Experience
Senior Director Quality Assurance
Oct 2024 — Present
Leading 10 QA engineers/leads (onsite & distributed) ensuring quality of mission-critical multi-cloud SaaS portfolio.• Introduced AI-first automation framework (Copilot, Playwright, Postman, Newman), reducing regression cycle time and increasing coverage by 30%.• Defined and implemented KPIs across full-stack QA, and automation — optimizing SDLC practices and reducing defect leakage.
Education
Shivaji University
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics Engineering
Indira Gandhi National Open University
Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management, Operations Management
Skills
- Voip
- Cisco Technologies
- Software Development
- Pbx
- Rtp
- Saas
- Testing
- Vendor Management
- Video Conferencing
- Itil
- Project Management
- Test Automation
- Web Services
- Pstn
- Internet Protocol (Ip)
- Network Design
- Gsm
- Product Management
- H.323
- Unix
- Ip
- Pre-Sales
- Mobile Applications
- Wireless
- Mobile Devices
- Test Management
- Integration
- Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
- Unified Communications
- Tcp/Ip
- Test Driven Development
- Wll
- Databases
- Ss7
- Networking
- Quality Assurance
- Cloud Computing
- Mgcp
- Sip
- Program Management
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