Rosh Karuvath

About Rosh Karuvath

I am a Quality Engineering Manager with 18+ years of experience leading global QA teams and driving enterprise-scale quality transformations across Banking, Payments, Oil & Gas, Logistics, and Automotive domains.My expertise spans cloud-native testing, ETL/data pipeline validation, test automation, performance, and security engineering. I have successfully delivered large-scale cloud migration and modernization programs involving Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and microservices architecturesCareer HighlightsBuilt and managed a distributed QE team of 16, achieving 30% higher delivery efficiency with standardized processes.Led quality engineering for a cloud migration program spanning 25 countries, supporting 8M+ transactions/day with zero critical incidents.Designed unified automation frameworks (Python/Pandas, Postman, Playwright, Selenium/Java), cutting manual effort by 70% and reducing defects by 40%.Spearheaded performance & security testing (Neo Load, Instana, Checkmarx, Burp Suite), boosting performance by 40% and ensuring 100% OWASP Top 10 alignment.Created real-time QA dashboards in Azure DevOps to provide transparency for stakeholders.I thrive at the intersection of QA leadership, cloud technologies, and data engineering. My passion is to ensure data integrity, performance, and resilience in enterprise platforms.CORE COMPETENCIESTest Management: Test Planning & Strategy • Test Execution Management • Defect Management •Release Management • Quality Metrics & ReportingTechnical Skills: Test Automation • Performance Testing • Security Testing • API Testing • ETL Testing •CI/CD IntegrationLeadership: Team Leadership • Stakeholder Management • Project Coordination • Process Improvement• Risk ManagementTECHNICAL SKILLSTest Management Tools: HP ALM, Azure DevOps, JiraAutomation Tools: Selenium WebDriver, Java, TestNG, PythonPerformance Testing: NeoLoad, Dynatrace, KibanaAPI Testing: Postman, SOAP UI, REST APIsSecurity Testing: Burp Suite, CheckMarx, OWASPCloud & DevOps: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, GitShift-Left Testing, CI/CD Pipeline Integration Chaos Engineering Contract Testing ServiceVirtualization • AI/ML Testing • DevSecOps • Site Reliability EngineeringData Testing: Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, ETL Validation

Experience

1. Quality Engineering Manager

   CGI

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Cloud Migration for a payment and settlement system across 25 countries supporting 8M+ transactions daily per country• Built and managed a distributed QE team of 16 professionals, implementing standardized QE processes and tools achieving delivery efficiency by 30%.• Developed and implemented a comprehensive test strategy covering functional validation, API testing, data pipeline verification, and performance testing spanning 25 Countries across 5 phased releases/Clusters.• Ideated and rollout unified automation frameworks for data pipelines (Python/Pandas), APIs (Postman), and UI (Playwright), reducing manual testing effort by 70% and improving release quality with 40% fewer production defects.• Led end-to-end, System, SIT, and UAT testing with risk-based approach, robust exit criteria, orchestrating parallel cluster/ releases with zero slippage, • Developed comprehensive quality metrics visualisation dashboard in Azure Devops providing real-time visibility for business stakeholdersTechnical Stack: Azure Cloud, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Oracle, MS SQL, Playwright, Python, Postman, Azure Devops

Education

• University of Calicut

  Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science

  2000 — 2002

• University of Calicut

  Bachelor’s Degree, Physics

  1996 — 2000