George Ukkuru

About George Ukkuru

Testing teams face a choice: ship fast with hidden defects, or ship slowly with perfect tests. I help large organizations build the infrastructure that does both. Over 26 years, I\'ve led Software Testing services for Fortune 500 companies, defended $100M in testing revenues, and scaled test centers across multiple continents. I\'ve seen what works and what gets built because it looks good in PowerPoints. Right now, I work with testing firms and enterprise QA leaders on three things: 1. QA transformation: Shifting from manual QA factories to intelligent, risk-focused testing 2. AI adoption strategy: Moving beyond \"we use ChatGPT for test cases\" to production-grade AI in your pipeline 3. Center of Excellence: Building the frameworks, governance, and skill infrastructure that sustains quality at speed I don\'t build tools. I build testing operations that actually work. Current focus: helping Speridian scale quality engineering services across enterprise accounts. If you\'re scaling QA operations or rethinking your testing strategy, let\'s connect. I help enterprise teams diagnose what\'s broken and design transformation roadmaps. Reach out on LinkedIn or email g•••••@testmetry.com to explore if there\'s a fit.

Experience

1. Practice Director - Quality Engineering

   Speridian Technologies

   Jul 2025 — Present · Kochi, IN

   Built and developed the QA leadership team, bringing consistent governance and capability building across a 150 plus member organization.Led the Quality Engineering and Automation practice, scaling test automation, performance engineering, and AI led assurance across 7 plus active projects, with 100 percent of projects under structured QA review cadence.Designed and rolled out training programs on test strategy, AI adoption, and shift left practices, upskilling engineers across the practice and achieving 70 percent adoption of AI assisted testing approaches.Evaluated 6 AI testing platforms, defined selection criteria, and introduced production ready AI workflows improving tester productivity by 25 percent and reducing test design effort by 30 percent.Improved regression efficiency by reducing execution cycle time by 40 percent, while increasing automation stability and reducing flaky test failures by 35 percent.Partnered with delivery teams to improve test maturity, resulting in 30 percent reduction in defect leakage and improved overall release confidence.Set up governance processes, dashboards, and adoption tracking to improve visibility, accountability, and consistency across engagements.Built strong QA communities through mentoring and knowledge sharing, driving continuous capability development across teams.

Education

• University of Michigan

  Specialization - User Experience Research and Design

  2020 — 2021

• St. Thomas'​ College (Autonomous), Thrissur

  Pre-Degree

  1993 — 1995

• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies

  PGDIT

  2004 — 2006

• Mar Athanasius College of Engineerng (MACE)

  Bachelors

  1996 — 2000

Skills

• Defect Tracking
• Test Execution
• Hp Quality Center
• User Acceptance Testing
• Black Box Testing
• Performance Testing
• Web Testing
• Test Management
• Manual Testing
• Hp Quicktest Professional (Qtp)
• Pmp
• System Testing
• Test Automation Framework
• Test Estimation
• Regression Testing
• Software Development
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Test Cases
• Functional Testing
• Usability Testing
• Winrunner
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Qtp
• Integration Testing
• Proposal Writing
• Waterfall
• Pos Testing
• Sdlc
• Test Strategy
• Java
• Test Methodologies
• Software Quality Assurance
• Agile Testing
• Project Management
• Test Automation
• Loadrunner
• Testing
• Selenium