Venkatesh Katta Venkataramana Swamy
Lead Qa Engineer @Tipalti
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Qa Engineer @Tipalti
Led the design and rollout of a Shift-Left testing strategy, introducing functional coverage metrics and quality gates that increased overall test coverage from 33% to 87%, significantly reducing late-stage defects.2. Reduced customer onboarding time from 2 days to 5 minutes using AI-assisted automation.3. Managed a cross-functional QA team of 8 engineers distributed across 2 product teams (4 QA per team), providing technical leadership, mentoring, and performance guidance.4. Played a key role in hiring decisions, including interview design, technical evaluation, and final selection of QA engineers.5. Acted as the primary decision-maker for QA strategy, test approach, automation investments, and release readiness sign-off.6. Introduced QA governance using a RACI model, transforming QA engineers into embedded quality consultants within product teams.7. Built an enterprise-grade automation framework from scratch supporting API, web, and mobile testing, fully integrated into CI/CD pipelines.8. Enabled transition from weekly to daily and near-hourly release cycles through continuous testing.9. Established proactive quality monitoring by integrating Coralogix dashboards and alerts, improving real-time defect visibility and root-cause analysis.
EDUCATION
The National Institute Of Engineering, Mysore
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Industrial Engineering
ABOUT VENKATESH KATTA VENKATARAMANA SWAMY
I am a Quality strategic Engineering Lead with 12+ years of experience building high-leverage systems that make product quality the default outcome — not a manual effort.I specialize in designing internal platforms, CI/CD guardrails, and AI-driven quality systems that allow engineering teams to move from weekly releases to near-hourly deployments with confidence.My focus has always been the same:Transform quality from a bottleneck into a force multiplier.Across greenfield and scaling environments, I have:• Built quality functions from scratch — growing teams from a solo contributor to 8+ engineers while establishing hiring standards and technical culture.• Increased automated coverage from 33% to 87%, shifting organizations away from brittle E2E dependence toward stronger unit, integration, and signal-driven confidence.• Architected release safety mechanisms that enabled safe, high-frequency deployments across distributed teams in the UK, Israel, and India.• Pioneered AI-driven validation systems using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI Agents to address non-deterministic testing challenges — reducing a 2-day onboarding verification workflow to under 5 minutes without increasing headcount.• Integrated observability (Coralogix, distributed tracing) to shift engineering focus from reactive incident response to proactive signal detection.Technically, I operate at the intersection of:Platform Engineering | AI-Augmented Quality Systems | CI/CD Architecture | Observability | Microservices ReliabilityCore Stack: Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript, Java, AWS, GitHub Actions, Docker, Coralogix, Appium, MCP, AI Agents.I’m particularly interested in how AI can fundamentally reshape the economics of quality — moving organizations from manual assurance to intelligent, scalable systems.
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