Vandana Krishnegowda — Product Manager
I am a Quality Engineering Leader with 13+ years of experience driving automation strategy, scaling QA practices, and leading high-performing teams across e-commerce and SaaS platforms. At Myntra, I led quality for the revenue-critical Checkout & Payments charter and built automation that reduced High Revenue Day (HRD) execution from 4 days → 2 hours, significantly improving release stability. At Urbint (acquired by Itron), I operate at an L6 / Principal QE level, where I lead multi-pod quality strategy, modernize automation frameworks, enhance API & performance testing, and drive GenAI-based quality engineering to accelerate delivery and reduce defects. My strengths include: • End-to-end QE strategy, governance & quality metrics • Automation framework design (UI, API, performance, security) • Modernizing legacy systems & enabling shift-left testing • CI/CD quality gates, DevOps collaboration & release excellence • AI-assisted testing (Cursor AI, ChatGPT, Copilot) • Cross-functional leadership across product, engineering & architecture • Mentoring & scaling distributed QE teams I am passionate about transforming QA teams into engineering-driven quality organizations, using automation, data, and AI to deliver reliable, high-quality software at scale.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering Leader in E-commerce and SaaS industries.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 14 yrs 3 mos
Skills
- End-to-end Qe Strategy
- Automation Framework Design
Career Highlights
- Reduced HRD execution from 4 days to 2 hours.
- Led multi-pod quality strategy at Urbint.
- Passionate about transforming QA teams into engineering-driven organizations.
Work Experience
Itron, Inc.
Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer (4 mos)
Urbint
Lead SDET (1 yr)
Myntra
Technical Lead Manager (2 yrs 8 mos)
Senior Software Engineer (9 yrs)
Adobe
Quality Engineer (3 yrs 5 mos)
Tata Consultancy Services
System Engineer (4 yrs)
Assistant system Engineer (1 yr)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) at Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology
at Chethana Vidya Mandira