Tauseef Ahmed Syed — Director of Engineering
Director of Quality Engineering with 17+ years of experience leading global QA organizations and delivering AI-driven automation at scale across fintech, payments, conversational AI, and high-velocity consumer platforms. I’ve built and led 30+ member QA/SDET/Manager teams across India, the US & Europe, and consistently improved engineering velocity, reliability, and operational excellence. Currently at Amazon, I lead AI powered Quality Engineering for Credits & Lending—Amazon Pay Later, CoBrandedCreditCard, Wealth, Personal Loans—serving millions of customers, and drove major expansions like Amazon Pay on 3P merchants 🚀 AI-Driven Automation Transformation: Designed and deployed three major AI automation systems—ADAM, TestClassifier, TestIM—delivering measurable, org-wide impact: ❖ 90%+ reduction in regression effort ❖ 70% increase in CI/CD pipeline coverage ❖ 60% faster release & deployment velocity ❖ 80%+ drop in test maintenance effort ❖ 80% improvement in automated test development speed ❖ Achieved 95%+ automation readiness before launch 🔍 Shift-Left Quality & Defect Prevention: Built an org-wide shift-left strategy that moved critical validation earlier in the SDLC: ❖ 40% reduction in post–code-review & post-deployment defects ❖ 30% faster QA signoff using intelligent regression selection ⚙️ CI/CD, Reliability & Operational Excellence: Drove major improvements across pipelines, infra, and quality governance: ❖ 45% improvement in pipeline health ❖ 25% reduction in Sev-1/Sev-2 incidents ❖ 70% drop in security/policy risks ❖ 80% reduction in UAT/test environment downtime ❖ Automated remediation of 150+ annual security findings 🌍 Large-Scale Platform Quality Leadership: Delivered quality for some of the most demanding, large-scale systems: ❖ Amazon Credits & Lending – multi-million fintech ecosystem ❖ Swiggy Marketplace – millions of orders/day ❖ Goldman Sachs Transaction Banking – global enterprise treasury ❖ [24]7.ai Conversational AI – NLP platforms for Fortune 100 ❖ Charles Schwab & Dollar Financial – Stock brokerage & lending platforms 💡 What I Bring AI-led automation • Shift-left strategy • CI/CD excellence • Defect prevention • Risk & compliance • NLP/AI testing • Global team leadership • Scalable QA transformation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Quality Engineering leader with extensive experience in AI-driven automation and global team management.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 18 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Test Automation
- Engineering Management
Career Highlights
- Led AI-driven automation transformation at Amazon.
- Achieved 90% reduction in regression effort.
- Built and managed global QA teams across multiple regions.
Work Experience
Amazon
Software Quality Engineering Manager - L6 (3 yrs 9 mos)
Swiggy
Senior Engineering Manager (6 mos)
Goldman Sachs
Vice President - Transactions Banking (TxB) (1 yr 3 mos)
Amazon
Engineering Manager - Quality (3 yrs 4 mos)
[24]7.ai
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (2 yrs 1 mo)
Tavant Technologies
Senior Quality Assurance Lead (7 mos)
QA Lead (1 yr 5 mos)
Wipro Limited
Senior Project Engineer (5 yrs 2 mos)
Education
Master of Science (MS) at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani