Nataraja M

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in driving quality initiatives.
  • Expert in AI-driven automation frameworks.
  • Strong leadership in high-pressure environments.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Quality Assurance Leader with expertise in automation and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipQuality AssuranceProject Management

Other Skills

People ManagementHiringHigh-Pressure SituationsCoaching & MentoringArtificial Intelligence (AI)Risk AssessmentAutomationCIAutomated Software TestingSoftware TestingAntCore JavaJUnit

About

Software Testing Specialties: Manual, Automation, Junit 3 and 4.TestNG ANT, CI, Backend pipeline testing. Hadoop basics, framework, devops, infra, planning, mentoring

Experience

Harness

5 roles

Quality Leader | SDET Manager

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

  • Experienced Quality and Engineering Leader with a proven track record of driving quality initiatives and enabling teams to deliver high-impact solutions. I specialise in mentoring and guiding engineers from junior to lead levels, serving as an SME for Harness product modules, and leading risk assessments to ensure robust product delivery.
  • Passionate about AI-driven automation frameworks, CI/CD pipeline management, and infrastructure/cloud cost optimisation. I thrive in cross-team collaboration and act as a technical mentor, fostering a culture of innovation, learning, and excellence across the organisation.
  • Involved in Hiring process and hired the best talents from the industry and provided the opportunities to work on the Tools, Initiatives, Infra and Harness Products.
Project ManagementPeople ManagementTechnical LeadershipQuality AssuranceHiringHigh-Pressure Situations+3

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Managing a team of 12 people and running the business for Platform engineering.
  • Harness is built around 10-12 modules and the Harness Platform is the Key component to support all these internal modules.
  • Supporting internal modules and external customers.
Project ManagementHigh-Pressure Situations

SDET manager for Platform Engineering

Feb 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Responsible for keeping the quality of the features and releases.
  • Involved in scale/Performance testing and weekly release management. Handled 5-6 microservices releases every week with quality.

Staff SDET

Dec 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Leading the Testing and Automation activities for the Platform team

Senior Software Development Engineer Test

Nov 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr

  • Harness is the industry's first continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform that automates the entire CD process, uses machine learning to protect you when deployments fail, and equips you with enterprise-grade security every step of the way. Continuous Delivery has never been so simple.

Inmobi

Senior SDET

Nov 2015Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Senior SDET, Testing Specialist. Developing features. Test Framework development. Regression suite Maintainer. Reporting Pipeline monitoring and feature enhancement.

Huawei technologies

Software Engineer

Dec 2011Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Manual Testing and Automation using Junit 4 and test NG.
  • Jenkins project setup. QA Automation setup. Release verification. Scripts development.

Education

UBDTCE Davangere

BE — Computer Science

Jan 2006Jan 2010

SGHS Godabanagal

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