Rachappa Bandi — QA Manager

About Me – Innovative and results-driven Quality Assurance Manager with 20+ years of global experience driving end-to-end quality engineering strategies across domains including Life Sciences, Embedded Systems, IIoT, IoT, BFSI (NBFC – LOS, LMS, SCF), E-commerce, Wealth Management, and Supply Chain Management. Proven expertise in leading large QA/QE teams and modernizing traditional testing into AI-driven Quality Engineering (QE) functions. Adept at building scalable hybrid automation frameworks, implementing Testing as a Service (TaaS), and embedding Generative AI (Gen-AI), Agentic AI, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) for smart test case generation, predictive defect analytics, and intelligent test automation. Skilled in establishing CI/CD-driven quality pipelines, delivering performance testing with JMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, and PerfMon, and ensuring global compliance (CSV, CSA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 27001). Recognized for technical vision, cross-functional leadership, and delivering AI-augmented QE innovations that accelerate time-to-market, reduce costs, and improve product reliability. Core Competencies QA/QE Leadership & Transformation: QE CoE Setup, QA Modernization, TaaS Delivery Models Gen-AI in Testing: Prompt-driven test design, defect summarization, and scenario generation using LLMs Agentic AI & NLP: AI agents for autonomous test execution, traceability mapping, and test optimization through natural language input Automation Strategy: Web, API, Mobile, and WebdriverIO, CodeceptJS, Selenium, Robot Framework, Appium, TestSigma, playwright Hybrid Frameworks & CI/CD: Integration with Jenkins, GitLab CI, TestRail API, containerized test environments Performance Engineering: JMeter, Grafana, InfluxDB, PerfMon for Load, Stress, and Uptime Assurance Testing Methodologies: Risk-Based Testing, Mindmap Planning, Combinatorial Techniques Analytics for QA: KPI Dashboards, Defect Forecasting, Test Optimization Metrics Compliance: FDA 21 CFR Part 11, GxP, CSV/CSA, ISO 9001/27001 Audit Support Agile Program Delivery: Scrum/SAFe, Team Coaching, Client Engagement

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance Leader with expertise in AI-driven testing across multiple industries.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 19 yrs 7 mos

Skills

Quality Management
Testing Process
Performance Testing
Automation Coe
Quality Assurance Processes
Testing
Quality Assurance

Career Highlights

20+ years in Quality Assurance and Engineering.
Expert in AI-driven Quality Engineering transformations.
Proven leadership in large QA teams across diverse industries.

Work Experience

UNCIA

Quality Assurance Manager (9 mos)

QA Consultant (6 mos)

ValGenesis

Manager (2 yrs 8 mos)

HARMAN International

Senior Architect in Quality (2 yrs 10 mos)

HARMAN International India Pvt. Ltd.

Test Architect (3 yrs 6 mos)

Intellifour Software Pvt Ltd

Test leader (11 mos)

TOBOC International

Test Lead (2 yrs 10 mos)

Trigent Software

Sr Software Test Engineer (3 yrs 9 mos)

Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc.

Avionics systems engineer, V & V software Tester, Embedded Tester (1 yr 1 mo)

Symmetric Technologies, Inc.

Software Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)

Aeronautical Development Agency

V & V software Tester, Embedded Tester (1 yr 10 mos)

Education

BE at SLN College of Engineering, Raichur

at KWT School Raichur

Rachappa Bandi

QA Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

20+ years in Quality Assurance and Engineering.
Expert in AI-driven Quality Engineering transformations.
Proven leadership in large QA teams across diverse industries.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance Leader with expertise in AI-driven testing across multiple industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality ManagementTesting ProcessPerformance TestingAutomation CoeQuality Assurance ProcessesTestingQuality Assurance

Other Skills

Client DeliveryManual TestingSystem TestingIntegration TestingVerification and Validation (V&V)Regression TestingRequirements AnalysisDefect Life CycleWork AllocationBlack Box TestingTraceability MatrixQuality SystemComputerized System Validation (CSV)Functional TestingU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

About

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Uncia

2 roles

Quality Assurance Manager

Jul 2025 – Present · 9 mos · On-site

Quality ManagementTesting ProcessClient Delivery

QA Consultant

Dec 2024 – Jun 2025 · 6 mos · On-site

QA Strategy
Automation CoE
Performance Tests
CI-CD Integration
Transformation Leader
Gen AI Tools & Agentic AI, NLP
NBFC Domain

Testing ProcessClient Deliveryautomation COEPerformance TestingAutomation CoE

Valgenesis

Manager

Nov 2021 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Manual TestingSystem TestingIntegration TestingVerification and Validation (V&V)TestingRegression Testing+27

Harman international

Senior Architect in Quality

Jan 2019 – Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Manual TestingSystem TestingIntegration TestingTestingRegression TestingBug Tracking+23

Harman international india pvt. ltd.

Test Architect

Jul 2015 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for hiring:
Automation for the Enterprise product (Supply Chain Management in Retail Domain)
Updating the automation scripts according to the Agile pace.
E2E automation, browser compatibility functional coverage.
Continues Integration using Jenkins
Solving the Application challenges on the Selenium scripting/ Functional Automation problem.
Designing the automation framework.
Working on the POC, Customer Demo, Etc.,
Technology stacks - Java / C#
TestOps/ end to end implementation.

Intellifour software pvt ltd

Test leader

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for hiring, some are listed here below:
Deputed to client location - Symphony Teleca, Now its part of Harman International
Solving the Functional Automation challenges.
Designing the automation framework.
Identifying the problem with non-functional requirement and providing a resolutions
Managing the Automation and manual team.
POC enabled project, customer interaction/ client acquisition.
Responsible for the Project execution and management.
Responsible for the product quality and process.

Toboc international

Test Lead

Oct 2011 – Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bangalore

The Toboc International company has been running since 2006. The core business of the company is to
help Sellers, Buyers and Brokers from SMEs all over the World to exchange with each other through a web -based market- place so that they can develop their trades at lower costs and streamline the logistics thanks to the services Toboc International is offering.
Responsible for hiring, some are listed here below:
Working very closely with the Product team in getting the requirement
Creating strategy in testing various products
Reviewing testcases for the product
Preparing Test Strategy/Test Plan document
Analyzing the bugs and generating reports
Using bug reports improving the team bug logging efficiency and performance
Manage multiple product releases within short time span
Resolving team members technical doubts
Performing functional and adhoc testing and logging bugs
Improving the QA process in the organization
Performing bug scrub and assigning to the correct team

Trigent software

Sr Software Test Engineer

Jan 2008 – Oct 2011 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

Responsible for hiring, some are listed here below:
o Analyzing the customer requirements, involved in designing the test cases, execution of test cases and reporting the bugs.
o Designed Traceability Matrix, Test Case Refinement & Coverage Matrix to find the redundant test cases.
o Analyzing of Impact Assessments applicable on ongoing changes to business requirements without rigid change control being applied in the early stages of the project.
o Involved in preparation of test calendar for test execution plan.
o Compiling Dash board reports & sending it to lead and manager ongoing basis.
o Identified & reported of catastrophic defect while test execution
o Involved in peer review of test plan & test cases.
o Responsible for Product testing with smoke, sanity, functional, regression, integration, compatibility, automation testing.
o Responsible for Non-functional testing with security, usability, DB/back end testing performance/load/stress testing.
o Tested the application for the HTTP and HTTPS.
o Automation is used for the smoke testing the application.
o Managed the team.
o Drive the development team towards the product implementation as per the requirement and product quality.

Honeywell technology solutions, inc.

Avionics systems engineer, V & V software Tester, Embedded Tester

Jan 2008 – Feb 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · bangalore

o Analyzing the requirements and Development of Test procedures and test cases for the Navigation, Vertical Guidance subsystems.
o Peer review the test cases developed by team members.
o Dry Run (on Simulator) and Target execution (KSN 770) for Flight Planning, Navigation subsystems.
o Analyzing the source code of KSN FMS.
o Running test cases as per the STP (Software test plans) with KSN770 Simulator and Target execution and preparing the STR, as per the Honeywell Process.

Symmetric technologies, inc.

Software Engineer

Feb 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bangalore

Aeronautical development agency

V & V software Tester, Embedded Tester

Feb 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 10 mos · banglore

o Analyzing the source code of OACMASTER (Mission Software) Code for PV2, PV3.
o Verification and validation of code with the top level documents (GS, SRS, SyRS and IRS or ICD).
o Running test cases as per the STP and STD (CSU, CSC test cases) with RTRT and preparing the STR.
o Testing the RIG (system testing) with the LRU’s (Simulator Models) BIFU, CIU, HEEM/BHEEM, FADEC and LDP and validating the each LRU model.
o Done functional testing, system testing and Acceptance testing.