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Abhishek Kaushik

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India22 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in engineering leadership and team management.
  • Expertise in AI-ML and cloud technologies.
  • Strong focus on product quality and engineering process improvement.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with extensive experience in AI and cloud technologies.

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Test ManagementTest AutomationPeople ManagementMicrosoft SQL ServerLeadershipData WarehousingTesting.NETSystem TestingSilverlightSDLCAgile MethodologiesRegression TestingSoftware Project ManagementTest Planning

About

Currently working as Principal Group Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft ( Microsoft 365 ) with Engineering leadership experience on CoPilot, on AI-ML & Search technologies, platform & with experience to develop on Microsoft Azure, .Net & Python stack. Leading multiple teams, defining product tech & functional roadmap, Tech innovation across Organization are some additional responsibilities. Earlier experiences have spanned across Infosys, Sapient, Royal Bank of Scotland. Some of the projects that i have worked on were in Telecom Domain, Financials , Investment Banking & Enterprise Products on technologies involving .Net, Unix/C++, SQL Server and Oracle 11i. I have worked extensively on Product Development & Test cycles, Improvement & Evolution of various Engineering Process and Practices, Development of teams in on-boarding to new practices leading to enhanced Engineering Development velocity & Product Quality. I am passionate about innovation and building world class products along with People Leadership. I am recognized as an important contributor in setting test strategy and direction, delivery quality results, being a customer advocate, thinking broadly and end to end. I have proven track record recruiting and retaining senior talent, managing small to large teams, setting up a startup culture to a stable working environment and shipping multiple software projects concurrently and on time.

Experience

22 yrs
Total Experience
4 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
8 mos
Current Experience

Microsoft india

Principal Group Engineering Manager

Aug 2025Present · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Microsoft

6 roles

Principal Group Engineering Manager at IDC ( M365 ), Data & Engg Sciences Community Owner

Nov 2022Sep 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Responsible for feature on Outlook Mobile Engg and Office 365 Support Persona(s) specific charter - Responsible for multiple teams of EMs and Engineering Charter for the Product.
  • Leading Ai and ML Learning charter at IDC level.

Principal Group Engineering Manager ( Cloud & AI - Azure, Financial Services & Platform)

Promoted

Feb 2020Nov 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Leading Mutiple Engineering charters across the globe responsible for Microsoft Azure Core Finance Engg. Defining & leading Engg charter spanning across Multiple years,
  • Extensive experience in defining Team charters from Inception till Sustainability and Re-envision.
  • Leading the Ai and ML experiences for Enterprise Search for Microsoft Procurement.

Principal Software Engineering Manager ( Cloud & AI - Azure, Financial Services and Platform)

Aug 2019Mar 2020 · 7 mos

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2014Aug 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Leading the Engg charter for Microsoft Procurement Scenarios. Team composition comprised on Entry level to Senior Level Engineers. Tech Stack :: MS Azure, Microservices, .Net, Full Stack, Azure SQL; On-Prem to Azure Migration along with defining new features and business processes.

SDET Manager

Nov 2011Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Engineering Manager/Architect in Microsoft IT India R&D
  • Focused in implementing High Level, Low Level Designs, Implementation, Test Automation & Release to Production.
  • Test Roadmap creation & execution
  • Driving Organizational level initiatives focussed around Modern Technology/Azure roadmaps
  • Owning Test Automation Strategy for the Portfolios.
  • Defining Code Review, Design Review Strategies
  • People Management for a team of 15-20 people.

Software SDET Lead

Aug 2006Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Focussed on Developing Automation Frameworks in C#

Rbs global banking & markets

Automation Lead

Feb 2010Nov 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

Sapient

Associate L2

May 2005Aug 2006 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • - Core Java

Infosys

Software Engineer

Dec 2003Feb 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mohali, Punjab

  • Software Development for Network Protocol development ( Linux/C++) ; Win32 Console ( Core Java )

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

PG Diploma in Ai-ML — Artificial Intelligence

Oct 2023Nov 2024

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

PG in Big Data Engineering — Computer Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2019

Maharshi Dayanand University

B.E. — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 1998Jan 2002

Gyan Mandir Public School, New Delhi

Apr 1991Jun 1997

St. Marks Senior Secondary Public School, New Delhi

Apr 1984Mar 1991

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