Prajith Kumar

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India24 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leadership in quality engineering at major tech firms.
Established QA processes for Amazon Kindle product lines.
Expert in team building and process improvement strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering leader with extensive experience in SaaS and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipQuality Engineering

Other Skills

Team / Organization buildingStrategyManagementQuality ManagementProcess ImprovementSoftware Quality AssuranceAgile MethodologiesSoftware Project ManagementTest Automation

Experience

24 yrs

Total Experience

4 yrs

Average Tenure

8 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Apple

2 roles

Engineering Manager - Retail Engineering

Apr 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

Team / Organization buildingQuality EngineeringLeadershipStrategyManagementQuality Management+5

Engineering Manager - Mobile & Messaging Apps

Apr 2018 – Apr 2025 · 7 yrs

Bankbazaar.com

Head & Associate Vice President

Oct 2015 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

Heading the Release management & Quality Engineering organization at BankBazaar reporting to CTO.

Amazon

3 roles

Engineering Manager-III, Associates Publisher Network, Amazon

May 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos

Amazon Associates Publisher program responsible for verticals such as Platform, Mobile, Web, Tools, Fraud detection & Analytics.

Engineering Manager-III, Amazon Kindle

Promoted

Apr 2011 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs

* Formed QA organization for Amazon Kindle at Amazon Chennai and managing the Engineering QA organization for Kindle e-Reader, Fire Tablet & Fire Phone product lines.

Engineering Manager-II, Amazon Kindle

Jun 2008 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Fair isaac

2 roles

Technical Manager,

Dec 2005 – Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Responsible for overall Quality of Fair Isaac Corp’s flagship product ‘Model Builder for Predictive Analytics’
Leading a 14 member team of Analytical Engineers and QA engineers to ensure Quality product release.
Contributing to the vision of Global QA strategy. One only of the two people selected to be the part of Global Automation task force.
Managing automation QA & providing technical leadership in QA. Create and implement AIP and GUI framework integrated with Quality Center to build a seamless regression system..
Implemented better process, metrics etc
Responsible for resource management, staffing, & performance appraisal. Leading recruitment and campus hiring programs.

Lead Engineer

May 2004 – Nov 2005 · 1 yr 6 mos

Received special recognition from FICO top management for leading team and ensuring quality of product release.
Member of various task-forces like CSTE study group, automation – training – process improvement etc.
Improved defect detection-rate-by-QA-team from 75% to 98% over a period of three years.