Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Leading the Omniverse Automation QA team, responsible for designing, developing, and scaling automation frameworks that combine UI-based automation with AI/LLM/RAG capabilities to validate next-generation Omniverse products and cloud platforms using Python and C++.
• Key responsibilities and achievements:
• Driving end-to-end automation and validation for projects including Kit SDK, Kit App Streaming, Omniverse Cloud, AI-enabled USD Search, SensorRTX, AVSim, and Mega.
• Building AI-augmented automation solutions to accelerate release cycles and reduce manual testing overhead.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, and stakeholders across geographies) to ensure quality and timely delivery of features and releases.
• Implementing data-driven QA strategies by mining defect trends, optimizing processes, and improving overall product quality.
• Managing resource planning, task prioritization, and progress tracking, ensuring high team productivity and alignment with organizational goals.
• Providing technical leadership in test development, automations of the tests, debugging (user & kernel mode), performance testing, GPU driver validation, and cloud workflows.
• Enabling scalable testing practices across APIs (gRPC, REST), USD workflows, and large-scale graphics/AI applications.
• This role focuses on driving innovation in automation and validation, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across NVIDIA’s Omniverse ecosystem and related cloud-based AI platforms.

Apr 2008 – Jul 2022 · 14 yrs 3 mos

• Led QA initiatives across global teams spanning Pune, Bengaluru, Santa Clara, Austin, New York, Berlin, and Taipei, driving high-quality validation and delivery for GPU platforms, Omniverse, cloud solutions, and ISV applications.
• Key Responsibilities & Achievements:
• Served as QA Lead for agile-based projects including Omniverse, OptiX, Iray plugins, RayTracing ISV Apps, Studio notebooks, GRID vGPU, Quadro VCA, GPU bring-up, and ISV app certification.
• Owned QA schedules, task tracking, and stakeholder reporting to ensure on-time product and driver releases.
• Delivered best-in-class drivers for platforms such as Omniverse, Studio notebooks, GRID vGPU, Quadro eGPU, Iray, and Mental Ray plugins.
• Implemented bug data mining and analytics to identify trends, improve QA processes, and drive higher driver quality.
• Managed end-to-end driver release cycles from sprint testing through GA validation, ensuring test plan coverage across internal and partner teams.
• Provided QA leadership for hardware bring-up projects, working across NVIDIA’s Fermi, Kepler, Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, and Ampere GPU families.
• Delivered performance validation for Tegra SoCs on Windows, contributing to key design wins including Microsoft Surface (Gen 1 & 2) and Lenovo Yoga.
• Specialized in camera, browser, RAM/eMMC optimization, USB, DirectX, and multimedia performance validation.
• Acted as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in DirectX/OpenGL games, 3D Vision, GeForce Experience, and video/audio validation.
• Led feature QA for 3D Vision and DX SRSs, collaborating closely with developers to validate new system requirements.
• Hands-on with debugging, test planning, and automation scripting (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript) to augment QA workflows.
• This role strengthened my expertise in GPU driver validation, performance testing, hardware bring-up, and cross-geo stakeholder collaboration, while consistently delivering high-quality releases in fast-paced environments.