Jun 2025 – Nov 2025 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Spearheading Global Talent Acquisition and drive overall strategic development and execution of an organization's talent acquisition plan across India and multiple countries. Would be responsible for building and implementing recruitment strategies, attracting top talent, and ensuring a positive candidate experience. This role often involves managing a team of recruiters, building employer branding, and collaborating with Leadership teams and stakeholders to accomplish business goals.
• Elmer Tech | Driving Digital Innovation in Enterprise Technology
• Elmer Tech is a forward-thinking technology services company specializing in end-to-end digital transformation for enterprises. From strategy and development to deployment and support, we help organizations unlock the power of cloud, data, and emerging technologies. Elmer also specializes in Cybersecurity as part of Enterprise Risk Management, including Cyber Brach notification, Litigation Review, Contract Life Cycle Management etc.
• Our core offerings include:
• Enterprise Application Development
• Cloud & DevOps Solutions
• Data Engineering & Analytics
• AI & Automation Services
• SAP & ERP Implementations
• With a passionate team based in India and global delivery capabilities, we partner with businesses to co-create scalable, secure, and future-ready solutions. Whether you're modernizing legacy systems or building new digital products, Elmer Tech is your trusted innovation partner.

Apr 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Heading global talent acquisition for the organization with a mission of accomplishing half billion transformation journey and subsequently 1 billion digital engineering organization . In this endeavor, Would work with management and leadership teams in servicing talent needs across 20 diverse countries in the areas of Quality and digital engineering skills including hiring cutting-edge tracks such as Data Science/AI/ML/Full-stack and then application development . Playing a catalyst role in attracting talent in the advent unprecedented times of Quantum shift in talent transformation and future of work with crystal focus on candidate experience management.

Apr 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Heading global talent acquisition for the organization with a mission of accomplishing half billion transformation journey and subsequently 1 billion unicorn. In this endeavor, Would work with management and leadership teams in servicing talent needs across 15 diverse countries.

Apr 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs

• In the process of building world's most respected independent testing organization and A Testing Unicorn in making. Partner with executive management and leadership teams to delivery world wide hiring needs in line with company's vision,mission and values . Spearheading overall global talent acquisition strategies and frameworks to attract best test engineering and other ultra-niche skills as per changing technology spectrum for the countries including Americas,UK, Canada, Australia/New Zealand, South Africa, India and emerging markets. Inculcating some of the best talent practices such as Social and Digital hiring for attracting passive talent and those countries where the out-reach is limited including leveraging outbound techniques. Taking up some of the key initiatives like Talent and employer branding activities in collaboration with marketing teams to internalize and externalize our employee and employer value prepositions.

Oct 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

• I am responsible for Global Talent Acquisition and deployment for Cigniti Technologies. Work with Senior management and executive management teams tailoring world wide talent acquisition needs by strategic partnering in aligning with organization's long-term mission and vision. Key responsibilities including hiring road map frameworks designs, Social and new age digital hiring initiatives, Employer branding, Talent branding, Recruitment marketing, Outbound Recruiting initiatives, and large team management of Recruiting professionals covering 24/7 support for global demands.
• Strategic responsibilities including Recruiting excellence, Recruiting Analytics, Optimization, Agility to tailor organizational hiring needs, Cloud Recruiting models, Most contemporary Digital hiring strategies and partnering with Cigniti leadership in building world's most respected and independent testing organization from Talent hiring view point.

Nov 2014 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

• I am responsible to hire people world-wide including India , United Kingdom , Europe , Australia , New Zealand , Americas , Middle East , Canada , South Africa and other countries for Cigniti Technologies . Will closely work with Senior Management teams and my Stakeholders to achieve the hiring milestones for the company. I am responsible to put together a Hiring strategy and Plan to hire folks across various regions and countries which includes forecasting , Budgeting , Global employee deployment , High end Leader ship hiring and Social hiring strategy .
• On a mission to build world's largest independent and most respected testing services organization . In the process , I would very intensely work with respective stake holders across the globe to deliver recruitment needs. Also put an innovative sourcing strategy framework that would be tailored as per the client technology demands for each country to accomplish excellent global recruitment delivery and exemplary client delight . Karan's expertise outlined below :
• Demonstrates global hiring expertise including emerging markets with a mastery immigration skills.
• Embraces global social hiring framework deployment for the conventional and one of its kind of hiring innovation
• Implements global Talent Acquisition landscaping
• Embraces Employer branding and talent branding initiatives for winning the best talent for the world-wide hiring needs
• Incorporates unique and innovative talent sourcing strategy for the organization
• Builds testing talent communities and talent pipeline management framework for the knee jerk hiring initiatives
• Incorporates innovative candidate management initiatives based on country specific needs and programs
• Provides thought leadership in Global Talent Acquisition and Social media
• Blogging enthusiast in explicit Talent acquisition , world-wide sourcing and digital talent strategies

Dec 2012 – Nov 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Cigniti Technologies Limited (BSE: 534758, www.cigniti.com), Global Leaders in Independent Software Testing (IST) Services, is headquartered at Hyderabad, India. Cigniti’s 2000+ experts are spread across US, UK, India, Australia, and Canada. Cigniti is the world’s first IST Services Company to be appraised at CMMI-SVC v1.3, Maturity Level 5, and is also ISO 9001:2008 & ISO 27001:2013 certified.
• Cigniti’s test offerings include services in Quality Engineering, Advisory & Transformation, Next Generation Testing, and Core Testing. With over a decade of experience in serving several 500 fortune enterprises, Cigniti has translated its learning and solutions into SMART Tools™ to accelerate test efforts. Cigniti has India's first of its kind Robotics Test Lab, a Mobile Cloud Test Lab with HP & Experitest, a Cloud enabled Performance Test Lab, and an IoT & Smart Meter Lab.
• Leading Analysts like Gartner, Forrester, NelsonHall, Everest, Frost & Sullivan, and Forbes recognize Cigniti as a leader in the IST Services space. Cigniti has been awarded a place on the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) G-Cloud 6 framework for providing Lot 4: Specialist Cloud Services that provide PSEs better access to Cigniti's expertise. Cigniti’s CSR initiative, Project Cignificance, aims to impact 1 million+ lives through education as an enabler.

Apr 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Jul 2004 – Mar 2011 · 6 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

May 2000 – Jul 2004 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India