MJF Ln Yagnanarayana Dande — Co-Founder
Results-driven QA Director with 17 years of experience leading quality assurance initiatives across diverse industries. Proven expertise in integrating AI and machine learning technologies into testing processes, driving automation, and improving product quality. Strong leader with a track record of building high-performing teams, enhancing operational efficiency, and delivering exceptional business outcomes. * AI-Assisted Test Generation (Copilot, AI/ML Algorithms) * AI-Assisted Release Readiness checks * Test Automation (Selenium, Appium, TestNG, PyTest, Cucumber, Robot Framework) and DevOps Integration (CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes) * Test Infrastructure and Cloud Costs - Slack bot with Python backend will keep monitoring the cost trends and usage of resources on GCP * Quality Assurance Strategy Development * Leadership & Team Development * Agile & Scrum Methodologies * Predictive Analytics & Risk Management * Cross-Functional Collaboration * Performance Testing (JMeter) * Cloud-Based QA (AWS, Google Cloud) Vivid blogger at http://qabypassion.blogspot.com. Technical reviews for “TestNG – Beginners guide” and "HP Vertica Essentials" by Packt Publishing. Received most innovate project award in Hackathon 2012 from Komli Media Presented in National Conference on Software Testing - 2013, PESITon Emerging areas of testing. Presented on Lean software testing practiced
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Quality Assurance Leader with a strong focus on AI integration and automation.
Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Experience: 17 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Business Ownership
- Start-up Leadership
- Test Automation
- Ai-assisted Testing
- Quality Assurance
- Devops Integration
- Quality Engineering
Career Highlights
- 17 years of experience in quality assurance leadership.
- Expert in AI and machine learning integration in testing.
- Proven track record of building high-performing QA teams.
Work Experience
DPDPD Private Limited
Founder (9 mos)
GreyOrange
Associate Director (2 yrs 7 mos)
Nutanix
Senior Software Quality Assurance Manager (11 mos)
Lead QA Engineer (2 yrs)
Optiva Inc.
Test Automation Architect (1 yr 6 mos)
Upwork
Professional Freelancer (7 mos)
MapR Technologies
Principal Software QA Engineer (10 mos)
InMobi
Engineering Manager (9 mos)
Collective
Principal Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)
Komli Media
Lead Software Engineer (2 yrs 2 mos)
MapR Technologies
Staff Engineer (1 yr)
Symantec
Software Engineer (2 yrs 9 mos)
Automation Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)
Education
Technology at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
SSC at Gayathri English Medium School