Leads a distributed team of SDETs responsible for quality engineering across payment and settlement platforms. Defines testing strategies, automation frameworks, quality practices, and metrics; partners with Engineering, Product, Operations, Security, and Platform teams; manages quality initiatives across concurrent projects; develops team talent; guides automation architecture; and drives continuous improvement, release confidence, and AI-assisted testing adoption.

Owns end-to-end QA for enterprise financial and backend applications, including test planning, manual and automated testing, API automation with Java and Rest Assured, UI testing with Selenium, SQL-based validation, defect tracking, log debugging, and quality reporting. Collaborates with product, technology, and business teams in Agile environments while improving testing frameworks, coverage, and efficiency.