Sudhanshu Gaur
Leader In Quality Engineering
Summary
Innovative Quality Engineering Leader with 20+ years’ experience driving excellence in software quality across global teams. Proven expertise in leading both small and large engineering teams across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, while architecting enterprise-wide test strategies and scaling quality practices. Skilled in leveraging cutting-edge technologies—including GenAI and LLMs—to accelerate release cycles and elevate product quality. At GoDaddy, I led the development and automation of GenAI/LLM testing for the Airo platform, reducing manual testing by 70% and improving release velocity. Passionate about transforming quality organizations through automation, metrics-driven processes, and a culture of continuous improvement.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of QE | 5 Countries
GoDaddy
05.2021 - Current
- Led Quality Engineering (QE) for the USI group, overseeing teams across onboarding, Editor+Widgets, and Online Scheduling; drove a 120% increase in automation coverage and a 200% improvement in build success rates.
- Spearheaded the test strategy and automation for GoDaddy's GenAI/LLM-based Airo platform, reducing manual validation by 70% and accelerating feature delivery cycles.
- Founded and scaled 'QE-OPS,' an AI-powered initiative to categorize build failures, boosting sprint velocity by 25–30% through faster triaging and resolution.
- Reduced production defect rates by 35% through early-stage defect detection and "Shift Left" initiatives.
- Established a dedicated HackerOne QE team, increasing security bug bounty engagement by 40%.
- Developed a prioritization algorithm to classify bugs based on customer impact and severity, improving leadership reporting and decision-making.
- Migrated 1,500+ GitHub repositories to GitHub Cloud, integrated AWS Secrets Manager to strengthen DevOps security posture.
- Introduced and standardized Cypress across teams, accelerating UI automation adoption via best-practice playbooks, tech talks, and local engineering conferences.
- Optimized vendor strategy through consolidation and contract renegotiations, achieving significant cost savings.
- Provided strategic leadership in hiring, mentoring, and performance management, fostering a high-performing QE culture.
Head of QE | 4 Countries
Earnest
10.2019 - 10.2021
- Founded and built the Quality Engineering (QE) organization from the ground up, defining testing strategies, processes, and frameworks to support Earnest’s rapid product expansion.
- Established the QE team’s structure, recruiting, onboarding, and mentoring high-performing engineers across multiple countries.
- Spearheaded the transition to an automation-first culture, introducing modern frameworks (Cypress, PyTest) and driving organization-wide adoption.
- Designed and implemented QE best practices for both infrastructure (DevOps) and product testing, enabling reliable, scalable releases across mobile and web platforms.
- Embedded "Shift Left" quality initiatives, fostering close collaboration with development teams and reducing defect leakage in production.
- Unified disparate QA efforts into a centralized QE practice, standardizing test frameworks and reporting mechanisms.
- Partnered with leadership to define quality OKRs, ensure alignment with engineering goals, and build a strong culture of ownership and accountability.
- Contributed to ITGC (IT General Control) compliance initiatives, strengthening the company’s audit readiness.
Sr Manager | 4 Countries
Zillow
03.2016 - 05.2019
- Led quality engineering practices across multiple Zillow brands (Trulia, Hotpads, Dotloop, Premium Agent), driving scalable and robust automation across mobile and desktop platforms.
- Designed and launched a Test-as-a-Service platform built entirely on AWS (SNS, API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Redshift), enabling organizations to validate SEO recommendations efficiently and at scale.
- Played a pivotal role in Zillow’s transition to a Microservices architecture by implementing Consumer-Driven Contract Testing (CDC) and establishing API-first quality frameworks using GraphQL and REST standards.
- Authored and institutionalized a Machine Learning–based failure detection model, enabling early bug triage and significantly accelerating defect resolution timelines.
- Co-inventor on U.S. Patent US15/697,436, covering systems and methods for automated software testing based on Machine Learning.
- Championed a centralized QE platform across brands, introducing modern automation tools and standardizing reporting and test frameworks organization-wide.
- Developed onboarding plans and processes for the seamless migration of newly acquired brands onto Zillow’s core QE ecosystem.
- Collaborated closely with development, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to manage quality budgets and resource allocation across global teams.
QE Manager
Netapp
01.2014 - 01.2016
QE Manager
Bunchball
01.2013 - 12.2013
QE Lead
Riverbed Technology
09.2011 - 12.2013
Senior SDET Engineer
CISCO
11.2010 - 09.2011
SDET
Microsoft
06.2000 - 10.2010
Education
Master of Science -
JNU
New Delhi 05.2001 -
Skills
Test Automation & Quality Engineering:
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, PyTest, RestAssured, Postman, BDD/TDD, Contract Testing, Visual Testing (Percy)
API, GraphQL & Microservices:
API Automation (REST & GraphQL), Pact, Swagger/OpenAPI, Microservices Architecture, Consumer-Driven Contract Testing (CDC), Service Virtualization, Synthetic Testing
GenAI & Machine Learning:
LLM/GenAI QA Strategy, GenAI model validation, Pandas, Scikit-learn
Cloud, DevOps & CI/CD:
AWS (Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline Automation
Monitoring & Analytics:
DataDog, Splunk, New Relic, ELK, Metrics Management, Synthetic Testing
Programming & Data:
Python, Java, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL (MySQL, MongoDB, Redshift)
Leadership & Process:
Team Building & Mentoring, Delivery Management, Stakeholder & Vendor Management, Defining OKRs/KPIs, Agile/Scrum, Change Management, Process Improvement
Also familiar with: C/C, JMeter, Locust, ETL, Kafka, Hive, BrowserStack, JIRA, ADO
Patents
- US15/697,436 - System and method for automated software testing based on Machine Learning (ML)
- US15/916,262 - System and method for automated software test case designing based on machine learning (ML)
Timeline
Head of QE | 5 Countries
GoDaddy
05.2021 - Current
Head of QE | 4 Countries
Earnest
10.2019 - 10.2021
Sr Manager | 4 Countries
Zillow
03.2016 - 05.2019
QE Manager
Netapp
01.2014 - 01.2016
QE Manager
Bunchball
01.2013 - 12.2013
QE Lead
Riverbed Technology
09.2011 - 12.2013
Senior SDET Engineer
CISCO
11.2010 - 09.2011
Master of Science -
JNU
05.2001 -
SDET
Microsoft
06.2000 - 10.2010
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