Krushna
Padhy
I turn quality engineering into a competitive advantage — a 13-year arc from hands-on QA engineer to organization leader, spanning Banking, Retail, Payments, and Pharma, and now pioneering AI/LLM validation at enterprise scale.
Profile
Summary
I'm an accomplished Quality Engineering Leader with over 13 years driving enterprise-wide testing transformations across Pharma, Payments, Retail, and Banking — delivering scalable quality frameworks for complex, high-availability digital platforms.
I've built and scaled high-performing QA organizations from the ground up, defining quality roadmaps and embedding engineering excellence practices that consistently improve release predictability, product stability, and customer experience.
I'm an early adopter of AI-driven Quality Engineering — establishing frameworks for GenAI, Agentic AI, and LLM validation with observability practices and governance models for trustworthy AI-powered solutions.
Work
Experience
Senior Lead — Test Engineering
Leading and scaling the Quality Engineering organization across four Scrum teams for a customer engagement orchestration platform. I drive test strategy, release governance, talent development, and quality delivery at enterprise scale.
Technical Lead — QA
Led QA initiatives for reconciliation, amortization, and payment gateway products, managing an 8-member team across multiple payment processing modules.
Senior QA Engineer
Executed end-to-end testing of a retail analytics platform aggregating product pricing data across multiple e-commerce channels.
Software Engineer — QA
Contributed to testing and delivery of a global credit card acquisition platform, ensuring seamless integration between customer onboarding workflows and mainframe backend systems.
Why teams
hire me
Four things I do that most QA leaders don't — each backed by a number, not an adjective.
Grew a QA org from 10 to 22 engineers across 4 Scrum teams — hiring, mentoring, and building quality governance that outlasts me.
Built GenAI, Agentic AI & LLM validation frameworks — RAGAS, DeepEval, LangSmith — while most teams were still writing the strategy doc.
Cut regression from 20 days to 8 and defect leakage from 5% to under 1.5% — velocity and stability, not one or the other.
40% annual cost savings through automation consolidation — I speak business outcomes, not just test coverage.
Technical
Expertise
// click a discipline to explore — or let it orbit
Notes on
Quality
// thoughts on testing, automation and engineering leadership
All posts →Building Test Frameworks That Scale With Your Team
What actually keeps an automation framework maintainable as the team grows from 3 to 30 — structure, ownership, and the discipline to delete tests.
Read post →Where AI Fits Into a Modern QE Strategy
AI won't replace your test strategy — but LLM-as-judge, change-scoped impact analysis, and good guardrails will reshape it. Where to start.
Read post →Leading QE Teams Across Time Zones
Onshore–offshore QE delivery lives or dies on handoffs. A few habits that kept a distributed team shipping without follow-the-sun chaos.
Read post →Let's build quality
together.
Currently exploring senior QE leadership roles — Test Architecture, AI Quality, and Engineering Excellence. Based in Pune, open to hybrid or remote.