About

Pradeep Aerram is a highly accomplished and versatile technology leader with over 24 years of experience in the software development life cycle, quality assurance strategy, methodology, best practices, test automation, performance testing, and continuous integration/continuous delivery. He is currently the Director of Quality Engineering at SmartLinx, where he is responsible for delivering high-quality products and building high-performing quality engineering teams. Pradeep has extensive experience in leading local and global engineering teams and has provided strategic vision and oversight to develop successful quality and testing organizations. He is highly passionate and quality-driven, with deep domain and industry experience in all phases of the software development life cycle. Pradeep is a successful record of building and retaining top-notch engineering talent and leading large, global teams. He is deeply technical with a track record as an influencer and has deep domain experience in building automation frameworks for UI, API & mobile using open-source technologies. He provides expert oversight for performance teams in building frameworks using JMeter, Gatling & LoadRunner. Pradeep has achieved several accomplishments in his career, including evangelizing automation and successfully transforming teams from manual testing to automation. He established QCoE and led the efforts of the “Automate First” initiative to make automation a part of the cycle to support “test early and test often”. He also enabled continuous integration/continuous delivery by setting up Jenkins pipeline on Kubernetes/Dockers. Pradeep's past experience includes working as a Senior Manager of QE at Veeva Systems and as a Senior Manager of QE (Platform, Automation & Performance) at TriNet. He managed all aspects of quality assurance activities by leading teams across multiple product lines of TriNet's SaaS based HRM business solutions and provided leadership by mentoring teams of automation, performance engineers. Pradeep holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. He has a deep understanding of tech stacks such as test, CI/CD, QA, integration, Kubernetes, Jenkins, mobile, SDET, UI, software engineer, and web. Pradeep is a highly respected and sought-after leader in the technology industry, known for his ability to deliver high-quality software and build high-performing teams.