Srinivasan Krishnan
Scarborough,ON
Summary
Strategic Quality Engineering and Automation Leader with 17+ years driving testing and quality transformation initiatives across SAP, Workday, and SuccessFactors in complex environments. Skilled in developing and governing enterprise automation frameworks that enhance operational efficiency and release confidence. Expertise in test automation strategy, risk management, and oversight of API, UI, data, and integration testing, ensuring alignment between quality strategy and business outcomes.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Engineering Lead
Infosys
Mississauga, Ontario
11.2006 - Current
- Defined and executed risk-based test strategies and test plans, ensuring full traceability between business requirements, test coverage, defects, and release readiness in regulated enterprise environments.
- Directed enterprise-scale quality engineering initiatives across HR, Payroll, and digital platforms, managing test strategy, governance, and delivery across functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, UAT, and production validation cycles.
- Managed and mentored cross-functional teams (up to 20 members) across onshore and offshore locations, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with stakeholder expectations.
- Partnered closely with business stakeholders, product owners, and vendors to design and validate complex end-to-end business scenarios, including Hire/Rehire, Job Change, Promotion, Transfer, Termination, Payroll, Compensation, LMS, Leave and Absence, and Employee/Manager Self-Service processes.
- Provided quality leadership for large-scale HR system implementations and migrations, including SuccessFactors and Workday, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and seamless integration with downstream systems, such as ADP Payroll.
- Owned go/no-go release decisions, presented executive-level quality status, risks, mitigation plans, and release recommendations to senior leadership.
- Oversaw API integration, and data validation testing, ensuring consistency between application layers, event/message triggers, downstream consumers, and backend databases.
- Led automation enablement and transformation initiatives, defined automation roadmaps, conducted feasibility analyses, and ensured automation delivered measurable ROI, regression stability, and faster release cycles.
- Governed design, development, and execution of automation frameworks across web, API, and enterprise applications, ensuring adherence to organizational standards and best practices.
- Owned defect lifecycle management, including triage, prioritization, escalation, retesting, and closure, while driving continuous quality improvement through root cause analysis.
- Produced and presented comprehensive test status reports and quality metrics to communicate progress, coverage, risks, and overall quality health to stakeholders.
- Led test environment validation and production support activities, ensuring operational stability, rapid issue resolution, and continuous improvement for live enterprise systems.
- Managed test management platforms and governance, including HP ALM and Jira administration, repository migrations, workflow customization, and centralized reporting.
Education
Bachelor of Science - EEE
Jaya Engineering College
04-2006
Skills
- Quality engineering strategy and governance
- Risk-based testing and controls validation
- People, leadership, and mentorship
- Enterprise test planning and delivery oversight
- Automation enablement and ROI optimization
- Stakeholder and vendor management
- Regulatory, audit, and compliance readiness
- Agile, SAFe, and hybrid delivery models
- Defect management and root cause analysis
- Production support and release readiness
Accomplishments
Recognized with the “Best Automation Lead” award for consistently delivering high-quality outcomes, technical leadership, and strong client engagement.
Timeline
Quality Engineering Lead
Infosys
11.2006 - Current
Bachelor of Science - EEE
Jaya Engineering College