About
Suneet Malhotra
AI-Driven Quality Engineering Leader
My philosophy is simple: Automation by default. By embedding quality gates into the developer experience, we don't just find bugs — we prevent them.
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Experience
Sr. Manager, Test Engineering
Motorola Solutions
Jan 2026 - Present
- →Leading test engineering strategy and operations across Motorola Solutions' mission-critical communications portfolio.
- →Driving quality engineering innovation through AI-driven automation, scalable test infrastructure, and cross-functional partnership with engineering and product leadership.
Engineering Manager II
Tinder
Dec 2024 - Jan 2026
- →Led iOS + Android QA operations across weekly releases, partnering daily with mobile directors, EMs, iOS/Android leads, and PMs to drive release approvals and resolve blockers. Transitioned the org from bi-weekly → weekly mobile releases with zero regression in release quality.
- →Managed a hybrid QA team of 5 in-house + 16 vendor QE/QAs, coordinating priorities, capacity, and mobile readiness across three parallel mobile squads.
- →Reduced production hotfix issues by 70% YoY through tighter release governance, improved reporting cadences, and predictive quality dashboards for risk assessment.
- →Launched a structured beta testing program as a gating criterion for weekly approvals, incorporating user feedback cycles that strengthened release stability.
- →Maintained and published mobile status reports, sign-off documents, and executive dashboards—ensuring accurate visibility for directors, VPs, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- →Served as a floater manager across iOS/Android squads, supporting teams where bandwidth gaps existed and ensuring seamless communication, alignment, and priority handling.
- →Spearheaded AI-driven automation (Appium + TypeScript + BrowserStack) raising regression coverage 0% → 30% within 10 months and accelerating CI/CD reliability.
- →Pioneered internal AI test-generation and self-healing automation (Cursor AI + BrowserStack), boosting team throughput by 30% and reducing manual validation overhead.
QA Manager
Amazon
May 2018 - Dec 2024
- →Partnered with engineering + PM leadership to support prioritization and judgement calls during high-traffic launches, outages, and cross-team dependencies.
- →Implemented quality-centric agile processes improving QA ticket turnover by 60%, and delivered executive-level quality insights through dashboards and operational scorecards.
- →Collaborated closely with 5 product management and engineering teams, as well as global cross-functional teams, to successfully launch the Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) of Ring's internal AI-powered chat assistant.
- →Created quality engineering roadmaps, vision, mission, career ladder, job descriptions, dashboards, executive reports improving overall quality culture and communication for the organization.
Sr. Software Engineer in Test
Ring
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
- →Led mobile/web QA operations for monthly iOS and Android Ring app releases, partnering with mobile engineering, product, and release managers to ensure high-quality, on-time submissions to the App Store and Google Play.
- →Oversaw a cross-functional QA organization of 25+ QA/QE/SDETs, driving alignment across device, backend, mobile, cloud, and subscription teams.
- →Managed release readiness, sign-offs, reporting, and dashboard accuracy—ensuring full visibility for directors and leadership across all mobile initiatives.
- →Elevated mobile automation coverage to ~40%, modernizing Appium-based pipelines and integrating parallel execution on AWS Device Farm for reliable real-device testing.
- →Led Ring's Security & Privacy Control Center initiatives—including mandatory 2FA (SMS/Email OTP), passwordless login via magic-link and trusted devices, Real ID verification with Persona, and end-to-end encrypted video—to strengthen account security, reduce support escalations, and enhance user trust.
- →Acted as a coordination hub across multiple IoT, mobile, and cloud teams, reallocating capacity and removing blockers for complex multi-team features (Ring Alarm, device onboarding, Live View, subscription flows).
Sr. Quality Assurance Developer
Spokeo
Oct 2014 - Apr 2017
- →Established and led Spokeo's "Quality Engineering" department, crafting a visionary QA strategy aligned with company goals.
- →Spearheaded the establishment of a comprehensive test framework for a Ruby on Rails project utilizing RSpec, Capybara, Jenkins, Amazon EC2, and Selenium, ensuring robust testing capabilities and efficient test automation.
- →Orchestrated the growth of the QA team from 1 to 13 engineers over 3 years, implementing world-class automated quality engineering infrastructure.
- →Established and managed automation infrastructure from inception, integrating AI-driven reporting (DataDog, ReportPortal.io) and alerting systems (PagerDuty + Slack).
- →Achieved 100% critical path automation coverage across web, mobile web, and applications within 8 months using open-source tools.
- →Devised and executed long-term and short-term strategies to meet diverse engineering team requirements, iterating based on continuous feedback.
- →Defined clear roadmaps for the QA team aligned with company objectives annually, advocating for QA best practices and fostering a shift-left mentality across engineering.
- →Optimized processes through playbook development, process improvements, and automation initiatives, enhancing operational efficiency.
Senior QA Engineer
Live Nation Entertainment
Jul 2013 - Oct 2014
- →Automation Framework development and Cloud execution using Node.js, Protractor, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins. Successfully led QA efforts throughout the Agile SDLC, oversaw testing projects, managed domestic/offshore QA personnel.
- →Built the QA team bottom-up from being the first member to total 10 member team. Including hiring, budgeting, training.
- →Efficiently track schedules for projects, ensuring technology quality, and on-time delivery. Identify ways to improve efficiency of our processes via documentation, process development, and automation.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Advertise.com
Jul 2012 - Jun 2013
- →Successfully developed automation framework from using Selenium WebDriver with Perl to support weekly releases.
QA Engineer
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
Jul 2009 - Jun 2012
- →Successfully developed automation framework from ground up using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby to support daily releases.
- →Worked in a rigorous schedule in an agile environment to launch brand new OWN TV platform & 40 TV Show websites.
- →Tailed the logs while performing smoke tests to check for errors & SQL queries for data validation, load testing using JMeter.
Software Engineering Intern
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
May 2008 - Jul 2008
- →Automated Test Scripts for Functional and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.
- →Designed the architecture in UML with Rational Rose tool and designed SSAD (System and Software Architecture Description) for FMS.
Skills
Leadership & Strategy
Engineering ManagementTeam BuildingAgile/ScrumRelease ManagementQuality StrategyProcess OptimizationCross-functional Collaboration
AI & Automation
AI-Driven QATest GenerationSelf-Healing TestsCursor AILLM IntegrationAutomation FrameworksCI/CD Pipeline
Testing Technologies
PlaywrightAppiumSeleniumTypeScriptJavaScriptRSpecCucumberProtractorBrowserStackAWS Device Farm
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWSCloudflareJenkinsGitHub ActionsDockerKubernetesServerless Functions
Mobile & Web
iOS QAAndroid QAWeb TestingAPI TestingPerformance TestingSecurity TestingAccessibility
Tools & Platforms
DataDogReportPortal.ioPagerDutySlackJiraConfluenceAllure Reports
Education
Graduated
M.S. in Computer Science
University of Southern California
Focus on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.
Graduated
B.S. in Computer Science
The NorthCap University
Research & Peer Review
Publications
Cross-Layer Observability for LLM-Assisted Test Automation: A Reference Architecture with Web and Mobile Feasibility Studies
Under review — Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), In-Practice track · 2026
Open-access preprint & artifact (DOI)Peer Review & Service
- →Program Committee (incoming)ICSE 2027 — Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track
Technical Activity
Contributions
Commits (last 12 months)420+
Active repositories6
Lines of code55K+
Automated daily deploysYes