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Suresh Adimulam

Transformation leader · Building exceptional quality products · Driving efficiencies · Test automation · Google Certified Gen AI Leader

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18+Years in quality & automation

~110Engineers led

5×Productivity with Gen AI

$15MAnnual hardware savings

About Me

I am a seasoned and passionate quality engineering leader with over 18 years of experience driving excellence in quality, test automation, performance, and development engineering. I specialize in building high-performing teams and delivering high-quality products efficiently.

In my recent role as a Senior Manager at Amazon, I led the Quality Engineering strategy for the Device OS powering millions of Fire TV and Alexa devices, focused on removing legacy bottlenecks to achieve high-frequency, high-fidelity deployments.

AI-Driven Transformation

Increased organizational productivity 5× by integrating Generative AI tools across the quality lifecycle.

Hyper-Scale Velocity

Re-engineered the release pipeline from weekly to daily OS deployments.

High-Fidelity Automation

Reduced false positives in regression suites from 30% to 1% within 90 days.

Ecosystem Scalability

Scaled automation coverage by 30% to sustain a continuous daily release cadence.

My expertise lies in driving automation-first approaches, fostering a culture of quality, and continuously innovating to improve software delivery.

My Accomplishments

Led 2 directors, 6 senior managers and ~110 engineers across quality, automation, performance and release engineering
Scaled QE for products that grew from zero to $1B in revenue and 5M subscribers
Cut Cost of Defects and Cost of Quality by 50% with shift-left quality and Gen AI–powered automation
Saved $15M in annual hardware budget with simulated environments, plus $1.5M through org optimizations
Transformed 100% manual QE to ~90% automated, reducing customer incidents by 35% in 12 months
Reduced release cycles from months to weeks to days with continuous testing in CI/CD

What I Love Doing

Setting vision and roadmap for quality engineering teams
Solving complex problems with data-driven decisions
Defect data analysis: shallow-cause and root-cause analysis
Building high-performing teams and effective team structures
Mentoring and creating career paths for individuals
Breaking down silos and driving cross-collaboration
Thinking outside the box and technical innovation
Building world-class test automation

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Dynamic, results-driven engineering leader with 18+ years of expertise in quality engineering, test automation, performance engineering and productivity tools, using cutting-edge AI/ML technologies. A transformational leader with a strong record of continuous improvement, operational excellence, and building a quality-first culture.

Professional Experience

Senior Manager, Quality Assurance
Amazon, Lab126 Devices OS · Sunnyvale, CA
Jun 2025 – Present
- Leading Device OS quality engineering, covering end-to-end, stability, performance and user experience, for an OS that powers millions of Fire TV and Alexa devices.
- Increased productivity 5× by rolling out AI tools across quality, especially for automation and defect triage.
- Moved from weekly to daily OS releases for Fire TV and Alexa multi-modal devices.
- Reduced regression false positives from ~30% to ~1% within 3 months; increased overall automation by 30%.
Sr. Director, Quality & Performance Engineering
BlackLine, Inc · Pleasanton, CA
Mar 2022 – Mar 2025
- Led quality, automation and performance strategy for a $600M SaaS application on GCP and Azure, with 100% of manual tests automated and 90% unit/API coverage.
- Reduced high-priority customer defects by 75% and overall customer defects by 35%.
- Cut regression false positives from ~35% to ~1% in six months; moved releases from quarterly to bi-weekly.
- Built an RCA framework that improved product reliability by 30%.
- Rolled out AI tools: Copilot as a coding assistant, OpenAI for test case generation, Healenium for auto-healing.
Director, Quality Engineering & Test Automation
TiVo Corp / Xperi Corp · San Jose, CA
Mar 2019 – Feb 2022
- Directed 8 senior managers and 100+ engineers across set-top boxes, IPTV streamers and mobile apps.
- Converted 80% of manual regression suites to scalable Pytest-based automation frameworks.
- Drove 90% code and test coverage across unit, integration and end-to-end testing.
- Rolled out Agile with a “Shift Left Quality” focus across the organization.
Senior Manager, Development & Quality
Veritas Technologies LLC · Santa Clara, CA
Mar 2014 – Feb 2019
- Led development of a containerized PaaS platform for NetBackup Appliances (Docker, orchestration, REST APIs).
- Reduced the regression cycle from 6 months to 3 hours with Robot Framework, Python, MongoDB and AngularJS.
- Saved $10M a year in hardware by simulating appliances with the SAN-Blaze virtual environment.
- Led automation teams in the US and China; championed Developer Experience tooling.
Manager, Quality Assurance
Symantec Corp · Mountain View, CA
Oct 2011 – Mar 2014
- Built a strong QA team and set high standards for predictable, high-quality deliverables across product engineering groups.
Principal Engineer, QA & Automation
Symantec Corp · Mountain View, CA
Jan 2006 – Sep 2011

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communications

Osmania University · Hyderabad, India

Skillset

Leadership

Thought LeadershipLeading Transformational ChangeBuilding High-Performance TeamsOperational EfficiencyContinuous Process ImprovementTechnological InnovationAgile & Scaled Agile (SAFe)