Rishi Kant Prasad
Pune
Summary
Engineering leader focused on building strong teams and solving real problems at scale. Partners with senior leaders and enterprise clients to shape product direction and deliver practical, reliable, customer-centric solutions, with end-to-end ownership across the product lifecycle.
Drives faster and more stable delivery through CI/CD-driven automation and shift-left quality practices, leveraging user analytics and SRE principles to manage production issues, triage incidents, and institutionalize learning through RCA.
Experienced in running AI-powered fraud detection systems in production, supporting millions of transactions and strengthening trust across digital banking and payments platforms.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Vice President of Engineering Excellence
Citi Corp
09.2025 - Current
- Established Citi's Quality Governance Model
- Spearheading quality enablement initiatives
- Partnering with global delivery and product teams
Manager, Software Engineering
Mastercard
01.2021 - 09.2025
- Built and scaled a high-performing engineering team, partnering with C-suite leaders and clients to shape product strategy and deliver customer-centric solutions.
- Owned the end-to-end product lifecycle, spanning requirement refinement, development, quality assurance, production rollout, and customer onboarding.
- Led a Quality Engineering transformation through CI/CD-driven automation and shift-left practices, significantly shortening validation and release cycles.
- Focused on user analytics to prioritize production issues, conduct triage, and document findings and root cause analyses (RCA).
- Actively drove automation initiatives to streamline QA processes and shorten testing cycles.
- Ensured reliable execution of AI-driven fraud detection workflows in production environments.
Team Lead
Accenture
07.2015 - 01.2021
- Designed and implemented scalable automation frameworks using Selenium and RestAssured
- Conducted comprehensive end-to-end testing, including functional, regression, and integration testing
- Managed test planning, execution, and defect tracking using JIRA in Agile environment
- Mentored team members, reviewed test artifacts, and enhanced test strategies continuously
- Contributed to testing of cloud-based applications on AWS, validating performance and reliability
Software Engineer
Infosys
02.2015 - 07.2015
- Participated in bug triage meetings with developers and project managers.
- Verified that all components meet design specifications and standards
Analyst Programmer
The Next Interface Technologies
07.2012 - 01.2015
- Analyzed requirements to develop comprehensive test plans, scenarios, and cases
- Executed functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing for web and API platforms
- Reported and tracked defects using tools to maintain project transparency
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University
01.2013
Skills
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Delivery Ownership
- Customer & Stakeholder Management
- Agile / Scrum Leadership
- Budgeting & Resource Planning
- Product Management
- Release Management
- Quality Engineering
- Automation(Java,Selenium)
- Test Environment Orchestration
- AWS
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (SA-C01)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SA-C02)
- Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Vice President of Engineering Excellence
Citi Corp
09.2025 - Current
Manager, Software Engineering
Mastercard
01.2021 - 09.2025
Team Lead
Accenture
07.2015 - 01.2021
Software Engineer
Infosys
02.2015 - 07.2015
Analyst Programmer
The Next Interface Technologies
07.2012 - 01.2015
Master of Science - Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University