SANDHYA BHONSALE
BENGALURU
Summary
Technology and Quality Engineering Leader with over 18 years of experience driving automation, building products and processes from zero to one, quality transformation and scaling teams across startups and global enterprises. Strong in strategy, operations, and people leadership.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Vice President (Chapter Lead)
ANZ
BENGALURU
02.2023 - 09.2025
- Spearheaded QA, Productivity & Automation initiatives for the Tribe, improving release quality and accelerating delivery velocity by 25–30%.
- Partnered with other Chapter Leads to standardize best practices, driving consistent adoption across 6+ chapters and reducing rework.
- Championed process improvements—streamlining workflows, eliminating redundancies, and reducing operational overhead by over 40%.
- Built and maintained strong relationships with stakeholders and partners, improving satisfaction levels by 20% and enabling seamless cross-team alignment.
- Facilitated workshops to foster collaboration and innovation, leading to increased team engagement scores and generating at least 2 actionable improvement ideas per quarter.
- Coordinated project timelines and resources across teams, improving planning accuracy by 30% and reducing execution bottlenecks by 20%.
- Managed the Device Farm proof of concept, increasing device coverage by 3–4× and reducing regression timelines by 35–40%.
- Directed the QA Centre of Excellence, driving competency development for the team and enabling the tribe with faster test coverage. Increased coverage across all squads by about 30%.
- Developed and implemented a comprehensive end-to-end QA strategy and resource plan, enabling 40% better test coverage and supporting scalable growth across 5 squads.
Engg Manager in Test
Zendrive
03.2018 - 03.2021
- Directed company-wide Quality, Productivity, and Automation strategies across product lines.
- Coached engg teams to up QA skill maturity by 40%
- Leadership for quality across all of Zendrive’s Products (Android and iOS SDK, Backend Datastores and Databases, APIs,, Data Science, Website and App)
- Strategize the quality charter for the company right from hiring, resource allocation, roadmap, planning sprints, OKRs, chairing design discussions, running scrum, execution, appraisals, mentoring and coaching, career growth planning, Automation, Innovation.
- Collaborated with leadership counterparts in the Dev, Data science, PM, CSM teams to make the right decisions for the team.
Lead Engineer in Test
Bidgely
06.2016 - 10.2017
- Managed sprints, QA strategy, execution, and reporting for energy analytics products.
- Delivered customer rollout in 500K homes 4 regions.
- Owned and led the test team to handle all the North American Projects - 5 Projects ranging from New to Support
- Owned sprints, resource allocation, execution, bug triages, test strategies and KPI reporting
Lead Engineer in Test
Komli
01.2011 - 11.2015
- One of the early engineers to join and grow with the company.
- Led test team of 7 to build the real time bidding platform
- Automated tests for the core algorithms of the ad serving platform
- Led automation of the core platform for ad serving
- Product Manager for the ATOM (beta) for external customers
- Managed Quality for ATOM ad serving from ideation to go-live
- Initiated mobile testing, segmentation & creative optimization
Software Engineer
Microsoft
02.2009 - 11.2009
- Owned testing and quality of the sync web service feature of the Office Suite
- Executed performance, stress, coverage & fault tolerance tests
Associate Consultant
Merrill Lynch
05.2006 - 11.2007
Assistant Systems Engineer
TCS
07.2004 - 02.2006
Education
MBA - Executive MBA
IIM Bangalore
Bengaluru03.2025
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles12.2008
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
Mumbai05.2004
Skills
- Quality engineering strategy
- Coaching and mentoring
- Automation and AI integration
- Agile and scrum methodologies
- Product development
- Startup experience
- Cross-functional leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Organizational design
https://in.linkedin.com/in/sandhyabhonsale
Highlights Impact
- Mentored 60+ devs, led 30+ high-impact projects
- Founded Gharsey Foods, serving 2000+ households with a fully bootstrapped model
- Led quality engineering at ANZ & Zendrive
- Delivered major rollout of 500K homes for Bidgely
- Built & scaled QA from scratch in multiple orgs
Certifications Courses
- GNAM, University of California Berkeley, 1 week course on Gender, Equity and Leadership in the 21st Century
Entrepreneurship Experience
Gharsey Foods Pvt Limited - Aug 2017 to Mar 2025 - Founder & CEO
- Bootstrapped and scaled a lean startup in the ready-to-eat food sector, serving over 2,000 households
- Conceived, architected, and launched an MVP e-commerce platform for direct-to-consumer sales
- Managed the full business lifecycle: product, manufacture, package, logistics, and marketing
- Built brand presence via digital marketing, resulting in 20% growth in monthly orders
- Developed supplier relationships to ensure quality ingredient sourcing and sustainability.
- Managed financial planning, budgeting, and resource allocation for business growth.
- Established operational processes for food production and distribution efficiency.
Accomplishments
Java, C, and C#
Python
JavaScript and TypeScript
MySQL and SQL Server
Kafka and MongoDB
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Git version control
Ant and Gradle build tools
Jira project management
Xray testing tool
Selenium automation testing
Playwright framework
Perfecto mobile testing
Supertest API testing
JMeter performance testing
Python
JavaScript and TypeScript
MySQL and SQL Server
Kafka and MongoDB
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Git version control
Ant and Gradle build tools
Jira project management
Xray testing tool
Selenium automation testing
Playwright framework
Perfecto mobile testing
Supertest API testing
JMeter performance testing
Research Open Source
- Histogram equalization & image registration, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
- Compute shortest path for geocode locations, University of Southern California, USA
- Mobile Currency Reader for visually challenged
- MIDI Music Composer based on neural impulses
Timeline
Vice President (Chapter Lead)
ANZ
02.2023 - 09.2025
Engg Manager in Test
Zendrive
03.2018 - 03.2021
Lead Engineer in Test
Bidgely
06.2016 - 10.2017
Lead Engineer in Test
Komli
01.2011 - 11.2015
Software Engineer
Microsoft
02.2009 - 11.2009
Associate Consultant
Merrill Lynch
05.2006 - 11.2007
Assistant Systems Engineer
TCS
07.2004 - 02.2006
MBA - Executive MBA
IIM Bangalore
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai