Santosh R Mudhiganti
Vice President / Director
Hyderabad,TS
Summary
Dynamic Director / Vice President at Tech Mahindra with 19+ years of experience in leading cross-functional teams and driving strategic initiatives. Expert in Quality Engineering and Program Management, achieving 30% YoY growth. Recognized for coaching talent and enhancing decision-making processes, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Vice President /Executive Director
Tech Mahindra
2026 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams for the successful completion of major projects, resulting in increased efficiency and client satisfaction.
- Collaborated with senior management to develop strategic initiatives and long term goals.
- Identified opportunities to improve business process flows and productivity.
- Established a culture of continuous improvement, fostering innovation and driving sustainable growth across the organization.
- E2E Delivery Leader | Quality Engineering & Program Management with 19+ years of experience delivering end-to-end technology programs, large-scale transformations, and enterprise QA engagements across Telecom and Digital platforms.
- Strong expertise in End-to-End Delivery Management, covering transition, transformation, solutioning, planning, estimation, execution, governance, risk management, and delivery assurance across multi-vendor and global delivery models.
- Senior QA / QE Practice Leader with deep technical command of Quality Engineering, including Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Test Strategy, Test Management, CI/CD, Continuous Testing, Shift-Left Testing and Test Process Optimization.
- Advanced technical leadership in Non-Functional Testing (NFRs) such as Performance Engineering, Load & Stress Testing, Security Testing, SRE, Chaos Engineering, Capacity Planning, Benchmarking and Resilience Engineering.
- Proven track record in Large Program & Portfolio Delivery, managing $35M+ portfolios, 50M+ scale transformation programs, and code-red project recovery in mission-critical production environments.
- Extensive experience in Agile, SAFe. Scrum, DevOps, and Data-Driven Models, enabling automation-first QA, continuous quality pipelines, and enterprise CI / CD integration.
- Demonstrated success in QE CoE setup and scaling, establishing global capability practices, delivery governance frameworks, KPIs, SLAs, entry/exit criteria, and defect management processes.
- Strong Technology-Led Business Growth & P&L Ownership, Account Mining, driving 30%+ YoY growth, scaling business from $1.1M to $35M, and executing GTM strategies for product-based and platform-led solutions.
- Hands-on knowledge of Performance Architecture & Data Engineering, including APM, Observability, ILM, GDPR, TDM, DBA platforms (Oracle, SAP HANA, MS SQL, My SQL, MangoDB, Cassandra), BigData Performance Engineering and Cloud-native architectures.
- Proven Client & Stakeholder Management Leader, engaging with CXOs, Delivery Heads, Sales Leaders, Partners, and Industry Analysts, driving consultative solutioning and strategic account growth.
- Recognized People & Delivery Leader, skilled in global resource management, talent development, succession planning, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and change management.
Education
Executive Degree - Sales And Marketing
IIM - R
Rohtak, India 04.2001 -
MBA - Marketing
Kakatiya University
Warangal, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Team leadership
Certification
Siebel 7.5 and 7.7 CC
Timeline
Siebel 7.5 and 7.7 CC
08-2005
Executive Degree - Sales And Marketing
IIM - R
04.2001 -
MBA - Marketing
Kakatiya University
04.2001 -
Vice President /Executive Director
Tech Mahindra
2026 - Current