Gautham Shenoy Kaup
Governance Team
Bengaluru
Summary
Results-driven professional with 14+ years of experience leading Governance, Quality Engineering, and Product Operations across large-scale enterprise products. Proven track record in driving delivery excellence, building high-performing teams, and implementing data-driven governance frameworks. Strong expertise in Agile transformation, automation strategy, and stakeholder management at leadership levels. Adept at aligning engineering execution with business outcomes.
Pursuing full-time role that presents professional challenges and leverages interpersonal skills, effective time management, and problem-solving expertise.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Governance Team
Prime Focus Technologies
06.2025 - Current
- Led Governance and Quality initiatives across multiple product lines, aligning Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders.
- Owned end-to-end delivery governance, ensuring predictable, high-quality releases through structured tracking of risks, dependencies, and KPIs.
- Presented executive dashboards and insights to leadership, enabling data-driven strategic decisions.
- Drove Agile maturity across teams, acting as a central program-level Scrum leader.
- Built and scaled automation solutions for governance reporting, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy by >40%.
- Implemented standardized frameworks for Sprint Reporting, QA Confidence Metrics, and PRD Readiness.
- Automated JIRA workflows to streamline cross-team collaboration and reporting visibility.
- Key Achievements:
- Improved sprint predictability and release quality across multiple teams.
- Reduced reporting turnaround time significantly through automation.
- Established governance best practices adopted across the organization.
Software QA Manager
01.2021 - 01.2025
- Managed and mentored high-performing QA teams, driving quality culture and engineering excellence.
- Defined and implemented quality processes, metrics, and compliance standards.
- Led end-to-end test strategy including Functional, Regression, API, Performance, and UAT testing.
- Designed and implemented Selenium-based automation frameworks.
Software QA Lead
01.2015 - 01.2021
- Led Agile QA teams and collaborated closely with development teams.
- Owned test planning, estimation, execution, and delivery for multiple projects.
- Implemented automation using Selenium, Java, and TestNG.
Senior Test Engineer
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Developed test strategies, test plans, and execution frameworks.
- Coordinated across stakeholders for requirement analysis and delivery.
- Analyze user requirements and specifications and Develop Test Plans and Scenarios
- Involved in daily meetings with technical managers and development test leads regarding schedule, resource management, and activities tracking.
- Experience in Automating web applications using Java, Selenium WebDriver and TestNG and REST Api testing using SOAP UI and Fiddler tools.
- Well versed with various testing methodologies like Functional Testing, Regression testing, GUI Testing, Webservice Testing, UAT testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing and Sanity testing
Test Engineer
01.2010 - 01.2013
- Performed functional, regression, and system testing.
- Actively involved in SDLC phases and defect tracking using JIRA.
- Analyzed business requirements, system requirements, and data mapping requirement specifications interacting with clients, developers, and QA team.
Test Engineer
Spire Technologies
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Involved in Functional testing and Regression testing.
- Performed Browser Compatibility testing in different browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.
- Performed GUI testing, Usability testing , and User Acceptance testing.
- Involved in post-production testing.
- Involved in Sanity and Performance testing.
- Taking User point of view about product and Reporting
Education
Bachelor's degree - biotechnology
N.M.A.M Institute of Technology
KarnatakaSkills
Engineering & QA Leadership
Delivery Governance & Program Management
Agile / Scrum Transformation
Automation Strategy & Implementation
Stakeholder & Executive Communication
Metrics, Reporting & Data-driven Decision Making
Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement
Team Building & Mentorship
Python
Friendly, positive attitude
Teamwork and collaboration
Problem-solving
Team management
Multitasking
Organization and time management
Certification
Adobe Workshop
ADDITIONAL STRENGTHS
- Strong leadership and ownership mindset
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Continuous learner with focus on innovation and improvement
Timeline
Azure AI Engineer Associate
02-2026
Adobe Workshop
01-2026
Governance Team
Prime Focus Technologies
06.2025 - Current
Software QA Manager
01.2021 - 01.2025
Software QA Lead
01.2015 - 01.2021
Senior Test Engineer
01.2013 - 01.2015
Test Engineer
01.2010 - 01.2013
Test Engineer
Spire Technologies
01.2010 - 01.2012
Bachelor's degree - biotechnology
N.M.A.M Institute of Technology