About
Suneet Malhotra
AI-Driven Quality Engineering Leader
My philosophy is simple: Automation by default. By embedding quality gates into the developer experience, we don't just find bugs — we prevent them.
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Research & Scholarship
Alongside my engineering practice, I run an active research program on LLM-assisted software testing — cross-layer observability, LLM-as-judge oracles, and the reliability of unattended AI-agent systems — with manuscripts under peer review at recognized venues and open-source reference implementations archived with DOIs. ORCID 0009-0003-8707-9590
Manuscripts Under Peer Review
- Cross-Layer Observability for LLM-Assisted Test Automation: A Reference Architecture with Web and Mobile Feasibility StudiesUnder review — Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), In-Practice track · 2026Preprint & artifact (DOI)
- Visual Oracle Bench (Phase 1): A Two-Judge Synthetic-HTML Pilot for LLM-as-Judge Visual Regression DetectionUnder review — Empirical Software Engineering (Springer) · 2026
- Backend and Composition Faults in an Unattended LLM-Agent System: A Fault-Injection Study and Field LogUnder review — IEEE ReSAISE 2026 (ISSRE-colocated workshop) · 2026Preprint & artifact (DOI)
Peer Review & Service
- →Senior Member, IEEEElevated 2026 — the highest IEEE grade attainable by application
- →Program Committee — ICSE 2027 (incoming)Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) track
- →Peer-review contributorCloud Security Alliance — Zero Trust Microsegmentation guidance (2026)
- →Working-group participantCNCF TAG Operational Resilience — service-reliability automation
Open-Source Research Artifacts
- →agent-harnessReference implementation — cross-platform LLM test automation (web · mobile · hardware)
- →llm-agent-fleet-reliabilityFault-injection harness & field log for unattended LLM-agent systems (MIT)
Speaking
- →Panelist — “Testing Meets AI: Elevating Digital Experiences”BrowserStack World Tour 2025
- →Speaker — BrowserStack Breakpoint 2026 (mainstage)Virtual, May 2026 · co-presented with Selenium creator Jason Huggins
Experience
Sr. Manager, Test Engineering
Motorola Solutions
Jan 2026 - Present
- →Leading test engineering strategy and operations across Motorola Solutions' mission-critical communications portfolio.
- →Driving quality engineering innovation through AI-driven automation, scalable test infrastructure, and cross-functional partnership with engineering and product leadership.
Engineering Manager II
Tinder
Dec 2024 - Jan 2026
- →Led iOS + Android QA operations across weekly releases, partnering daily with mobile directors, EMs, iOS/Android leads, and PMs to drive release approvals and resolve blockers. Transitioned the org from bi-weekly → weekly mobile releases with zero regression in release quality.
- →Managed a hybrid QA team of 5 in-house + 16 vendor QE/QAs, coordinating priorities, capacity, and mobile readiness across three parallel mobile squads.
- →Reduced production hotfix issues by 70% YoY through tighter release governance, improved reporting cadences, and predictive quality dashboards for risk assessment.
- →Launched a structured beta testing program as a gating criterion for weekly approvals, incorporating user feedback cycles that strengthened release stability.
- →Maintained and published mobile status reports, sign-off documents, and executive dashboards—ensuring accurate visibility for directors, VPs, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- →Served as a floater manager across iOS/Android squads, supporting teams where bandwidth gaps existed and ensuring seamless communication, alignment, and priority handling.
- →Spearheaded AI-driven automation (Appium + TypeScript + BrowserStack) raising regression coverage 0% → 30% within 10 months and accelerating CI/CD reliability.
- →Pioneered internal AI test-generation and self-healing automation (Cursor AI + BrowserStack), boosting team throughput by 30% and reducing manual validation overhead.
QA Manager
Amazon
May 2018 - Dec 2024
- →Partnered with engineering + PM leadership to support prioritization and judgement calls during high-traffic launches, outages, and cross-team dependencies.
- →Implemented quality-centric agile processes improving QA ticket turnover by 60%, and delivered executive-level quality insights through dashboards and operational scorecards.
- →Collaborated closely with 5 product management and engineering teams, as well as global cross-functional teams, to successfully launch the Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) of Ring's internal AI-powered chat assistant.
- →Created quality engineering roadmaps, vision, mission, career ladder, job descriptions, dashboards, executive reports improving overall quality culture and communication for the organization.
Sr. Software Engineer in Test
Ring
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
- →Led mobile/web QA operations for monthly iOS and Android Ring app releases, partnering with mobile engineering, product, and release managers to ensure high-quality, on-time submissions to the App Store and Google Play.
- →Oversaw a cross-functional QA organization of 25+ QA/QE/SDETs, driving alignment across device, backend, mobile, cloud, and subscription teams.
- →Managed release readiness, sign-offs, reporting, and dashboard accuracy—ensuring full visibility for directors and leadership across all mobile initiatives.
- →Elevated mobile automation coverage to ~40%, modernizing Appium-based pipelines and integrating parallel execution on AWS Device Farm for reliable real-device testing.
- →Led Ring's Security & Privacy Control Center initiatives—including mandatory 2FA (SMS/Email OTP), passwordless login via magic-link and trusted devices, Real ID verification with Persona, and end-to-end encrypted video—to strengthen account security, reduce support escalations, and enhance user trust.
- →Acted as a coordination hub across multiple IoT, mobile, and cloud teams, reallocating capacity and removing blockers for complex multi-team features (Ring Alarm, device onboarding, Live View, subscription flows).
Sr. Quality Assurance Developer
Spokeo
Oct 2014 - Apr 2017
- →Established and led Spokeo's "Quality Engineering" department, crafting a visionary QA strategy aligned with company goals.
- →Spearheaded the establishment of a comprehensive test framework for a Ruby on Rails project utilizing RSpec, Capybara, Jenkins, Amazon EC2, and Selenium, ensuring robust testing capabilities and efficient test automation.
- →Orchestrated the growth of the QA team from 1 to 13 engineers over 3 years, implementing world-class automated quality engineering infrastructure.
- →Established and managed automation infrastructure from inception, integrating AI-driven reporting (DataDog, ReportPortal.io) and alerting systems (PagerDuty + Slack).
- →Achieved 100% critical path automation coverage across web, mobile web, and applications within 8 months using open-source tools.
- →Devised and executed long-term and short-term strategies to meet diverse engineering team requirements, iterating based on continuous feedback.
- →Defined clear roadmaps for the QA team aligned with company objectives annually, advocating for QA best practices and fostering a shift-left mentality across engineering.
- →Optimized processes through playbook development, process improvements, and automation initiatives, enhancing operational efficiency.
Senior QA Engineer
Live Nation Entertainment
Jul 2013 - Oct 2014
- →Automation Framework development and Cloud execution using Node.js, Protractor, Cucumber, Selenium WebDriver, Jenkins. Successfully led QA efforts throughout the Agile SDLC, oversaw testing projects, managed domestic/offshore QA personnel.
- →Built the QA team bottom-up from being the first member to total 10 member team. Including hiring, budgeting, training.
- →Efficiently track schedules for projects, ensuring technology quality, and on-time delivery. Identify ways to improve efficiency of our processes via documentation, process development, and automation.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Advertise.com
Jul 2012 - Jun 2013
- →Successfully developed automation framework from using Selenium WebDriver with Perl to support weekly releases.
QA Engineer
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
Jul 2009 - Jun 2012
- →Successfully developed automation framework from ground up using Selenium WebDriver with Ruby to support daily releases.
- →Worked in a rigorous schedule in an agile environment to launch brand new OWN TV platform & 40 TV Show websites.
- →Tailed the logs while performing smoke tests to check for errors & SQL queries for data validation, load testing using JMeter.
Software Engineering Intern
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
May 2008 - Jul 2008
- →Automated Test Scripts for Functional and Regression Testing using Quick Test Professional.
- →Designed the architecture in UML with Rational Rose tool and designed SSAD (System and Software Architecture Description) for FMS.
Skills
Leadership & Strategy
Engineering ManagementTeam BuildingAgile/ScrumRelease ManagementQuality StrategyProcess OptimizationCross-functional Collaboration
AI & Automation
AI-Driven QATest GenerationSelf-Healing TestsCursor AILLM IntegrationAutomation FrameworksCI/CD Pipeline
Testing Technologies
PlaywrightAppiumSeleniumTypeScriptJavaScriptRSpecCucumberProtractorBrowserStackAWS Device Farm
Cloud & Infrastructure
AWSCloudflareJenkinsGitHub ActionsDockerKubernetesServerless Functions
Mobile & Web
iOS QAAndroid QAWeb TestingAPI TestingPerformance TestingSecurity TestingAccessibility
Tools & Platforms
DataDogReportPortal.ioPagerDutySlackJiraConfluenceAllure Reports
Education
Graduated
M.S. in Computer Science
University of Southern California
Focus on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.
Graduated
B.S. in Computer Science
The NorthCap University
Technical Activity
Contributions
Commits (last 12 months)420+
Active repositories6
Automated daily deploysYes