Prabhudatta Choudhury
Director of Engineering @ Darwinbox
About
Engineering Executive with 18+ years of experience leading large-scale SaaS, AI, and automation initiatives across global organizations. Proven record of scaling engineering teams from startup stage to enterprise maturity, shaping technology strategy in alignment with business goals, and delivering customer-centric, revenue-impacting software solutions. Key highlights include: • Delivered a B2B SaaS platform that improved customer retention by 20% and satisfaction by 18%. • Spearheaded GenAI-driven QA automation, reducing production defects by 73%. • Built and scaled a global team of 90+ engineers & managers, boosting productivity by 50%. • Designed and led an Automation CoE of 15 R&D professionals, delivering new frameworks and IP • Collaborated with internal team members to ensure successful on-boarding and implementation for new clients resulting in a 23% increase in customer loyalty. • Implemented PQR initiatives for better overall quality impacting 23% customer satisfaction Passionate about driving innovation at scale, aligning product delivery with business goals, and leveraging AI, microservices, and cloud-native architectures to achieve growth. I thrive at the intersection of technology strategy, execution, and people leadership—driving engineering excellence while accelerating business transformation, digital adoption, and growth at scale.
India
Hyderabad
Information Technology & Services
pandaas, EDA, Linear Regression, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, NumPy, Talent Strategy & Succession Planning, Budgeting & Cost Optimization, Executive Stakeholder Management, Engineering OKRs & Metrics, Engineering Leadership, Technology strategy, AI/ML Gen AI Adoption, Cross functional leadership, JavaScript, Site Reliability Engineering, Implementation Plans, Dependency Management, Non-Functional Requirements, Distributed Teams
Experience

Director of Engineering
India
1. Delivered a B2B software product with high quality, achieving a zero-bug release. 2. Engaged with prospects to understand pain points, resulting in a 20% increase in customer retention. 3. Led a team of high-performing C-Level Managers, increasing team productivity by 50%. 4.Owned engineering roadmap execution across multiple SaaS modules supporting enterprise customers. Partnered with Product, Sales, and Customer Success leadership to align engineering investments with revenue growth and retention goals. 5. Fostered exceptional relationship building and cross-functional alignment. 6.Exceptional relationship building with ability to leverage influence to achieve the goals of the organization. Works with cross functional executives in Division Quality, Corporate Quality & Regulatory, SOX and Internal Audit to align on strategy and procedures. Oversee the Quality initiative of all the products, accomplished 73% reduction in production bugs for the most used products. 7. Owned engineering quality, reliability, and delivery outcomes across core product lines, reducing production defects by 73% while improving release predictability and customer trust. 8.Strengthened QA effort to make the product more market ready and viable along with balanced P&L QA budget 9. Led development of an enterprise AI-assisted quality engineering framework that translates PRDs into automated test suites using LLMs leading to 50% faster release validation 10. Established a vector search knowledge layer for test assets enabling semantic discovery of historical tests, accelerating QA design cycles. 11. Integrated AI test generation with CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise test management systems, enabling continuous quality validation and AI-driven regression insights 12. Built an AI agent workflow that analyzes requirements, generates scenarios, creates automation scripts, and syncs results with enterprise QA tools.

Associate Director of Engineering
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1. Delivered a B2B software product with high quality. 2. Engaged with prospects to understand their unique and specific pain points and produced compelling business cases to meet their needs resulting in a 20% increase in customer retention. 3. Hired, trained, and led a team of high-performing C-Level Managers as the company grew resulting in a 50% increase in team productivity. 4. Worked closely with internal product teams and provided feedback from the field to help shape future development resulting in a 10% increase in customer satisfaction. 5.Reduced 79% production bugs for most used products with proper planning and quality delivery. Reduced Overall 45% production bugs in all product levels.

Associate Architect
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1.Envisioned & Designed NLP based automation framework which reduces QA effort upto 25% and turn around the QA time effectively. 2.Redefined, calibrated existing Test Automation framework on Java+Selenium+Rest-Assured on both POM and cucumber for better execution and reporting. 3.Designed Test Strategy for overall QA practice, Defined and implemented SOPs client and delivery wise 4.Implementing cutting edge technology and methods to facilitate better QA Turn around Integrating DevOps with QA for benefiting product in a holistic way 5.Building & Strengthening Solution QA with Test Automation, Business Use case automation approach. 6.Designed and implemented Hybrid Framework addressing areas including database impacts, environment and browser related scenarios, Web Services Testing, Regression Testing, Negative Testing, error/bug retests and usability, usability, accessibility testing etc. 7.Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness. 8.Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development (TDD) process, which brought QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity. 9.Trained the rookies in the team and interface team members about the project and prepared next generation of QA with all suitable knowledge.

Test Architect
Hyderabad Area, India
1.Leading the QA-Automation effort, developed Test automation frameworks in java, selenium, rest-Assured, Mockito. 2.Designing Unit testing framework using Arquillian and TestNG to implement shift-left culture, thus helping Developers to ship faster. 3.Building & Strengthening Solution QA with Test Automation, Business Use case automation approach. 4.Created team’s first database of documented test defects and procedures to enable accurate replication and ensure compliance with standards. Accelerated average QA testing turn-around time by 25% or more. 5.Created first performance suite using JMeter to report the actual page response of the application in similar environment. Made a recommendation on the env and prepared guidelines for better performance in client side. 6.Identified many root causes of intermittent glitches in Device connectivity and API layer issues. Delivered thorough QA testing reports that determined product quality and release readiness. 7.Transitioned software development efforts to a test-driven development (TDD) process, which brought QA testing in on the front-end of the development cycle for gains in code quality, software functionality and programmer productivity. 8.Conducted product-design reviews throughout the software development lifecycle to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules and potential issues. Leveraged developer background to communicate effectively with software design team, gaining their respect and becoming a valued, “go-to” team member on challenging test cases. 9.Provided training for the rookies in the team and interface team members about the project, attended calls with users, comprehending and analyzing business requirements and developing the test strategies and objectives duly.

SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN TEST III
Hyderabad Area, India
1.Leading the QA effort in AOS (Asset Optimization Sources) in realpage. 2.Designed Test automation frameworks using java and selenium, Rest-Assured 3.Designing framework for angula JS and other cutting edge UI.

Team Lead
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
1.Contributed to XBRL for Check-point product using Java microservices. 2.Analyzing, designing and developing code as per requirement. 3.Designing and architecture test framework using Selenium, Java and Protractor. 4.Generating report on requirement basis to help analysis.

Analyst-Development
Hyderabad Area, India
1. Developed code for energy domain using Java/J2EE, Angular. 2. Responsible for leading initial design to delivery of features, inter-team dependencies, stake-holder management, code reviews using Java, Angular, PostgreSQL and mentoring junior team members. 3. Executed complete tech stack migration from older tech to newer frameworks with zero bugs 4. Redesigned front-end tech from DOJO, HTML to Angular 5. Designing and architecture test framework in selenium, Java and lead the QA automation effort too. 6. Implementing GRID in selenium for parallel execution of tests 7. Analyzing, designing and developing code as per the client requirement. Generating report on requirement basis to help analysis. Leading a module.

Consultant
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1. Delivered SOA based BFSI product to all major Financial institutions across the Globe using Java/J2EE, Spring, JSF, Oracle 10g, Weblogic technologies with a MVC architecture. 2. Well versed with Capital markets domain 3. Developed and delivered "ZERO Bug" products for 9 consecutive time 4. Lead a team to commendable outcome and appreacitive performance. 5. Championed on code quality. 6. Migrated whole product from JDBC connections to Hibernate 1.2.

Associate Consultant
Hyderabad
1. Delivered SOA based BFSI product to all major Financial institutions across the Globe using Java, Swing, EJB. 2. Well versed with Capital markets domain. 3. Developed and delivered "ZERO Bug" products for 9 consecutive time.

Level-G
Bengaluru Area, India
1-Successfully engineered and deployed a bug-free application for clients. utilizing Java/J2EE technologies with a MVC architecture. 2-Migrated standalone to Struts 2.0 MVC 3-Executed new processes to reduce bugs in clients.
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