QA InfoTech Team

Mukesh Sharma

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Rajesh Sharma

Co-Founder & Chief Information Officer

Minesh Upadhyaya

Chief Operating Officer

Kunal Chauhan

Chief Technology Officer

Rajini Padmanaban

Sr. Vice President, Global Testing Services & Client Engagement

Anshuman Sharma

Sr. Vice President, Quality Assurance

Ashwin Arora

Vice President, Quality Engineering & Client Engagements

Siddharth Anand

Siddharth Anand

Vice President, Quality Engineering & Client Engagements

Chris Morgan

Chris Morgan

President, WeBuildLearning EdTech Product Division Sr. Vice President, QA InfoTech Inc.

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Mukesh Sharma

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

As founder and CEO of QA InfoTech Worldwide, Mukesh is responsible for the company’s vision and leads the organization’s worldwide operations, marketing, sales and development efforts. He founded QA InfoTech with a vision to provide unbiased Quality Assurance (QA) testing solutions and has grown the organization to four Centers of Excellence globally.Mukesh began his technology career with DCM Data Systems and then worked at IBM Corporation, Quark Inc., Gale Group and Adobe Systems in software engineering and testing roles. He has a passion for excellence, an eye for detail and commitment towards customers, and blends it with an execution style that has the maturity of an established organization with the nimbleness of a startup – these together have enabled QA InfoTech stand apart in the exceedingly competitive software testing industry. Under his guidance, the company has contributed to various innovative quality assurance and test-automation solutions. He continues to actively evangelize software testing as a career and its indispensable aspects in today’s world of software engineering. He has authored three books in these areas to benefit testers and engineers at all levels – these include “Are You Smart Enough To Be A Tester”, “Leverage The Wisdom of the Crowd in Software Testing” and “Software Testing 2020: Preparing for New Roles”Mukesh holds a Master of Science and Technology in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India, as well as a Master of Engineering in Engineering Management from University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.Mukesh is an avid reader, golfer and cricket player, as well as a philanthropist who takes a personal interest in the organization’s CSR initiatives.

Rajesh Sharma

Co-Founder & Chief Information Officer

As Co-Founder and CIO of QA InfoTech, Rajesh oversees global operations, strategic planning and key growth initiatives in emerging sectors. He is responsible for delivering excellence across all of the company’s four Centers of Excellence and his obsession for perfection has contributed significantly in setting the tone for managing customer relationships.Prior to his role at QA InfoTech, Rajesh worked as a quality assurance manager at Cyberfuturistics Inc. and then at Avinex Software. At Avinex, he established the quality assurance department and implemented all the quality assurance processes from scratch. His leadership and experience has provided essential guidance for QA InfoTech cross-platform testing engagements and he is also responsible for empowering the company’s testing teams with innovative technologies and state-of-the-art test labs. By setting up and keeping the processes updated and audited across the organization to be at par and also excel as a thought leader in the industry, Rajesh continues to drive several initiatives in the company including an excellence group, called SQEEG. After a very successful base the company has established in the West and India, Rajesh’s focus now is penetrating the Asia-Pac markets and extending QA InfoTech’s presence in these geographies.Rajesh holds a master’s degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India. He loves playing basketball and listening to music in his free time.

Minesh Upadhyaya

Chief Operating Officer

Minesh started his career at QA InfoTech in 2003 and has been instrumental in nurturing clients and generating a strong history of repeat business for the company. His integrity, dynamic personality and kind demeanor have contributed significantly to building outstanding trust with the firm’s many valued clients. He has also collaborated on a seamless offshore transition strategy for clients that require zero down-time. In addition, he has created a global delivery model which, when customized for each individual client, helps companies realize maximum returns on their outsourced quality assurance and software testing.With his aim to deliver quality products, his foresight lies in ensuring prominent visibility of Perseverance IT Solutions, an offshore venture by QA InfoTech, in the global market. Through effective planning, R&D, talent acquisition and management, he drives the organization in streamlining processes. Being the ‘go to’ person, he takes care of all the internal products; impels all processes under mobile development, automation, performance and also manages internal systems like ERP and HRIS.Minesh holds a Master of Science Degree in Bioinformatics from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA.In his leisure time, he enjoys table tennis and bowling.

Kunal Chauhan

Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer, Kunal is focused on driving high quality engineering strategy and technology solutions as the company moves into additional verticals, markets and offerings in the services portfolio. He also drives the independent development arm – DevLabs and is an evangelist for the same as a keynote speaker in a number of conferences.Prior to joining QA InfoTech, Kunal was Vice President, Web Applications Development, in Thomson Reuters Equities Division in Boston for 12 years where he was responsible for building and managing more than 20 applications – including real-time, historical, TCA and query-based systems – serving brokerage houses and financial institutions. At Thomson Reuters, he worked in the First Call division for three years and then the AutEx division for nine years. He also worked with Fidelity Investments (Boston) in their Corporate Actions Group for two years.Kunal holds a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Honors) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India.In his spare time, Kunal plays lawn tennis and also enjoys skiing and ice skating.

Rajini Padmanaban

Sr. Vice President, Global Testing Services & Client Engagement

Rajini leads the engagement and relationship management for some of QA InfoTech’s largest and most strategic accounts and also manages our Bangalore center. She also heads the evangelism and thought leadership activities across the company driving webinars, conferences, and the SME content covering industry trends, technologies and best practices; she is also involved in building relevant partnerships and generating ideas for service enhancements for the company at large. Rajini has more than eighteen years of professional experience, primarily in the software quality engineering space. Over the years, as part of Polaris Software Labs and later at Disha Technologies, Aztecsoft and MindTree, she has been in various client-facing roles including project delivery management, engagement management and pre-sales for leading ISVs such as Microsoft. Her primary areas of expertise are technical account mining and customer relationship management, both of which help her take existing accounts to new heights. Rajini holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce and a master’s degree in Computer Applications, from University of Madras, India, where she graduated at the top of her class in both degrees. Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, non-fictional reading, cooking and varied forms of art.

Anshuman Sharma

Sr. Vice President, Quality Assurance

As Vice President of Quality Assurance, Anshuman oversees the development and implementation of quality assurance strategies and protocols for all client engagements. Under his guidance, QA InfoTech’s central knowledge repository for reusable components has grown significantly over the past few years. He also oversees the audit and compliance committee which ensure governance of organizational processes.

Prior to joining QA InfoTech, Anshuman worked as an accounts manager at Concept Communications, and managed the ecommerce function at Radsun Technologies. He has been instrumental in introducing niche testing techniques in functional automation at QA InfoTech and helped pioneer localization using virtualization techniques, which has dramatically enhanced globalization testing efficiencies.

Anshuman earned his Master of Arts (Honors) in General Studies and a Master of Science degree in software systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India.

In his spare time, Anshuman enjoys outdoor activities, gliding and trekking.

Ashwin Arora

Vice President, Quality Engineering & Client Engagements

Ashwin joined QA InfoTech in 2005 and has steadily grown with the organization ever since. In his current role as a Vice President, he heads a large quality engineering group, manages client relationship for some key accounts and also actively contributes to and manages a significant portion of the organization’s marketing, sales and client engagement activities.Ashwin has a keen understanding of the business, managing revenues and portfolio priorities while also knowing how to manage his group for great results. He ardently believes in the quote of Thomas Alva Edison: “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration”; there is no substitute to hard work.Outside of work, Ashwin enjoys traveling, and has a keen interest in reading about health ailments & medicines.

Siddharth Anand

Siddharth Anand

Vice President, Quality Engineering & Client Engagements

Siddharth started his career with QA InfoTech in 2006. As a Computer Engineering graduate, he was fascinated with the speed at which Independent Software Testing was creating its own niche. He learnt the art of testing at QA InfoTech and closely worked with customers to deliver great quality products.His passion for requirements analysis, robust and scalable processes, continuous evaluation and delivery, has helped customers in laying a strong foundation for their products. He drives a lot of the pre-sale and technical mining efforts in the company combining his test, technical and sales skills to help grow QA InfoTech’s business in newer domains and practices. As a strong believer in thinking out of box for ongoing continuous process improvement, he strives to not just build the right product but to also build the product right.Siddharth graduated with an Engineering degree in Computer Science and went on to complete his Masters in Business Administration from IIM, Lucknow.Outside work, Siddharth may be found reading, enjoying music or traveling to rejuvenate himself.

Chris Morgan

Chris Morgan

President, WeBuildLearning EdTech Product Division Sr. Vice President, QA InfoTech Inc.

As President – WeBuildLearning EdTech Product Division, Chris is responsible for overseeing the development processes and strategies across the organization. With ed-tech product development as his niche for over 17 years, his expertise spans Learning Management Systems, Analytics, Assessments, Publishing, Online Courses (Courseware), Video Production, Professional Development, and Teacher Evaluations.Chris has worked with Atomic Dog Publishing, Cengage Learning, Global Cloud, Pearson Education, Marzano Research and Solution Tree in senior leadership roles to initiate and implement development strategies and build award-winning products. Chris is well-equipped at analyzing market conditions, user experience, instructional design, and new technology implementation. With his agile leadership, Chris employs his domain expertise into the processes of the organization effectively and brings new ideas to the table constantly.Chris holds a Bachelors in English Literature from the University of Cincinnati. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife and three children Abby, Anna and Luke. His hobbies include running and attending music concerts and festivals.