About Alok Kumar

Enterprise QA & Release Governance Advisor

Professional Overview

I am a Project Manager and Quality Assurance Leader with 9+ years of experience strengthening release governance for enterprise and high-growth technology organizations.

My work focuses on one priority: Protecting revenue and customer trust by eliminating release instability.

I have operated within global-scale ecosystems including Meta platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Marketplace, where even minor defects can have measurable financial and reputational impact.

What I Specialize In

Enterprise Release Governance

Structured release systems and Go/No-Go processes

Risk-Based Testing

Revenue protection and business risk management

Defect Leakage Elimination

Systematic pre-production defect capture

Global UAT Orchestration

Multi-region testing coordination

Enterprise Impact

Revenue Protection — Lodestone Software

Identified backend logging defect preventing ~USD 1.67M in potential revenue leakage. Release proceeded without hotfix cycles.

QA Scaling — Tech Mahindra (Meta)

Scaled QA team from 6 to 35 members. Introduced structured release cadence and governance layers.

Delivery Transformation — Buoyancy

Established deployment control mechanisms. Led delivery of 1 Mobile App + 1 Enterprise Website without major production disruption.

Core Credentials

  • PMP (Simplilearn)
  • Lean Six Sigma (Simplilearn)
  • Scrum Fundamentals – Tech Mahindra
  • Atlassian Agile PM
  • API Testing (Postman)
  • Playwright – LinkedIn Learning
  • AI in Testing & AI for PM