Leena Samant is a dynamic and forward-thinking test engineering leader with a passion for establishing and driving next-generation software QA and test engineering practices. With over 15 years of experience, she has an extensive background in cross-functional team leadership, change, and release management, and business transformations. Leena has worked with top organizations such as GoldenSource, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Mastek Ltd, and Nextenders India Pvt. Ltd. She has a strong domain expertise in investment banking, capital markets, BFSI, collateral management & securities technology, and enterprise data management (EDM).

Leena is known for her ability to create a culture and practice of robust test automation. She has conceptualized, staffed, and set up departments that replicated customer BAU business flows and identified defects before software releases to customers, saving thousands in USD. She overhauled the test automation framework from traditional to intelligent business keywords, increasing automated test coverage from 50 to 1500+ tests and reducing manual regression cycles from 6+ weeks to 3 days.

Leena has a strong sense of quality ownership, driving the development life cycle while overseeing the delivery and maintenance of automated scenarios and frameworks based on industry best practices. She has established a robust change management process with quality gates, reducing automated test case & test data maintenance by 70%. She is a champion of thinking test-first and test automation, breaking traditional organizational silos and transforming manual quality assurance bias to a pro-active test-first test engineering flow.

Leena's educational background includes HSC from D.G. Ruparel College, Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics from the University of Mumbai, and S.L.Desai Vidyalaya Pat. She can be reached via leenasamant@msn.com or +91- 9930615152.