Irfan Ahmad
Engineering Manager at McKinsey & Company
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolIrfan Ahmad is an Engineering Manager based in Bengaluru with over a decade of experience building and scaling quality engineering functions across product-led organisations. He has progressed from hands-on SDET and automation work (Cucumber, Selenium, Appium) to leading release and test engineering teams, most recently managing engineering at McKinsey after senior leadership roles at upGrad. Irfan blends practical test automation, performance and security testing expertise with release orchestration, enabling faster, more reliable delivery while mentoring teams to adopt CI/CD and BDD practices. He holds advanced professional training in product management and cybersecurity (Duke, IIT Kanpur), which informs a pragmatic focus on secure, product-aligned engineering processes. Known on GitHub as "The Software Critic," he brings a critical, improvement-oriented mindset that turns quality gaps into measurable delivery outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Product Management Certification Program, Product Management, Product Management Certification Program, Product Management at Duke UniversityIndian Institute of Technology KanpurKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
Github Skills (89)
travis10
performance-testing10
javascript10
danger10
webdriver10
dotnet10
headless-browser10
code-review10
gatling10
phantomjs10
java10
gitlab10
circle10
kotlin10
selenium10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
notimewaste/Design-Patterns-in-Testing
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 6 PRs, 10 pushes in 7 months
test-automationexploretestingautomationpatterns
irfanahmadein/headless_browser_tests
Oct 2017 - Apr 2021
Get started with headless chrome/firefox within 5 minutes
Contributions:6 commits, 14 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 years 6 months
chrome-extensionfirefoxheadlessget-startedheadless-firefox
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