Director of Quality Engineering — Abu Dhabi

Quality leadership,
at enterprise scale.

Twenty-two years directing quality engineering strategy across fintech, banking, and enterprise — building high-performing teams, AI-augmented delivery pipelines, and the culture that lets organisations ship with confidence.

Pankaj Nakhat
EST. 2003 · 4 CONTINENTS
22+
Years directing
25+
Engineers led
7
Tier-1 banks
01

What I'm doing now

a.

AI-Powered Testing

Multi-agent systems for test automation using Playwright, MCP, and LLMs. Practical reliability over self-healing buzzwords.

b.

LLM Evaluation Pipelines

Evaluation pipelines for RAG systems using DeepEval. Prompt regression testing integrated directly into CI/CD.

c.

Release & Reliability

Release management, incident response, observability, and DORA metrics wired into how teams actually work.

d.

Engineering Coaching

ICAgile-certified coaching (ICP-ACC, ICP-ATF) and 1:1 mentorship for engineers, leads, and managers.

02

Skills & stack

Test Automation
PlaywrightTypeScriptSeleniumCypressk6BDD / Gherkin
AI & LLM Testing
DeepEvalMCPClaude APIRAG EvaluationMulti-AgentLangChain
CI/CD & DevOps
Azure DevOpsGitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerKubernetesDORA Metrics
Languages
TypeScriptPythonJavaJavaScriptSQL
Leadership
Engineering StrategyTeam ScalingAgile CoachingRelease MgmtOKR Alignment
Domains
FintechPropTechTrading SystemsBlockchain / DLTBanking
05

Background

Trading systems, blockchain, financial services, real-estate tech — two decades directing how high-stakes organisations think about quality.

Previously at
ThoughtWorksJP MorganHSBCBarclaysUBSR3 CordaVisaALDAR

Let's talk.

Mentorship, coaching, speaking, or a straight conversation about quality at scale — reach me on any of these.