Rakesh Sukla is Director of Engineering for Platform and Quality Engineering at Bread Financial, where he leads quality automation, release engineering, and developer productivity platforms. He has built and led a global team of more than 30 engineers and 3 engineering managers, and rolled out an enterprise test automation framework spanning web, mobile, API, gRPC, and security testing that supports daily releases across 22 projects, more than 300 test pipelines, and over 3,000 end-to-end tests a day.
He architected Master Control, an automated deployment platform for zero-touch releases, a Unified Quality Portal for real-time test analytics, and a self-service Test Data Management Portal integrated with Harness CI/CD. At Resy (American Express Global Dining Network) he built on-demand test environment provisioning with Terraform, AWS, and Jenkins, and at Handy he cut manual QA effort by 70%. He has over 12 years of experience and holds a Master's in Computer Science from New York University.