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Suman Bala (she/her/her)

Suman Bala

Quality Engineering Manager @ Sky UK

Suman builds quality engineering teams and cultures that deliver measurable business impact. With over 20 years leading distributed QE teams at easyJet, Sky, and Samsung, she has consistently transformed how organisations approach quality and the results prove it.

She specialises in building automation-first strategies and scalable QE frameworks. She designs organisation-wide quality engineering strategies, implements shift-left approaches, and creates QE progression matrices that develop careers, not just fill roles.

Her leadership philosophy is simple: enable teams, don't just manage them. She has founded accessibility and exploratory testing guilds, coached engineers to become force multipliers, and built quality cultures where everyone owns quality outcomes "not just QE".

Beyond her day job, Suman is co-host for Quality Unfiltered podcast where she shared real stories. She has co-designed the Software Testing Bootcamp for the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, speaking at conferences and webinars, and co-authoring "How can I test this?" to share practical approaches that work.

2026 Sessions Hosted by Suman Bala