Nishtha Patel is a Director, Quality Engineering at American Express. Colleagues describe her as "Nishtha is the absolute epitome of QA leadership. She has an inherent desire to make things better and is wonderful at bridging the gap between development and QA so there is no gap - just one team. The effects of her realistic but firm attitude towards testing definitely had a positive impact on our product quality and can still be seen today. It was an absolute pleasure working with Nishtha and I hope our paths cross again someday!", "Nishtha was a huge addition to the Appirio R&D team, as our first bonafide QA leader. She quickly established credibility with a team of veteran developers and managers, instituting rock-solid quality and testing processes with a level of rigor I wouldn't have thought possible. She was also an instrumental early user and domain expert in making our CMC Release Manager tool production-ready, and she demonstrated great skill and dedication in managing an offshore QA team in addition to her local team. I would welcome Nishtha as a leader in any R&D organization.", and "Nishtha is a fantastic QA Manager. She works well in a collaborative team environment, interacting frequently and in an agile manner with the engineering team while mentoring the QA engineers. Nishtha contributed greatly to Genius.com's ability to go from infrequent releases with relatively low quality to clockwork-like releases every two weeks with nary a bug to be found."