Advance departmental strategy and vision to ensure adherence to customer expectations. Conducts defect trend analysis and continuous process improvement.

Provide vision and test strategy for multiple Micro Focus customer-facing online applications andplatforms, including a worldwide corporate e-commerce site, add-on marketplace platform, digital assetmanagement, content marketing site, and learning platform.

• Built and scaled high-quality Quality Engineering team. I’m the key driver for the transition of the QE organization from an isolated manual test and release model to Continuous Integration (CI) with fully automated smoke and product cert test suites.• Introduced and integrate into the engineering processes new set of tools that enabled visibility, predictability and trace-ability for every development life cycle.

Declara builds a technology platform which takes advantage of our neuroscience-based CognitiveGraph® technology with the predictive power of Declara’s algorithms.At Declara I wearing various hats in response to rapidly evolving business needs, including leading and growing the QA Engineering team, mentoring department heads and leading strategic and tactical projects. I directly am supporting the VP of Engineering, CEO and CIO in quarterly OKRs, Budget and Sr. Leadership decisions. Setting the vision, roadmap and direction of the Declara QA organization.• Setting the vision, roadmap and direction of the Declara QA organization • Drive policies that ensure consistency, efficiency, and innovation, set measurable quality standards• Built automation team from the ground up. Provided expertise and leadership in establishing the core of large-scale automation suites starting from nothing and to the level of robust, maintainable, and expandable solutions for functional automated Acceptance Tests for each Sprint. • Reduce time/cost of smoke test – from initial 1.5 days for 2 QA engineer to fully automated 12 minutes run

HyTrust delivers the essential real-time control, security, administrative account monitoring, logging and compliance assurance necessary to enable the benefits of cloud adoption and virtualization of critical workloads. • Responsible for managing QA, Test Automation, Support/Escalation, and Infrastructure teams.• Grew the QA team from 2 to 6 QA Engineer's over multiple product lines.• Developed Ranorex regression test suite, integration with SpiraTeam, Jira and Jenkins.• Introducing new tools and technologies to drive efficiency and reliability of the QA and infrastructure organizations• Established new QA processes, significantly improved measurability, predictability and visibility of product quality resulting in world class market leading software.• Building, hiring, evangelizing, directing teams, and driving day-to-day execution.Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and cross-functional collaboration skills.Excellent planning skills, attention to details, follow-through, and managing within budgets.Extensive experience in managing geographically dispersed teams.

• Built, trained and lead a team of 27 QA engineers in US, Bulgaria and India through seven major product releases with strict Quality Assurance standards.• Acted as a reliable one point contact for Product Management, Product Development and Release Management teams.• Drove day-to-day team support activities; engaging team members’ professional growth, pushing for information exchange between various product sub-groups, and maintaining 360-degree communication.

o Interviewed, hired, and integrated a QA team into a new environment, showing the need for a Quality Assurance framework and process where none existed before.o Established firm testing processes and methods while remaining flexible to unforeseen circumstances dealing with resources, training, technology and communication needs. Implemented tracking metrics of team performance, enhancing 360-degree communication.o Achieved significant productivity and testing coverage improvements through automated build acceptance, test automation, and equipment emulation (via QuickTimePro and Akimbi SOAP API).

Created custom automation framework and tools to address most resource-expensive testing areas of the product suite. Testing regression shorted by 30%.

Built on previously-built automation framework with new suites of maintenance and reporting tools to deliver deeper product testing within the same reduced costs (30% lower regression time than before).

Introduced test management tools to a spreadsheet-driven QA environment and lead training efforts for the team. The enhanced accountability, visibility and efficiency lead to a substantial product release benefit (30% regression length savings).

Developed and created framework and scripts to run acceptance test, regression, loaded tests as an automated verification process.

• Designed and developed a GUI automation tools for protocol verification, emulation data flow and to test and verify Pagoo’s endpoint provisioning server’sXML based APIs.• Technical lead of a team of 4 engineers• Build Engineer for the complete Pagoo Solution, which included build tracking and maintenance, source code change control and documentation.