Director It
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Spearheaded transforming a 100-strong QA team to Quality Engineering, integrating Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes. Successfully guided the strategic planning for automation framework, roadmap planning, monitoring tools, and test strategy preparation. Oversaw and mentored the team's requirements analysis, test planning, test scenario identification, defect triaging, and effective testing tool use.Built, managed, and implemented a 360-degree team transformation of Quality Engineering team, by hiring, onboarding, training, resource allocation, performance evaluations, career development, mentorship, budgeting, and onshore-offshore management.• Conducted program and project execution and advised management on test requirements, test engineering & defect management tools, and test coverage analysis.• Aligned with cross-functional organizations facilitating integration, functional & regression – manual testing & automated testing, support UAT, defect management, and reporting.• Developed metrics and executive-level presentations and demos to management focusing on end-to-end user experience, test management office roadmap, test estimation, level of effort, and resource planning.• Established process management to improve software development quality assurance processes, defining QE roles and responsibilities, effort analysis, resource and succession planning, budget estimation, resource assessments, risk management, and remediation of issues.• SME for Mobile Applications for technical architecture and enterprise software debugging – provide leadership, technical overview and guidance to teams for analyzing requirements, test planning, test scenario identification, defect triaging, and effective utilization of test tools.