Sr. Manager, Quality
CurrentLead large teams at multiple sites, including team leads, project managers, and engineers in US and Asia Pacific to deliver Citrix Xenmobile (mobile device management, security, and app delivery) product line. Provide product presentations and transfer of information (TOI) to senior management, engineering, customer support, and release management teams. Charged with resource planning, equipment purchases, test tool development (scalability and performance) requirements, and effort estimations for releases.Leading a team of multi-site engineers including Team leads, Engineers and Contractors in US and Asia Pacific to deliver Citrix XenMobile (Mobile device management and App delivery) product line and Virtualization networking products (XenApp and Xendesktop). Define overall QA strategy and Quality Plan• Engaged with engineers on deep product specifications, deepening understanding, solving challenging technical issues, and driving quality delivery and continuous product improvement.• Worked as program manager, collaborating with engineering, product management, customer support, and cloud operations teams on mobile server migration releases in Sprint model.• Promoted standardized test procedures, methodologies, and metrics, formalizing on bug reporting guidelines across multiple sites as executive member of quality team.• Delivered multiple mobile server migration releases in Agile model (Sprint releases); approach used in migration release was replicated for other mobile server releases.• Drove test case optimization for server releases to move towards test suite (used cases), reducing test execution cycles 50% and saving 25% in test resource costs.• Managed Santa Clara lab for server team, optimizing existing lab infrastructure and saving $500K in equipment costs in 2015. • Delivered SSL VPN and IPsec products to customers, consolidating resources and lessening long-term costs.
