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San Mateo, Ca, Us

I lead and manage a diverse team of Quality Engineers situated across various global locations. This encompassed overseeing multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring efficient coordination and delivery of high-quality software solutions.My leadership and management skills are instrumental in driving successful outcomes, fostering collaboration, and aligning teams toward achieving common quality objectives. By strategically managing resources, implementing robust QA frameworks, and cultivating a culture of excellence, I ensure the consistent delivery of reliable software solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.

Alpharetta, Georgia, Us

As the Director of Quality Engineering at Candor Technology, I assumed the responsibility of overseeing and implementing all QA processes and strategies for the Loan Engineering System. This innovative Autonomous Intelligence platform revolutionized mortgage underwriting by fully automating the process, resulting in enhanced efficiency and optimized decision-making.During my tenure, I successfully built a team of QE engineers and established comprehensive test strategies. With support and guidance from the Chief Technology Officer, I developed ambitious yet realistic execution plans. My role included motivating and mentoring team members, ensuring adherence to standardized processes, implementing test frameworks, and utilizing adapted test management tools to gain detailed visibility into the testing progress.A key aspect of my leadership was to embed quality early into the software development lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of the highest quality products to our valued customers. I took the lead in driving test automation efforts as part of our overall test strategy. This involved aligning with a global framework to improve both immediate and long-term testing goals.Overall, as the Director of Quality Engineering, I played a crucial role in shaping and guiding the Quality Engineering function. Through strategic leadership, I focused on delivering excellence and instilling a culture of quality within the organization.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

As Sr. Manager, Data and Technology, I was responsible for the following:Enterprise Application Development: Led the development of an Enterprise Application designed to manage a major automotive client's vehicle configuration life cycle. This involved leading the product strategy and road map, identifying product requirements, collaborating with Product Users/Clients, and working alongside UX/UI designers to develop a user interface (UI) and a user workflow.Agile-Scrum Management: Managed Agile-Scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Stand-Ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives. These ceremonies ensured effective project planning, communication, and collaboration within the team.Data Engineering Support: Supported Data Engineers in creating data pipelines, developing a database schema, and designing an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD). This assistance helped to establish a robust data infrastructure for the Enterprise Application.QA Process Implementation: Took charge of implementing and establishing the QA process across the organization. This involved defining and implementing quality assurance standards, procedures, and best practices to ensure high-quality deliverables.By undertaking these responsibilities, I contributed to the successful development and implementation of the Enterprise Application while ensuring adherence to Agile methodologies and quality assurance standards.

Brookhaven, Georgia, Us

Led and managed an offsite and offshore automation team and an onshore functional QA team on defining and implementing testing strategy, including roadmap, tools, frameworks & approaches to architect a keyword-driven framework for manual groups to use across Scrum teams.Collaborated with the Dev and QA teams to solve technical challenges to improve maintainability. For example, increasing automation test coverage and decreasing test execution times across various API, Micro-services, and Web applications platforms.Designed and implemented performance testing processes to improve page load and rendering time using various performance testing methods for API, Server Performance threshold, and security testing. Evaluated resource utilization, speed, availability, response time, scalability, and reliability.As a Release Manager, I created and verified detailed release notes for each production release. Also, I was responsible for architecting solutions with the AI Product team, Data Scientists, Data Engineers, and ML teams to support AI applications. Developed meaningful relationships across different organizational functions to gather information and drive testing on Big Data Models and Continuous Integration.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Oracle’s Primavera Unifier.Responsible for performing functional, validation, regression, integration, and system testing across a broad group of functional areas in Unifier is typical of moderate to high complexity.Worked in Agile teams as a QA member to reproduce, analyze and debug issues before releasing into production, ensuring QA objectives were testable before release/sprint planning for agile teams for every user story. Reviewed Functional Requirements and Technical Specifications and prepared test summary/defect analysis reports.

San Diego, Ca, Us

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Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies