Quality Assurance Manager
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
• Experienced with building, training and retaining an efficient QA organization• Managed team by providing support for staff, career development, and annual performance reviews • Defined quality engineering best practices and processes in an agile/waterfall development environment and ensured the consistent implementation across all product teams• Design and development of comprehensive test strategy and guidelines to create consistency for each product line• Ensure each team member’s continued skill development to achieve the maximum contribution to their development team• Provide effective risk assessment with subjective and objective quality metrics along with comprehensive test coverage and results analysis for product quality assessment from release readiness perspective on a continuous basis is an agile environment• Worked closely with executive team, product management, customers, engineering teams to define, architect, develop, deliver and continuously evolve the quality engineering plans. • Used automated and manual test frame work for enterprise class data management, content management, research and discovery, data mining, messaging, workflow and collaboration based applications• Architect of flexible automation test system using both commercially available automation tools and purpose-built in-house developed tools for Xcira test infrastructure (patent pending)• Experience in an LAMP based SDLC environment• Created flexible and responsive processes to react quickly to changing business, product and customer needs while maintaining the course • Used strong verbal and written communication, impeccable presentation, organizational, and time management skills• Used good sense of business and customer’s needs to promote understand of the mission to address customer needs and not just build the products• Experience in short release cycles, the full software lifecycle, and have worked on multiple products that were released for public consumption