Sr. Manager, Project Management / Director, Program Management / Sr. Manager, Engineering
Forchheim, De
Led a global organization of 100+ highly-skilled analysts, automation engineers, project managers, and beta test managers with the focus on team development. Built Testing Center of Excellence with innovation-welcoming and data-driven culture, while supporting and mentoring associates through improvement projects and programs. Established and continuously optimized testing and development processes. • Managed and oversaw portfolio & programs of varying complexity from initiation to launch/delivery. • Owned product quality decision-making. • Led Agile teams through the transition from “quality afterthought” to “build quality in” culture. • Established agile practices for testers. • Fostered operational excellence with innovation-safe and data-driven culture, while supporting and mentoring associates through improvement projects and programs. • Played key role in identifying QMS V&V processes to satisfy FDA, ISO, and MDD requirements and organizational compliance to them.• Worked with agile scrum teams to design and implement customer-focused software development and testing process which led to 80% reduction in escaped defect ratio (from 12% to 2.4%). • Conceptualized and implemented the innovative methodology for requirements analysis and test design that decreased project cost by 40%, increased test effectiveness by 80%, reduced cycle time and feature complexity, while increasing cross-team partnership and collaboration. Promoted broader use of the test modeling approach, presented at industry testing conferences.• Designed and implemented metrics framework to allow effective evaluation of the product quality and proactive monitoring of the process compliance which led to the successful completion of regulatory audits. • Partnered with software engineering and released managers to streamline defect management process for patches that resulted in increased associate satisfaction, reduced time to market (by 28%), and savings of 200hrs/release.