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Drive the engineering strategy and lead product development of new features and services in different settings of healthcare.Mentor and motivate both direct and indirect reports towards their career goals.Influence and direct leaders from different functional groups in a matrix organization with geographically distributed teams.Actively assess and develop a highly skilled team of software specialists and deep bench strength.Manage resource and strategy planning on multiple complex projects and prioritize competing schedules.Iterate and advocate continuous improvements in the application lifecycle management process.

Manage all related HR policies and processes for development and QA engineers.Provide leadership and direction to multiple software teams across all stages of the product lifecycle.Lead cross functional teams in daily kanban and scrum activities.Own project and release management responsibilities. Liaison and build effective relationships in a matrix organization with geographically distributed teams.Influence a seamless translation of high-level business goals into clearly defined technical requirements.

Lead team on QA strategy and product design. Supervised other QA members on exhaustive test planning and coverage, test case automation, execution and management, production issue triage, defect tracking and resolution. Mentored junior developers and testers on setting higher quality standards during the software development lifecycle while conforming to agile practices.Improved key quality initiatives in the QA process like documentation, metrics, QA checklists, QA certification and defect triage.Designed test strategies and plans, write and execute test cases for manual and automated testing, triage, track and report test defects. Performed white-box, black-box, system, functional, regression, stress and unit testing using manual and automated test tools.

Designed test strategies and plans, wrote and executed test cases for manual and automated testing, triaged, tracked and reported test defects using Quality Center and Team Foundation Server. Recruited, hired and trained a new offshore software group in Pune, India.Designed architecture and wrote code in C# to develop software applications.Created custom install packages for software products and set up automated build and install environments for each.Performed release and change management for software applications by planning software deployment into development, quality assurance, staging and production environments.Conducted safety and design reviews for audit and export compliance and made presentations to senior management on health, safety and environmental issues affecting employees.Wrote technical documents about features in Team Foundation Server, software lifecycle processes, bug tracking, new team member orientation and general policies and procedures for software team members.