René Rodriguez Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Independent Software Quality Engineering Consulting.

White Plains, New York, US

As the AVP of IT Quality Assurance (QA) at Pure Insurance, I lead a global team focused on ensuring systems quality, reliability, and usability. Reporting to the Vice President, Head of Technology Operations, I drive QA transformation, establish quality improvement mindsets, and partner with executive IT leadership to execute key initiatives. With over 15.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Slalom Build creates custom software applications for clients in various technologies, including Cloud, Mobile, and Web.
• Accountable for all software quality efforts for every project across the Northeast.
• Established, managed, mentored, and guided a high performing team of 16 engineers and two technical managers in Boston and an active member of the leadership team for over 250 engineers in North America. Achieved.
• Driving growth through business development, talent management, oversight of delivery work, and thought leadership.
• Solving customers’ Quality challenges by understanding their business needs and crafting strategies to guide their Quality efforts.
• Manage engagements by reducing risk, planning, budgeting, defining deliverables, and ensuring buy-in from executive management.

Boston, MA, US

• As the Director of Quality Assurance, I Led and inspired a results-oriented team of Automation Engineers responsible for ensuring the integrity, performance, and security of Mineraltree's full stack, modularized, SaaS.
• Changed the triage process to allow for quicker defect resolution, reducing the time to resolve bugs by up to 300%.
• Built an automation team that reduced testing time during releases by 40 to 50% and integrated testing as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
• Created a containerized, automated test infrastructure to support a transformation from a monolithic single application to a microservices architecture.
• Defined and executed a Quality Assurance plan, implementing rigorous quality standards, practices, and KPIs to enhance product quality.
• Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including Development, Product Management, and Customer Support, to address customer needs, product direction and to integrate Quality Assurance seamlessly across the.

Westwood, Massachusetts, US

• Managed a team of Quality Assurance Engineers responsible for validating and deploying a video quality monitoring solution across cloud and on-prem environments in AWS and VMware.
• Increased quality by reducing the number of defects in production by 25%, while also reducing timelines for releases by 20%, and reducing overall cost of defects.
• Implemented process improvements to support increased automation and shifting quality into the planning stages of releases.
• Orchestrated the successful migration from manual to automated testing, resulting in a 50% reduction in testing cycle times and a 30% decrease in critical defects.
• ISO9001:2015 Stakeholder, responsible for demonstrating our Quality Management System (QMS) and the Engineering Team audit presentation while addressing any compliance resolutions.

• Developed test strategies and designed the test Automation Framework that reduced regressions and increased the quality of the software, finding critical defects earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Built and managed a Quality Engineering team responsible for over 5000 automated nightly tests for a Disaster Recovery to the Cloud application. Created a test management, defect tracking and reporting integration with.
• Managed DevOps and Release Management. Built the CI/CD pipeline and a virtualized test infrastructures in VMware and AWS.
• Coordinated company-wide cooperative education program with multiple universities.

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for Quality Assurance for all Digital Services and Applications for Personal Insurance Customers and Agents.
• Developed Travelers first Mobile Application Test Strategy for testing Mobile Web and Hybrid Apps.
• Managed large Onshore and Offshore teams across multiple projects including Managers, Senior and Junior QA personnel.
• Implemented Quality Assurance processes across both Agile and Waterfall projects and optimize all quality programs.
• Manage financials for a QA group of 250 staff and contract personnel. Developed a financial management application that focused on resource planning, variance analysis and demand management efforts.

• Designed a test automation framework for WAN Optimization software that reduced time to market and cost of development.
• Deployed across environments that included laptops, branch offices, data centers and deployed to multiple Clouds in a virtualized and meshed configuration.
• Introduced testing best practices in both Test Management and Defect Tracking process.

Sunnyvale, California, US

• Implemented Agile processes that enabled us to support multiple reseller relationships and deliver overlapping releases.
• Developed and maintained test infrastructure and strategies for validating networking security and location management applications and appliances.
• Coordinated reseller partnerships, managing release schedules and development timelines across multiple businesses organizations.

Dublin 2, IE

Master'S Degree, Higher Education/Higher Education Administration

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering