Senior Engineering Manager, Quality
CurrentLead the QE for all Blackline platform products (UI, API, DATA and Integration/Connectors ).Created culture of QA innovation and establishing best practices: a) Use of multiple test automation frameworks by investigation and extending open source frameworks c) Simulation of production data d) Collaborating on test tools and frameworks with Architecture and Development e) Enabled continuous feedback by running a very large number of end to end test cases across builds.Drove the initiative of extensive performance, stress and chaos testing to ensure a smooth data center migration, resulting significant improvements in site availability.Established Engineering wide QA KPIs for test coverage, quality, and test standards.Initiated the building of tools and processes that fostered collaboration between the customer support and Engineering groups. Lead engineering team that partners with the product and development.Responsible for maintaining product quality, continued regression, full coverage automation, compliance and process, and handling production releases.Responsible to manage, lead and grow team consisting of Leads and Engineers. Responsible for staffing, mentoring, performance management, reporting, and cross-team communicationEstablishing long term and short term goals for the Quality Org while working with various department leaders.Enabling releases to be signed off based on automation by integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines