Overseeing multiple software development and QA teams to spearhead Chaos’ innovative product development. A committed leader empowering teams and fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. Ensuring delivery of exceptional customer value throughout the software development lifecycle and cultivating an environment where every team member’s contribution is valued and pivotal to the success.

• Drive ongoing analysis and diagnose process issues, and review the engineering capabilities to identify opportunities to improve and enhance the services for the division.• Implement key strategies in Engineering.• Guide and train team managers, who would eventually become coaches themselves, on the use of tools and application of the agreed process practices and approaches.• Train the team members on each specific process step throughout the project's lifecycle.• Support project planning, execution and track deliveries.• Address team members questions related to the SDLC process specifics.• Cultivate a proper mindset in all team members where problems and discrepancies are handled in a timely manner.• Help synchronization in between Engineering, Product Owners, and BA.• Ensure compliance to the SDLC process within Engineering and partnering teams.

• Lead, design and establish successful implementation of a company-wide SDLC process for delivering project specific and product based scope, including and not limited to: - Project inception specifics and setup based on SoW and Operational Budget. - Applied requirements gathering approach and documenting techniques. - Validated efforts estimation and comprehensive planning. - Agile based development and testing execution. - Approaches for production delivery and maintenance. - Development, testing and documentation artefacts archiving and reuse readiness. • Lead the design and implementation of Global Quality Engineering & Test Automation, as well as Manual Testing practices and toolset spanning across teams, regions and all phases of software development, implementation and production support of the company products, solutions, and services. • Define, coordinate and lead the implementation of test automation and quality assurance framework, integrating functional, technical and non-functional quality expectations as part of continuous integration and release process. • Manage and monitor the testing activities of the QA Teams, which includes resource allocation.• Create, standardize, and lead the implementation of QA practices across the organization.• In close coordination with senior Developers, System Architects and DevOps engineers.• In close coordination with Project and Product Managers, and Technical Delivery Managers.• Allocate, coordinate and lead globally distributed QA team members with different roles and responsibilities.• Engage in planning the development and the seniority growth of QA the team members.• Perform performance evaluations and provide feedback to team members in order to increase efficiency and quality of work.• Support the team members with problem-solving.• Know the principles of formation and movement of information flows within the company.• Observe the internal rules of the company and working in full compliance.

• Act as a key contributor in building the company's quality mind set and culture• Work in a close relation and consultative fashion with Architects, R&D, IT and other key teams and stakeholders to ensure high quality standards are applied and followed across• Establish and enforce overall Quality standards through practices and toolsimplementation• Design, implement and continuously improve the test automation strategy• Plan and follow the progress of all activities within the QA team in regards to thecompany's priorities and roadmap planning• Contribute for the improvement of all processes related to the SDLC, includingestablished processes evaluation and enhancement proposals• Prepare and structure QA team documentation• Evaluate and define tool set for the various testing types (functional and non-functional)• Measure software products quality by metrics and preparing reports• Set career growth goals and empower team members to develop skills and expertise• Responsible for leading the QA team to milestone releases completion underchallenging timelines• Supervising the tasks of the QA team• Monitoring and managing team’s workload• Recruit and mentor new team members• Establish compensation based on achievements

• Supervising the day to day work of the QA team• Monitoring and managing team’s workload• Managing the QA methodology and policies • Establishing and evolving internal QA processes based on the business requirements, industry-accepted best practices and the company standards • Developing, implementing, and maintaining a QA toolkit – templates, test plans, test cycles, test cases, and standardised reports • Estimating testing effort and testing activities duration for upcoming releases• Ensuring the compliance with the implemented processes and QA toolkit • Preparing comprehensive reports on product stability, requirements coverage• Planning Sanity, Functional, Regression, UAT testing based on Feature and Component dependencies• Ensuring that senior management and all stakeholders get regular status updates on the product quality progress • Developing test scenarios and test cases for the distinct functionalities based on the provided use cases • Developing and maintaining automation testing approach, framework, processes and tools • Managing work items and testing activities in Testing and Staging environments• Reviewing the automation testing reports and communicating any encountered issues • Identification of potential improvements to the product

• Planning, organizing and leading the testing kick-off meetings• Creating and updating Test Strategy, Test Plan and Test Summary Report documentation• Evaluating and identifying the required test automation and test management tools• Tasks assignments to the Software Test Engineers based on the software test plan• Tracking the assigned tasks with respect to the software test plan and the project schedule• Mentoring, guiding and ensuring that each team member is having a performance growth and knowledge improvement• Estimating the test effort and team (size, skills, approach, attitude)• Analysis and communication of customer’s issues• Defects tracking and tasks distribution• Supporting Requirements Traceability matrix • Coordinating quality reviews and audits • Communicating project status, quality issues and risks to the project manager, quality management team, executives, etc. • Providing weekly/monthly status of testing• Serve as executive contact for internal and external stakeholders for issues related to quality• Preparing testing deliverables for software version releases

• Data Access FUP testing and integration with Sandvine Policy Engine, SandScript, UNIX Administration and Shell Scripting• Extensive Operational Readiness Testing, including manual or automated deployment procedure validations in various Testbed environments• UNIX platforms debugging and analytical troubleshooting of server and network issues in support to Test or Operations teams in Testbed and Live environments• Design Analysis of Data Access Platforms and focused test scripts implementation to prove the requirements• Excellent documentation and reporting skills• Following the projects through from concept to completion

• SOA Services Integration development with TIBCO Integration Suite, including TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks, TIBCO EMS and TIBCO Hawk• Software testing and in-depth problem investigation whilst applying ISEB/ISTQB Software Testing techniques and methodologies• Producing and managing various release software packages by applying ITIL V3 Release and Deployment Management principles• Version Management and Source Control with TortoiseSVN and VisualSVN for Subversion• Defect/Incident tracking and management by mastering HP ALM and BMC Remedy platforms• Strictly organizing and carrying out project requirements and dependencies• Providing excellent documentation and reporting skills• Highly adaptive team player with great communication skills

• Execution of manual Functional and Performance testing• Automated GUI testing with WinRunner and TestComplete• Software Requirements analysis while producing Test Plans and Test Cases based on Requirement Specifications• Rigorously applying broad range of testing and reporting techniques