SUMMARY;

• Accomplished quality assurance professional with over 20 years of successful planning, execution and on - time delivery of quality end to end solutions.
• Led scaled agile application teams in accelerating production releases to a velocity of over 110 deployments in the last 3 years.
• Developed, coached, mentored and audited the quality team and release management systems at organizations
• Executed precise release management and QA leadership significantly improving: product quality, test coverage, test automation and customer satisfaction.
• Reliably and transparently provided executive engagement leadership through fostering trust and accountability in status reporting and interactions.
• My model of communication promotes a relationship where development partners and customers specifically solicit my recommendations during product and release reviews.
• Proven ability to motivate and empower agile teams to produce quality applications in complex and dynamic environments.
• Fair, thorough, perceptive, democratic and known for my ability to maintain a positive motivating attitude, develop collaborative relationships, creatively remove roadblocks and “do whatever it takes” to deliver.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Agile Transformation, Scrum of Scrums

Program Level Collaboration and Facilitation

Mentoring Global Multi-Site Teams

Software Quality Assurance and Automation

Release and program management

DevOps

Vendor Management

Customer Relationship Management

Strategic Initiative planning & execution

Agile / ISO 9000 / CMMI implementation

RFP, Pre & post- sales support

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology: Big Data, Hadoop/Cloudera (ETL), QlikView, Jira, Sonar, HP ALM, Pega, Test Automation (Selenium, Jenkins, QTP, Loadrunner, WAPT, TCK, Winrunner, Hyperic), SOA, BPA, JBOSS (Apache), Oracle (BEA), Weblogic, Web Services, System Test, Java/JMeter, Rational RQM, RTC, Bugzilla, TestLog, Test tool development (VB, Tcl), Continuous CM, Visio, Security - Nessus, AppScan

Telecom, OSS/BSS Network Management: VoIP, SIP, SONET, (ANSI, ETSI), DWDM, IP, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS, VPN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Global Release and QA Manager

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overall global dbVolt release management ensuring effective team collaboration across 9 Agile teams, DevOps, QA, production and support.
• Accomplished full Confidential CEO attestation in 2016
• Transitioned team to Agile/Scrum release methodology
• Driving force in removing team roadblocks ensuring content safely and successfully delivered to production
• 78 production releases in 2016 and 40 to date in 2017
• Established s/w component review process allowing effective code management, increased production code stability and elimination of production deployment issues
• Guided QA organization to achieving DB level 3 mandatory test standard compliance
• Established rigorous regression strategy, increased negative test coverage above 25%
• Initiated collaborative quality improvement of Confidential functional and technical documentation

Senior Global Manager

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered 3 major and 8 minor dbCAR production releases
• Established dbCAR s/w development lifecycle milestone definition and gate criteria checklist -> significantly improving initial quality delivering into QA
• Delivered improved quality eliminating the need for daily production support
• Mentored, guided and significantly increased the quality assurance teams’ maturity:
• Instilled a “Zero Test Escape” QA mentality, implemented quick RCA process and established a continuously learning QA organization
• Aligned QA teams across global locations and organizations (Kiev, Gurgaon, Bangalore) eliminating test overlap
• Delivered formal QA test preparedness tracking and resource profiling
• Initiated formal regression and sanity test ensuring stable production releases
• Increased negative test coverage from 5% to 30%
• Delivered automation capability
• Implemented Selenium with Jenkins full, end to end, dbCAR workflow automation platform. Full sanity automated and 40% of regression
• Realized savings of over 100 sanity test hours and 120 person days of regression test in 2014

Manager - Quality Engineering

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Successfully delivered IPC’s next generation Turret Trading system (Unigy) for large scale deployments of 500-3000 trading positions
• Successfully delivered Unigy’s Blue Wave Applications Development Platform (API)
• Built rigorous system performance test execution utilizing HP Loadrunner
• Established disciplined Security test and evaluation utilizing functional security test and industry tools Nessus and Appscan
• Achieved 60% Automation coverage utilizing QTP. Built daily automated build regression test ensuring load stability, established active QE resource tracking and defect find rate analysis
• Secured significant customer contract sales by successfully executing performance and scalability customer acceptance testing for Goldman Sacs, RBS, and BNYM

Consultant - Senior Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Secured executive buy-in for the Confidential S/W Verification Process Strategy and Product Release Process
• Developed and executed the full s/w verification process that conforms to ISO 9001 standards including production of all required software verification artifacts enabling automobile ISO certification