Srinivas Nathani

Cumming, GA – 732-***-**** – adbyvg@r.postjobfree.com – LinkedIn.com/in/nathanisrinivas

Sr.Director of Quality Engineering

Quality Assurance – Business Strategies – Program Management

Software Development Lifecycle

Quality Assurance Processes

Testing & Test Data

Team Leadership

Strategic Direction

Resource & Budget Management

Program Management

Business Strategies

Best Practices & Validation

Staff Management

Policies & Procedures

Audit Review

Training & Mentoring

Analytical, results oriented QA professional with a unique blend of technical and leadership skills, combining customer and business strategies, QA processes, and innovative solutions to deliver highest quality software products.

Skilled in leading and developing large, diverse, global cross-functional teams, providing training and guidance, performance initiatives, and development programs, ensuring delivery of products and projects with world class quality standards, on schedule, and under budget.

Skilled troubleshooter continually focused on identifying, isolating, and resolving technical issues, assessing risks, always current with trends in technology.

Strong knowledge of strategic business development, talent for identifying areas for process improvements, delivering insightful experience in IT Governance & Strategy, IT Transformation Design & Rollout, Cost Optimization, Organization Design & Change Management, IT Operations, Program Management, and Process Consulting.

Accomplished communicator skilled in adapting to different business cultures, recognized as an industry thought leader and change agent, leveraging strong consultative selling and interpersonal skills.

Documented history of achieving business goals through innovative technology solutions and organizational transformation in alignment with core corporate vision.

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Played leadership role in Strategic Alliance & Partner Relationship management and Analyst Relations, served as McGraw-Hill education’s key contributor to the Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

Directed a large onsite/offshore team to deliver the “Connect” software platform based on Java EE, which currently hosts 200+ McGraw-Hill Educational products, serves more than three million customers, and generates multimillion-dollar revenues.

Established strategies around current and future approaches including Agile, DevOps, AWS, CI/CD, Test Driven Development, and BDD, to test product quality and propel company toward a future of highly automated quality assurance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

McGraw-Hill Education, New York, NY/Atlanta, GA (2006 to Present)

Senior Director, Quality Engineering (2018 to Present)

Principle strategist, visionary, and leader of multiple QA resources teams, and the Quality Engineering organization consisting of 36 employees, 112 Consultants and vendors across multiple global locations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand customer feedback and product quality priorities, develop QA strategies, translate technical concepts, innovate with new technologies, and share the vision for QA and engineering transformations. Oversee resource deployment and coordination efforts, ensuring QA projects are completed on schedule and within budget to quality standards. Key contributor to company’s education and key focus areas including ERP, QE, Digital, Mobility, Agile, DevOps, Bi-Modal IT, AI/ML, Big Data, MicroServices, Analytics, AI, and reporting processes.

Drive continuous improvement strategies for QE processes and deliverables, identify trends in recurring issues, and develop advanced solutions for resolution of problems.

Establish current and future strategies for product quality testing, propelling company toward highly automated quality assurance in support of global enterprise goals.

Develop and mentor teams in overall direction of maintaining quality control objectives, establish short and long-term performance goals, ensuring staff competencies, maximizing quality and reliability, reducing costs, and ensuring quality performance metrics across enterprise.

Implemented QE frameworks, centralized QE Portal, generating innovative ideas to increase productivity and profits.

Executed development of organization’s quality assurance standards, modern testing approaches, and automation framework; directed end-to-end testing activities for multiple software products, leading long-term strategy for testing and automation across the enterprise, staying ahead of best-in-industry practices and technologies.

Director, quality Engineering (2015 to 2018)

Innovative leader of all technical aspects of the McGraw-Hill Education Digital applications, working cross-functionally with product, marketing, and editorial teams in development of new frameworks and improvement of existing processes. Built and developed a high performing engineering team, managed resources and budget, drove innovation through integration of new technology, best practices, ad legacy systems upgrade. Partnered with business and development teams to understand product vision and requirements, driving expectations around quality for major releases. Consistently defined measurable metrics to track project progress against QA goals, communicating status to stakeholders, ensuring highest quality product delivery.

Delivered solutions to complex problems through in-depth data analysis and forensics, utilizing methodical approaches, experience, innovation, and strategic decision-making ability, translating complex concepts into simplified solutions.

Architected the test environments for IOS, Android, and Mobile applications; developed complex automation frameworks, identified opportunities for productivity gains through QE process improvements and agile development lifecycle.

Created strong stakeholder and team relationships, effectively communicating how all elements of the system software ecosystem work together and development of appropriate QE approach, and demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of standards, company objectives, advanced quality methods and protocol, ensuring a positive customer experience.

Orchestrated development and execution of test strategies, oversaw defect management, translated business requirements and established test cases to fit into automation test strategy, assessing all possible risks, ensuring prevention of negative customer experience during production.

Motivated high performing team through leadership, vision, and mentoring on technical and career growth, offering guidance as a strong technical resource.

Manager, Quality Engineering (2011 to 2015)

Dynamic director of a test engineering team consisting of six reports and 20 consultants, in development of test strategies and creation of appropriate test harnesses, ensuring the highest quality product delivery. Partnered with cross-functional teams in assessing product vision and requirements, defining measurable metrics to gauge progress against QA goals. Oversaw development of test plans, monitoring and reporting on test execution.

Drove in-house framework development, based on Selenium Java, dramatically changing business culture from quality assurance focus to improved up-front engineering.

Senior QA Lead (2008 to 2011)

Drove successful strategies to ensure the highest quality product delivery, managing team of test engineers to set and drive quality standards for major releases based on customer expectations and product understanding. Partnered with development teams to write testable code and automation tools code.

Senior QA Analyst (2006 to 2008)

Developed highly available, linearly scalable, and extremely flexible learning management platform, partnering with development team to ensure accurate QA execution; mentored team in development of QA improvement processes. Delivered the “Connect” software platform based on Java EE, generating multimillion-dollar revenues.

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science - Vijayanagar Engineering College, Ballari, Karnataka, India

Certifications

Software Testing & Software QA; Project Management; Interviewing Skills; Communication Skills; Six Sigma Black Belt; ARIS; ITIL v2 Masters; COBIT; CMMI 1.2; SEI Certified Assessment Team Member; Certified AWS Cloud Service Tester

Technical Proficiencies

ERP; QE; Digital; Mobility; Agile; DevOps; Bi-Modal IT; AI/ML; Big Data; CI/CD; AWS Cloud Services; Turbot; Kubernetes; Docker; MicroServices; Analytics and Reporting; WinTRunner 7.5; AI and Machine Learning

Fluent Languages: English, Hindi

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