Boris Grinberg

www.linkedin.com/in/bgrinberg

650-***-****

adx7on@r.postjobfree.com

I am an accomplished professional with extensive experience in the field of Software Quality Engineering. I foster efficient and effective communication between test teams and development teams, product management, and senior management. This strategy allows for effective management of dependencies and deliverables amongst various teams to ensure end-to-end integration and quality. Largely contributed to the growth of testing and test automation skills within the organization - through coaching and hands-on training. In addition to building strong test teams, I also maintain external relationships with vendors, customers, and cross-functional distributed teams.

Highlights:

· Managed end-to-end testing efforts with complex product development environments involving onshore and offshore resources.

· Integrated, configured, and maintained agile/test/defect management and automation tools. Examples include JIRA/Spira Agile Development Environment, Jenkins, ALM (HP QC), Bugzilla, and Borland SilkCentral to name a few.

· Provided an exceptional quality hands-on contribution; test automation craftsman; creator/owner of hybrid keyword/data-driven framework.

· Solid knowledge of different Web and Mobile Automation tools like QTP/UFT, Android Studio, Selenium, Appium server, Ranorex, TestComplete, and Rapise.

Professional experience:

SureClinical Inc

(Reno, NV) 01/23/2023 – present

Director of Quality Assurance

SureClinical is a premier provider of health science cloud applications and services. Our global team provides BioPharma and Health Sciences organizations with easy-to-use next generation applications that work across mobile, web, and desktop devices.

· Provide support and guidance to lead adhering to regulatory and legal requirements.

· Develops framework, and test scripts for web and mobile applications for Apple iOS and Android, as well as testing internal operational processes for ordering, licensing, and e-payments.

· Conducts defect trend analysis and continuous process improvement.

Micro Focus (Sunnyvale, CA) 11/17 – 09/22

Sr. QA Manager

Micro Focus is one of the largest pure-play software companies in the world. It is uniquely positioned to help customers maximize existing software investments and embrace innovation in a world of hybrid IT—from mainframe to mobile to cloud.

· Provide vision and test strategy for multiple Micro Focus customer-facing online applications and platforms, including a worldwide corporate e-commerce site, add-on marketplace platform, digital asset management, content marketing site, and learning platform.

· Drive test automation and framework development, transforming the team of manual testers into a highly productive and efficient team of Quality Engineers.

· Built from scratch the test/bug management system by using agile processes.

· Integrate SpiraTeam with Jira and Jenkins, to have one easily manageable, and maintainable unified solution for Engineering and Product teams.

· Manage 10 Direct Reports in Sunnyvale/CA; Provo/Utah and Chennai/India.

OneLogin, Inc. (San Francisco, CA) 12/15 – 11/17

QA Director

OneLogin brings speed and integrity to the modern enterprise. Users sign in once and get secure, one-click access to all their web-based apps in the cloud and behind the firewall. OneLogin is a leader in Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) that enables companies to achieve both higher application security and increased employee productivity.

· Built and scaled a high-quality QA team. I’m the key driver for the transition of the QE organization from an isolated manual test and release model to Continuous Integration (CI) with fully automated smoke and product cert test suites.

· Concentrated on QA Strategy, QA Process/Methodology, Delivery, Governance and Automation, Mobile, and Web Services Testing.

· Build the Ranorex framework and train other team members on the Ranorex platform.

· Introduced and integrate into the engineering processes a new set of tools that enabled visibility, predictability, and traceability for every stage in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).

Declara, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) 2014 2015

QA Director

Declara builds a technology platform that takes advantage of our neuroscience-based CognitiveGraph® technology with the predictive power of Declara’s algorithms.

· Setting the vision, roadmap, and direction of the Declara QA organization

· Drive policies that ensure consistency, efficiency, and innovation, set measurable quality standards

· Built automation team from the ground up. Provided expertise and leadership in establishing the core of large-scale automation suites starting from nothing and to the level of robust, maintainable, and expandable solutions for functional automated Acceptance Tests for each Sprint.

· Reduce time/cost of the smoke test from initial 1.5 days for 2 QA engineers to fully a automated 12 minutes run

· Implement risk-based test management

HyTrust, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) 2013 2014

QA Director

HyTrust delivers the essential real-time control, security, administrative account monitoring, logging, and compliance assurance necessary to enable the benefits of cloud adoption and virtualization of critical workloads.

· Responsible for managing QA, Test Automation, Support/Escalation, and Infrastructure teams.

· Grew the QA team from 2 to 6 QA Engineers over multiple product lines.

· Developed Ranorex regression test suite, integration with SpiraTeam, Jira, and Jenkins.

· Introducing new tools and technologies to drive efficiency and reliability of the QA and infrastructure organizations

· Established new QA processes, and significantly improved measurability, predictability, and visibility of product quality resulting in world-class market-leading software.

· Managed Customer Support team, improved existing processes and reduced the response time to customers from 3 working days to 24 hours.

· Demonstrated excellent leadership, interpersonal, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

· Successfully used my extensive experience in managing geographically dispersed teams.

VMware, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) 2006 2013

Sr. QA Manager, VMware Cloud Computing Platform.

Managed the QA teams responsible for VMware Lab Manager, VMware Stage Manager, VMWare vCloud Director, and VMware Application Director

· Built, trained, and lead multi-disciplinary teams of QA engineers and system administrators in the US, Bulgaria, and India. Successfully established Quality Assurance functions

· Lead the design and development of a complex enterprise testing lab, utilizing state-of-the-art hardware and our own software to iterate and integrate testing, development, and “dog food” efforts

· Single point of contact for Product Management, Product Development, and Release Management teams for multiple Phase exits

· Managed day-to-day activities of the QA team and co-ordinate cross-functional team activities like resource management, demo sessions, knowledge transfer sessions, triage meetings, and status reports

· Directed the creation of an automation suite with continuous integration testing

· Provide high-level technical guidance to QA sub-teams

· Gave presentations on “Lab Manager” to various teams within VMware and new hires to our QA team

· Organized, managed, and consolidated feedback for dog food events

· Ran bug reviews and coordinate all efforts with Product Management, Support, UE, CPD dev & Automation

Akimbi Systems, (San Mateo, CA) 05/05 06/06

QA Manager (acquired by VMware)

Akimbi Slingshot; VMware GSX Server virtualization integration

· Built the entire team from scratch. Hired, trained, and mentored a new team of engineers

· Reviewed software design documents and technical specifications, developed effective test cases, risk analysis, and procedural documents

· Implemented tracking metrics and reports to measure the team’s performance

· Achieved significant productivity and coverage improvements through test automation and equipment emulation using our mainstream product.

· Enhanced and maintained automated build acceptance tests built using QTP, and the Akimbi SOAP API

· Developed and maintained Acceptance and Regression automation tools using Mercury Quick Test Professional 8.2.

LongBoard, Inc., Santa Clara, CA 2004 2005

Polycom, Inc., Milpitas, CA 2004

Akonix Systems, San Diego, CA 2003 2004

Polycom, Inc., Milpitas, CA 2003

Pagoo Communications, Dublin, CA 2000 2002

Patents:

Early Warning Forecasting Life-Threatening Temperature Method and System

Filed Aug 2, 2019 Patent issuer and number US20210035426A1

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210035426A1

Certificates and Education:

EMC Education Services

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, and Manage

Certified ScrumMaster; Certification #: 152246

Scrum Alliance

M.A. in Education, Baku Music Academy,

Field(s) of Study: Music, Science, Psychology

Baku, Azerbaijan

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sumgait Music College,

Field(s) of Study: Violin, Piano, Composition, and Economy

Sumgait, Azerbaijan

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