Soumya Shankar

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 17 years of progressive experience in software industry.
  • Expertise in leading quality-focused engineering teams.
  • Proven track record in implementing DevOps practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Quality Assurance Leader with extensive experience in engineering management.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementProduct DeliveryProject ManagementTeam LeadershipQuality AssuranceTest Management

Other Skills

Cross-functional CollaborationTeam ManagementProcess ImprovementRisk MitigationQA Test StrategyTest CoverageQuality ImprovementAutomationDevOpsTest StrategyRegression TestingTest Case CreationTest ExecutionDefect TrackingMentoring

About

Committed and Passionate Engineering Leader using 17 years of progressive experience in software industry to lead focused teams in delivering quality solutions. • Self-motivated, result oriented and goal driven professional with overall experience of 15 years in the Product and Service environments. • Committed, passionate and motivating leader instilling ownership to engage and lead successful quality focused teams. • Good amount of exposure in salesforce CRM, SAP, Web based applications and telecom domain. • Involved in working with different systems like MDM, Data Services, and Business Rules Engine. • Experience in Apttus – Contract Management, Configure, Price & Quote (CPQ) and EchoSign. • Experience working on Sales Performance Management (SPM) and Incentive Compensation Management (ICM) in the enterprise selling(B2B) motion. • Implemented DevOps and embraced and coached A3 thinking. • Prior experience of playing the roles of QA lead and Scrum Master for different scrum teams. • Extensive experience in all facets of project lifecycle from strategic planning and inception through deployment and post-production support. • Extensive experience in Test Management, Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test effort estimation & Scheduling, Defect review coordination, Test report, People Management, Onsite-Offshore coordination • Proactive and influential leader with unique ability to bridge between business and technology. • Ability to work with management and business users to create and drive vision. • Expertise in developing strategic IT and vendor relationship. • Exceptional communication and decision-making skills to build high performing teams.

Experience

20 yrs
Total Experience
10 yrs
Average Tenure
17 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Adobe

6 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Nov 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

  • Leading the product vision, implementation strategy and owning critical parts of the product delivery to production.
  • Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Operations, and other delivery teams to ensure effective launch and delivery of projects to satisfy business needs.
  • Manage projects by budgeting estimates and mitigating risks.
  • Collaborate closely with cross functional teams to keep the uber vision on the path to success.
  • Be well versed in emerging industry technologies and trends and communicate that knowledge to the team and use it to influence product direction.
  • Develop and evolve engineering and business processes to optimize team efficiency.
  • Responsible for day-to-day management of engineering team to ensure technical quality, product quality, and efficient use of resources.
  • Build an environment that insists on meeting expectations and delivering value.
  • Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement.
  • Grow and lead the talent in the organization. Lead People Resource processes related to objectives definitions, regular check-in, assessment, and compensation.
  • Focus on development of the team members, helping with their career path.
  • Direct management responsibilities for all designated resources, team objectives, morale, and culture.
  • Motivate the team to deliver exceptional customer experiences and value propositions.
  • Setting quarterly individual goals and providing ongoing performance feedback as well as formal performance appraisals.
  • Provide management and professional mentorship to team members through regular one-on-one meetings, regular team meetings, and monthly account reviews.
  • Present engineering metrics to senior leadership.
Engineering ManagementProduct DeliveryCross-functional CollaborationTeam ManagementProcess Improvement

Lead, Sr Software Product Quality Specialist

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr

  • Preparation of QA test strategy for the Projects and review with different stake holders.
  • Review Test cases (functional, end to end) for Test Coverage.
  • Publishing QA Status reports.
  • Identify the Quality Improvement for each project.
  • Implement the process changes required from QA team and communicate lessons learnt to Scrum Master and teams
  • Achieve Test Effectiveness > 98% (Defect Slippage less than 2% )
  • Periodic Reviews of regression Suite & Ensure regression is up to date.
  • 80% of regression suite automation and maintenance.
  • 70% of team skilled on automation
  • Creation and maintenance of KB documents in share point
  • Building the Automation culture within Sprint.
  • Transition of the team to Dev ops.
  • 100% of Cross Skill of functionalities among all team members.
QA Test StrategyTest CoverageQuality ImprovementAutomationDevOpsQuality Assurance+1

Lead Software Quality Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Preparation of QA test strategy for the Projects and review with different stake holders.
  • Review Test cases (functional, end to end) for Test Coverage.
  • Publishing QA Status reports.
  • Identify the Quality Improvement for each project.
  • Implement the process changes required from QA team and communicate lessons learnt to Scrum Master and teams
  • Achieve Test Effectiveness > 98% (Defect Slippage less than 2% )
  • Periodic Reviews of regression Suite & Ensure regression is up to date.
  • 80% of regression suite automation and maintenance.
  • 70% of team skilled on automation
  • Creation and maintenance of KB documents in share point
  • Building the Automation culture within Sprint.
  • Transition of the team to Dev ops.
  • 100% of Cross Skill of functionalities among all team members.
QA Test StrategyTest CoverageQuality ImprovementAutomationDevOpsQuality Assurance+1

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Feb 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Creation of Test Traceability Matrix containing high level scenarios.
  • Creation of test cases in Test Management tool
  • Test Execution and defect logging, tracking bugs to closure, Sending daily status mail to the stakeholders.
  • Mentoring new team members.
  • Sending daily status mail to the stakeholders.
  • Participated in daily meetings with US team counterparts, engineering team and PMs.
Test Case CreationTest ExecutionDefect TrackingMentoringQuality AssuranceTest Management

Senior Quality Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2010 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Creation of test cases in Test Management tool
  • Test Execution and defect logging
  • Tracking bugs to closure.
  • Sending daily status mail to the stakeholders.
  • Participated in daily scrum meetings with US team counterparts, engineering team and PMs.
Test Case CreationTest ExecutionDefect TrackingQuality AssuranceTest Management

Quality Engineer

Feb 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • As a QA Engineer contributing to validate the Trial downloads and Adobe Download Center.
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Involved in testing the downloads of the different players (AIR, Flash Player, Reader, Adobe Media Player and Shockwave) from adobe.com across different OS and browsers using VMware.
  • Validating the downloads of different adobe products for trials(30, 45. 60 and 90 days)
  • Responsible for tracking bugs to closure.
  • Responsible in consolidating the work done by team and sending daily status mail to the stakeholders.
  • Contributed in growing the team size from 1 to 8 members.
Test ExecutionDefect TrackingDaily Status ReportingQuality Assurance

Wipro technologies

Software Engineer

Nov 2005 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • As a Engineer contributing to validate the Hyper Density Digital Cross Connect optical switch and Metro Ethernet Manager network-wide fault management and configuration capabilities for the Metro Ethernet network for Nortel Networks.
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • Involved in testing the various functionalities of the optical switches and participation in weekly client meetings.
  • Validating the creation of services between Ethernet devices, monitoring traffic after creation of service
  • Responsible for Test Plan Preparation for assigned feature, reviewing test plans and test cases.
  • Responsible for executing Verification & Regression test cases and tracking bugs to closure.
  • Responsible for NMS and EMS load installation and upgrade activity.
Test ExecutionDefect TrackingDaily Status ReportingQuality Assurance

Education

Central College

MCA — Computer Science

Jan 2002 – Jan 2005

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