Srilakshmi Shankar

Engineering Manager

Amstelveen, North Holland, Netherlands13 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in leading high-performing engineering teams.
  • Expert in transitioning organizations to modern SDLC processes.
  • Strong focus on customer experience in software development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Engineering Manager with expertise in Quality Assurance and DevOps.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceAgile MethodologiesTest Automation

Other Skills

AndroidAppiumBlack Box TestingClearCaseContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Contract testingCore JavaCypressCypress.ioDefect TrackingDockerDocumentationEclipseFunctional TestingGit

About

Software Engineering Manager leading multiple product teams, initiatives and innovations with pragmatic approach. Shaping high performing impactful teams, prioritising, iterative goals and strategy. Being a T- shaped engineer I have experience transforming organisations to modern SDLC processes with unconventional QA processes involving devops, automation and CI/CD to solve agile development and testing challenges with microservices and microfrontends, transition from monolith to microservices and mobile applications and public sdks. Customer experience approach to software development and quality while keeping people at the heart of every process and decision. • Experience in domains such as SAAS, IOT, Travel apps, E-commerce, Gaming, omni-channel • 3+ years of experience as an Engineering manager in full stack and platform teams • 11+ years of experience in software testing domain and 4+ years of Platform/devops • QA/development process, strategy and vision • Continuous innovation for teams in terms of layered testing, continuous testing for Agile teams • DevOps and Cloud - Docker, Kubernetes, Gitlab, AWS, GCP, Github actions, Circleci, Terraform etc • Mentor, lead, individual contributor as well as a team player with strong analytical, leadership and communication skills.

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 11 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Ikea

Engineering Manager

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Amsterdam Area

  • Engineering manager for 2 pillars: Personalisation and Loyalty under customer engagement domain
  • 3 product teams
  • 11 Software Engineers reporting (Includes junior, senior BE, FE, devops and consultants)
  • Modern development processes - Technical road maps - Prioritisation - Architecture - Dependency management and communication with external stakeholder - OKRs - align with different crafts - Product, Design, Data - Performance review - Coaching and Mentoring - Budget prediction and planning - Hiring and scaling team
Quality AssuranceJavaScriptScrumAgile Methodologies

Surveymonkey

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Platform quality manager for Getfeeback pillar - leading quality initiatives by helping product, processes and strategy with the integration of big individual SAAS products Usabilla, Getfeedback and Surveymonkey.
  • Platform team OKRs | Leadership | Stakeholder management | Process and Strategy | Hiring | Perfomance review | Negotiations | Coaching and Mentoring | Devops and Cloud solutions | Monitoring | Dashboards | Observabality | Developer experience | Microservices and Microfrontend teams | Performance and Scalability
JavaScriptQuality Assurance

Senior QA Lead

Jan 2019Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Leading QA team, processes and strategy for Getfeedback Platform
  • Innovation in testing and automation for Agile teams
  • Tools and methodologies for testing in continuous distributed architecture (micro BE and FE systems)
  • Transitioned QA team from being part of product teams to a Platform QA team
  • Enabling product teams to be autonomous in testing and release process
  • Leading QA integration during company/product acquisition
  • Hiring QA and developers
  • Strong development experience in Java, Javascript, BDD
  • Tools - Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Testcafe, PACT, Gitlab CI, Git, Docker, Kubernetes
  • 1st QA Engineer for the company (Usabilla B.V, Netherlands - acquired by Surveymonkey/Momentive in April 2019)
  • Define and structure QA process for multiple agile teams - frontend, backend, mobile
  • Develop test automation frameworks form scratch, setup CI and CD for tests
  • Cross browser testing with cloud solutions
  • Mobile sdk and app testing for iOS and Android
JavaScriptSeleniumCypressPlaywrightTestcafePACT+6

Bestseller

Senior QA Engineer

Aug 2017Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · The Randstad, Netherlands

  • Being 1st QA Engineer for the team, build the QA process and strategy based on agile test principles
  • Owner for quality of entire set of (12 apps) Bestseller brand mobile apps (both iOS and Android)
  • Play store and app store release testing, backend testing using Postman, Charles, backwards
  • compatibility checks
  • Comparison of leading automation tools and drive the decision with the team
  • Developed automation framework for the mobile apps from scratch using Appium with BDD, POM
  • Awarded "Most Valued Team Member" multiple times in the scrum team (3 times in a row)

Sogeti nederland

Mobile Software Engineer

Nov 2016Jul 2017 · 8 mos · Brabantine City Row

  • Philips Hue Lighting Systems project, Eindhoven
  • Calabash automation framework development using Ruby for mobile app
  • Write and maintain automation test cases for Android and iOS
  • Project involving IOT hardware, testlab maintenance and software in agile scrum team
  • Picked up coding in new language and tool within few days and could contribute to the team quickly
  • and was appreciated for the same

Ola (ani technologies pvt ltd)

Senior SDET

Nov 2014Jul 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Responsible for testing Ola mobile app -> android, ios, windows.
  • Leading the Android QA team and hiring and mentoring new team members
  • Mobile app automation using Selenium, Appium, TestNG.
  • Performance testing for ola mobile app for all platforms related to memory usage, battery consumption security testing and providing detailed report to developers.
  • Interact with developers regarding issue reproduction, suggesting additional features required, google play app release test support, database testing, event tracking testing, ab testing support for every release.
  • Weekly reports to higher management with users data, crash reports, performance improvement, app session info, app usage based on app version, os version, device type etc.
  • Appreciated multiple for times for leading the quality of Mobile apps and finding crucial bugs before releases

Kiwi, inc.

QA Engineer

May 2013Nov 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on Mobile Ad Mediation for Android and IOS publishers.
  • More projects: android games, web application testing and BI testing.
  • Test automation scripts for regression
  • Mentoring new team members.

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Software Engineer

Jan 2012May 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on Mobile and TV Applications, Functional testing, Integration testing, System testing,
  • Sanity testing, Regression testing, Smoke testing and Ad-hoc testing, api testing etc.
  • Responsible for Identifying test scenarios, designing and developing test cases, preparing test
  • according to the requirement specifications, executing test Cases, defect management and tracking
  • Worked on testing all the leading Samsung mobile phones and tablet devices
  • Actively involved in other activities like preparing Status Report, Defect Report, Effort Estimates,
  • sending consolidated Task Mails for the team and providing presentations to inter/intra team related to
  • knowledge sharing and as well as project related presentations.

Education

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor's of Engineering — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

Mahajanas PU college, Mysore

Pre university — PCMC

Jan 2005Jan 2007

St-Josephs Central School, Mysore

Class 10

Jan 1995Jan 2005

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