Haritha Shaik

About Haritha Shaik

Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.Experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry, proved history of resource management, problem management and risk management across resources working globally.Skilled in Oracle Database, Test Management, Test Planning, Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC), and Regression Testing. Strong program and project management professional with a Masters in Business administration and Bachelors Degree in Computer Applications from Osmania University.

Experience

1. Director - IT Quality Engineering

   KinderCare Learning Companies

   Jan 2023 — Present · Shrewsbury, MA, US

   Manage testing teams and their deliverables supporting UI, API, Salesforce, and Data analytics with an automation-first mindset in a cloud-based environment (includes migration to AWS, Databricks)Defined & Implemented quality vision successfully – QE Transformation with shift left-driven approach, risk coverage testing, and Metrics.Collaboration and partnership with various IT and Business stakeholders; Identified and bridged technical & process gaps for delivery speed and quality. Achieved 2X delivery speed in a year and racing towards 5X delivery speed in the next couple of years with AI-augmented testing planning and execution.Defined a sustainable & scalable automation strategy and implemented - includes low-code tools (Katalon, Data Trust), Browserstack, and cloud solution for web & mobile testing platforms.Defined and created a roadmap for enterprise quality integration automation with test data management solutions.Articulate risks, and mitigation/ contingencies for deliverables. Excelled driving cross-functional teams’ initiatives, optimizing processes, and ensuring product excellence with OKRs.QE transformation includes people (competency Skills matrix), process (continuous improvements), and data with technology as enabler.Enhanced employee engagement survey scores from 3.5 to 4.6. Defined metrics and KPIs, enabling data-driven decision-based capabilities.Conducted Quarterly business reviews of Quality engineering journey updates for transparency to SLT.Managed financials (expenses, soft savings(hours), Hard savings ($), and ROI).Vendor and invoice management

Education

• Holy Family High School

  High school

  1995 — 1996

• Osmania University

  MBA

  2002 — 2004

• Osmania University

  Bachelors Degree

  2002 — 2004

• Osmania University

  Post Graduate Diploma

  2001 — 2002

Skills

• Quality Assurance
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Management
• Defect Tracking
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Hp Quality Center
• Hp Qtp
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Qtp
• Test Planning
• Software Development
• Team Leadership
• Sdlc
• Istqb Certified
• Business Requirements
• Software Testing Life Cycle
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Integration Testing
• Regression Testing
• Requirements Gathering
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Automation
• Testing
• Test Cases
• Test Strategy
• Functional Testing
• Mentoring New Hires
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sql
• Quality Center
• User Acceptance Testing
• Database Testing
• System Testing