Soumya Shankar

About Soumya Shankar

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

1. Engineering Manager

   Adobe

   Nov 2017 — Present · Bangalore, IN

   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.

Education

• Central College

  MCA, Computer Science

  2002 — 2005

Skills

• Quality Center
• Hp Quality Center
• Manual Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• Hp Qtp
• Test Planning
• Test Cases
• Performance Testing
• Web Applications
• Black Box Testing
• Selenium
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Qtp
• Test Automation
• Scrum
• Testing
• Requirements Analysis
• Regression Testing
• Sdlc