Software Development Leader

CTO / Director of Engineering Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

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Summary

Development manager with hands on experience in open source technologies (Java, Spring, Hibernate, Angular)

Improved product brand image, enabled ease of integration with 3rd party applications, reduced security risks, cost of development, maintenance, deployment and implementation by leading the team in modernizing the technology stack and implementing tools to set and monitor KPIs to measure code quality, security and test coverage.

Established a QA automation team from ground up that uses Selenium, TestNG and RESTAssured to implement regression and smoke test suites that lead to reduced regression and smoke test cycles by upto 80% resulting in faster delivery/deployment cycles and improved confidence in code

Directed the development team in implementing reusable domain specific components in Angular that lead to rapid UI development, consistent look and feel and behaviour across all modules of the product

Mentored and groomed next generation leaders. Turned the existing development team into full stack web developers, and the manual QA engineers into automation engineers by fostering a culture of learning and self improvement

Expectations

- Lead development, QA, business analysts and product owners in building high impact, customer facing web applications utilizing cutting edge technologies (open source, cloud)
- Set strategic direction for the software department
- Own the complete development pipeline
- Preferably in a high visibility, high impact application that makes a positive difference in the everyday lives of its users