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SANGEETHA THYLAMBHAL
Toronto,ON
Summary
15+ years in IT, 10+ years in managing diverse teams through complex business and technology transformation. Proven track record of revenue generation through team management. Strong work ethic and ability to ensure project deadlines and completion while simultaneously having strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Overview
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Toyota Canada IncToronto, Ontario
Software Engineering Manager
07.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Led diverse team of analysts, architects, developers and QA resources.
- Collaborated with business and IT partners to grasp client goals, requirements, and priorities.
- Monitored and managed project assignments for effective team utilization.
- Enabled proactive team actions influencing business results.
Thomson ReutersToronto
Director Software Development
06.2022 - 03.2024
Job overview
- Developed and articulated overall engineering strategy.
- Oversee a diverse portfolio of projects with budgets ranging from $2M to $10M.
- Working cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to identify user problems, and develop, test, implement, and track solutions.
- Managed the coordination of several teams to efficiently deliver on concurrent engineering assignments.
- Developed and maintained processes and technology roadmap to achieve business objectives.
- Maintained close connection with project personnel to quickly identify and resolve problems.
- Kept project teams on-task with proactive control of budgets, schedules and scopes.
Thomson ReutersToronto
QA Manager
01.2021 - 06.2022
Job overview
- Created a portfolio wide QA strategy for all aspects of QA-Functional and Non functional
- Test Manager for a multimillion-dollar digital delivery involving 100+ team members, 20+ QA onshore and offshore
- Adept in managing multi-vendor, multi-tooling model QA landscapes
- Worked closely with VP and CIO and CTO to strategize and deliver the digital project
- Managing a team of 20+ onsite and offshore vendor QA resources
- Pioneered in innovation by learning and implementing new tools like Worksoft
- Established QA strategy for entire company, accounting for overall business goals, budgetary limitations and resource allocation
- Led organization-wide technology strategy development.
AccentureToronto
Associate Manager
04.2018 - 12.2020
Job overview
- Worlds leading Software Service Company with employee strength of around 459,000
- Generated revenue, by getting new work from client of ~$150,000
- Test Manager for a multimillion-dollar (~25 million) project with over 100 FTE in the project
- Single handedly created Test automation framework for mobile
- With constant client leadership communication, increased the team size to 6 members
- Managing a team of 20 onsite and offshore resources
- Pioneered in innovation by learning and implementing new tools like TOSCA.
Sosmata Technologies Private Limited
Managing Director
12.2016 - 02.2018
Job overview
- A company founded by self for providing high quality software testing services to clients
- Generated revenue ~ $100,000 by getting new clients and deploying new resources
- Approached small and mid-scale companies with the idea of software testing and its values
- Bagged mission critical projects for manual and automation testing
- Successfully employed a team of testers for achieving high quality software testing
Novatech Software Private Limited
Automation Test Lead
07.2016 - 12.2017
Job overview
- Start-up Product Company with strength of 75 employees, producing a market renowned ALM software
- Single handedly achieved faster and more efficient testing of an advanced ALM application by introduction of test automation framework in Selenium WebDriver and TestComplete
- Achieved wider test coverage by design of Test Strategy, Test Plan and implementing test scripts for automation of Desktop, Web and Rest Services in Java, VBScript and Java Script
- Ensured better communication of test results to the management by researching and implementing TestNG, excel integration and Maven with Selenium
Tata CMC
Service IT Leader
01.2013 - 06.2016
Job overview
- With the Western region office mainly focusing on Finance and Insurance projects with a workforce of 200+ employees in the Western region itself
- Testing Project Manager for testing assignment with Sanofi pharma
- Was involved requirement gathering, test strategy, test plan, test cases creation, review, test execution, test report, defect lifecycle
- Test closure
- As testing COE head, was involved in introduction of test automation using TestComplete, across all projects in Insurance domain
- Created test framework, customized test framework as per the customer requirement
- Created and maintained test scripts and carried out test automation cycles, across browsers for 5 financial services-based clients
- Trained teams in testing across multiple projects
- Direct interaction with multiple business stakeholders including US based clients.
Netwin Infosolutions Private Limited
Team Lead Testing
05.2011 - 09.2012
Job overview
- Service IT start-up which grew from 60 to 200 FTE specialising in UK based finance companies as clients
- Led a team of 20 testers did requirement gathering, task allocation, test cases creation, review, test execution, test report creation for a UK based insurance company
- Daily client interaction on status reporting, facilitated and run defect triage meetings
- Identified test cases for automation using Selenium and automated the regression suite
- Testing of Web services using SOAP UI
- Experience in using HP Quality Center for test management
Eximware Technologies Private Limited
Testing Engineer
02.2008 - 06.2009
Job overview
- Creation of test cases for a commodity trading application
- Tracking and reporting of defects using excel
- Developer interaction for defect resolution using interpersonal skills
Education
Maharshi Dayanand University
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
Rotman School of Management
MBA from Executive Program For Leadership
Skills
- Excellent communication skills as proven in team leading and mentoring multiple teams, onsite and offshore teams
- Managed multi-million-dollar projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope
- Directed multiple teams through business and tech transformation and delivered success in mission critical projects
- Performed budget management tasks such as monitoring company performance against estimates and preparing annual budgets
- Accountable for the technical vision and long-term technology strategy by collaborating with Engineering leaders
- Leading and mentoring a high performing team in a rapid development environment
Certification
- ISTQB - Foundation Level
- IC Agile Certified
- DataBricks Gen AI Fundamentals
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of 150 staff members.
- Managed multi-million-dollar projects to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope
Software
TestComplete
AWS
Azure
PowerBI
MuleSoft
Salesforce
S4Hana
Adobe AEM
Selenium
Java
TestNG
Timeline
Software Engineering Manager
Toyota Canada Inc
07.2024 - Current
Director Software Development
Thomson Reuters
06.2022 - 03.2024
QA Manager
Thomson Reuters
01.2021 - 06.2022
Associate Manager
Accenture
04.2018 - 12.2020
Managing Director
Sosmata Technologies Private Limited
12.2016 - 02.2018
Automation Test Lead
Novatech Software Private Limited
07.2016 - 12.2017
Service IT Leader
Tata CMC
01.2013 - 06.2016
Team Lead Testing
Netwin Infosolutions Private Limited
05.2011 - 09.2012
Testing Engineer
Eximware Technologies Private Limited
02.2008 - 06.2009
Maharshi Dayanand University
Bachelor of Engineering from Computer Science
Rotman School of Management
MBA from Executive Program For Leadership
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