Managing the development of the product lines of My Lab and Mastering New Design Higher education
online learning course and user registration orchestration and Learning Tool Interoperability with external
and internal tools.
Manage the product ownership including backlog, roadmap and product release planning.
Design, maintain
and own the Product and release backlog.
Collaborate with Clients and Business Stakeholders to identify solutions and business needs and trends.
Define Product deliverables and release milestones.
Define and share the Release and Iteration vision and goals for the Engineering teams and to the higher
leadership.
Represents the customer to the team and answers questions and provide direction.
Define and elaborate user stories and requirements.
Coordinate with Project, QA, and Development Directors, Managers and architects to ensure scalability,
reliability and quality of final product outcomes.
Software Quality Assurance Manager, 02/2008 to 07/2012
Pearson Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka
Managed about 50+ Software Quality Engineering team by allocating resources based on priority as driven
by the Product roadmaps.
Communicated project and team status to Project and SQE Core teams in both onshore and offshore.
Understand and implemented team level, guidelines and proficiencies.
Works with Project Managers, Software Engineering, Product Managers, Architects, Systems and
Application support groups, Network Engineering, etc.
to resource and schedule projects requiring testing
and coordinated Quality Engineering support.
Provided authority for assigning projects and following-up with the owner to ensure that the project is being
worked at a level consistent with priority.
Tracking defect trends and creates meaningful metrics.
Tracked and monitored fixes and problems reported.
Created and managed career enhancement plans and performance appraisals for individuals.
Guided for release quality and efficiency thorough automation.
Trained, Guided and supported QA team to adapt to Agile methods and adjust Quality assurance process
along with Agile principals and guidelines.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science Special, 2003 University of Colombo Colombo, Sri Lanka - Computer Science Special
