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Bindhya Sathyapal

Charlotte,NC

Summary

Technology leader with expertise in Retail, Manufacturing, Smart Home Technology and Insurance domains who embraces digital growth and innovation. Highly adept in strategizing and delivering complex cross-functional initiatives for multi-brand global businesses, not limited to Consumer-facing Web, iOS and Android applications and PoS.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Manager- Projects (Quality Engineering)

Cognizant
Charlotte, USA
12.2023 - Current

AIG:

  • Program management of migrating multiple lines of business to a new underwriting platform at AIG.
  • Implementation of Gen AI automation solutions and prompt-based test case authoring.
  • Lead Process Improvements identified in Quality Gateway Checklist and Change Management across 9 tracks including Data Team

TIAA:

  • UAT management of Oracle to Snowflake migration of TIAA's Financial Services Data Warehouse.
  • Coordination with the business leadership of 20+ impacted interfacing systems for testing and sign-off.
  • Transformation Lead coordinating across all LOBs on innovation, improving automation, and test metrics.

Head of Engineering- Consumer Mobile Apps

Abercrombie & Fitch
Chicago, IL
05.2022 - 04.2023

Head of consumer-facing, 99% crash-free, 5-star mobile apps managing iOS and Android engineers, serving millions of users on Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, Gilly Hicks, and Social Tourist apps.

  • Saved $400,000 of revenue loss on product recommendations by pivoting the tech solution.
  • Brought to life, inspiring, and engaging, the innovative Share2Pay™ shopping experience.
  • Implemented radar geolocation for localized push notifications and in-store mode.
  • Partnered with the CTO and leaders to solve complex business problems (Elastic Search, MarTech, and Loyalty).
  • Fostered innovation through POCs on Stylitics outfitting, Lily.AI, and OpenAI ChatGPT.
  • Drove app tech modernization with tech leads and maintained the Mobile 2.0 strategy and roadmap.

Director - Mobile Apps

Vivint Smart Home, Inc.
Chicago, IL
01.2022 - 05.2022

Vertical lead for Core Apps (iOS and Android) QA team responsible for apps and its integration with IoT devices.

  • Partnered with Sr. Directors of Engineering and Product to accomplish OKRs for Core Apps.
  • Provided leadership updates in Monthly Business Review meetings.
  • Staffed up the team through cross-departmental promotions and referrals, adding diversity to the team.
  • Restarted the QA-CS rotation program and the QA department lunch-and-learn series.

Software Engineering Manager- Test II

Groupon
Chicago, IL
03.2020 - 12.2021

Vertical lead for globally distributed iOS consumer mobile apps (70% revenue), and merchant application teams.

  • Reduced regression tests by 80% and release cycles by a week, saving approximately $200,000 per year.
  • Collaborated with directors and VPs on defining the Mobile 2.0 Digital Transformation Strategy.
  • Drove the automation test strategy to migrate from native apps to the Appium framework.

QA Manager

W.W. Grainger Inc
Chicago, IL
05.2012 - 03.2020

Led global cross-functional QAs. Regression and Release Manager of multi-billion-dollar Grainger websites.

  • Achieved 70% of regression automation by defining an automation strategy and implementing a CI/CD pipeline.
  • Improved the quality of automation by 50% by moving to the test pyramid automation framework.
  • Minimized code reds to zero, and reduced production hotfixes by 72% through test coverage.
  • Established a process of buddy testing and reduced the cost of defects by 65%.

Test Lead

Nordstrom Inc (Infosys Consultant)
Seattle, WA
01.2009 - 04.2012

Led Multichannel Sterling eCommerce/OMS (100+ interfaces), PoS, and 'Be Secure' Data Warehouse projects.

QA Engineer

Sears Holdings Corporation (Infosys Consultant))
, India
12.2007 - 12.2008

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Cochin University of Science And Technology
Kerala, India
06.2007

Skills

  • Servant Leadership
  • Customer-oriented
  • Enterprise Strategy and Vision
  • Data-driven Decision Making
  • Natural Influencer and Communicator
  • Cross-team Collaboration

Tools and Technology

  • eCommerce platforms: IBM Sterling eCommerce (b2c), Hybris eCommerce (b2b), HCL Commerce (WCS)
  • Mobile Apps: Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, Android Studio, XCode, App Center, Google Play Console, Apple Developer Console, TestFlight, TestFairy
  • Payment integrations: 3DS, Apple Pay, Google Pay, FreedomPay, Adyen, Paypal, Klarna, Accertify
  • Cloud Services: Microsoft Azure Cloud - ChatGPT, Azure DevOps, AWS- S3,EC2, Lambda, Device Farm
  • API: SOAP, REST, Graph QL, Postman, Swagger, Fiddler, Charles Proxy
  • IoT : cameras, sensors, panel, smart lights, Google Nest thermostat, MyQ garage opener, keypad locks
  • Microservices, Mongo DB, Dockers, Kubernetes
  • Test Management, Automation, CI/CD, Monitoring: Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Espresso, XCUI tests, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jenkins, Maven, TestNG, HP ALM, TestRails, JIRA, Zephyr, Splunk, Kibana
  • SAP, MDM, Salesforce, EDW, .Net Applications, Solr, Elastic Search, Radar, Braze, Responsys, etc.

Certification

  • Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner, SAFe® 6.0 Agilist, Global Emerging Leader (Grainger)

Community Involvement, Diversity&Inclusion efforts:

  • Member of T200.org elevating emerging Women in Tech Leaders for C-level roles
  • Mentor/Volunteer: Code Nation, Spark, Incubator.edu, I.C.Stars, HACE, NBMBAA, AnitaB.org, CHIWITCON
  • Facebook Innovation Roundtable, Grace Hopper Celebrations, Quest Conference 2019 (Speaker)

Timeline

Sr. Manager- Projects (Quality Engineering)

Cognizant
12.2023 - Current

Head of Engineering- Consumer Mobile Apps

Abercrombie & Fitch
05.2022 - 04.2023

Director - Mobile Apps

Vivint Smart Home, Inc.
01.2022 - 05.2022

Software Engineering Manager- Test II

Groupon
03.2020 - 12.2021

QA Manager

W.W. Grainger Inc
05.2012 - 03.2020

Test Lead

Nordstrom Inc (Infosys Consultant)
01.2009 - 04.2012

QA Engineer

Sears Holdings Corporation (Infosys Consultant))
12.2007 - 12.2008

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Electronics And Communications Engineering

Cochin University of Science And Technology
Bindhya Sathyapal