Niharika Korada
San Ramon,CA
Summary
Experienced Quality Engineering leader with 10 years expertise in consumer electronics and social media applications. Over 5 years mentoring, and 2+ years managing technical teams. Proven Engineering Manager adept at building and growing teams. Thrives in fast-paced, mission-driven environments, ready for diverse challenges in company growth.
- Programming languages: Objective-C, Swift, Java, Python, PHP, HTML
- Tools: XCode, Espresso, Android Studio, Jira, TestRail
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Engineering Manager
Snapchat
02.2022 - 02.2024
- Led exceptional quality engineers in Camera, Creative Tools, Preview, and Platform teams at Snap. Engaging manager, embodying leadership ethics: Kind, Strategic, and a Creative problem solver.
- Collaborated with Design, Engineering and Product leads across the board to align quality engineering processes with Snap's product roadmap which was instrumental in delivering high-quality mobile releases.
- Established success metrics for the QE organization, crafted dashboards for weekly trend reviews, delved into metric trends with engineering teams, influenced elevated quality standards, and spearheaded metric-driven improvements across the org.
- Integral part of the Snap leadership team that transformed the quality engineer role from QA to QE, aligning with expanding business requirements. Established new role expectations and leveling guidelines.
- Managed and achieved multiple executive-level key results. Notable accomplishment: Collaborated with QE team members to shift-quality-left by increasing UI test automation coverage from 20% to 70% in 2023.
- Enhanced third-party quality: conducted offshore QA survey, analyzed team feedback, established improvement milestones, and collaborated closely with offshore SOP leads and QE leads to drive enhancements. Ensured accountability for key result metrics among leads.
- Established and operationalized QE oncall process
- Integral member of the leadership team, played a crucial role in the recruitment and establishment of the QE team at Snap.
Sr Quality Engineer
Snapchat
01.2017 - 01.2022
- Lead Quality Engineer for varied feature teams at Snap, overseeing Camera, Memories, Creative Tools, and App Platform.
- Performed key responsibilities including weekly release sign-offs, validation of new features, delegation of third-party QA tasks, bug triage and root cause investigation, enhancement of automation coverage & conducting postmortems on bug escapes.
- Reviewed design documents, offering early and valuable feedback. Aligned priorities with the product team and conducted collaborative investigations with data science to address metrics regressions post-launch. Achieved a track record of zero bug escapes and played a pivotal role in the successful launch of critical features at Snap.
- Provided insightful feedback to collaborate with partner Engineering teams, leveraging regression trends for informed decision-making and driving technical enhancements. Advocated for the augmentation of unit test coverage.
- Implemented process changes to scale testing efforts across multiple products such as Snapchat, Spectacles and DWeb.
Software Test Engineer
Facebook
03.2015 - 12.2016
- Lead Test Engineer for Platform Sharing. Developed the SDK validation checklist to ensure error-free launches
- Test Automation on iOS, Android and Web
- Led the Zuck SLA initiative, achieving a 95% resolution rate for customer-reported bugs across Platform Engineering.
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA03.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad, India03.2012
Timeline
Quality Engineering Manager
Snapchat
02.2022 - 02.2024
Sr Quality Engineer
Snapchat
01.2017 - 01.2022
Software Test Engineer
Facebook
03.2015 - 12.2016
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Santa Clara University
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
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