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Preethi Prriyaa R R

San Francisco,USA

Summary

Seasoned Manager Projects in Accessibility Engineering with a proven track record at Albertsons Group of Companies and Wells Fargo. Excelled in cross-functional team management and strategic planning, driving accessibility compliance and fostering innovation. Trained over 40 professionals, ensuring 85+ projects met WCAG 2.x AA conformance. Demonstrates exceptional leadership and problem-solving skills.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Manager Projects, Accessibility Engineering

Albertsons Group of Companies
Pleasanton, CA
01.2019 - Current
  • Creative problem solver who can get things done
  • Mentor developers, content creators, and designers to deliver accessible solutions
  • Driving software development specifically in web and Native Apps, software lifecycle methodology, and information systems development
  • Managing cross-functional projects by providing project leadership and daily management throughout the project from inception to delivery
  • Set up a roadmap to achieve accessibility compliance across the company banners that has improved the market business and dropped down the litigations to zero
  • Driving to team to achieve the compliance against WCAG 2.2 and education the QA and developers on ARIA and HTML concepts to achieve the compliance
  • Highly Flexible and adaptable, able to work in ambiguous situations and provide solutions understanding organizational issues and challenges
  • Achieved shift left approach by educating, mentoring and training each layer of SDLC/STLC hierarchy peers of their roles and responsibilities to achieve the require success in achieving the compliance
  • Strong executive presence and excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues and their implications for projects and business
  • Drive programs to encourage learning and support cross-functional advocacy program of Accessibility, striving to inject accessibility best practices
  • Have started using NextGen AI for Accessibility implementations across projects and stockholders
  • Work collaboratively with engineering, marketing, legal, UX, and other teams on cutting edge technologies
  • Develop solutions to problems by collaborating as needed across regions, product areas, and functions

Digital Accessibility Consultant

Wells Fargo
San Francisco, CA
05.2014 - 01.2019
  • Driving a team of 17 members at onshore and offshore to validate more than 200 applications across a Wells Fargo LoB for Accessibility Compliance
  • Have set the roadmap for Accessibility Testing for a line of business in Wells Fargo
  • I rolled the primary SME and consultant to get more than 85 projects/applications in Wells Fargo to be accessibility compliant for WCAG 2.1 AA conformance
  • Been a part of interview panel to evaluate the candidates for Accessibility Testing position for both client – Wells Fargo and Cognizant
  • Have trained more than 40 resources in person to test the applications for Accessibility compliance against WCAG 2.0
  • Have conducted number of trainings for various groups across the Wells Fargo organization on Accessibility Testing
  • Developed detailed Web Accessibility Test Plans and Test Scenarios
  • Involved in implementation and execution of all aspects of Accessibility testing activities for WCAG 2.0/WCAG 2.1 Level AA guidelines including planning, creation and execution of test cases, test scripts, test reports in ALM
  • Advice, train and provided specific guidelines regarding assistive technology to product, engineering, and other teams
  • Perform Accessibility testing on web applications in desktop browsers using different screen readers and accessibility tools like JAWS, NVDA, Voiceover, WAT, WDT, WAVE, Fire Eyes and Deque World Space
  • Perform Accessibility testing on web and native applications in iOS and Android devices using Voice Over and Talk Back
  • Participated in defect review meetings across multiple projects
  • Collaborate with Web developers, Interaction designers, UX designers and SMEs to improve Accessibility design with respect to WCAG Compliant
  • Represent the QA team in standup and other cross-functional meetings
  • Tracked the execution of test cases and ADA defects in Quality Center (ALM)
  • Attended and updated defect reporting calls to bring all stakeholders up to speed on open defects
  • Trained new hires, functional teams (non-accessibility teams), dev teams on assistive technology tools and compliance guidelines
  • Recommended changes as per usability and accessibility guidelines

Senior Associate Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
IND
07.2009 - 05.2014
  • Started my career as a Quality Analyst which gives me a strong base of testing in Functional, Accessibility, Security and Performance QA
  • Have experience working in various domains like Retail, Banking, Insurance, Gaming, ecommerce, Healthcare
  • Responsibilities include – Requirement gathering, Test plan preparation, RTM, Test case preparation, Manual testing, script writing automation script, deliver the results and perform regression testing
  • Conducted cross functional trainings on Accessibility and Security QA and Engineering within Cognizant and Clients organization
  • From the start of my career, I was working in Accessibility and Security testing for multiple projects which was a major instigate for out of the box thinking

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Master of Technology (M. Tech) - Lasers and Electro Optical Engineering

Master Diploma in Computer Applications (MDCA) -

Skills

  • Cross-functional team management
  • Cross-functional teamwork
  • Complex Problem-solving
  • Strategic planning
  • Product management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Clear communication
  • Vendor management
  • Team leadership
  • Recruiting and interviewing
  • Work prioritization
  • Time management
  • Security QA
  • Accessibility Engineering
  • Performance QA
  • Project tracking

Affiliations

  • Member of IAAP

Certification

  • JAWS Certified
  • OAST DHS Trusted Tester V5
  • ISTQB Certified
  • CSQA Certified
  • Trained in IBM Rational Policy Tester
  • IBM Certified Specialist in Rational Appscan, Standard Edition.
  • CEH v7 External Certification
  • Cognizant VB/.NET/C# Certification
  • Cognizant MYSQL Certification

Timeline

Manager Projects, Accessibility Engineering

Albertsons Group of Companies
01.2019 - Current

Digital Accessibility Consultant

Wells Fargo
05.2014 - 01.2019

Senior Associate Projects

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2009 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E) - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Master of Technology (M. Tech) - Lasers and Electro Optical Engineering

Master Diploma in Computer Applications (MDCA) -

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