Open To Work
Tejash Patel
McKinney,TX
Summary
Quality Engineering Manager with proven leadership in ad integration and endpoint security projects and 90% automation coverage. Skilled in agile methodologies and stakeholder engagement, delivering high-quality software solutions. Deep expertise in team collaboration and driving process improvements for successful project outcomes.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Quality Engineering Manager
Amazon Prime Video
Dallas, TX
08.2023 - Current
- Orchestrated 25+ work streams for seamless ad introduction, overcoming complex technical and logistical challenges.
- Managed the project lifecycle from inception to implementation, providing strategic direction, risk assessment, and timely resolution of issues.
- Implemented governance processes to monitor progress, track deliverables, and mitigate risks, ensuring successful initiative execution.
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to develop and execute a comprehensive strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer expectations.
- Leveraged strong communication and negotiation skills to facilitate consensus among stakeholders and drive progress towards key milestones.
- Led a highly intricate and ambiguous initiative focused on integrating advertisements into Prime Video for all PV clients, spanning iOS, tvOS, Android, FireTV, 3PLR, and Web platforms across the NA and EU marketplaces.
- Provided regular updates and insights to senior leadership, enhancing transparency into project status, challenges, and optimization opportunities.
- Adapted plans and strategies to meet changing requirements and priorities.
- Celebrated successes and recognized team contributions to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Quality Engineering Manager
Amazon Freevee
Dallas, TX
08.2021 - 08.2023
- Oversee a dedicated team of QA Engineers and SDETs tasked with ensuring the impeccable quality of the Freevee App across various client platforms, including FireTV, Mobile (iOS, Android, FireOS tablets), Roku, and 3PLR (3rd party living room) devices.
- Successfully manage monthly releases of Amazon's Freevee streaming app across four key regions (US, UK, DE, AT), ensuring seamless deployment and user satisfaction.
- Championed software delivery releases, ensuring adherence to quality and compliance standards.
- Collaborated with development teams to integrate robust testing frameworks into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring that automated tests are a core component of the software deployment process.
- Monitored and optimized CI/CD pipelines for performance issues and ensured seamless, zero-downtime deployments through automation.
- Spearheaded measurement of quality and development progress using data-driven insights and real-time metrics, focusing on KPIs like time to first frame, crash rates, and CPU usage.
- Developed automation dashboards for expedited failure analysis and diagnostics, leveraging screenshots, videos, and logs to streamline troubleshooting processes.
- Significantly increased automation coverage to 70%, enabling comprehensive regression testing and ensuring the mainline remained consistently shippable through nightly regression runs.
- Established measurable, actionable quarterly goals and provided ongoing updates to the leadership team, fostering transparency and accountability across the organization.
Quality Engineering Manager
McAfee
Plano, TX
04.2016 - 01.2021
- Reduced release test cycle time from 3 weeks to 5 days by increasing automated regression and streamlining team processes, enhancing time to market and contributing to cost savings.
- Managed a team that tests the new APIs developed by the Enterprise Endpoint Engineering Team involving Kernel drivers and user-mode processes consumed by McAfee products, testing them for monthly releases in line with various Microsoft initiatives.
- Facilitated 3rd party compatibility testing, aligning with enterprise security stack standards to ensure product integrity.
- Worked cross-functionally with product engineering, malware operations, content, and other functional teams to ensure release alignment.
- Implemented processes for visibility and tracking, enhancing efficiency and team alignment.
- Owned, prioritized, and maintained the team's backlog, including the definition of epics, features, user stories, and acceptance criteria for my team based on value/impact.
- Participated in product release readiness meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.
- Tested McAfee products for scalability, performance, and reliability for top-notch customer satisfaction.
- Worked with various support teams to reproduce and triage complex customer escalations involving various McAfee products (Customer reference configurations) and competitor products.
- Translated research/defect data and insights into clearly defined use cases and actionable recommendations.
- Coached team(s) and new hire(s) on Scrum / Agile principles and JIRA best practices set up their Sprint and Kanban boards for daily work.
- Helped teams build a new team from scratch and hire quality mindset engineers across different geographic locations.
Sr. QA Engineer, WSS Automation Team
McAfee Canada Inc.
Waterloo, ON
03.2006 - 04.2016
- Maintained back-end environment, ensuring alignment with production for optimal performance.
- Debugged back-end issues related to servers, database, accounts, etc.
- Maintained automation test (QA) servers.
- Synchronized legacy servers with production during product releases to minimize downtime.
- Deployed builds to automation servers using internal tools.
- Identified and resolved deployment issues, facilitating seamless application updates.
- Test the validity of infrastructure after every sync.
- Use the tools proactively to minimize the downtime of infrastructure.
Software QA Engineer/Lead
DSET Corp/NE Technologies Inc.
Hyderabad, India
09.2000 - 02.2005
- Created and executed comprehensive test cases and test plans to validate product functionality.
- Tested the Gateway products (LSR and SOA).
- Validated requests and responses for 820, 822, 997.
- Raised and validated defects to ensure software quality and adherence to standards.
- Reviewed product requirements and PRD documents to ensure alignment with project goals.
- Performed XML2EDI and EDIR2XML conversion for mapping data for CLEC/ILEC.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University
India04-1998
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Test automation scripting
- Team leadership
- Continuous integration
- Stakeholder management
- Project management
- AI adoption & integration
- Development models (Agile, Kanban, Lean, XP, Scaled Agile, Scrum, Waterfall)
- Asana
- Atlassian Jira and Confluence
- VersionOne
- Bugzilla
- Rational ClearQuest
- Amazon AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Embedded Linux 71
- Unix systems management
- Cross-platform testing
- Red Hat Linux 7x
- Hyper-V Manager
- Microsoft Virtual PC
- VMWare vCenter Server
- VMWare Workstation
- Docker and Containers
- PCF containers
- Windows Virtual Desktop
- Cucumber
- Jenkins
- Teamcity
- TERMS automation framework
- ArgoCD
- GitHub Actions
- C
- HTML
- Python
- XML
- NodeJS
- NET 35
- NET 40
- NET 45
- Data analysis tools
- MS SQL
- Database management
- HTTP
- HTTPS
- SSL/TLS
- TCP/IP
- Browser compatibility testing
- Web application testing
- Network analysis tools
- Web debugging tools
- Network analysis tools
- Web server management
- JSON
- Postman
- Charles Proxy
- Omniture
- REST APIs
- RESTful services
- Selenium IDE
- Selenium WebDriver
- Playwright
- SOAP
- SoapUI
- WSDL
- PowerShell scripts
- Remote access tools
- Test strategy development
- Software deployment
- Code review
- Problem solving
- Business intelligence
Certification
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
• Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
• Certified Advanced Certified ScrumMaster
• Certified ScrumMaster
• Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
• Certified Advanced Certified ScrumMaster
• Certified ScrumMaster
Visa Sponsorship
No Visa Sponsorship Required
Publications
My eBook "Quality Engineering - From Practice to Excellence" published in Amazon Kindle US and 11 International markets in December 2025.
Work Preference
Job Search Status
Open to workLocation Preference
RemoteSalary Range
$170000/yr - $200000/yrTimeline
Quality Engineering Manager
Amazon Prime Video
08.2023 - Current
Quality Engineering Manager
Amazon Freevee
08.2021 - 08.2023
Quality Engineering Manager
McAfee
04.2016 - 01.2021
Sr. QA Engineer, WSS Automation Team
McAfee Canada Inc.
03.2006 - 04.2016
Software QA Engineer/Lead
DSET Corp/NE Technologies Inc.
09.2000 - 02.2005
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Veer Narmad South Gujarat University