Professional Summary

Results-driven technical leader with over 14 years of experience specializing in quality engineering, AI strategy, and product innovation. Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams, driving test automation coverage to 85%, and reducing production incidents by 30% through AI-powered testing solutions. Skilled at transforming QA organizations and aligning technical solutions with strategic business objectives to enhance product quality and accelerate delivery. Track record of delivering 70-80% improvement in overall product reliability and boosting end-user satisfaction scores by 50% through comprehensive quality strategy.

Professional Experience

Vice President, QA & AI Strategy
Forbes Media, Jersey City, NJ
May 2025 - Present
  • Define and execute Forbes' internal AI strategy across all departments to improve AI adoption and unlock productivity and efficiency organization-wide
  • Led inception and creation of AI roadmap covering variety of use cases across different business units
  • Conducted AI training sessions, familiarizing teams with Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot LLM agents
  • Architected AI-powered QA center of excellence, training 35+ engineers on AI tools and methodologies, reducing test creation time by 50%
  • Rolled out AI-powered test case generation tool across QA department, boosting team morale and productivity
Vice President, QA & Technical Project Management
Forbes Media, Jersey City, NJ
July 2023 - April 2025
  • Scaled team to 35 quality engineers and technical project managers while maintaining quality standards
  • Spearheaded enterprise-wide Agile transformation following Scrum methodology across the organization
  • Implemented modern Playwright-based automation framework, increasing automated test coverage to 85%
  • Reduced regression testing cycles by 70% through comprehensive automation strategy
  • Transformed release cadence from 2 to 60 weekly deployments through CI/CD integration and shift-left testing
Vice President, Quality Assurance
Forbes Media, Jersey City, NJ
November 2021 - June 2023
  • Directed enterprise-wide quality strategy, achieving 80% improvement in product reliability
  • Increased end-user satisfaction scores by 50% by implementing advanced performance, security, and usability testing
  • Established standardized KPIs and dashboards to monitor defect trends, test coverage, and release health
  • Mentored QA leadership team and fostered culture of continuous improvement across engineering organization
Senior Director, Quality Assurance
Forbes Media, Jersey City, NJ
January 2021 - October 2021
  • Implemented CI/CD workflow across all projects, adding 6 levels of tests in pipeline before production rollout
  • Launched cross-functional QA guild to standardize best practices and tools across the organization
  • Partnered with engineering leads on reliability improvements, reducing critical production defects by 60%
Director, Quality Assurance
Forbes Media, Jersey City, NJ
January 2019 - December 2020
  • Built quality assurance practice from ground up, scaling QA organization from 5 to 20 engineers
  • Established core processes and automation frameworks while maintaining high quality standards
  • Implemented shift-left testing and risk-based QA approaches, decreasing time-to-market by 25%
Quality Advocate
World Wide Technology, New York, NY
July 2018 - December 2018
  • Led cohort of quality advocates championing QA best practices and mentoring engineers across organization
  • Designed and implemented automated API testing framework using Kotlin, KotlinTest, and RestAssured
  • Established dashboards and KPIs to monitor test execution, track defect trends, and assess product readiness
  • Conducted performance testing using Locust to ensure scalability and reliability of systems
Tech Lead
Mastercard, New York, NY
April 2018 - July 2018
  • Served as Test Architect and Technical Lead for team of seven Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs)
  • Architected and delivered comprehensive end-to-end test automation framework using Java and Selenium
  • Reduced manual testing effort by 60% through strategic automation implementation
  • Embedded QA checkpoints into pull request process to enforce shift-left quality practices
Test Engineering Manager
MediaMath Inc., New York, NY
December 2014 - April 2018
  • Led team of test engineers developing and maintaining Python-based UI automation frameworks using Page Object Model and Pytest
  • Containerized Selenium Grid using Docker for scalable, parallel cross-browser testing across multiple environments
  • Configured and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration testing, driving actionable steps toward a robust CI/CD pipeline
Product Test Engineer II
ICIMS Inc., Matawan, NJ
January 2012 - December 2014
  • Served as QA team lead, responsible for authoring comprehensive test plans and reviewing test cases
  • Developed and executed UI automation suites using Java and Selenium for enterprise applications
  • Managed JIRA server configuration to streamline defect tracking and reporting processes
Automation Engineer
Urbandaddy Inc., New York, NY
March 2011 - January 2012
  • Developed end-to-end tests for core web applications using Selenium WebDriver
  • Performed functional, GUI, and integration testing to ensure release quality and user experience standards

Key Achievements

  • Team Leadership: Successfully scaled QA organizations from 5 to 35+ engineers across multiple companies
  • AI Innovation: Pioneered AI-powered testing solutions, achieving 50% reduction in test creation time
  • Automation Excellence: Drove test automation coverage to 85%, reducing regression cycles by 70%
  • Quality Improvement: Delivered 80% improvement in product reliability and 60% reduction in critical defects
  • Process Transformation: Increased deployment frequency from 2 to 60 weekly releases through CI/CD optimization
  • Business Impact: Improved end-user satisfaction scores by 50% through comprehensive quality strategy
  • Industry Recognition: Regular speaker at major QA and DevOps conferences, including TestFlix 2025