BeautycounterSenior Manager Quality Engineering
Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2024Santa Monica, California, United StatesProgram Delivery
- Led Engineering, Quality Assurance, and DevOps efforts for an e-commerce platform across
mobile, web, and back-end systems supporting $400m ARR
- Managed a team of over 25 engineers distributed globally
- Oversaw the migration of cloud infrastructure from AWS to GCP, ensuring a smooth transition
with minimal disruptions and cost savings near 15%
- Delivered site accessibility to meet ADA requirements and launched 20 features on the platform
- Provided executive updates at weekly project reviews, which included updates on timelines,
software quality, risks and risk management, and confidence to deliver
Quality Engineering
- Grew team from 1 analyst to 6 full time engineers and SDETs
- Promoted 3 people within a 3 year time frame
- Oversaw implementation of test automation, reducing regression testing times by 50%
- Implemented “shift left” practice, improving code and software quality by 70%
- Brought on 3rd party testing vendors and managed them to deliver their SOW early and under
budget
Site Reliability Management
- Oversaw implementation of synthetic monitoring
- Managed a team of 20 rotating engineers
- Led quarterly discussions to improve incident management process and update SLAs
- Led Root Cause Analysis discussions for all P1 incidents
- Organized run book library used to resolve ongoing data issues