About

Usha Shree Vaddi is a passionate and results-driven Technical Project Manager with over 15 years of experience in quality engineering. She has a proven track record of enabling, motivating, and influencing teams to perform at their best potential. She has handled varied teams and played multiple roles as a scrum master, product owner, and program manager. Usha is highly skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams and has closely worked with teams in India, China, Ireland, and the US on cloud platforms such as IaaS and PaaS, Storage, and Virtualization. She has strong leadership skills with an inclination towards technology. Usha has delivered business-critical projects that have had a direct impact on the sales of Dell EMC enterprise storage and hyper-converged infrastructure. She has implemented several best practices in Testing, Automation, and Continuous Integration, resulting in more than 80% automation coverage in multiple teams with PowerShell, Python, Selenium, and Robot framework. Usha has also built and mentored teams in agile software development and given several online training sessions on the product to pre-sales teams. She has been an active member in executive briefing sessions and presenter at Dell EMC forums. Usha is innovative and always looking for new approaches to testing, reducing testing cycle time considerably. She has contributed to product and automation framework design discussions, code reviews, and use case implementation discussions. She has implemented quality real-time metrics across the organization to get accurate, real-time progress across all product releases for senior executives in the business unit. Usha is currently working as a Technical Project Manager at American Express, where she is responsible for strategizing releases, implementing team charters, ensuring timely communication and action on risks, impediments to ensure timely releases with high quality. She has previously worked as a Software Engineering Manager and Associate Principal Engineer at Dell, where she managed projects on cloud platforms, automation, and manual testing, test strategy, process improvements, data-driven decisions, continuous integration, continuous delivery, agile, Kanban, test-driven development, DevOps, hiring, stakeholder management, requirements gathering, planning, estimation, and risk management. Usha holds a Bachelor's degree in Information Science and Engineering from MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology. Her tech stack includes test, integration, CI/CD, Selenium, Python, software engineer, senior software engineer, infra, and DevOps. With relevant experience of 18.11 years, Usha is a valuable asset to any team she works with.