Monica Bajaj

• Quality Leader for Next Generation -Cisco ASA CX Context-Aware Security product (Platform and Management) and IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) and CX as an integrated solution. • Grew the team by 4X in less than a year (to 16 engineers) with members in San Jose, Austin (TX), and India. • In-depth knowledge of Agile methodology. Scrum master for the automation team to perform inline automation for the next generation product. Increased the automation coverage from minimal to 50% within the first year.

Responsible for GDPR, Compliance and overall Technology for WL Women in Localization is the leading professional organization for women in the localization with chapters spanning multiple continents. It's mission is to create a strong place for women to develop their careers in localization and provide mentorship.

• Engineering Head for VCS Server and Clients spanning multiple continents. Platform supports 100K plus developers across multiple industries including Gaming and DevOps industries • Engineering Efficiency: Introduced CI/CD, preflight testing resulting in 80% improvement in release predictability and enhanced regression coverage by 90%. • Agile test automation: Introduced test automation using Squish Framework for Client side automation. Increased coverage for client by 40% and 80% for server in one year. Reduced multi-platform test cycle from 4 weeks to 3 days. Increased release frequency by 50%. • Localization & Globalization: Introduced formal localization process for product & documentation. Initial focus on APAC region to increase penetration in key geographies

•Head of Quality, Enterprise File Services across multiple geos (including Managers and Engineers), focused on delivering the Clustered Data ONTAP solution to the customers. •Led the engineering group for Enterprise File Services - ONTAP product line. Grew the team by 3X to 50+ members in both US & India: • Implemented Agile Test methodology and improved automation coverage from 15% to 70% over a span of 2 years. • Reduced inter-operability testing cycle from 2 months to 1 week.

•Responsible for building an On Demand contract management product line for Manufacturers and Distributors which generated an incremental $5M in annual revenue. •Focus on optimization and data science for forecasting Spend, Procurement and Traceability for distributors and manufacturers. Data scale of $16B in annual transactions, around 500 million product order lines and $50 billion worth of supply chain data was processed annually. •Provided leadership, manage and built the engineering group comprising of a globally distributed team of 20 plus engineers and QA managers. •Formalized engineering processes: agile development and testing, bug triages ,quality process and test automation

• Owned program releases and projects from inception to completion including monitoring of release milestones, bug triage, escalations. • Managed and build globally distributed team (managers and QA engineers (10 domestic / 15 offshore)) to integrate the Quality efforts and application interoperability of the product with third party applications. • Represented Engineering Quality in cross-functional teams during the entire software development life cycle. Successfully shipped three major releases of flagship product. • Built an Automation Team to harness and evaluate product releases prior to shipment which led to the reduction of the release timeframe.