Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Languages
Timeline
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Susana Luna

Susana Luna

IT Engineer
Aschheim,Bayern

Summary

Country Architect adept at seamlessly integrating project technical aspects and making information relatable to non-technical personnel. Experienced leader and program manager with 16-year history in field. Clear communicator, decision maker and problem solver.


Exceptional technical expertise, leadership and talent for driving stellar, on-target results, with a specialized focus in Rollout and Delivery Management, successfully leading high-performing teams to sustain product vision, roadmap and business goals.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Country Architect

PAYBACK GmbH
11.2019 - Current

Country Architect committed to managing requests from business costumers, delivering software updates and monitoring normal operation of daily business.

  • Served as primary interface between business channels and internal departments, aligning requests of sales and finance departments with customer service realities.
  • Exercise leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring all team members.
  • Demonstrate leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
  • Strengthen communication skills through regular interactions with costumers, stakeholders and colleagues.
  • Analyze information, identify issues and risks, and provide solutions to problems.
  • Proven ability to propose and coordinate creative solutions to complex problems.
  • Creating and maintaining work atmosphere where everyone feels valued and motivated to give their best.

Success stories

  • Coordinate service provider migration, which completed successfully on time and saving 4 millions euros in penalties.
  • Introduce new processes to reduce manual tasks into automated process reducing time of effort in 84%
  • Improve country specific configuration change process, reducing number of last minute requests.
  • Coordinate shut-down processes for termination of business operations in Mexico with no PRIO 1 issues.
  • Verified achievement of practical Business Value Realizations by each operational team, suggesting alterations to meet goals.

QA Manager

Adidas
05.2018 - 08.2019

Quality Assurance Manager on charge of building and managing mobile QA teams, make improvements in testing processes and establish test strategy across multiple Adidas mobile apps

  • Support solutions horizontally across teams.
  • Supervise testing automation using Appium, Jenkins & Cucumber.
  • Built app health status report to Stakeholders.
  • Team performance management.
  • Manage risks on delivery process.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement process and system improvements.

Success stories

  • Increased app rating on App Store from 4.3 to 4.8 stars.
  • Successful app launch in 12 new countries.
  • Reduced number of issues by 20%.
  • Increased number of successfully resolved tickets by 15%.
  • Hired 16 new QA team members allocated in 3 new teams.
  • Successfully implemented CI / CD for first time.

QA Manager

Nomasystems
06.2017 - 05.2018

Designed automation strategy for Inditex shopping iOS apps (Zara, Bershka, Oysho) and defined CI/CD guidelines.

  • Leaded and completed implementation of automation & CI/CD integration by using XCTest framework.
  • Report app health status
  • Test plan designing

Achievements

  • Successfully implemented CI/CD for first time on 3 different iOS apps

QA Lead

Solera Holdings Inc
02.2016 - 06.2017

    QA Lead defining strategy to launch new app for 3 platforms: IOS, Android and Windows Mobile, for tens of marketplaces. The app was designed to evaluate vehicle reparation costs for insurance companies.

  • Success story

    • Full app testing automation

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

MTP - Methods and Technology Systems and Processes Inc.
09.2011 - 01.2016

    QAE and QA Lead trained and guided onsite and offshore team members in quality assurance standards, policies and procedures.

    • Develop test automation scripts in different environments and tools.
    • Customers: BBVA, Telefonica, Ericsson, Property, Mercantile and Real Estate Registers Spanish College and Maersk

Quality Assurance Engineer

Allot Communications Ltd. (Optenet)
09.2006 - 06.2011

    Analysis, design, develop, execution of test plan for Internet Security application.

    • Prepare testbed setup (including servers, clients, routers).
    • Performed test automation
    • Start testing department from scratch
    • Adding 60% of test in code coverage

Education

Bachelor of Science - Graduated of Computer Science

Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Mexico City
2005

Skills

  • 8 year experience managing technical projects
  • Effective horizontal collaboration across organizations
  • Stakeholder expectations management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Outgoing & sociable
  • Project roadmap planning
  • QA Mentoring

    Tech skills

  • Configuration automation (Kubernetes, Helm charts)
  • CI/CD with Jenkins (Groovy)
  • Vault
  • Automation frameworks
  • Programming background in Swift, Java, Python, Shell scripting in Linux

Certification

  • Certified ScrumMaster® ID: 000183070 by Scrum Alliance
  • Managing Difficult Conversations

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
German
Intermediate (B1)
Spanish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

Country Architect

PAYBACK GmbH
11.2019 - Current

QA Manager

Adidas
05.2018 - 08.2019

QA Manager

Nomasystems
06.2017 - 05.2018

QA Lead

Solera Holdings Inc
02.2016 - 06.2017

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

MTP - Methods and Technology Systems and Processes Inc.
09.2011 - 01.2016

Quality Assurance Engineer

Allot Communications Ltd. (Optenet)
09.2006 - 06.2011

Bachelor of Science - Graduated of Computer Science

Instituto Politécnico Nacional
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