Kai Parviainen
 
 
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VP of Quality Engineering
Software Developer
Photographer

 
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Resume

I build highly technical Quality Engineering organizations from scratch, write kick-ass test automation systems and push engineering organizations to perform at their best.

At Vlocity I built a team of over 70 engineers in 3 countries in just over five years, while designing and implementing the underlying test automation frameworks.

At Marin Software I turned around and grew a struggling quality engineering organization.

At Salesforce I managed over 40 engineers in 7 separate teams in the DevOps / infrastructure area.

I’m also a professional photographer and climb mountains, which frankly is more interesting than all of the above.

 

Experience

Sr. Director of Quality Engineering
Netskope, Santa Clara
2023 to today

VP of Quality Engineering
Vlocity, San Francisco
2015 to 2021

Director, Quality Engineering
Salesforce, San Francisco
2009 to 2013

Manager, Quality Engineering
Nokia, San Diego
200 to 2007

Sr. Director of Test Automation
Marin Software, San Francisco
2013 to 2015

Director, Quality Engineering
MobiTV, Emeryville
2007 to 2009

SW Engineer
Nokia, Finland
1999 to 2004

SW Engineer
Technical Research Center of Finland
1995 to 1999

 

Education

MSc Applied Mathematics
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
1991 - 1998

 

Skills and Buzzwords

Management
Quality Engineering
Release Management
Process Development
Documentation with Pretty Pictures

Technical
Java Development
Test Automation
Selenium
Jenkins

 
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