Rodney Shu

I’m a Quality Assurance Engineer with 10+ years of experience designing test plans, executing functional and regression testing, validating complex integrations, and improving product quality across large, distributed systems. I bring strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills, with a deep background in automation, exploratory testing, and defect lifecycle management.

I’ve led root cause analysis that reduced production incidents 20% YoY (~$2M) through proactive risk mitigation. I also drove adoption of shift-left practices, cutting pre-production defects 30% across engineering teams, and centralized QA standards in Backstage to improve discoverability and adoption by 40%.

As a Senior Technical Product Manager in Quality, I delivered API Booking Tool improvements—reducing booking time 90% with 88% UAT automation coverage. I led Property Wizard efforts, cutting setup from 2 days to 2 minutes and automating 98% of UAT scenarios, and I defined quality KPIs for test environments and test data to improve lab stability 20%.

I’ve also built reliability and automation platforms, including delivering Nightwatch E2E automation for 100+ engineers and expanding regression coverage by 40%. From managing release readiness for a $10B platform to mentoring teams on CI/CD best practices, my focus is clear: enable teams with scalable testing, measurable quality metrics, and predictable releases.