CHAITRA PRABHU

Dynamic Engineering Manager with a proven track record at SmartBear, leading a team of 15 to deliver impactful Jira Plugin products. Expert in Core Java and Agile methodologies, I foster cross-functional collaboration and drive continuous improvement, achieving significant enhancements in product quality and team performance.

• Accelerated Server-to-Cloud Migration EfficiencyLed efforts to optimize Squad plugin data migrations, increasing throughput from 3,000 to 50,000 objects/hour, enabling 500+ customer migrations and contributing to $4.5M in revenue.
• Strengthened Code Quality and SecuritySpearheaded the integration of CodeQL and increased code coverage from 15% to 85%; also introduced SonarQube to detect and reduce security vulnerabilities across the codebase.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration to Streamline DeliveryEstablished a collaborative framework across 3 departments to build an internal application that reduced cross-team dependencies and shortened turnaround time by 12 hours per request.
• Automated BVT Testing to Reduce Manual EffortLed the initiative to automate Build Verification Testing (BVT), eliminating one week of manual testing effort per release and improving deployment confidence.