Daniel Victor

Career

From software and quality engineering to leading a 500-person automation org and owning products at GM, CACI, and KLA.

  1. Senior Product Owner

    KLACurrent

    • Lead an engineering team building products in the semiconductor space, with a first-hand view into the future of manufacturing technology.

  2. Test Engineer II

    CACI InternationalDefense systems

    • Led test engineering across a range of defense systems, products, and applications.
    • Wrote test plans and built automation for satellite and sensor technology, extending my testing foundation into hardware.

  3. Senior Product Owner & Scrum Lead

    General Motors

    • Worked with the business and customers to define deliverables, functional specifications, technical diagrams, business processes, and use cases.
    • Led the development team that insourced and enhanced the North America Sales Objective systems.
    • Owned project schedules, requirements, and testing; ran design reviews and weekly and monthly status reviews with stakeholders.

  4. Lead Automation Engineer

    General MotorsGlobal Sales, Marketing & Consumer Experience (500-person org)

    • Led quality automation teams on high-visibility, accelerated projects, delivering full coverage across mobile and desktop configurations and languages.
    • Partnered with specialty teams to find and resolve risks across the project lifecycle.
    • Developed and standardized UI, API, and data-driven test automation frameworks across sales, marketing, supply chain, and consumer experience applications.
    • Delivered 250+ hours of live training, plus recorded courses and documentation on tools, software, and business practices.

  5. Quality Engineer & Software Developer

    General Motors

    • Built UI, API, and data-driven test automation for supply chain applications.
    • Implemented solutions that saved the company over $500,000 in 2018.
    • Managed teams of manual testers that consistently exceeded expectations.
    • Ran trainings and wrote documentation on tools, software, and business practices.

Leadership at GM

Three years leading company-wide people programs alongside my engineering roles.

Career Development Lead

  • Led a volunteer team taking initiatives and pilot programs from idea to launch.
  • Hosted panels with executive leadership for audiences of 100+.
  • Built materials showing career paths within the company and the competencies needed to progress.

New Hire Program Lead

  • Ran feedback panels with new hires to find strengths and gaps in onboarding and hiring.
  • Worked with leadership to refine hiring practices based on that feedback.

What I'm looking for

Roles where I can keep challenging myself: operations, quality, product, and project management, sales engineering, and systems or operations engineering.