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Canada

Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal

As an Associate Engineering Manager, below were my key contributions:• Took ownership of insurance ready products for its deliverables.• Lead a team of 14 developers and QA professionals.• Strengthened the team through effective team building initiatives.• Facilitated seamless collaboration between on-site and off-shore scrum teams to accelerate project delivery.• Continued working as a developer in .NET Core, designing and implementing RESTful APIs that met business requirements.• Conducted code reviews to ensure high-quality code.• Guided the performance of my direct reports, aligning their objectives with business goals to drive success. • Spent 50-70% time coding.

Lalitpur District, Nepal

As a principal engineer/Team lead, below were my key contributions:• Planned and optimized EC2 services by migrating to AWS Batch, resulting in a significant monthly cost reduction of hundreds of dollars.• Implemented parallel processing, fine-tuning performance improvements for AWS batch runs.• Drove production deployments while creating change requests, release notes and detailed deployment plans.• Worked with other team leads to redesign and implement design patterns in the codebase, enhancing overall architecture.• Contributed to a notable improvement in code coverage and unit testing, boosting coverage exceeding 80%.• Lead a team of 6 QA professional and collaborated closely with global team members ensuring excellent quality product deliveries.• Spent 80-90% in technical tasks.

Nepal

As a Senior Software Engineer, below were my key contributions:As a QA:• Took ownership of test automation and manual testing for a back end product, ensuring comprehensive quality assurance.• Drove the integration of test automation with the CI/CD pipeline, significantly enhancing testing efficiency and reliability.• Initiated performance testing planning and execution during infrastructure shift from on premises to AWS migration.• Owned and managed various IoT products, conducting thorough root cause analysis to identify and resolve defects and quality issues, resulting in improved product reliability and customer satisfaction.• Played a key role in developing test automation framework in JMeter for RESTful API validation and helped it integrate with Cloud DevOps team in their CI/CD pipelines for smoother deployments.• Spearheaded the development and deployment of an Appium test automation suite for mobile applications, encompassing both Android and iOS platforms.• Utilized SQL proficiency to analyze complex queries, validate data integrity, stored procedures, triggers and functions ensuring functional consistency across various products and environments.As a Developer:• Developed multiple RESTful APIs using Entity Framework as the ORM solution.• Built highly available web applications using AWS services such as S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, and EC2 instances.• Contributed to React.js web applications, ensuring modern and responsive user interfaces.• Implemented complex business logic using PostgreSQL stored procedures and functions.• Collaborated in Agile/Scrum environments, delivering high-quality features and solutions.

Hattisar, Kathmandu

As a Software Engineer, my key contributions were:• Designed, developed, and maintained scalable Selenium test automation frameworks across multiple projects, ensuring efficient testing and quality assurance.• Conducted comprehensive UI, performance, and load testing, providing concise and actionable reporting to stakeholders.• Collaborated in release planning and executing smoke, sanity, and regression testing during UAT and production deployments, ensuring seamless delivery.• Researched and implemented desktop application automation tools, including Test Stack White and WinAppDriver, to enhance testing efficiency.• Leveraged QTP to develop complex end-to-end UI test automation scenarios, demonstrating expertise in test automation strategy and execution.

Hattisar Sadak, Kathmandu

As an Associate software engineer below were my responsibilities.• Worked on selenium scripts with Java on multiple web applications.• Worked on Maven as a build tool to execute selenium scripts in Bamboo as a tool for CI/CD.• Was on a rotation support for test automation scripts.

Hattisar, Kathmandu

As an intern, I learned about quality assurance, test automation with Selenium and manual testing process. I was also given few Proof-Of-Concept topics to explore such as Silverlight application automation and Mobile app testing.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering

High School Diploma, Science (Math Major), Distinction