Astrid Nersesyan Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Led and executed testing efforts across two teams for new features and refactorings including test planning, shifting tests to left and setting up CI quality gates Added and maintained functional regression test coverage (Api tests using Rspec, Cypress tests, mocked 3rd party services via OpenMock)Documented test coverage, added Datadog dashboards for tracking test run resultsWorked closely with Product and Eng team members on test planning, requirement clarifications (3 amigos)Actively worked with other QEs across org to standardize quality efforts

San Francisco, Ca, United States

Oversaw 40+ installer releases and 500+ backend releases that enabled > $250M in customer billable hours. Participated in all phases of Quality Assurance, increased product trust and continuously reduced release time to production. Tools & responsibilities include Circle CI, Appveyor, Git, test automation, test planning, test reports, Loggly, SumoLogic, Appveyor, Jira, and ConfluenceCreated test plans and test cases, test reports, BDD scenariosTrained new QAs on product, test processes, releasesDeveloped BDD-driven e2e API tests in Typescript on top of k6.ioAutomated tests using Powershell for capture system and application durability over extended (a week) time useImplemented UI tests for WPF app using Winn App driver, C# and SpecFlowAutomated scheduled test suite runs on CircleCiCreated POC test framework using Cypress.io for UI and e2e testingCreated dashboards in Azure to calculate and display metrics via Kusto Automated release in Retool moving scripts to web-based UISet up test environments in AWS

San Francisco, California

Developed and deployed new features for US Payroll: Implemented critical fixes to facilitate on time customer year end filings Developed a new system to create customer data archives, store them in S3 and allow customer downloads Created a new API first micro service to serve customer archive data to other internal services Maintained integration with third party tax engine (Symmetry) Collaborated with Compliance to query affected customers and to remediate tax issues Updated internal dev tools to reflect payroll changes from third party library Implemented new tax types and taxability changes Led major releases for global payroll products across multiple regionsCollaborated with DBAs to perform production data fixes, updated stored procedures and added new columns to MSSQL databasesTechnologies used:​​C# .NET​, ASP .NET 4.0, MVC3, MS SQL 2012, AWS, Docker, NHibernate, WebAPI, REST, GitHub, JSON, XML

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed and run UI (Selenium WebDriver with C#), Backend (C#), Unit(C#, MSTest) tests for various US Payroll features Setup TeamCity builds to run the tests in parallel for functional, regression, smoke test purposes on various environmentsDeveloped and run functional, regression, smoke tests US Payroll features

Yerevan, Armenia

Led phases of the Quality Assurance Life Cycle including test planning, development, execution, reporting and regression testing, reporting and tracking bugs in Mantis bug trackerDeveloped and executed test plans, scenarios and cases using test link and developed SQL queries to prepare user data in database for testingCreated and ran automation scripts using Mercury LoadRunner automation toolTested web services using SOAP UI application for one projectActive participant in weekly meetings with Dev, QA, and Business Analytics team to discuss business requirementsEnvironment: Windows, Oracle, Java, HTML, XML, JavaScript

Yerevan, Armenia

Increased productivity by initiating use of automation testing using MS Visual Studio test tool and Selenium IDECreated and executed test documentations and performed manual and automated testing including functional and GUI, cross-browser, system, regression, integration, ad-hoc, and stress/performance Reported and tracked bugs in MS Team Foundation System (TFS)Developed and maintained test scripts for functional testing using MS Visual Studio Test Tool and Selenium IDECreated and executed tests script for performance and stress testing using Apache JMeter automation toolCreated SQL queries to gather and manipulate test data using MS SQL ServerActively participated in Scrum meetings with offshore team, including reviews and developing test scenariosConducted software requirements specifications (SRS) review and communicated with software design team to build relationships and guarantee success of teamManaged repository of CMS templates, web pages, image placeholders, file structure, and security rights for different user role level access and workflow and edited components to create and publish pagesEnvironment: Windows, Silverlight, .NET, MS SQL, MS Visual Studio, JavaScript

Artsakhbank, Yerevan, Armenia

Assisted branch manager in daily routine work such as documents workflow and administrative tasksResponsible for internal communications between branches including incoming/outgoing mail, customer documentation, filing, and updating databases

Computer Systems Laboratory, State Engineering University Of Armenia, Yerevan, A

Assisted development of knowledge base and textual analyzer that analyzed text meaning and created semantic treesWrote scripts for exceptional cases on own Meta language created by development teamDesigned initial website using HTML/CSS for translator system- www.translator.am

Master, Computer Science

Bachelor, Computer Science