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Redmond, Washington, US

Leading the Diagnostics and Recovery Platform for Azure Datacenter Infrastructure, the team consist of three sub teams.New Product Initiative TeamTo enhance the reliability, performance, and user experience of new products by developing and implementing advanced diagnostics tools and methodologies, ensuring seamless integration and operation within the.

Redmond, Washington, US

Principal Software Engineering Manager in the Azure Compute team responsible for Blade Diagnostic and Recovery Service for the entire Azure Fleet.Responsible to evolve, expand, and define our software platform and infrastructure. Some of the many areas my team is responsible are tackling include ring-0 core infrastructure services, five 9s (99.999%).

Seattle, WA, US

• Worked on the first Amazon consumer Robot for Amazon Device team.
• Built the entire QA engineering team of 40 test engineers (QAM/SDET/QAE) from ground up to ensure the highest quality product delivery and define measurable metrics to gauge progress against objective QA goals.
• Manage multiple engineering teams across multiple Geo-graphics locations
• Expand the QA team test coverage and build a new QA team in Chennai, India and successfully complete the hiring and ramp up the team of 15 engineers lead by one QA manager.
• Work with business and development teams to define product vision and requirements
• Set and drive expectations around quality for major releases grounded in solid customer impact and product understanding

Seattle, WA, US

• Media ProductsOwning a team of 20 QAE and SDETS that delivers the core experience of Amazon Fire Tablets.Working on the Fire shared technology team as a hands-on Quality Assurance Manager to ensure a great experience.
• Help define strategy and roadmap for Fire device components and services
• Document and present strategies to senior management
• Management and execution against project plans and delivery commitments
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the quality assurance team within an Agile, Scrum, development lifecycle
• Work closely with the engineers and product managers to design and develop the best QA solutions to meet business needs

Seattle, WA, US

• Kindle International TeamLeading international quality assurance across all Kindle devices and programs.Being the QA manager in delivering the software used in the Kindle Tablet devices shipped in international market.
• Managing a team of QAEs for executing test passes to deliver internationalized Kindle Tablet Products (Kindle Fire (2nd Generation), Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HDX family).
• Work with various QA teams to define the necessary criteria for smoke and integration testing that is executed daily.
• Define the test criteria and QA activities for each of the milestone in the SDLC.
• Develop QA sign off page using Sharepoint to track the QA progress at each milestone.
• Develop bug metrics and dashboard in JIRA to track the overall quality of the product and ensure product is on track..

Redmond, Washington, US

• SQL Server, Language Service teamWorked on the Sparse Column and Cursor features in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2 and worked on Sparse Column on SQL Azure.
• Delivered the Test and Execution Plan for the Sparse Column feature in SQL Azure.
• Developed automation support for testing Sparse Column in SQL Azure using Model Base Test methodology in C#.
• Provide tranings that cover test experience and best practice in SQL Azure testing to the SQL Engine Test team.
• Developed SQL Azure Ramp Up Handbook to help all new SQL Azure developers and testers to understand the Architecture, Design and Test Strategy for SQL Azure.
• Lead the test work with a small team of testers for the Sparse Column feature in SQL Azure.

Redmond, Washington, US

• SQL Server, Transaction Service team.
• Responsible for testing the Logging and Recovery component in SQL Server, develop test plan, test strategy for testing the Logging and Recovery component.
• Validate Logging Recovery feature for the SQL Server 2008 R2 release.
• Drive sign off testing for the Transaction Service Test Team.
• Responsible for testing the Transaction Manager in SQL Server.
• Design Test Strategy, author test plan and test cases and then automate it using the model base test methodology for the Transaction Manger using C#.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Visual Studio Tools Platform, Microsoft, Redmond USA
• Act as Code Coverage Representatives for Core IDE team, driving team to met 70% code coverage goals.
• Developed the V2 of the Code Coverage ownership tool TaCO using C# and build on top of SQL Server.
• Developed a tool to ensure testcases are ported correctly between two databases.
• Developed a tool to convert bugs to test cases automatically to prevent test hole using C#.
• Own testing of the Managed Editor shipped in Microsoft Expression Blend.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Visual Studio for Device, Microsoft, Redmond USA
• Own testing of the Managed Winforms Designer for Devices in Visual Studio 2003 product.
• Work with the.Net Client Team to ensure the right set of test cases are ported from them.
• Developed the UI Automation support for the Winforms Designer for Devices using Titanium and Visual Basic.
• Design Test Strategy, author test plan and test cases and then automate it using the Titanum automation framework for the Device Winforms Designer using Visual Basic.
• Own testing of the Editor/Intellisense component for Device projects in Visual Studio 2003 product.

• Work as part time developer in 1999 working on a network driver for a printer using C.
• Work as a part time developer in 2000 working on an internal online employee time reporting system using HTML, perl and MySQL.
• Work as a full time developer in 2001 working on an internal online purchasing system using ASP, SQL Server and Visual Basic.

• Work as hardware technician responsible for verifying computer had passed all verification before shipping to customer.

B.E., Computer Engineering (1St Class Honor), Computer Engineering

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