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Sammamish, WA, US

Kirkland

• Communicate with key stakeholders both from the business and engineering side by providing prioritization, status updates, sprint reports and risks in an Agile environment..
• Scrum master organizing all scrum ceremonies, e.g., backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-up, spring demo, and sprint retrospective.
• Coordinating UAT to get feedback from the product owner, stockholders, and customers.
• Resource planning and Project planning across multiple feature teams to deliver results according to deadline and priority.
• Customizing the VSO templates according to team requirement and easy to report on.
• Product owner for the development team which owns sprint backlog items and bug triaging process and monitor the timelines.

Kirkland, WA

• Established first gen of foundation test framework(s) resulting in a robust automation regression suite leading to reduced manual test pass window (~1 month to 5 days). Using Selenium and Saucelabs using the Page.
• Integrate Entity framework to manipulate data while UI automation is running.
• Developed an API automation framework for REST API tests using Xunit using the singleton design pattern and Inversion of control.
• Established automated deployment to reduce deployments time (~2 days to few hours)
• Found testing solutions spanning the breadth of technologies (CRM, ColdFusion, SQL, WCF, ASP.NET, SP, Sitecore, etc.)
• Hired, mentored and trained QA Engineers to solve the testing challenges

Bothell, WA

• The FinancePro management system is a web-based solution for premium finance loan management and agent quoting. This system provides tools to start quoting, account status and reporting. Responsibilities:
• Manage full time (dotted reporting) and vendor resources
• Collaborate with multiple teams on multiple projects
• Automated UI tests using C# and WatiN
• Develop SQL scripts for data validation and test data creation
• Recruiting and hiring talent in test organization

Redmond, WA

• Wireless Application Protocol Instant Messenger (WAP IM) product provides capability for windows mobile consumers to chat with family and friends through instant messenger on their mobile devicesResponsibilities:
• Planning test strategies and execution
• Debug automated scripts for failed test cases
• Interact with Vendor team (Wipro, India) to run test cases
• Execute test cases using Open wave emulators and Device Anywhere

Greater Seattle Area

• Getty Images creates and distributes the world's best and broadest imagery collections, making them available in the most accessible and usable way. Responsibilities:
• Develop SQL scripts for data validation and test data creation
• Functional, Regression and System Testing.
• Interaction with Business Owners, PMs and Developers to clarify issues.

Issaquah, WA

• Partners Portal and Content Management SystemThis project is a content management, web publication, and portal rendering system designed to support the evolution of the Microsoft for Partners portal site.
• Planning test strategies and execution
• Manage 8-10 vendor resources of Tata Company (TCS)
• Develop SQL scripts to generate test data in the database.
• Functional Testing of various key features of Portal and CMS.
• Developed automated scripts for Partner Portal using NUnit and custom framework.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Content Management and XSLT TemplatesIntel Developers Service (IDS) is a vertical application of Intel, which is landing on the horizontal platform called Next Generation Information Platform (NGIP). Disti Design Win.
• Used PVCS Tracker as a bug-reporting tool for the application.
• Executed test cases and reported bugs in PVCS Tracker.
• Performing Functionality and localization testing by comparing and executing test cases in multiple browsers and multiple languages.
• Content modification to migrate from existing site to this new platform.
• Customer and QA interaction for content creation and migration issues.

Advanced Computer Courses, Computer Science

Honor’S Diploma In Advanced Systems Management, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Commerce, Commerce