Aug 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• 1. Co-creating and launching a fresh app experience from first principles designed to delight buyers and address core needs
• 2. Shaping the product portfolio mix by designing the right on-app and off-app selling strategy for key verticals
• 3. Designing an effective, efficient and easy-to-use search experience
• 4. Formulating the promotions strategy and systemising the critical workflows to remove manual errors

May 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Majors in Marketing & Information Technology Management

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• 1. Setup best practices for quality and test automation
• 2. Developed a test automation framework for a new Cloud Cost Management product
• 3. Setup the test architecture on various cloud platforms including Azure, AWS and GCP

Apr 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Apr 2017 – Mar 2018 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead the backend QA team. Mentoring the team, release management, effort sizing, sprint planning, assessing QA scope, planning the QA cycle, automation planning, process improvements, building a CI pipeline, maintaining production quality - tracking of metrics with new relic, grafana and using metrics to drive automation.

Feb 2016 – Mar 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developing API automation framework and scripts for testing of backend APIs using Java with TestNG
• Functional, integration, security and performance testing of new APIs as well as components - cache services, etc.
• Deployment of all components of code using Orchestrator, Docker, AWS
• Maintaining production quality - tracking of metrics with new relic, grafana and using metrics to drive automation
• Code coverage monitoring using JaCoCo
• Performance testing using JMeter
• Working with Product Management and Development teams in analyzing requirements and preparing test cases
• Functional and UI testing of several key features of the Ola consumer app. on both iOS and Android
• Deployment of code on QA stage environment for sanity test before each release

Nov 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• I lead Automation efforts for new features/platforms of Polycom’s VoIP phones, as part of the corresponding cross-functional core teams:
• SRS reviews together with SQA, Development and Product management teams
• Feasibility Analysis of automating various features of the phones
• Design of Test Automation framework based on the analysis
• Developing the Test Automation Framework base
• Reviewing/fixing Automation Framework changes/issues

Jun 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Designing and developing test automation framework for new features, developing scripts based on test cases, increasing efficiency of test automation, test results analysis and bugs reporting

Jan 2012 – Jun 2012 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Interviewed (and wrote articles about) founders of some of the country's most promising start-ups. Did research and published reports on the trends across industries in the startup space