Jul 2016 – Apr 2024 · 7 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led and managed cross-functional teams and developed internal product roadmap with clear priorities for the implementation of new features and solutions.
• Analyse technical requirements to develop testing strategies
• Create test plans to extensively detail scope of testing, risks, and timeline
• Perform GUI, Functional, Regression, Exploratory, Verification, and Smoke Testing
• Work with both QA and UAT teams to determine test data requirements
• Collaborate with project managers to help create user stories and functional requirements for Search Ads
• Clearly communicated problems and progress with the TPM, PM, and upper management
• Managed testing and release of new features, components and processes to compliment and extend the existing technology platform.
• Acted as a subject matter expert in retrieving data and reports using Google proprietary analytics tools
• Worked with Product team and senior management with prioritisation of projects and establishing accurate timelines for implementation following SDLC procedure
• Provided ongoing training/support to junior business analysts and internal statistical analysis teams on existing technology and new enhancements.
• Created test reports to summarise testing efforts

Dec 2015 – Jul 2016 · 7 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• Primary QA point of contact for Social Plugin family of products. Partnered with the development team to launch new features for F8 which won the Platform Plushie Award for product quality. Developed extensive test cases and worked with the offshore team to execute them twice a week. Built a repertoire of responsive test pages for various Social Plugins on Google Cloud platform.

Apr 2014 – Aug 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Web UI testing across all Apple device platforms. Involved in QA support for large-scale releases such as WWDC 2014 and iPhone6 release. Wrote test-plans for webpage changes related to major product announcement and social initiatives such as Earth Day. Worked closely with multiple producers and coordinated test-reports across QA teams.

Oct 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr

• Designed and developed new features such as pair-wise testing for an existing internal test framework in Java. Wrote end-to-end automation for email functionality testing. Wrote Junit tests for backend APIs, client-library and wrapper services.

Jan 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Website design, development, QA and maintenance for two non-profit organizations. Worked with the clients to collect requirements and drove agreement on high-level website layout. Implemented the website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, JSP and J2EE Servlets. Used Amazon EC2 to host the web-site, Amazon S3 for static content and CloudFront for CDN. Setup DNS with godaddy.

Sep 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on a J2EE based 3-tier architecture called eGovernments Foundation. Provided end-to-end quality assurance and facilitated usability workshops on the UI. Helped develop the overall project-level test plan and sprint QA goals. Built an automated UI test framework based on Selenium and an acceptance suite using JUint. Setup JIRA for bug tracking and sprint planning. Developed and executed test-cases throughout the project life-cycle and helped deliver numerous high-quality releases.

Aug 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Mainframe Operations, Development and Support.

Jan 2005 – Jun 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Implemented the persistence and presentation layer of an inventory management system which was part of a customer contract. Used J2EE for the frontend and setup a mySQL instance for persistence and used JDBC for database access.