Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

• Completed Master of Research (MRes) in Business from Imperial College London, graduating with Distinction.
• Data & Analytics: Machine Learning, Text Analysis for Social Science, and Applied Microeconometrics.
• Research Methodologies: Advanced Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Systematic Reviews, and end-to-end Research Project execution.
• Strategic Management: Corporate Strategy, Innovation Management, and Organisational Behaviour & Theory.
• Entrepreneurship: Strong foundation in Entrepreneurship (achieving an 82.00 mark) and entrepreneurial behavior.

Jun 2022 – Apr 2023 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mar 2022 – Jun 2022 · 3 mos

• Worked as an SDM in the Alexa International Team, leading the development of critical systems, infrastructure and services to launch and expand Alexa internationally. We develop products and services that help launch new features and devices/applications to enable all Alexa customers enjoy interacting with Alexa.

Aug 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Engineering manager since Aug-2020 (Quality Assurance Engineers at various levels).
• Collaborate with product managers, project managers, Software development managers, QA and Development engineers for successful QA and launch of features for Alexa India.
• Leading a team of 15 engineers with technical expertise to achieve team goals efficiently
• Goal setting for Alexa International Org and the India team (quarterly and yearly goals)
• Team growth - Hiring and developing new team members
• Manage performance, training, create performance improvement plans, coaching, promotions, etc.
• Work with stakeholders for effective planning, strategy, resoursing, tool development, test automation, QA and launch support
• Complete promotion assessments for engineers at various levels across Amazon (writing assessment documents with data for promotions)
• Handling project execution, create/review test strategy, tech innovations, design and develop software automation tools and enhancements

Apr 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• 1. Build tools and frameworks for testing Alexa for India.
• 2. Create goals for the team, and track the progress.
• 3. Plan testing, automation and tool development for the team.
• 4. Collect metrics needed for measuring the efficiency of the team, and drive updates to the process for improving team efficiency.
• 5. Implement CD/CI processes for the tools owned by the team.
• 6. Work with Product and Program managers, Quality Assurance Managers and Software development managers to plan testing work for the team.

Jul 2018 – Apr 2019 · 9 mos

• 1. Build tools and frameworks for testing Alexa Core Services (Platform).
• 2. Create goals for the team, and track the progress.
• 3. Plan testing, automation and tool development for the team.
• 4. Collect metrics needed for measuring the efficiency of the team, and drive updates to the process for improving team efficiency.
• 5. Implement CD/CI processes for the tools owned by the team.
• 6. Work with Product and Program managers, Quality Assurance Managers and Software development managers to plan testing work for the team.

May 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

Dec 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

• SHOPBOP | EAST DANE, Madison, WI, USA | Quality Assurance Engineer – 2
• (14th Dec 2015 - Current)
• Quality assurance for E-commerce and fulfillment services and payment services.
• Define QA process and best practises
• Test plan, test execution, service level test automation using Java.
• Maintain and enhance integration test suite.
• Load testing using TPSGenerator and Downshift.
• Integrate new testing tools for quality metrics such as SnuggyCoverageAgent, CCPolice, Fortify, etc.
• Integrate test automation tools for writing new tests – Kamino, PEAS

Mar 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Amazon Development Center India LTD, Bangalore, INDIA | Quality Assurance Engineer – 2
• (10th March 2014 – 13th Dec 2015)
• Quality engineering including strategies for early bug detection, test automation, bug triaging and analysis to drive better quality
• Planning, resource allocation, tracking and mentoring team members.
• Experienced in service level testing
• Automated Testing–
• Automate test cases for functionality and UI testing on desktop, mobiles and tablets.
• Tools: PAUL, SMAUG, Selenium and Appium with Java
• Service level automated testing (end to end testing for Prime subscription fulfillment services)

Dec 2006 – Mar 2014 · 7 yrs 3 mos · Bengalore, India

• Worked as s Software Developer - SAN Engineering
• Developed Linux tools and utilities for checking the health of storage on the operating system when connected to NetApp storage controllers.
• Experienced in storage protocol testing (FC/FCoE/iSCSI), bug isolation and debugging Linux storage stack, developing automated configuration utilities for use on production environments.
• Automation framework development for testing functionality, dynamic test bed creation, resource allocation, initialization of hardware resources, test execution and test bed tear-down.

Aug 2004 – Dec 2006 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Developed software in C for board bring up, initializing and configurations for physical layer components including Framers, LIUs.
• Also worked as a Protocol tester for multiservice switches - Frame Relay and ATM, OSPF, FSPF.
• Experienced in Inverse Multiplexing over ATM.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo

• At Texas Instruments, I was part of a team of 4 engineers that developed instruction translation component that was being developed as a part of a dynamic compiled simulator DSP chips on Intel Pentium platform. The component translates the machine code of the DSP chip into machine code of Intel Pentium. The coding was done using Microsoft Visual Studio and the language used is C.