Design Engineer Test Cases

Bharti Thakran

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Bellevue WA 98004

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Experience Summary

Have 6.5 years of Organizational Experience as an SDET with Microsoft for working on projects like Office,

Xbox. Possess rich experience in developing and testing user-friendly solutions for distributed environment.

Expertise in test planning, implementation, scheduling, execution and reporting. Good experience in

developing automation framework for web and windows based application.

Technical expertise includes C#, SQL Server, WCF, REST, SOA, Web services, Manual and automation

testing, Windows Azure IaaS, PowerShell, Source Depot, TFS, Sharepoint, Product Studio and Localization

Tools.

Project Details

Senior Software Design Engineer Test, Microsoft Oct’2014 - till Date

XBOX Developer Forum:

Working as senior SDET with XBOX Developer forum that allows external developers to post questions for

specific platform and for DEV account managers manage and post responses to those questions. Available to

partners outside MS, game developers for XBOX, internal MS developers QA forum. Posts are searchable

and security model exits so that questions and responses targeting secret platforms are only shown to

individuals who are under a NDA for those specific platforms.

Responsibilities

Involved in the requirement study, design and development for automation and manual tests for

XBOX Developer Forum.

Independently utilize innovative test methodologies to develop test plans/strategies for owned

feature areas.

Guides and works closely with other Dev’s in reproducing and resolving issues encountered during

test execution.

Runs automated test tools compiles and reports results.

Upgrading and maintaining web services test automation for new service features enhancements.

Performs detailed analysis of test results and updates test cases/scripts accordingly

Provides some bug prevention and/or proactive testing through product specification reviews.

Automation of test environment and service deployment using Azure IaaS.

Followed scrum and agile development processes.

Tools and Technologies: C#, SQL Server, WCF, REST, SOA, Web services, Windows Azure IaaS,

PowerShell, JavaScript, WTT, TFS, MTM, Fiddler, HTTP Analyzer

Senior Software Design Engineer Test, Microsoft April'2012 - Oct’2014

Microsoft Office International, Redmond WA - HCL America

MS Office 365 tools team works on different tools and environment for Office content localization. It

involves end to end universal localization automated system which helps in localizing Office content. Tools

are exposed as web services and consumed by localization teams.

Responsibilities

Developed test infrastructure, automation, and monitoring tools. Coding BVT and UAT automation

frameworks for daily builds. Worked on calculating the code coverage. Maintaining and reporting

automation run against daily builds.

Upgrading and maintaining web services test automation for new service features enhancements.

Involved in the requirement study, design and development for automation and manual tests for

office tools.

Fixing production bugs and coding tools for new requirements.

Automation of test environment and service deployment using Azure IaaS.

Participate actively in detailed design, code reviews, and bug discussions with the feature teams and

support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals to effectively solve

software challenges.

Independently utilize innovative test methodologies to develop test plans/strategies for owned

feature areas

Work with the Development team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs and

Drivers, and other Development test objects.

Testing Performance pipes, reporting using cubes for Office.

Followed scrum and agile development processes.

Tools and Technologies: C#, SQL Server, WCF, REST, SOA, Sharepoint, Web services, Windows Azure

IaaS, PowerShell, MSTest, Source Depot, TFS, Product Studio, Localization Tools, Fiddler, HTTP Analyzer

Senior Software Design Engineer Test, Microsoft Sep '2008 - Aug ‘09

MSN Publishing Platform, Redmond WA - HCL America

Publishing platform is used for publishing and maintaining content of MSN sites. MSN Publishing platform

team was responsible for testing, fixing content and troubleshooting issues with internal teams.

Responsibilities

Troubleshooting management, hosting and rendering of content hosted using publishing platform.

Writing automation to reproduce user scenarios.

Writing tools for selfheal, which is troubleshoot issue and fixing them.

Deployment of MSN site contents.

Writing and updating process documents related to project.

Tools & Technologies: C#, SQL Server, Bedrock, Shuttle, Product Studio, UTS, Fiddler, Http

Analyzer etc.

Software Design Engineer Test Mar '08 - Aug '08

NASDAQ OMX Click and Secure, HCLT– India

OMX is a leading expert in the exchange industry. OMX owns exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic region,

and develops and provides technology and services to companies in the securities industry around the globe.

It provides these exchanges with the necessary software infra-structure called the Click and Secure Product

suite, to run their respective Securities, Derivative and Financial Markets. Click and Secure is a trading and

Clearing system respectively offering a comprehensive range of functionality for trading and clearing in a

wide range of financial instruments. The system is currently operating in several exchanges. Work involves

writing functional descriptions and functional test cases.

Responsibilities:

Actively involved along with the Business Analysts in writing User Acceptance test cases.

Writing and executing the system test cases for the different functionalities.

Notified and reported the bugs in the application.

Re-test the bug fixes and doing regression test

Writing and running automation suite against daily builds.

Tools & Technologies: Manual Testing/Financial domain tools and technologies

Software Design Engineer Test - Microsoft Jul '06 - Feb '08

Windows Desktop Search AddIn, Redmond WA – HCL

This project involved automating the testing of the add-ins of Windows Desktop Search over various build of

WDS and various releases of OS. This automation involved both automating of test cases related to functional

testing as well as automating the test cases related to user interaction.

Responsibilities:

Test automation of WDS add-ins.

Requirement study and Test Plan writing

Writing and executing functional and system test cases.

Defect logging and report generation.

Derive Test Cases based on software requirements documentation (SRS), design documentation

(SDD), Help manuals and business scenarios making the preliminary Test cases

Involved in the complete Testing life cycle of the system

Tools and Technologies: C#, SQL Server, WTT, Source Depot, Product Studio

Educational

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CDAC with specialization in Computer Science from Pune, India

Bachelors of Engineering with specialization in Electronics and Telecommunication

From MDU, India

Certifications

MCTS in .NET, MCP

ISTQB (Indian Software Testing Quality Board)

Languages and Technologies

C#, SQL, WCF, SOA, REST, Web Services, Windows Azure IaaS, PowerShell, JavaScript, XSLT, Xml Visual

Studio, Microsoft SQL server,

Automation Testing, Performance Testing, UI automation, API Testing, Manual testing

Tools: WTT, MSTest, SQL Profiler, HTTP Analyzer, Fiddler, DxStudio, MTPS, CLIX, Rainbow, LEAF, Loc

Studio, Resource Studio, TFS, MTM, Source Depot

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