Sanaa Ahmed

-Manage the quality assurance of multiple AWS Quicksight feature teams by establishing a quality process that prioritizes test plan and automation tasks from design to development phase abiding by Amazon Leadership Principles.

- Actively participate in product design, planning, and retrospective reviews with the development and product team to identify quality requirements and interoperable features. Estimate accurate project milestones for timely and effective automation alongside feature development.

- Track project schedule by establishing scrum process based on Kanban. Add appropriate QA task lanes and setup Quicksight Dashboards for tracking status and visibility.

- Represent Quality Assurance team at Quicksight Org-wide Ops Meeting with Performance Metrics and achievements.

- Design and review Test Plans, develop and manage delivery of automation scripts using appropriate technologies.

- Streamline automation backlog and change management.

- Navigate roadmap prioritization and expedite resolution times for blockers.

- Work as Deployment Engineer on on-call basis, escalating test failure, defect reproduction and root cause analysis.

- Requirement analysis and review design and architecture of Automation Framework tool(Spectrum).

- Drive 100% P0 Automation across AWS QuickSight. Analyze post-release quality and escape defects, propose constructive solutions and implement process improvements

- Managed the 13 member QA team to achieve enhanced product quality by implementing rigorous test procedures with automation.

- Collaborated with stakeholders on grooming user story definitions in full agile workflow ensuring quality is maintained throughout the software development life cycle.

- Managed cross-functional teams to ensure seamless coordination between onsite/offshore QA, development, release and field support teams thereby ensuring timely feature validation and automation delivery.

- Responsible for Budget management, staffing, and Performance Reviews

- Optimized test coverage by carrying out retrospective to identify gaps and devise new strategies and templates for Test Plan and identify automation feasibility.

-Streamlined bug reporting process, expediting time of resolution for critical issues. Further, tracking performance metrics, timelines, and priority change requests to minimize delays.

-Architecture and development of automated scripts for new camera features including JSON, HTTP, Motion Detection, 2-Way Audio, BLE modules and Video quality analytical tool.

-Maintained high standard of product performance through performance, load tests and strategically timed regressions.

- Managed seamless Interop Testing with Broadband, Video and Touchscreen devices with focus on validating WiFi quality.

- Set top box development including Board bring up, GPIO configuration of all peripheral device registers and Front Panel buttons, LED brightness control, RCU code using RF4CE and 2 key press, Tuner and LNB chips.

-Enhanced system reliability and space with NVRAM emulation in NOR/EEPROM flash and NAND device drivers to store OTA images and Bad Block Management.

- Partnered with hardware teams for HDMI 2.0 Certification, Audio Linearity and Signal Strength calibration.

- Design and Development of Cable Modem Processor Launcher from STB processor, IPC using STAPI and Cable Modem MIBs.

- Partnered with NDS security team for Kernel Customization including Rootfs, uclibc, busybox and Linux kernel and device node creations

- Adhered to timelines to meet quality assurance targets with quick failure analysis and debugging using QC/FOSH tools.

-Spearheaded continuous integration using Clear Case tool/ GIT.