About
Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 3+ years across fintech and big tech. Currently at Amazon ensuring payment systems work exactly as they should. Comfortable breaking things systematically so users never have to.
Experience
Moved internally to the Amazon Pay UPI team. Responsible for testing security-critical features and all new UPI releases including biometric payments, Reserve and Pay, UPI Autopay, and more. End-to-end ownership of quality for a payments product used at scale.
Part of the Vega OS team building the new operating system for Fire TV sticks. Tested the UI component framework used by external developers to build Fire TV apps. Built automation around the framework, ran stress tests, and validated third-party apps including Netflix and Sony TV.
Tested checkout and payment integration solutions for a fintech startup. Automated the entire API test suite from scratch using Postman and Newman, reducing production reverts and cutting testing effort from a full day to under 3 hours. Also contributed occasionally to development given the startup's pace and scale.
Internship that converted to a full-time role. Focused on manually testing new features, writing test cases, and building a solid understanding of how payment flows work end to end. Good foundational exposure to QA practices in a real product environment.
Short-term apprenticeship with the QA team at Fynd (Shopsense Retail Technologies). Gained exposure to large-scale e-commerce testing workflows.
Projects
# all of the above were built before AI-assisted development was a thing.
# also actively contributed to open source during this period.