Arpita S.

Experience

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  Indian Space Research Organization

  Jul 2010 - Jan 2011

  Intern, Budget & Economic Analysis

  * Executed Financial analysis of business model for advanced communications satellite GSAT11* Investigated market dynamics involved in Indian and International Telecommunications industry* Formulated pricing of transponders used in the communications satellite

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  Brainstorm Consulting Pvt Ltd

  Aug 2011 - Oct 2011

  Part-time Faculty

  Mentored students appearing for TOEFL and IELTS

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  NYU Centre for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP)

  Sept 2014 - Dec 2014

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  - Compiled a list of Nation-wide and International Data Science Programs that contained important details about the program- Did a thorough analysis based on factors like credit distribution, geographic location and type of programs offered using Pivot tables and lookups- Formulated equations to calculate the frequency of occurrence of a particular course amongst all the listed course across both universities and course offerings, thus providing insights into popularity of courses- Helped grade assignments and helped Professor conduct classes- Performed administrative duties for the DepartmentTechnology used : Microsoft Excel (Pivot tables, Lookups) Show less

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  Center for Open Science

  Sept 2015 - Jan 2016

  Software Engineering Intern

  - Worked on the trademark collaborator product of COS - Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF uses Python, KnockoutJs, and seamlessly integrates various features into its code- Performed Manual and Regression Testing, and wrote test cases to help ensure robustness of the developed code- Participated actively in product demos for the purpose of extracting expected behavior for new features- Wrote test sessions to support overall test plan with acceptance criteria- Led efforts to detect & log defects, after classifying them based on the priority and severity, using project-tracking software JIRA- Actively participated in regular QA team meetings to discuss testing process and suggest improvements to the application design and features- Performed Functionality, Cross-browser compatibility testing- Identified defects and retested the fixes Show less

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  Cognizant

  Feb 2016 - Mar 2016

  Software Engineering

  Underwent thorough training in Mobile and Web-based testing using tools like Perfecto, Seetest, QTP/UFT & Selenium Webdriver

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  Narvar

  Apr 2016 - Apr 2018

  PM

  - Facilitated cross-team interactions among Product Managers, Customer Success, Implementation, Backend, and Front End Engineering in order to gather business requirements and strategize test plans accordingly - Helped plan vision and strategy for the product Returns, thus helping scale the product to gain over 100 clients in 2 years’ time- Created user stories, defined acceptance criteria and helped break down features into backlog items- Initiated and implemented new processes to increase testing efficiency, resulting in 40% reduction in time-to-go-Live for new retailers- Triaged incoming bug reports and problems, assessed impact, developed pragmatic mitigations and helped prioritize- Involved in complete feature execution - right from its conception stage to implementation and testing- Architected testing framework for Returns product from scratch and work on making the code both scalable and maintainable Show less