1. SAILEE RAMESH BHEKARE
srb549@nyu.edu | 340, 94th
St, Brooklyn, NY 11209 | (646) 262-1165 | www.linkedin.com/in/saileebhekare
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ThoughtWorks Technologies Inc., India | Technical Consultant October 2012 – July 2015
Performed quality assurance and consulting functions; collaborated with team analysts and development stakeholders to test user
interface and back-end processes of responsive website; Automated user-flows and ensured reliable performance
• Improved ecommerce retailer’s web presence, functionality and customer experience by leading and managing website release,
within tight time-frame, leveraging Agile methodologies
o Developed project roadmap using Mingle, Jira, in collaboration with internal teams, stakeholders, and product owners
o Enhanced the iteration planning and release testing processes by analyzing the system workflows and creating dependency
map, highlighting the associations across cross-disciplinary teams
o Improved the run-time efficiency of the Continuous Integration pipelines, by parallelizing independent test categories,
reducing the turnaround time by 90%
• Ensured efficient onboarding of new team analyst by conducting project review sessions, and documenting all test frameworks
using different tools like Mindmaps, Flowchart, Google Docs, etc. on Confluence platform
• Facilitated major product releases on-time and with high quality assurance, in collaboration with onshore (Ohio) and offshore
(India) team
NYU Digital Libraries Web Archival, New York | Graduate Assistant September 2015 – Present
• Fast-tracked the onboarding process by streamlining the crawl reporting process, chartered work flow and customized Google
forms for maintaining permanent documentation
• Enabled complete capture of the website by scoping the crawls using Regular Expressions for efficient archival
• Performed quality assurance reviews of the crawls and recommended defect management strategies to supervisor/curator
LingPerfect Translations Services, New York | Assistant Project Management Intern May 2016 – August 2016
• Gathered requirements for marketing campaigns and developed a strategy for targeting prospective clients and generating
leads, using Salesforce CRM solution
• Maintained demand/ supply by negotiating vendor Translation-Editing-Proofreading (TEP) rates and recruiting quality linguists
EDUCATION
New York University, New York, NY May 2017
Executive Master of Science in Management of Technology | GPA: 3 75
Recipient of the Wasserman Center Internship Grant, 2016
Digital Strategy Business Analytics and Data Visualization - SAS Business Communication Cloud Computing
Economics of Strategy Foundation of Technology Entrepreneurship Accounting and Finance Design Thinking
Mumbai University, Mumbai, India June 2012
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science | GPA: 3 67
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Future of Blockchain Technology | Global Innovation Summer 2016
Explored the use cases for Blockchain technology beyond Bitcoins and examined the prospects of Blockchain and Internet of
Things becoming the NextG dominant technology
IBM Watson | Digital Strategy Spring 2016
Researched and examined the pain points with IBM’s existing Watson strategy and recommended plan to leverage its first-
mover advantage and large consultant workflow
Design Thinking in Organizations | Organizational Behavior Fall 2015
Developed an contrarian view on Design Thinking, by researching extensively on the characteristics of organizations
that successfully embraced it and those which fail at it and submitted a paper analyzing primary causes of its failure
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Project Management Tools
Mingle, JIRA, Advanced MS Office
Web Development and Programming Languages Java, Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, SQL, mongoDB
Testing Automation Tools Cucumber, Selenium Webdriver, PhantomCSS, Protractor
Web Analytic Tools SAS (SAS 9 Certified), SAS Enterprise Guide , R language
Other Tools TeamCity, Jenkins, Go, Git, Puppet, JMeter
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
• Presented paper on “Building an accessible Website: Agile way” in Grace Hopper Conference, 2013
• Lead Speaker for SQL and NoSQL Injection at VODQA (Value Oriented Discussion for Quality Analyst), 2013
• Created and developed an innovative visual teaching aids to enable cultural barriers at Make a Difference NGO
• Chief Sports Secretary elected position for Computer Science Department, 2010 – 2012