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I’d start by understanding the current release process and failure patterns using incident reports and bug history. In month one, I’d focus on quick wins: adding tests around the most fragile, high-impact areas (e.g., payments, authentication). I’d introduce a basic testing pyramid: unit tests for core business logic, a few critical integration tests (DB, external APIs), and smoke tests for key endpoints. In parallel, I’d work with the team to add automated test execution to CI and require at least smoke tests to pass before deploys. I’d propose adding a staging environment if missing, plus a simple canary or blue-green deployment for critical services. In a similar situation, we increased backend test coverage from ~15% to 45% over 3 months, and release-related incidents dropped by about 50%. I’d also run a short brown-bag session to align on testing patterns and coding standards, making it part of code review to add or update tests for changed logic.
Walk me through a recent multi-channel digital marketing campaign you managed end-to-end. How did you set objectives, choose channels, allocate budget, and measure success?
In your resume you note improving or optimizing [a process, KPI, or metric]. What specific baseline metrics did you start from, what steps did you personally take, and how did you verify that the improvement was due to your changes rather than external factors?
Based on your hydrology and irrigation engineering background, explain how you would estimate the irrigation water requirement for a kharif crop in a semi-arid region of Gujarat. Walk me through each step: from reference evapotranspiration estimation, crop coefficient selection, effective rainfall calculation, to arriving at canal discharge for a given command area.
In your civil engineering studies, what specific design coursework or project work did you complete related to irrigation channels or canals (e.g., design of lined/unlined canals, distributaries, minors)? Describe one such design in detail, including how you determined discharge, permissible velocity, section dimensions, and lining choice for Gujarat-type soil and climate conditions.
On your resume you mention working on a cross-functional project (e.g., involving multiple teams or stakeholders). Describe a situation from that project where priorities conflicted—how did you navigate the trade-offs and what was the final outcome?