Natalia Karkotskaya
Software Test Engineer at Microsoft
Issaquah, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNatalia Karkotskaya is a seasoned Software Test Engineer with nine years of experience and over four years focused on testing Windows Embedded systems and automotive infotainment (notably Ford SYNC). She brings deep expertise in functional, HMI, integration and regression testing across Bluetooth, media, radio and peripheral compatibility scenarios, and excels at test case development, defect investigation and end-to-end validation including driving tests. Comfortable working across localized UIs and customized embedded images, she combines disciplined test methodology with strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills. Her background in Japanese studies suggests an attention to linguistic and cultural detail that supports effective localization testing and multi-language UI validation.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (MA), Japanese Studies, Master of Arts (MA), Japanese Studies at Moscow University, Institute of Asian and African Studies
Russian, English, Japanese
Github Skills (32)
simplify10
bicep10
accelerator10
terraform10
infrastructure-management10
vdi10
desktop10
automation10
aws10
azure10
virtual10
virtual-desktop10
deployment-automation10
command-line-interface8
azure-cli7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mariuszdotnet/azure-image-builder-wvd
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:219 pushes in 1 month
nataliakon/avdaccelerator
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
AVD Accelerator deployment automation to simplify the setup of AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop) based on best practices
Contributions:50 pushes in 1 month
vmsvirtual-desktopdeploymentinfrastructure-managementazure-virtual-desktop
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