Siddhartha Pandey
Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddhartha Pandey is a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience driving test automation, quality engineering, and developer tooling across Visual Studio and Azure Pipelines. He progressed through engineering and leadership roles at Microsoft since 2007, shipping core testing features like Coded UI, recording/playback and manual testing tooling for Visual Studio. Siddhartha blends hands-on QA engineering—contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as microsoft/vstest and azure-pipelines-tasks—with strategic ownership of platform reliability and telemetry. He is practiced at integrating test suites, build scripts, and multi-agent test configurations to ensure scalable, maintainable CI/CD testing pipelines. Based in Telangana, India, he combines deep product knowledge of Microsoft’s testing stack with an engineer-manager’s knack for mentoring teams and resolving hard-to-reproduce test failures. A less obvious strength is his long-term focus on telemetry and test impact analysis to make test feedback faster and more actionable for large engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computers, B.Tech, Computers at AKGECSt Francis College Lucknow
Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
testing10
test-runner10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
azure-pipelines10
unit-test10
test-automation10
cicd9
yaml9
typescripts8
powershell8
typescript-types8
typescript8
performance-testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks
Apr 2015 - May 2019
Tasks for Azure Pipelines
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:76 commits, 156 PRs, 195 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Siddhartha's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing and maintaining the testing infrastructure for Azure Pipelines tasks. They focused on modifying and improving the VsTest task, including updates to test selector and telemetry logging. Their work includes adding features for test impact analysis and multi-agent testing configurations, alongside addressing issues related to log uploads and load test validation.
azure-pipelineswindowsazurepipelinesazure-devops
microsoft/vstest
Sep 2017 - Mar 2019
Visual Studio Test Platform is the runner and engine that powers test explorer and vstest.console.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits, 27 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Siddhartha primarily focused on enhancing the test suite for the `vstest` repository. Their contributions included adding acceptance tests for web tests, fixing failing tests, and incorporating Coded UI tests. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the build scripts and package configurations to incorporate test-related dependencies and ensure proper integration of test components, which indicates a focus on test automation.
visual-studiodotnetconsoletest-platformtesting
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