Big Data, one of the latest buzzwords in our industry, involves working with petabytes of data captured by various systems and making sense of that data in some way. Maryam Umar has found that testing systems like Hadoop is very challenging because of the frequency with which the data arrives in the system, the number of jobs that run to process that data, and the interdependency of the data. Maryam describes some of the projects at Hotels.com which involve identifying multiple users and using that data to make recommendations of hotels. Testing this is fairly difficult as we need an...Learn More
Maryam Umar
Hotels.com
Maryam Umar works in London at Hotels.com, an Expedia, Inc. company. She started her career nine years ago as a QA test engineer in the finance and mobile industry. After transitioning to the eCommerce sector, Maryam performed QA in various capacities for online restaurant and travel services. She continues to work in QA since she strongly feels that software testing is critical to getting products to meet the customer’s desire. In the past few years, Maryam has been passionately promoting and developing testing automation techniques, which can streamline and fortify the QA processes. Her mantra is to reduce any repetitive tasks which can be automated for testing.