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My philosphy to promote in my team, the team member should consistenly be performing at the next level already. At Auctane, once I identified the candidate to be promoted - I ensured that this employee is motivated and completing the tasks and take on stretch goals. - for e.g this employee was already doing sprint tasks but also mentoring others on the team.  Once I gathered enough data, I presented this to my manager and identified this person as a strong candidate for promotion backed up with the data.

Further, I made sure this team member had chance to show case thier stregths in org wide presentation etc. At Auctane, we have a leadership meeting where we discuss the candidate pool and who deserves a promotion - i brought this candidate name and presented the data - compared with thier peers. This helped me move this team member to higher level - she got promoted to a Senior SDE. 

During final stages of testing upgraded version of core banking applications, we encountered a defect which required resolution from development team. After dev deployed the defect, I had very limited time to thoroughly retest and perform regression.

My task was to perform retesting and make sure there are no major defects after the release.

After resolution, based on my prior knowledge of the apps I grouped those testcases that had a potential impact to run automation regression to speed up the testing. While I manually tested the defects with some edge case scenarios. 

I kept the cross functional team updated about the testing progress and the risk involved if testing wasn't completed on time. 

But, I was able to mitigate the risk of not completing the testing on time and major risk of unexpected issues with the help to prior knowledge and proactive communication.

Thus, I learnt from this incident to carefully strategizing the situation and collaborative approach can help to mitigate risks.