Tik Tok Star Quality Analyst

A new quality analyst joins the team

After two years Ajay was still working at the same organization. Meeting the deadlines of sprints was the new norm in office and life had been more monotonous after he dropped his previous dream job interview. Agile was the new buzzword, with sprint planning happening till the sprint end. This is when entered the new quality analyst on the floor named Alisha.

Alisha was the quality analyst trainee who recently joined the organization from campus placements. Few gossips circulated that Alisha’s resume had “Tik Tok Star” along with “Miss. Fresher” and “Miss Farewell” mentioned in her extracurricular sections. Very quickly, a rumor floated that she had the average interview results but to maintain gender ratio at the organization she was hired, few joked she was hired to reduce the growing attrition ratio of their business unit.

New Office Celebrity

Only in a month of joining, Alisha was quite popular on the floor which accommodated 300 plus employees. And now few employees of other floors had started giving a round of this floor to catch a glimpse of Alisha Anyways, only in a few months since she joined, she quickly gained knowledge on complete quality guidelines and started participating in quality audits of the deliverable. Apart from being utterly attractive, she was now the main quality analyst and was solely responsible for release audits.

Now the leads of the project were eagerly waiting for the turn of their release audits.By this, they used to get the chance to spend in a few hours of interaction with Alisha.

Alisha was carefree and from the moment she used to enter the office to the time she reached her seat, she had a habit of noticing everything and everyone on her way. During one such instance, Ajay’s eyes crossed with Alisha. Although it was quite normal the first time, it started happening frequently.

Audit at hand

Few months went by this way and now Alisha was no more the trainee. This month it was Ajay’s team turn for the audits. On the day of the audit, Ajay’s lead came in a new dress. Ajay was also there to note down the action points found during the audit. Alisha came for the audit, Ajay and his lead joined her. They got only a few action items that Ajay noted down.

Most of the delivery documents had been drafted and completed by Ajay so Alisha was impressed to find very few action items. Their audit score came out to be more than ninety percent. Now a new gossip started that Alisha has started liking Ajay this is why they got more than ninety percent audit score. Otherwise, none of the projects had received more than 75% in their audits.

Something Cooking

Ajay also started feeling that Alisha was noticing him as the frequency of their eye contact had increased. By now Amit the senior tester guy got to know about Ajay and Alisha gossip. Alisha was also aware of the gossip about her and Ajay, but she did not take it seriously. Amit was happy knowing all that. Now his chances of taking his matter with Sakshi got some more hopes as Ajay might be out of the sight from him and Sakshi. (Amit had likings for Sakshi but as Ajay and she used to have lunch together. Amit believed they had something cooking between them)

One day Alisha was returning to her home from the office when few friends of Amit followed her rickshaw and to let her know that they were Ajay’s friend they intentionally took Ajay’s name during the conversation. As Alisha did not see Ajay around, she ignored the boys following her. Amit had asked his friends to follow Alisha and intentionally asked them to take Ajay’s name so that she can start considering seriously that Ajay liked her. This might give his own story with Sakshi a momentum.

Now colleagues from other teams had started teasing Ajay taking the name of Alisha, which Ajay always ignored. On a Friday before the long Diwali holiday, Alisha was having coffee outside the office, this is when tester Amit sent one new girl from the team to Alisha. That girl tells Alisha that Ajay is looking for her on the floor.

Bad naming

With regular unwanted attention and her name getting linked with Ajay, Alisha was irritated now. She went to Ajay’s seat, but he was not there. His lead was only there. Alisha asked him about Ajay. His lead told her that he had left for his hometown as it was a long holiday. Then Alisha told him how Ajay was following to her home and today he sent someone to call her out. To this Ajay’s lead told her that Ajay cannot do that as he already liked someone else. And the date and time she mentioned Ajay followed her, Ajay was with him in the office.

His lead told Alisha that someone has done some prank to fool her. To which Alisha told him that he shall inform Ajay not to create such problems for her in the future as she is about to get married. This news came as shock to the long list of bachelor’s in office who thought they had something between them and Alisha, as they had their eyes crossed few times.

Ajay came from a long vacation and got to know events that happened the day he left. After that day he ignored Alisha always. A few months later Alisha got married. One day Ajay was coming from the pantry taking tea. This is when Alisha gets up and started moving towards the pantry. Ajay from distance saw Alisha coming towards the pantry.

When they reached close Alisha looked towards him. Ajay looked into her eyes but suddenly remembered her words and his eyes went on his newlywed get up girls used to have after coming from marriage. He did not want any further gossip, so he puts his head down and moved from there before anyone noticed them. After that day they always ignored each other whenever being around. Next month a new Software Engineer joined Ajay’s team. Her name was Kalpana.

Disclaimer: This is a fictional story. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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