Nitin Sharma: QA Engineering Leader
14+ years scaling test strategies across global product organizations and VC-funded startups.
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Professional Summary
A hands-on QA Engineering Leader with over 14+ years of experience in scaling test strategies for global product organizations and VC-funded startups.
SDET Organization Leadership
Led 30+ member SDET organizations, delivering CI/CD-native quality solutions for high-scale mobile, API, and backend platforms.
AI-Augmented Frameworks
Designed AI-augmented, automation-first frameworks, cutting test cycles by 40% and boosting automation to 85%.
Key Achievements in QA
Shift-Left QA
Drove observability-led QA with defect leakage dashboards, KPIs, and risk-based regression suites.
Embedded Quality
Integrated contract testing, security validation, and GenAI test generation across microservices and event-driven architectures.
Cross-Functional Governance
Championed cross-functional QA governance, developer enablement, and performance/security automation culture.
Technical Skills: Programming & Automation
Programming Languages
  • Java, Python, Bash, Golang, C#
  • Awk/Sed, Data Structures, Algorithms
Automation Tools
  • Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, TestNG, Cucumber, Gauge, Nose, Allure, Postman, Xray, Testlink, Wiremock, Mountebank
  • Jacoco, AndroidStudio, Xcode, ADB, CharlesProxy, Cypress, Playwright, Retrofit, Curl, Wget, Robot Framework, Karate, Browserstack, Lambdatest
Technical Skills: Performance, Security & DevOps
Performance Testing
  • JMeter, Gatling, Vegeta
  • K6, Locust
Security Testing
  • BurpSuite, ZAP, Pynt
  • Turbo Intruder, MobSF, Frida
DevOps & CI/CD
  • Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
  • SonarQube, Azure DevOps, Maven, Gradle, Github
Technical Skills: Cloud, Data & Backend
Cloud & Monitoring
  • AWS, GCP, Grafana
  • Loki, NewRelic, Datadog, Prometheus
Data Technologies
  • Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Oozie, Azkaban, ElasticSearch
  • SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Big Data, Spark, Cassandra, Presto, Power BI
Backend and Middleware
  • Kafka, Spring Boot, DB Comparators, Event Testing
  • Log Analysis, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Jersey, Servlets, Hibernate
Core Competencies
Strategic QA Leadership
Scaled teams from 0 to 30+ members.
Metrics-Driven QA
Utilizes leakage dashboards, MTTR, MTTD for informed decisions.
GenAI Test Generation
Expert in prompt design and E2E integration for test automation.
CI/CD Ownership
Proficient in Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes for continuous integration.
Work Experience: Rapido (Dec 2019 - Present)
As Test Architect, led QA transformation, building a 30+ member SDET organization from scratch and reducing onboarding time by 50%.
  • Architected automation-first strategy across mobile, web, and APIs, achieving 85% automation coverage and 40% test cycle reduction.
  • Embedded CI/CD quality gates (Jenkins, Docker, K8s), reducing release rollbacks by 20% and improving regression feedback loops.
  • Established a quality health dashboard (Grafana + Prometheus) to monitor KPIs like defect leakage and release readiness.
  • Introduced GenAI-powered test framework (Java/Python), reducing redundant test authoring by 60% and accelerating new feature validation.
Work Experience: TrustingSocial & WalmartLabs
TrustingSocial (June 2018 - Nov 2019)
  • Led mobile, API, and UI automation for credit scoring platform across SE Asia.
  • Integrated automation infrastructure (Java, RestAssured, Appium, TestNG) into CI pipelines (Jenkins, Allure).
  • Built virtualization layer (Mountebank) cutting third-party flakiness by 70% and improving staging test coverage.
WalmartLabs (July 2016 – May 2018)
  • Owned QA strategy for markdown/pricing microservices for Walmart's global e-commerce.
  • Led backend test automation (Java, TestNG, DB, Kafka events) and shift-left security & performance validation via JMeter, ZAP.
  • Collaborated with developers to embed quality checks within Spring Boot microservices deployments.
Early Career & Thought Leadership
RevX Technology (Aug 2014 – June 2016)
  • Designed and developed Rest APIs for RevX Platform using Spring, Jersey, Servlets, Hibernate.
  • Built materialized view with Guava cache to reduce API latency from seconds to milliseconds.
  • Set up Jenkins from scratch and enhanced it as a Test Reporting Framework.
Bharti Softbank & Syncapse (2011-2014)
  • Automated API validations and alerting framework; integrated with Jenkins and email reporting.
  • Developed Mobile Automation Framework for Airtel Wynk Music App using Appium, Python.
  • Created C#-based E2E monitoring product at Syncapse, reducing manual checks by 90%.
Open Source & Thought Leadership
  • GitHub Repo: RestAssured, Selenium, TestNG frameworks and OpenSource Automation Tools in Java & Python.
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