Nitin Sharma: Engineering Leader
15+ years building and scaling engineering organizations across quality, DevOps, platform engineering, and product delivery.
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Professional Summary
A hands-on Engineering Leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling engineering organizations across quality, DevOps, platform engineering, and product delivery 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: BestBuy (Current)
As Senior Engineering Manager, driving engineering effort across QA, DevOps and App Readiness teams. Leading platform engineering initiatives, building scalable tools, libraries and frameworks to enable engineering excellence across the organization.
  • Leading cross-functional engineering teams (QA, DevOps, App Readiness) to establish quality-first culture and CI/CD excellence
  • Architecting platform engineering solutions, building reusable tools and libraries to accelerate development velocity
  • Driving DevOps transformation with infrastructure automation, observability and deployment excellence
  • Establishing app readiness frameworks and quality gates for seamless product releases
  • Mentoring engineering managers and establishing best practices for quality governance and operational excellence
  • Driving adoption of GenAI-powered testing and observability-led QA strategies
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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