About

Gaurav Sharma is a Technical Lead at Spectro Cloud with over 10 years of experience in software test and quality assurance engineering. He has a strong understanding of cloud computing concepts and has worked with multiple cloud platforms both public and private, including Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, VMware, OpenStack, AzureRM, Rackspace, Softlayer, DiData, and others. Gaurav specializes in functional, API, GUI, security, and other cloud and web applications testing and deployment, with a major focus on test automation. He is proficient in automation tools such as Selenium, Webdriver, Watir, and Fitnesse automation frameworks, and has both analytical and creative thinking skills, yielding creative and thorough software testing results. Gaurav has worked with culturally diverse and geographically distributed teams, both as an individual contributor and in big corporate companies and small startups. Previously, Gaurav worked as a Software QA Engineer at Cisco and a Sr. QA Engineer at CliQr Technologies, where he tested features and enhancements to a variety of CliQr's core products, end-to-end testing of CliQr application for regression or new features in various cloud platforms such as Amazon (AWS), Openstack, Vmware, GCE, AzureRM, and more. He also developed automation frameworks using FitNess, Watir-webdriver, and Pageobject to migrate from the existing Test-Unit Framework, maintained continuous integration using Jenkins for compilation and deployment of code from Git Server, and provided well-formatted detailed project progress and test execution reports to the team and other designated personnel. Gaurav holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pune. His technical skills include software engineering, test, senior software engineering, QA, AWS, Selenium, SDET, Kubernetes, GCP, web, integration, CI/CD, Jenkins, and infra. With 13.03 years of relevant experience, Gaurav is a highly skilled technical leader in the cloud computing industry.