About

Nisha Kalra is an experienced Automation Engineer with a strong background in Selenium, Java, Jenkins, AWS, Docker, and K8. She has a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry, with a focus on REST API's validation and automation. Nisha is skilled in Test Automation, Jenkins, Java, Linux, XML, and Swagger. She has experience with agile development and working with agile engineering teams, as well as a good handle on working using Agile/Scrum development process. Nisha is currently working as a Technical Lead at gemalto (now thales digital identity & security), where she enhances the automation framework as per needs and explores new automation strategies to integrate into the pipeline. In her previous role as a Senior Software Engineer at the same company, she Dockerized Legacy suite to reduce automation execution time by ~50% and migrated the automation suite infra to GCP from AWS. She also enhanced the CI/CD pipeline as per functional needs. Before that, Nisha worked as a Software Engineer at gemalto (now thales digital identity & security), where she designed and developed automation test frameworks to suit the application under test, prepared test plans and test cases and test data, executed tests, analyzed reports, tracked defects, and reported bugs. She also performed integration testing, functional testing, and performance testing, developed an automated environment for product installation, configuration, and initial setup, and added/updated nightly automation jobs into the continuous integration server Jenkins. She also conducted manual testing with QA during release time, performed backward compatibility testing and patch testing, identified regression testing needs, and created and maintained an automated regression suite. Nisha holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from bhagwan mahaveer institute of engineering & technology. Her tech stack includes AWS, Jenkins, Selenium, Java, Docker, GCP, and CI/CD. With 8.86 years of relevant experience, Nisha is a highly skilled Automation Engineer with a strong track record of delivering successful projects.