About

Rahul Maheshwari is an accomplished Advisory Software Engineer with over 16 years of experience in testing embedded and software applications using functional and automation testing techniques. Currently, he is working at IBM and is responsible for all phases of product development life cycle, including planning, requirement analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance using different methodologies like waterfall, Agile, and Scrum. Rahul has extensive experience in test planning, resourcing, estimations, execution, and delivery for multiple projects. He has a proven track record of analyzing and translating business requirements into technical requirements. Rahul has designed and implemented an effective automation framework from scratch that has reduced the amount of manual effort in the testing process. He has also recommended process improvements to increase test quality, improve test productivity, and streamline test processes. Rahul is proficient in creating test automation frameworks for REST API, CLI, and web-based applications using Robot Framework, Python, and Robot Selenium. He has hands-on experience in designing and implementing continuous testing pipelines using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker, and GitHub. Rahul has the ability to work in an enterprise organization and collaborate and communicate with different stakeholders. Rahul has performed functional, regression, integration, and system testing and has participated in multiple Proof of Concept (POCs) and provided analysis and recommendations. He has also set up overall QA processes for manual/automation and advised best practices. Rahul has performed RCA (Root Cause Analysis) of the defects from the field and other test groups. Rahul has created execution plans, taken part in design discussions, reviewed test plans, drove test plan reviews with the development team, and drove mitigation plans when needed. He has been involved in automation code review and approval of automation code before integrating code into the production environment (DevOps). Rahul has prepared the coding standard document and the automation framework document and ensured the team understands the same and can implement it. He has also prepared training documents and updated the wiki with all-important data related to the project. Rahul has an Executive MBA from Alliance University and a Bachelor's degree in IT from the University of Rajasthan. He is proficient in various technologies like test, software engineering, SDET, DevOps, Selenium, Python, Docker, integration, and web. With his relevant experience of 15.62 years, Rahul is a valuable asset to any organization.