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RAJAT SHARMA

RAJAT SHARMA

Senior Test Engineer
Gurgaon

Summary

Test Manager with 10 years of experience in delivering quality solutions across the Airline, Consumer, and Energy, Environment & Utility industries. Experienced in managing testing activities for Corporate, Commercial, and Operations domains, with expertise in Manual, API, and ETL Testing. Skilled in leading testing teams, working closely with business and technical stakeholders, and ensuring successful project delivery. Contributed to AI-driven test automation initiatives by developing automation deliverables on skill-based playbooks. Successfully supported a major airline client during a 7-month onsite assignment in Riyadh, earning appreciation for strong ownership, collaboration, and delivery. Passionate about improving quality, mentoring teams, and delivering reliable software solutions.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

QA Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd- Riyadh Air
11.2024 - Current
  • Facilitated testing coordination at client location in Riyadh for 7 months.
  • Developed complete end-to-end test deliverables leveraging skill-based playbook for my project.
  • Maintained clear documentation of test cases, results analysis reports enabling easy reference during troubleshooting or enhancement phases.
  • Spearheaded best practices in testing, fostering knowledge sharing and continuous learning within QA team.
  • Improved end-user experience by conducting extensive usability testing on web-based applications.
  • Supported agile development methodologies by participating in daily stand-ups, sprint planning sessions, and code reviews for better process alignment.
  • Bridge the gap between technical and non-technical stakeholders via simplified issue reporting methods that facilitated quick understanding of complex problems.

Testing Team Lead

IBM India Pvt Ltd- Project- Smart Meter Texas
05.2023 - 10.2024

Smart Meter Texas is free service provided by Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and electricity industry in Texas. It lets user access smart meter data, view energy usage patterns, and track electricity consumption. IBM is responsible for creating this application infrastructure and testing. As part of this project, I am -

  • Leading API Testing team with 3 members.
  • Involved in requirement discussion and test plan creation.
  • Created Test cases and reviewed test cases of peers.
  • Tested application in different environments.
  • Worked extensively on IDCP for issue and defect tracking as well as to fetch/upload various project related documents.
  • Evaluated employee skills and knowledge regularly, training, and mentoring individuals with lagging skills.

Test Specialist

IBM India PVT LTD- Project- Philip Morris International
01.2021 - 04.2023

PMI is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, other tobacco products and other nicotine-containing products in markets outside of the United States. PMI is shifting all its applications and Infrastructure to AWS and modernizing some of the the applications. As a part of the team we must validate that the application is working fine in AWS based on its migration/modernization.

  • Major point of contact for communication between offshore and onsite and for resolution of technical and project related issues.
  • Part of Migration testing team whose primary objective was to test application post migration and verify sanity of the application.
  • We have migrated over 500 applications to AWS cloud.
  • Lead team for the one of a kind Modernization project where application infrastructure is totally created from scratch over cloud. As part of this project, we understood the current application and based on that tested the new modernized application with added features.
  • Understanding Business Requirements and designed estimations and testing of major functionalities and integration points.
  • Executing test cases, generating bug report and reporting details to development team for follow up.
  • Worked extensively on JIRA for Quality management, issue and defect tracking as well as to fetch/upload various project related documents.
  • Supported client with UAT and post cut-over hyper-care support.
  • Completed documentation outlining tests performed and results obtained.

Test Specialist

IBM In Pvt LTD- Project- Etihad Airways
12.2016 - 01.2021

Etihad Airways is flag carrier airline of the United Arab Emirates. IBM India is delivering Managed Testing services for Etihad Airways to address their increasing demands and needs driven by growth of airlines business and completion in Airline sector.

I personally have worked on Global Loyalty Company (GLC), Commercial and Operations teams.

  • Major point of contact for communication between offshore and onsite and for resolution of technical and project related issues.
  • Understanding Business Requirements and designed estimations, developed test scenario's and test cases to complete functionality of application.
  • Executing test cases, generating bug report and reporting details to development team for follow up.
  • Involved in preparation for functional and regression test suite
  • Worked extensively on Rational Team Concert /JIRA for issue and defect tracking as well as to fetch/upload various project related documents.
  • Worked closely with various vendors like Sabre, Amadeus, Adobe, Cognizant, LoyLogic, Butterfly, Comarch and IBM in reviews and modification of product specifications.
  • Cross browser testing on Firefox, IE, Google Chrome.
  • Involved in knowledge transition to new team members.
  • Worked on Airline Booking flow, Check-in flow, Customer Relation Management, Call Center, Airport operation and e-Commerce websites.
  • Worked on Data ingestion testing where different files have been migrated to HIVE system.
  • Completed documentation outlining tests performed and results obtained

Education

B.TECH - Aerospace Engineering

UPES
07.2012 - 06.2016

Skills

Manual Testing

API Testing

Automation Testing- API and Portal

Postman

SOAP UI

HP ALM

Jira

IDCP- IBM Delivery Central Platform

SQL

Commuincation Skills

ETL Testing

Functional testing

Requirements analysis

Team Building

AI Enabled Tester

Certification

CU™ Cloud Native Apps Test Specialist (CNATS)

Work Availability

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Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 7 members.
  • Received Excellence award on 2026 for my work in Riyadh Air project
  • Worked on two major AWS Migration and Modernization projects.

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Work-life balanceWork from home optionTeam Building / Company RetreatsCareer advancementCompany Culture

Languages

English
Advanced (C1)
Hindi
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)

Timeline

QA Manager

IBM India Pvt Ltd- Riyadh Air
11.2024 - Current

Testing Team Lead

IBM India Pvt Ltd- Project- Smart Meter Texas
05.2023 - 10.2024

CU™ Cloud Native Apps Test Specialist (CNATS)

12-2022

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

06-2021

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

06-2021

Test Specialist

IBM India PVT LTD- Project- Philip Morris International
01.2021 - 04.2023

ISTQB Foundation Level

10-2020

Test Specialist

IBM In Pvt LTD- Project- Etihad Airways
12.2016 - 01.2021

B.TECH - Aerospace Engineering

UPES
07.2012 - 06.2016
RAJAT SHARMASenior Test Engineer