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Rahul Sharma

Faridabad

Summary

Software Engineering Manager with 10+ years of proven expertise in leading Server Engineering, DevOps, and Automation Framework initiatives, driving scalable solutions, operational excellence, and high-performing teams.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager - Server Engineering

One MobiKwik Systems Limited
Gurugram
03.2025 - Current

A fast-growing digital payments and financial services platform serving consumers and merchants across India.

  • Led and maintained CI/CD pipelines for mobile and backend applications, ensuring scalability, reliability, and rapid delivery cycles.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure on AWS (ECS, EKS, ALB, RDS) with automation-first practices for cost efficiency and high availability.
  • Mentored junior engineers on DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud operations, fostering a culture of continuous learning and ownership.
  • Enforced compliance by integrating JIRA workflow automation and Jenkins CD pipeline rules to validate compliance checkpoints automatically.
  • Enhanced CD pipelines with a centralized pipeline library, improving deployment standardization and verification processes across ECS and EKS environments.
  • Strengthened audit and security by developing custom Jenkins plugins for RBAC access event monitoring and job console log auditing, with automated log uploads to S3 buckets for long-term storage and compliance.
  • Designed and delivered a centralized API documentation dashboard with AI-enabled test case generation, execution, and reporting, leveraging AI for failure pattern detection and intelligent analysis.
  • Championed modern DevOps practices, automation, and observability to reduce manual effort, minimize errors, and improve developer productivity.

Technical Lead - Server Engineering

One MobiKwik Systems Limited
Gurugram
08.2023 - 03.2025

A fast-growing digital payments and financial services platform serving consumers and merchants across India.

  • Designed and developed an Engineering Dashboard consolidating server uptime, Android/iOS app metrics, Firebase events, Play Console insights, and Nginx/ALB logs for centralized monitoring.
  • Built a Query Dashboard with RBAC-based access control to securely execute read-only SQL commands on real-time production database replicas.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines for Android and iOS apps using Jenkins, Gradle, and Fastlane, reducing build and release cycle times.
  • Delivered CI/CD pipelines for backend microservices leveraging Jenkins and GitLab CI, ensuring seamless integration and faster deployments.
  • Managed and provisioned infrastructure on AWS, implementing best practices for scalability, cost optimization, and security.
  • Set up a Prometheus + Grafana monitoring framework to collect key metrics from production replica databases, with integrated Slack and email alerts for proactive incident management.
  • Applied and integrated various DevOps tools and practices (Docker, Kubernetes, automation frameworks) to improve release efficiency, observability, and system reliability.

Senior SDET (CI/CD and Tools Automation)

Hike Private Limited
Gurugram
01.2020 - 08.2023

A leading technology company focused on innovation in communication and later on Real Money Gaming.

  • Implemented Realtime Crash Velocity Alerts by integrating Firebase, Jenkins, and JIRA, improving response time to production crashes.
  • Automated Unity code integration into Android and iOS builds, reducing manual effort and accelerating delivery.
  • Integrated AppSealing into CI/CD pipelines for enhanced application security, blocking suspicious client-side activities.
  • Designed and maintained an Appium-based Performance Framework for Android apps, generating performance reports for teams.
  • Built and enhanced a SlackBot Application Builder, enabling developers to trigger builds via Slack commands.
  • Developed a Realtime Game Tables Status Dashboard for the Rush app using Kafka for live data streaming.

SDET (CI/CD and Tools Automation)

Hike Private Limited
Gurugram
07.2019 - 12.2020

A leading technology company focused on innovation in communication.

  • Developed and maintained end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for iOS and Android apps, leveraging Jenkins and CircleCI.
  • Automated backend CI pipelines for microservices testing using Docker and Jenkins.
  • Built an Engineering Dashboard with Django, consolidating health metrics and generating daily reports for performance monitoring.

Senior QA Engineer

Kronos Inc
Noida
01.2018 - 06.2019

A global workforce management company providing cloud-based solutions.

  • Managed automation frameworks and cloud deployment automation for enterprise-scale applications leveraging RestAssured and Selenium Testing Technologies.
  • Led QA initiatives, ensuring functional, regression, and automated test coverage across multiple products.
  • Introduced CI/CD best practices to streamline delivery pipelines, enabling faster and more reliable software releases.
  • Partnered with cross-functional engineering teams to enforce quality gates and continuous testing.

QA Engineer

Kronos Inc
06.2015 - 12.2017

A global workforce management company providing cloud-based solutions.

  • Designed and maintained automation frameworks to enhance test efficiency and coverage leveraging SoapUI and UFT Testing Technologies with JaCoCo.
  • Executed functional, regression, and automation test suites, ensuring consistent software quality.
  • Contributed to improving release reliability by strengthening QA processes.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

JSS Academy of Technical Education
Noida
05-2015

Skills

  • Cloud Service Management: AWS, GCP
  • Configuration Management: Ansible
  • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI
  • Deployment Solutions: Docker and Kubernetes
  • Skilled in Multiple Programming Languages: Java, Python, Groovy
  • Frontend and Backend Development: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django Framework
  • Source Code Management Expertise: GitHub, GitLab
  • Test Automation: Appium, Selenium
  • Build Tools: Gradle, Fastlane, Maven
  • Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2

Timeline

Engineering Manager - Server Engineering

One MobiKwik Systems Limited
03.2025 - Current

Technical Lead - Server Engineering

One MobiKwik Systems Limited
08.2023 - 03.2025

Senior SDET (CI/CD and Tools Automation)

Hike Private Limited
01.2020 - 08.2023

SDET (CI/CD and Tools Automation)

Hike Private Limited
07.2019 - 12.2020

Senior QA Engineer

Kronos Inc
01.2018 - 06.2019

QA Engineer

Kronos Inc
06.2015 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science and Engineering

JSS Academy of Technical Education
Rahul Sharma