Preeti Sharma

Background

About Preeti Sharma

Preeti is ITILv3 certified Principal Software Quality Engineer and certified Registered Scrum Master & Product Owner (RSMPO) with around 15 years of experience in leading critical projects involving storage, data protection and virtualisation technology/products with a strong focus on automation using Python, Selenium, Pytest and CI/CD pipelines. Preeti is recognised as one of the leading voices in data protection solutions and is instrumental in several successful customer presentations and briefings. Preeti’s contribution as Product Owner has resulted in several key releases which has seen optimisation of features and FTE utilisation- Key skills: • Automation & Tools: Python, Selenium, Pytest, Postman (API Automation), Java Basics, iTest, TestNG, CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub actions) • Test Management: Jira/Jira Align,Confluence, HP Quality Center, Bugzilla, qTest • Cloud & Virtualization: Azure, AWS, GCP, VMware ESXi, VCF, VMC, Kubernetes, Docker • Leadership: Agile/Scrum, Product Management, Release Planning, Mentoring, Cross-function collaboration • Products: Dell PPDM,Networker, Avamar, Dell PP Data Domain, VxRail • Software Development Life Cycle - Key Responsibilities: Define feature roadmap & prioritise the release through sprint cycles Design & implement automated test suites leveraging Python, Pytest for API validation and Selenium WebDriver for UI workflows which helped in reducing manual regression testing by 60% & improved overall test coverage API testing using Postman Maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins & GitHub Actions, enabling automated smoke/regression runs after each build Develop reusable API request modules with token-based UI and JSON schema validation. RESTful web services testing. Qualify k8s platforms like AKS, EKS, GKE and on-prem setups. Define solution roadmap and prioritise the MVPs through sprint cycles Develop and maintain test cases, stories & spikes Prepare test beds for execution of test cases Deliver customer briefings on product features and solutions Provide proactive enablement sessions to customers & internal teams to enhance the feature/solution based on deep understanding of the product(s) and the domain Cross team collaboration with PMs, developers, clients and other stake holders for timely delivery of features Trusted advisor to the executive leadership on product functionalities and in handling client escalations