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Are you looking for a seasoned QA Engineer who can detect flaws early during the development cycle before your users do, automate thousands of test cases, and optimize your release cycles? I'm Balaram Sharma, a Senior QA Engineer with over a decade of experience ensuring high-quality software delivery across startups and enterprise-level platforms. ✅ What I Bring to the Table: * Manual QA: Deep experience in smoke, regression, exploratory, usability, UI/UX, security, and system testing with thorough documentation (Test Plans, Test Scenarios, RCA, etc.). * Debugging & White Box Testing: Skilled in reading code, analyzing logs, and performing in-depth troubleshooting to find the root causes of the issues. I use white box techniques to verify internal structures and logic. * Test Automation Expert: Skilled in Selenium (Java & Python), Robot Framework and Playwright * Performance & API Testing: Proficient in JMeter, Postman, and Blazemeter. Created custom performance testing tools with Python, Bash, and PowerShell. * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with developers, product owners, and designers to embed QA early in the lifecycle (Shift-Left Testing). * CI/CD Integration: Implemented pipelines that support continuous testing and streamlined releases across multiple companies. 🛠️ Tools & Technologies: Python, Java, Shell scripting, Selenium, JMeter, Cypress, GitLab, Jenkins, CI/CD, Docker, Postman, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, AWS, MongoDB, SQL, Linux, and more. 🏆 Highlights: * Automated over 1,200 test cases covering regression, business-critical, and sanity checks. * Identified and fixed critical and hard-to-reproduce production bugs early through deep debugging and white box validation. * Solved company-specific QA challenges, manual and automation testing to CI/CD integration, across healthcare, cybersecurity, and e-commerce domains. * Delivered QA process improvements and QA roadmaps tailored to each company’s structure, bringing stability and scalability to fast-paced development teams. * Practiced Shift-Left-based testing to detect issues early in the development cycle If you're building a robust product and need a QA partner who pays attention to details, I’d love to be part of your team. Let's ensure your users always have a seamless, bug-free experience.