Rahul Gawale

About Rahul Gawale

India Institute of Management-Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Technology-Rourkee certified, business driven and Technical professional with strong 22 years of experience in Product Development, Data Science, AI and ML, Quality Engineering, Performance and Automation, Team management, Agile Practitioner. Expertise in managing co-located teams of up to 35+ members for different product releases, managing conflicts and building successful teams.Strong exposure in Customer interaction, resolving critical issues, demos, working on projects/products for different customers includes Fortune-500 & Large institutions. Experience in domains like Enterprise Infrastructure Management & Monitoring, Digital Marketing.Expert in driving product development across distributed, cloud-native, and security-focused applications, leveraging a deep technical foundation in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, VC++, and system programming on POSIX systems. Proven track record in architecting and building high-performance, scalable solutions from the ground up while aligning engineering execution with business goals, compliance standards, and customer needs. Adept at optimizing CI/CD pipelines, implementing shift-left testing, and ensuring performance, resilience, and security in large-scale SaaS, enterprise, and on-premises environments.• Hands on experience in designing Test strategy, Test plans, Performance, Scalability, Reliability, Database, Functional testing of Web, Client/Server and multi-tier applications on diverse set of technologies, DevOps, IoT, Cloud technologies• Expertise in Test cases administration/Management, Defect management, tracking, SLA, triage, Improve test efficiency, defect reductions and automation development• Strong exposure in Test Automation Design/framework and Implementation for Performance & Regression tests using QTP, Load Runner, etc. and building utilities for efficient and effective testing. Hand\'s on experience in Silk Test, Load Runner, Win Runner, Selenium and Robot Framework• Hand\'s on experience in C/C++/java, UNIX/windows system programming, multi-threaded, data structures, algorithms, VB, ASP, Oracle, SQL Server, Ms Access, Teradata, Netezza, Informix, DB2 and Web development using HTML, DHTML, ASP, Scripting (JAVA, VB, Shell, PERL and Python) and Angular JS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Cassandra, GitHub and other cloud technologies • Seasoned at handling sales critical situation from product functioning prospective, product demo, POC• A technically strong Get-It-Done guy with effective analytical, communication, interpersonal skills.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Accion Labs

   Sep 2023 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• Neville Wadia Institute of Management Studies and Research

  MCM, Computers

  2001 — 2003

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Science (MS), Software Systems

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Test Automation
• Web Services
• Jira
• Software Project Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Software Quality Assurance
• Unix
• Hp Quality Center
• Java
• Solaris
• Xml
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Distributed Team Management
• Product Development
• Perl
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Databases
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Oracle
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Shell Scripting
• Test Planning
• Sql
• Linux
• Agile Methodologies
• Quality Assurance
• Testing