Gaurav Sharma
About Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma is a Staff Software Engineer at Procore Technologies with extensive experience in software testing and automation.
Title
Gaurav Sharma holds the title of Staff Software Engineer at Procore Technologies.
Company
Gaurav Sharma is currently employed at Procore Technologies as a Staff Software Engineer. He has held this role since 2020 and is based in the Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area.
Previous Work Experience
Gaurav Sharma has gathered extensive experience in the software engineering industry through his roles at various companies. He served as a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test at vAuto: A Cox Automotive Brand from 2016 to 2020 in Austin, Texas. Prior to that, he was a QA Automation Manager at Volusion, LLC for 7 months in 2016 and a Senior QA Automation Engineer for 6 months in 2015-2016. His earlier roles include System Test Engineer at Progressive Insurance in Colorado from 2011 to 2015, and System Test Engineer Associate from 2009 to 2011 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Additionally, he worked as an Industrial Engineering Intern at The Cookson Company, Inc. in 2008 and as a Junior Test Engineer at Xchanging in Gurgaon, India from 2006 to 2007.
Education and Expertise
Gaurav Sharma holds a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University, completed in 2008. He also earned a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, completed in 2006. He has developed significant expertise in industrial engineering and software testing automation, including the creation of a UI automation core framework using Selenium WebDriver, C#, .NET 4.0, and .NET SDK.
Achievements in Software Engineering
Among his notable achievements, Gaurav Sharma developed a UI automation core framework that has been adopted for testing at least six products across various business units at Cox Automotive. His programming skills have critically improved the overall system quality. At Volusion, he managed an automation testing team in an agile development environment, focusing on creating automation testing strategies for medium to large-sized projects.