Rahul Goel

DevOps Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India11 yrs 1 mo experience

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Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in test automation.
Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 95% through automation.
Improved test coverage and reduced flaky tests significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Quality Engineering expert with a strong focus on test automation and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Test AutomationQuality Engineering

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)PythonGitLabgRPCKubernetesDockerTerraformAndroid EspressoXCUITestEphemeral Deployment ValidationWebDriverData Quality EngineeringAndroid TestingiOS TestingPandas

About

I am a Lead SDET with over 10 years of experience in test automation, quality engineering, and building scalable infrastructure for cloud-native platforms. My work covers functional, API, performance, and integration testing using Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and CI/CD tools like GitLab and Jenkins. At Alteryx, I focus on building end-to-end automation for data connectivity workflows. I have improved test coverage, reduced flaky tests, and helped teams ship faster with greater confidence. I enjoy building tools that solve real problems, such as a GitLab code watcher that sped up merge request reviews or a Kubernetes-based framework that helped reduce infrastructure costs by over 90 percent. I have experience working in distributed and onshore-offshore models. I regularly mentor new team members, contribute to setting quality goals, and collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and release teams. I care about writing clean, maintainable test systems that provide fast and reliable feedback, support team velocity, and scale with the product.

Experience

Alteryx

Lead Software Engineer in Test | Data Integration Platform

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram · Remote

Built scalable test automation for data connectivity across platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and Google Drive using Python and gRPC.
Increased E2E test coverage by over 50% and reduced flaky test failures by 30% through better tooling and test practices.
Won Innovation Days Q4 2023 for designing GitLab Code Watcher to track merge request activity and speed up feedback loops.
Integrated regression suites with GitLab CI, helping catch issues earlier and reduce release cycle delays.
Partnered with developers on contract testing and shift-left practices, improving test ownership and reducing defect leakage.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)PythonTest AutomationQuality Engineering

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2 roles

Senior Software Engineer II - Platform | Data Collection

Jan 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Designed a Kubernetes-based automation system to test OpenTelemetry Collectors across EKS, AKS, GKE, and KOPS setups.
Reduced cloud infra cost by 95 percent (from $370K to $18K annually) by provisioning ephemeral clusters and automating cleanup.
Built test frameworks using Python and Terraform to validate agent-based and open-source telemetry data collection.

KubernetesDockerTest AutomationQuality Engineering

Senior Software Engineer I - Platform | Security Analytics

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Developed automation to test platform services handling security analytics and alerting.
Contributed to UI automation using WebDriverIO and API validation through Swagger and custom Python scripts.
Supported release pipelines with deployment automation and integrated production checks with PagerDuty alerts.

Adobe

Software Engineer II

Jun 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Noida Area, India · On-site

Developed and automated mobile regression suites for Adobe Acrobat Reader across Android (Espresso) and iOS (XCUITest).
Wrote scripts to analyse ~8M PDFs, validating structural patterns, PDF constructs etc, that improved ML model accuracy for Adobe Liquid Mode.
Led mandatory peer review of automation code and test executions.
Presented useful insights on app usage analytics to stakeholders, reports on quality metrics and derived actionable outcomes.

Android EspressoXCUITestTest AutomationQuality Engineering