# Aanchal Sharma > Senior Software Engineer | Test & Platform | Experienced Scrum Master & Team Lead | Digital Supply Chain | Driving Quality & Automation at Scale Location: Greater Boston, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aanchal With over 10 years of experience in Software Development and Testing, I excel in crafting and deploying advanced testing frameworks and automation strategies. My leadership has successfully guided cross-functional teams, enhancing software quality and performance while fostering innovation and operational efficiency across multiple projects. I prioritize collaboration, aiming to enhance team dynamics and contribute to project success. ## Work Experience ### Senior/Lead Software Engineer - Test & Platform @ TraceLink Jan 2024 – Present | Greater Boston My role includes: 1. Provide Quality Assurance thought leadership throughout the product development process. 2. Operate in an agile environment to understand project readiness, influence testability, and ensure proper test development, overall system reliability, performance, and quality. 3. Work closely with SDETs, Architects, Developers and other technology experts in helping to define our test plans, test strategies and approaches for testing large scale enterprise systems. 4. Drive and improve test automation and test coverage, especially for high-volume, event-based areas. 5. Work on message-based processing using Kafka, including parallel consumer processing, to ensure accurate, scalable, and reliable system behavior. 6. Create or leverage open source tools that can simulate real-world transaction volumes involving potentially millions of transactions. 7. Devise performance tests, using common reporting methodologies, to make recommendations in application design and performance. Tools & Technologies: Cloud-based monitoring and debugging applications including Kibana and Grafana. Non-functional testing types like load, scale, stress, reliability, and endurance tests using automation tools/frameworks including TestNG, JUnit, Karate, JMeter, and Gatling. Build automation tools including Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, and Ant. Project management tools including TestRail, Jira, and Confluence. ### Scrum Master @ TraceLink Jan 2020 – Present | Greater Boston I successfully facilitated Agile practices at TraceLink, enhancing team collaboration and efficiency. • Led daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to promote transparency and continuous improvement. • Collaborated with the Product Owner for backlog refinement, ensuring prioritized sprint items aligned with project goals. • Engaged in SAFe Agile events, including Program Increment planning and demos, to support strategic objectives. ### Software Engineer III (Platform Team) @ TraceLink Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Greater Boston I have played a pivotal role in enhancing the Kernel team's efficiency and effectiveness at TraceLink. • Developed and maintained robust software applications using Java and JavaScript, adhering to coding standards. • Conducted thorough regression testing and managed the sign-off process to ensure software quality. • Identified opportunities for process improvements, contributing to the overall development workflow. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams, including product managers and designers, to enhance the tech stack. • Mentored peers and showcased work in company-wide demos, contributing to a culture of innovation and knowledge sharing. ### Software Engineer II (Platform Team) @ TraceLink Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Greater Boston Back-end programming using Java and JS to test the RESTful APIs AWS compute, database Kubernetes and Docker Other tools used: IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, JIRA, Jenkins, TestRail, TestRun. Code repositories (Bitbucket) Data Analytics skills (CloudWatch, Kibana, Grafana) ### Software Engineer I (App Team) @ TraceLink Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston Used Java and Selenium for UI testing, along with RESTful API testing for end to end testing Tools Used: IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, JIRA, Jenkins, TestRail, TestRun. Code repositories (Bitbucket) / Jira Data Analytics skills (CloudWatch, Kibana, Grafana) ### Software Engineering, Intern/Co-op @ TraceLink Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | North Reading, Massachusetts, United States ### Software Engineer (Summer Intern) @ TraceLink Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston TraceLink is dedicated to helping our customers – from 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies to corner pharmacies – enable the global distribution of safe drugs and achieve compliance. The TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud, purpose built for serialization, creates a whole new dimension of supply chain collaboration, allowing companies to transform the way they do business while seamlessly meeting the requirements for all their global markets. I work on building company's core SW product for application by client in pharmaceutical industry. I provide high-level analysis of products to apply appropriate technologies and architecture to solve performance issues. I provide architectural input into the test automation infrastructure, focused on generating load and analyzing the performance of the system. Designed, implemented and debugged JUnit modules to test core product functionality.I executed tests, identified issues, raised bugs and worked in collaboration with testers and developers to solve them. Further researched and implemented plugins into the Maven integrated build platform to add functionality. Led multiple training sessions in Test Automation to train manual testers to control the execution of tests for continous delivery and continous testing. Technologies Used: Java, Selenium, Unix and Tools Used: IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, JIRA, Jenkins, TestRail, TestRun. ### Graduate Assistant @ University of Massachusetts Lowell Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Lowell, Massachusetts Prepared keys for all homework sets for COMP.1020 Computing II; graded all submitted problem sets following instructor’s guidelines. And also maintained records of all student scores and provide feedback to the instructor regarding students’ performance. ### Web Production Editorial Assistant @ University of Massachusetts Lowell Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | O'Leary Library (South Campus) Led a 10-member team for development efforts to make existing university library SW more user-friendly & attractive. I helped to increase search accuracy across 100+ research databases to get more focused hits compared to a regular web search by adding more HTML and CSS features on existing features of the cloud-based SW reducing its space & time complexity. I created online LibGuides to software providing capability to curate and share knowledge among multiple users. Technologies Used: HTML, CSS and Tools Used: Bootstrap, Dreamweaver. ### Database Intern @ KocharTech Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Amritsar Area, India The company I worked for comes under Kochar Group, India’s leading private sector business house which is a group of companies with interests in IT, managed mobile solutions for enterprise and telecom operators, consulting BPO & KPO services and textile. The company consists of 3 divisons: Gizmo Help, Gizmo Support and Kochar Tech. Being a member of the DBA team at Kochar Tech, I worked on SQL and PostgreSQL with live projects. I, with my database team designed knowledge base’s, expert system’s which helped the company provide unmatched services to all of their clients. I completed 12+ medium to large-scale implementations, managing projects from business requirements analysis to solutions delivery and support. Worked on maintaining company's database with SQL and also conducted pre-implementation workshops and led training sessions to enhance end users' understanding of systems. Technologies and Tools Used: SQL, MS SQL Server 2008, pgAdmin. ### Software Developer Trainee @ Real Infotech Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Amritsar Area, India Worked on developing a java application. The user-interface application that I designed enabled the employees to manage and keep the track of how the cars are parked and helps the users to remotely book their parking slot in advance. The java app created used latest technology was efficient in fulfilling its purpose. I managed it through the utilization of MySQL to create the requisite database, developing a computer code using Java to program the software, and linking the code with the database through JSP and JDBC. Technologies and Tools Used: Java, JSP, SQL, Oracle, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Selenium, Unix, IntelliJ IDEA, Maven, JIRA, Jenkins, TestRail, TestRun. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Massachusetts Lowell ### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aanchal-sharma-punj - GitHub: https://github.com/aanchal29 --- Source: https://flows.cv/aanchal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aanchal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31