# Avani Shah > Software Principal Engineer at Dell Location: Fremont, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/avanishah Software Engineer | QA Lead | AI-Augmented Quality Engineer | Vibe-coding | Spec driven development AI | Certified Scrum Master - Project Management | Results-driven QA Professional with 10+ years of experience specializing in the design of robust automated testing frameworks. Pioneer in leveraging Generative AI and LLM tools to accelerate test case generation, optimize legacy codebases, and achieve high-velocity CI/CD pipelines. Expert in Python/Java-based automation with a proven track record of reducing manual overhead through AI-driven regression cycles, unit test generation and automated code reviews. Technical Skills • AI Acceleration - GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, ChatGPT , Spec driven development AI • Programing Language - Python , Go , Java • Test Management Tools: JIRA, Testrail , Bugzilla • Testing Frameworks - Selenium Webdriver, TestNG , pytest , Nosetests , Android Espresso , QTP • Cloud Platforms - AWS , GCP • DI/CD: Jenkins , Github actions, Dockerization , CircleCI • Software Virtualization Tools: Docker, Kubernetes • Other tools - Android Studio and SDK tools, Eclipse , PyCharm, Elastic stack , Kibana , Postman , Log Entries , Xcode ,TestFlight,Charles proxy , Fiddler , Firebug • Operating Systems - Mac OS X, Linux, Ubuntu and Windows ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Dell Technologies Jan 2022 – Present | United States ~ Agile Leadership & Scale: Served as Scrum Lead for major product releases (v4.0–4.2), driving a 20% increase in team velocity and spearheading the adoption of Scrum-at-Scale practices across cross-functional teams to ensure consistent quarterly delivery. ~ DevOps Optimization: Designed and optimized Tier 1/Tier 2 CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Docker, successfully reducing deployment time. ~ AI-Driven Efficiency: Led an AI-integrated initiative to consolidate 10+ legacy pipelines into centralized and parametrized, significantly reducing technical debt and reducing maintenance overhead by engineers. ~ End-to-End Ownership: Managed the full release lifecycle, including comprehensive test planning, security verification, and high-priority customer escalation resolution. ### Senior Quality Assurance Engineer @ Chime Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area ~ Led quality service integration projects with chime’s third-party banking partners. ~ Led development efforts for integration testing framework for chime platform services and integrated with ci/cd tool circleci. (python and ruby) ~ Owned product development for chime’s internal tools for automated testing banking product configurations to improve turnaround time for quality service for launching new product configurations with integration of banking partners. ~ Developed performance testing scripts for backend services in Jmeter and in-house performance testing tool. ~ Empowered developers to write their own backend integration and performance tests. ~ Scrum master for the team to facilitate sprint planning , backlog grooming , standups , retro and demos. ### Member Of Technical Staff @ Rubrik, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ~ Own end to end testing and backend automation for new features of SaaS platform . ~ Design test plans for UI and Backend and develop functional and integration tests for CI/CD test pipelines. ~ Participate for scrum meetings - sprint planning , Stand ups , review and demos. ~ Manage release cycles with local and offshore teams. ~ Reduced infrastructure cost and run time for test automation pipelines by consolidating test suites. ~ Created processes and improvements to help the offshore team to perform at a high level. ### SDET III - IoT Cloud @ Ayla Networks Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara , California ~ Ownership and led QA efforts for REST microservices, ayla cloud platform and web applications. ~ Managed scrum meetings for the team. ~ Responsible for detailed test planning and developing automation testing framework for new web services. ~ Built UI testing automation framework infrastructure for Ayla’s Customer facing Web applications. ~ Selenium Webdriver and Python API test framework development. ~ Contributed automation for REST API for Ayla’s Cloud platform. ~ Created dashboards to monitor services and issues , manage alerts (using Kibanna) ~ Assisted customer support and software developers for investigating customer issues . ### SDET II @ Ayla Networks Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Test Engineer, Gmail Android @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View,CA Managed monthly releases and new feature testing efforts for the team. ~ Developed and executed functional and regression tests for Gmail Android application. ~ Collaborating with the team to improvise regression cycles and device coverage. ~ Contributed to functional UI tests written in Java and espresso testing framework. ~ Performed testing for new Android platforms L, M for Gmail Android app. ~ Planning and executing tests for Accessibility and i18n (Internationalization and localization). ~ Co-ordinating user feedback and bug triaging process. ### QA Engineer @ Coupons Inc. Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Mountain view ,CA Mobile Team ~ Led quality assurance projects for the company's mobile products - Grocery IQ and Coupons.com apps & Certified Grocery IQ and Coupons.com apps for iOS and android platforms. ~ Participated in daily and weekly scrum meetings. Led Bug triaging for mobile team Web Team ~ Designed and implemented test plans and test cases for www.coupons.com , its affiliate sites ~ Validated Coupons printing controller software across various platforms and cross browsers. ### QA Engineer @ Simply Hired Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Mountain View , CA ### QA Engineer @ Minerva Networks Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Santa Clara, CA ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Software Engineering San José State University ### Bhagubhai - PDCA ### Engineering in Electronics Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University ### NCST(CDAC) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avanis1 --- Source: https://flows.cv/avanishah JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/avanishah/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12