SUMMARY:

An experienced, creative, self - motivated certified Sr. Software Release/Devops Engineer having strong analytical and problem solving expertise with over six years of working experience in Devops & Configurations Management with a Master’s degree, seeking a challenging career in a medium/large organization.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automated Deployment Tool: BMC’s Blade Logic, Trailblazer, TFSDeployer, MS Visual Build Pro.

Scripting Tool: Ansible playbooks, PowerGUI Editor for Power Shell scripting, Batch file scripting, Shell scripting, PuTTY.

Configurations Management Tool: Blade Logic’s property dictionary classes/instances, Trailblazer.

Bug Reporting Tool: Rally, TFS 2010 & 2013, Bugzilla and Bug tracker.

Application Monitoring Tool: Splunk, Sentinel, MS procmon, WebSphere MQ Administrator, Fiddler, Confidential ’s in-house ‘System Check’ utility, windows Event Viewer.

VM Management Tool: SSAL (Self Service Agility Lab), VDL (Virtual Development Lab)

Databases/servers: Oracle 11G, SQL Server 2008/2012, Win. 2008-R2/2016 Standard Servers, IIS (Internet Information Server) version 7 and 7.5, SUSE Linux, Liberty Profile.

Strong Knowledge/ Concepts: AWS, S3, EC2, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk, ELB, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Cloudtrail, Lambda, Snowball, Component Manifest JSON, VPN, DNS, Route 53, Scrum, Kanban, SDLC, SSL, XML, XAML, YML.

Code repository tools/Continuous Integration Tools: SVN, Tortoise-SVN, BitBucket, Nexus Repo Manager, Github, TFS Server 2010 & 2013, TeamForge, Jenkins.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Release/DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Able to develop and build Continuous Integration builds for all the .Net and Java based applications using Jenkins.
• Have a good understanding and exposure on AWS’s CodePipeline and Elastic Beanstalk services for enabling Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipeline mechanisms.
• Proficient in creating/managing branches in Subversion (SVN) source code repository system.
• Responsible for packaging and deploying over 40+ (web and .Net processor based) applications on over 500+ internal and external (UAT and Production) environments through an automated deployment process.
• Responsible for automating the deployments by creating the Blade Logic depot packages and jobs and managing the deployment sources (property dictionary instances) for each applications.
• Proficient in automating several application pools configurations through command line batch scripting.
• Efficient in incorporating the BVT (Build Verification Test) parameters in conjunction with the property dictionary instance templates to invoke the BVT process through the automated process.
• Proficient in troubleshooting web service and .net processor services based issues on various development and test servers.
• Also able to build and deploy Java based (.ear/.war) packages through Jenkins on various Dev/Test/Production linux servers.
• Able to monitor all the .Net applications through MS Process Monitor utility on the processor servers.
• Also familiarity with 'Fiddler' utility to troubleshoot/monitor webservice calls from internal Dev/Test servers.
• Also able to in corporate the Ansible playbooks in conjunction with blade logic to invoke the BVT process.
• Proficient in troubleshooting/monitoring for the post deployment splunk log activities for all the .Net based applications.
• Effectively communicate and co-ordinate with various developments, QA, Project Management and Release Management teams to resolve impediments/roadblocks to improve the application lifecycle management process (continuous integration and continuous delivery of the products).
• Responsible for providing technical hand-off documentations of deployment packages to the Release Management through ServiceNow portal for any change order requests.

Release Manager & Operations Advocate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed, audited and monitored established release management processes and policies in support of cross-domain configuration, integration, testing, completeness and consistency.
• Provided support to domain-specific release management resources in a timely and efficient manner.
• Developed and built Continuous Integration process for .Net applications using Jenkins.
• Developed, tested and documented best possible solution of branching infrastructure in Subversion to meet the critical business requirements.

Build & Configurations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Able to install and configure a standard Team Foundation Server 2010 edition.
• Got hands-on experience in resolving MS Build compilation errors during migration from TFS2010 to TFS2013.
• Proficient in configuring all the different configuration files of web.config to reflect environment specific xml based settings on their transform files in TFS source control.
• Got hands-on experience in setting up workflow activity steps in process template file for the customization of different build automation processes.
• Able to setup and manage source code check-ins policy for each team projects in TFS 2010/2013.
• Solid experience in managing various build definitions for setting up Continuous Integration of all .Net projects.
• Responsible for implementing the automated deployment processes of all the manual deployment process of several .Net projects through PowerShell scripts with the use of TFSDeployer automated deployment tool.
• Proficient in installing and configuring automated deployment tool ‘TFSDeployer’.
• Strong expertise in provisioning, configuring and building up several .NET applications through Microsoft’s IIS web servers.
• Responsible for managing security permissions to different TFS groups and customized group membership/service accounts and TFS team project levels to manage customized security roles.
• Day to day responsibilities include: To deploy several .NET based applications through the manual and automated deployment process for TFS2013 projects on the following environments:
• Responsible for executing stored procedures and sql scripts on all the database servers.
• Responsible for creating the documentations of all the deployment processes in TFS.

Software QA & Release Engineer

Confidential, Roswell, GA

Responsibilities:

• Able to create Continuous Integration (CI) service through MS build for TFS2010 projects and use Skynet services for TFS2008 projects for the automated check-ins of latest codes on the development environment.
• Also responsible to deploy latest code through automated deployment tool ’Visual Build Pro ‘on the following environments: DEV, QA, UAT (User Acceptance Test) and Production.
• Responsible to maintain all the branches of release versions of code.
• Also worked on open source code repository tools like Jenkins and SVN.
• Responsible to create and manage documentation of all the existing customized processes of all the projects.
• Report directly to software architect.
• Got handful skills in testing workflow and Public facing web applications through MS SharePoint.

Solutions Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing test cases and test plans.
• Hands on experience in Functional, Load (Stress), and End-to-End testing.
• Performed thorough manual testing phases for supporting functions of mobile based software applications.
• Handful experience in testing both audio and video features through ‘Device Conductor’ tool for various cell phone sets.
• Experienced in generating reports from bug tracking systems like Bugzilla and Bug Tracker.
• Also responsible for the deployments of latest releases of products and provide solution/support on customer’s environment as well.