SUMMARY:

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

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Automated Deployment Tool: TFSDeployer, MS Visual Build Pro.

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

Bug Reporting Tool: Microsoft’s TFS 2010 & 2013, Bugzilla and Bug tracker.

Databases/servers: MS SQL Server 2005/2008,Windows 2003, Windows2008-R2 Server, Teamforge, Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Server) version 7 and 7.5.

Strong Knowledge/ Concepts: MS Build, SCM best practices, Scrum, SDLC, SSL, XML, FTP, Cloud

Code repository tools/Softwares: TFS Server 2010 & 2013, SVN, Jenkins, VS 2008/2010/2013.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Build & Release Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to develop, audit and monitor established release management processes and policies in support of cross-domain configuration integration, testing, completeness and consistency.
• Provide 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 solutions of branching infrastructure in Subversion to meet the critical business requirements.
• Responsible for automating the deployment process of .Net applications by using ‘U-Deploy’ automated tool.
• Standardized the process of using ‘Oracle Sql Developer’ tool with Subversion for managing version control for all the sql scripts.
• Mentoring OAs (Operation Advocates) for SVN branching and merging methodologies.

Build & Configurations Manager

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 for all the .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.
• Able to configure websites, virtual directories and application pool settings on IIS 7 & 7.5.
• Successfully setup/configure the websites from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 during the migration of Staging 2003 server to Windows 2008-R2 server.
• Responsible for managing security permissions to different TFS groups and customized group /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.

Technical Consultant

Confidential

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:

  Through a secured Cisco VPN client connection, was responsible to execute the automated backups of web files on the hosting production environment prior to deployment.

• Responsible to maintain all the branches of release versions of code.
• Also worked on open source code repository tools like Jenkins and SVN and have solid understandings of Mavens and ANTs build script.
• Responsible to create and manage documentation of all the existing customized processes of all the projects.
• Report directly to software architect.
• Able to develop test strategy, functional and GUI based test cases and the overall test plans.
• Hands on experience in testing web applications: Intranet and Public Sites through Customized .Net Development solution.
• Hands on experience of testing web applications through Functional, Regression, Negative and Smoke testing techniques.
• Proficient in Cross-browser testing on multiple platforms/devices (IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IPads, IPhones, Android Phones etc).
• 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, Regression, and End-to-End testing.
• Performed thorough manual testing phases for supporting functions of mobile based software applications.
• Responsible for release management and deployments of mobile based apps on different environments.
• 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.

Jr. Software Tester

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Identified test cases by reviewing workflows and specifications given by the IT Managers.
• Capable to execute test cases successfully.
• Performed software testing through some manual software testing techniques.
• Responsible to send daily build status updates to the IT managers.
• Responsible to identify and report post deployment issues on the production environment to the development team.
• Used to make recommendations to management and coordinated test efforts with internal IT department.
• Identified and troubleshot existing software systems.