OBJECTIVE

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

TECHNICAL SKILLS

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

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

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

Application Monitoring Tool: Splunk, MS procmon, 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: MS SQL Server 2008/2012,Windows 2003, Windows2008-R2 Server, 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, Puppet etc.

Code repository tools/Continuous Integration Tools: TFS Server 2010 & 2013, SVN, TeamForge, Hudson & Jenkins.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Release/Configuration Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develops and build Continuous Integration builds for MSI based .Net applications using Jenkins and Hudson.
• Proficient in creating/managing branches in Subversion (SVN) source code repository system.
• Proficient in troubleshooting web and processor based issues on various development and test servers.
• Effectively communicate and co-ordinate with various developers in the team on a day to day basis to resolve issues during SDLC to improve continuous integration and continuous delivery of the products.
• Responsible for provisioning/maintaining development VMs through SSAL portal using Win-2008-R2 OS blueprints as well as for VDL (Virtual Development Lab) VMs too using Win-7 OS blueprint backbone.
• Responsible for deploying over 100+ (web and .Net processor based) applications on various development and testing environments through an automated deployment process.
• Responsible for automating the deployments by creating Blade Logic packages and jobs and managing property dictionary instances for each MSI based applications.
• Efficient in incorporating the BVT (Build Verification Test) parameters within the property dictionary instance template to invoke the BVT process automatically.
• Responsible for providing hand-off documentations of deployment packages to the Release Management for the change order requests.
• Able to configure websites, virtual directories and application pool settings on IIS 7 & 7.5.
• Able to automate several application pool’s configurations through command line batch scripting.
• 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.

Release Manager & Operations Advocate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Develops, audits and monitors established release management processes and policies in support of cross-domain configuration integration, testing, completeness and consistency.
• Provides support to domain-specific release management resources in a timely and efficient manner.
• Develops and build Continuous Integration process for .Net applications using Jenkins.
• Develops, test and document best possible solution of branching infrastructure in Subversion to meet the critical business requirements.

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 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: DEV and TEST, QA Cert., Staging/UAT and Production.
• 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, 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.